Global History Workshop - "Red Globalism: Eastern Europe, Decolonization and African Heritage"

Date
Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
Location
210 Dickinson Hall
Audience
Public

Speaker

Details

Event Description

"Red Globalism:  Eastern Europe, Decolonization and African Heritage"

Paul Betts, University of Oxford


This workshop is open to the public. To attend, RSVP to Disha Jani at [email protected]. A light lunch will be served. This workshop is co-hosted by: African History Workshop, Global History Workshop, and Modern Europe Workshop.


Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History in St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His research and publications center on Modern European Cultural History in general and 20th Century German History in particular. He is especially interested in the relationship between culture and politics over the course of the century, and have worked on the themes of material culture, cultural diplomacy, photography, memory and nostalgia, human rights and international justice, death and changing notions of private life.

Betts' published work includes the books Within Walls:  Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback, 2012), which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History by the Wiener Library, and The Authority of Everyday Objects:  A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004; paperback, 2007). 

Co-Sponsored by:

African History Workshop and Modern Europe Workshop

Contact
Disha Jani
Area of Interest
Global
Period
19th Century
20th Century
Region
Asia
Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa
Scholarly Series
Global History Workshop