Thesis Defences - Academic Year 2009/2010
Claudia Gori
Sentimenti. Quattro carteggi d'amore, tra dimensione personale e sfera pubblica, nell'Italia dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 10.00 Cappella
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI)
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Prof. Sabina Loriga (EHESS, Paris)
Prof. Luisa Passerini (Columbia University/Università di Torino)
Artan Puto
The Idea of the Nation During the Albanian National Movement (1878-1912)
Friday, 12 February 2010, 10.00 Sala Belvedere
Examining board
Supervisor: Prof. Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Prof. Bernd J. Fischer (Indiana University)
Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Nathalie Clayer (CNRS, Paris)
Malgorzata Pakier
The Holocaust in German and Polish Cinema after 1989 and European Process of Remembrance
Friday, 29 January 2010, 15.00, Cappella
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Bo Strath (EUI and University of Helsinki)
Prof. Philipp Ther (EUI)
Prof. Wlodzimierz Borodziej (University of Warsaw)
Prof. Frank Stern (University of Vienna)
Liisi Keedus
Omitted Encounters: the Early Political Thought of Annah Arendt and Leo Strauss
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 10.00 Cappella
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Prof. Bo Strath (EUI)
Prof. Raymond Geuss (University of Cambridge)
Prof. Steven Ashheim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Antonio Muñoz Sanchez
La Política Del SPD Hacia El PSOE Desde La Dictadura A La Democracia (1962 – 1977). De La Solidaridad A La Realpolitik
Tuesday 12 January 2010, 10.00, Sala Europa
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Jaime Reis (EUI and Universidade de Lisboa)
Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Mercedes Cabrera Calvo Sotelo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - ext. Supervisor
Prof. Fernando Guirao (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Mikhail Suslov
Russian Geopolitical Utopias in Comparative Perspective 1880-1914
Wednesday 25 November 2009, 19.00, Seminar Room III
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. E. Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Prof. Steve Smith (EUI)
Prof. Uwe Backes (Dresden, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Studies)
Prof. Mark D. Steinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Hendrikus Looijesteijn
‘Born to the Common Welfare’. Pieter Plockhoy’s Quest for a Christian Life (c.1620-1664)
Wednesday 25 November 2009, 10.00, Seminar Room III
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Prof. Jan Lucassen (IISH)
Prof. Arfonon Rees (EUI/University of Birmingham)
Prof. Jonathan Scott (University of Auckland)
Irial Glynn
International Trends and National Differences in Asylum Policy-Making. Australia, Italy and Ireland compared, 1989-2008
Monday 23 November 2009, 11.00, Cappella
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Jay Winter (EUI and Yale University)
Prof. Reiner Bauböck (EUI)
Prof. Leo Lucassen (University of Leiden)
Prof. Gil Loescher (University of Oxford)
Matthias Roick
Mercury in Naples. The Moral and Political Thought of Giovanni Pontano
Monday 26 October 2009, Cappella, 17.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Prof. Riccardo Fubini (University of Florence)
Prof. Thomas Kaufmann (University of Göttingen)
Carolina Blutrach Jelin
El III Conde de Fernán Núñez (1644-1721): corte, parentesco y memoria familiar
Monday 26 October 2009, Cappella, 10.00
Examining Board
Supevisor: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI)
Prof. Fernando Bouza Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Prof. Sandra Cavallo (Royal Halloway-University of London)
Prof. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (EUI)
Norman Domeier
Der Eulenburg-Skandal. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Politik des späten Kaiserreichs
Friday 23 October 2009, Cappella, 10.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Frank Bösch (University of Giessen)
Prof. Sebastian Conrad (EUI)
Prof. Corey Ross (University of Birmingham)
Alexander Elu Teran
The Rise of Old Age Insurance in a Peripheral Economy, Spain 1908-1966
Monday 12 October 2009, Cappella, 15.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Federico (EUI)
Prof. Peter H. Lindert (University of California, Davis) - videoconference
Prof. Carles Sudrià Triay (Universitat de Barcelona)
Prof. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (European University Institute)
Tijl Vanneste
Commercial Culture and Merchant Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Traders in Global History
Monday 12 October 2009, Cappella 10.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Diogo Curto (EUI and University of Lisbon)
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Porf. Maxine Berg (University of Warwick)
Prof. Han de Vries (University of California Berkeley)
Magdalena Waligórska
The Contemporary Klezmer Revival in Kraków and Berlin as a Jewish / Non-Jewish Encounter
Friday, 25 September 2009, Belvedere, 10.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Philipp Ther (EUI)
Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir (University of Warsaw)
Prof. Joachim Schloer (University of Southampton) - external supervisor
Markus J. Prutsch
The Charte constitutionnelle of 1814 and Süddeutscher Frühkonstitutionalismus. Transfer and Reception of ‘Monarchical Constitutionalism’ in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Friday, 25 September 2009, Belvedere, 15.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Prof. Brigitte Mazohl (University of Innsbruck)
Prof. Dres. H.C. Volker Sellin (University of Heidelberg)
Niall Whelehan
Dreamers, Dupes and Dynamiters: Political Violence and the Transnational Flows of Irish Nationalism, 1865-1885
Wednesday, 23 September 2009, Cappella, 10.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Joe Lee (NY University) - external supervisor
Prof. Kiran Patel (EUI)
Dr. Fearghal McGarry (Queen's University, Belfast)
Adrian Brisku
Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe: From Berlin 1878 to Tbilisi 2008
Monday, 14 September 2009, Cappella, 17.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Bo Strath (EUI/Universiy of Helsinki)
Prof. Stephen F. Jones (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)
Prof. Bulent Bilmez (Bilgi University, Istanbul)
Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Fredrik Thomasson
'A Dangerous Man of the Enlightenment’: J.D. Åkerblad and Egyptology and Orientalism in Times of Revolutions
Wednesday, 10 September 2009, Sala Triaria, 10.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI)
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Prof. Maya Jasanoff (Harvard University)
Prof. Eldem Edhem (Bogazici University)
Adriana Luna Gonzalez
From Self-preservation to Self-liking in Paolo Mattia Doria: Civil Philosophy and Natural Jurisprudence in the Early Italian Enlightenment
Monday, 7 September 2009, Sala Triaria, 10.00
Examining Board
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Prof. Maurizio Viroli (Princeton University) - external supervisor
Prof. Ivo Comparato (Università di Perugia)
Prof. Sebastian Conrad (EUI)