Thesis Defences - Academic Year 2010/2011
Oriane Calligaro
Negotiating Europe: EU Promotion of Europeanness and Non-Institutional Actors since the 1950s
Friday 8 July 2011, Cappella, 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Kiran K. Patel
Examining Board
Prof. Rainer Bauböck (SPS)
Prof. François Foret (ULB, Brussels)
Prof. Juan Díez Medrano (University of Barcelona)
Manuel Pérez-García
Consumer Behavior and International Trade in the Western Mediterranean: South-Eastern Spain in a Trans-National Perspective (1730-1808)
Friday 24 June 2011, Triaria 17.00
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Examining Board
Prof. Luca Molà (EUI)
Prof. Gérard Chastagnaret (Université de Provence)
Prof. Jan De Vries (University of California Berkeley) - videoconference
Mats Ingulstad
Winning the Hearths and Mines: Strategic Materials and American Foreign Policy, 1939-1953
Friday 17 June 2011, Cappella, 10:00
Supervisor: Kiran K. Patel
Examining Board
Prof. Federico Romero (EUI)
Prof. Alan Dobson (University pf Dundee)
Prof. Andrew Rotter (Colgate University)
Pablo del Hierro Lecea
Beyond Bilateralism: Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers 1943-1957
Thursday 16 June 2011, Cappella 15:00
Supervisor: Kiran K. Patel
Examining Board
Prof. Federico Romero (EUI)
Prof. Fernando Guirao (University Pompeo Fabra, Barcelona) - videoconference
Prof. Andrew Rotter (Colgate College)
Matteo Antonio Albanese
Storia di una sconfitta: Le BR e la GP di fronte alla crisi ed alla globalizzazione
Friday 10 June, 2011, cappella 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Examining Board
Prof. Steve Smith (EUI)
Prof. Marc Lazar (Science Po Paris) - external supervisor
Prof. Antonio Costa Pinto (University of Lisbon)
Fritz Georg von Graevenitz
Internationalismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Deutschland und Frankreich in der globalen Agrarkrise
Friday 13 May, 2011, Cappella 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Examining Board
Prof. Kiran Patel (EUI)
Prof. Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford)
Prof. Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Heidelberg University)
Jorge Luengo
Una nueva cristalización social: la transformación del estado y los grupos de poder en Valladolid y Magdeburgo (ca 1770-1870)
Friday 6 May 2011, Sala Belvedere, 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Pedro Carasa Soto (Universidad de Valladolid)
Prof. Dr. Christian Windler (Universitaet Bern)
Irene Fattacciu
Across the Atlantic: Chocolate Consumption, Imperial Political Economies and the Making of a Spanish Imaginary (1700-1800)
Tuesday 19 April 2011, Cappella, 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Luca Molà (EUI)
Prof. Giovanni Levi (Università Cà Foscari, Venezia)
Prof. William Clarence Smith (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Gabriela Popa
War Remembrance in the Republic of Moldova: Commemoration, State-Formation and Belonging
Friday, 25 March, 2011, Sala Triaria, 15:00
Supervisor: Prof. E. Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Examining Board
Prof. Maria Todorova (University of Champaign Urbana, Illinois) - Videoconference
Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg University)
Prof. Steve Smith (EUI)
Stanislaw Tyszka
Property Restitution and Collective Memories in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Friday 28 January 2011, Cappella 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Jay Winter (EUI and Yale University)
Examining Board
Prof. Jiří Pribáň (Cardiff University)
Prof. Pavel Kolář (EUI)
Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski (Collegium Civitas, Warszaw)
Ida Federica Pugliese
Le métier d’historien during the Enlightenment: William Robertson and the writing of the History of America
Monday 20 December 2010, Cappella 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Examining Board
Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI)
Prof. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas, Austin)
Prof. Rolando Minuti (Università di Firenze)
Miika Tervonen
“Gypsies”, “Travellers”, and “peasants”. A study on ethnic boundary drawing in Finland and Sweden, c. 1860-1925
Wednesday 8 December 2010, Triaria 10:00
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI)
Prof. Leo Lucassen (Leiden University)
Prof. Antti Haekkinen (University of Helsinki)
Ksenia Demidova
The Formation of US Foreign Policy towards Euro-Soviet Gas Trade during the Cold War (1969-1985)
Friday 26 November 2010, Cappella, 15:00
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Federico (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Kiran Patel (EUI)
Prof. Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University) - videoconference
Prof. Matthias Schulz (Université de Genève)
Lidia Jurek
The Italian Risorgimento and the Polish Intelligentsia's Visions of the Nation and National Liberation (1848-1871)
Monday 22 November 2010, 13.00, Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Examining Board
Prof. Philipp Ther (EUI and University of Vienna) - videoconference
Prof. Marta Petrusewicz (City University of New York)
Prof. Bogdan Szlachta (Jagiellonian University) - External Supervisor
Anne Mark Nielsen
Blasphemy, Secularization and Multiculturalism. A Study of the Rushdie Affair, the Theo van Gogh Affair and the Mohammad Caricature Crisis
Thursday 18 November 2010, 10.00 a.m. Belvedere
Supervisor: Prof. Bo Strath (EUI and University of Helsinki)
Examining board
Prof. Kiran Patel (EUI)
Prof. Wilfried Spohn (Georg-August Universitaet Goettingen)
Prof. Lisbeth Christoffersen (Roskilde Universitet)
Maria Cristina Dias Joanaz de Melo
Contra Cheias e Tempestades: Consciência do território, debate parlamentar e polìticas de aguas e de florestas em Portugal, 1852-1886
Friday 12 November 2010, 15.00, Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Jaime Reis (EUI and Universidade de Lisboa)
Prof. Pedro Tavares de Almeida (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Prof. Mauro Agnoletti (Università di Firenze)
Frederick Whitling
T H E W E S T E R N W A Y
Academic Diplomacy: Foreign Academies and the Swedish Institute in Rome, 1935-1953
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 14:30, Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Romano
Examining Board
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Prof. Stephen L. Dyson (University at Buffalo) - Videoconference
Prof. Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Katharina Stornig
'All for the greater glory of Jesus and the salvation of the immortal souls!' German Missionary Nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea
Monday 25 October 2010, 3.00PM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI)
Examining board
Prof. Steve Smith(EUI)
Prof. Edith Saurer (University of Vienna)
Prof. Rebekka Habermas (Universitaet Goettingen)
Kariin Catharina Sundsback
Norwegian Women's Migration to Amsterdam and Hoorn 1600-1750. Life Experiences, Social Mobility and Integration.
Monday 25 October 2010, 10.00AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI)
Examining board
Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (EUI)
Prof. Willem Frijhoff - (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - External Supervisor
Prof. Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History Amsterdam)
Philipp Zessin
Entstehung, Soziologie und Semantik des kolonisierten Journalismus in Algerien in der ersten Haelfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Friday 22 October 2010,10.00AM sala Triaria
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Kiran Patel (EUI)
Prof. Joerg Requate (University of Bielefeld)
Prof. Rachid Ouaissa (University of Marburg)
Timour Atnachev
Transformation of the Political Speech under Perestroika
Friday 15 October 2010, 9.00AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Examining Board
Prof. Steve Smith (EUI)
Prof. Oleg Kharkhordin (European University at St. Petersburg)
Prof. Alexei Miller (CEU Budapest)
Ere Nokkala
Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi's Conception of the Law of Nations
Thursday 14 October 2010, 2.00PM Belvedere
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Sebastian Conrad (EUI)
Prof. Hans Boedecker (Max-Plancks-Institut fuer Geschichte) External supervisor
Prof. Pasi Ihalainen (University of Jyvaskyla)
Marta Grzechnik
The Concept of the Baltic Sea Region as a Historical Region: The Analysis of the Process of Constructing Narratives about the Region's past
Thursday 14 October 2010, 10.00AM Europa
Supervisor: Prof. Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Examining Board
Prof. Bo Strath (EUI and University of Helsinki) - co-supervisor
Prof. Kristina Gerner (Lund University)
Prof. Mieczyslaw Nurek (Gdansk University)
Cecilia Tossounian
The Body Beautiful and the Beauty of Nation: Representing Gender and Modernity (Buenos Aires 1918-1939)
Thursday 14 October 2010, 10.00AM Belvedere
Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Sebastian Conrad (EUI)
Prof. Rebecca Earle (Warwick University) - External Supervisor
Prof. Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)
Pierre-Yves Lacour
La République naturaliste. Les collections françaises d'histoire naturelle sous la Révolution 1789-1804
Wednesday 13 October 2010, 11,30AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Steve Smith (EUI)
Prof. Marie-Noelle Bourguet (Université Denis Diderot-Paris VII) External Supervisor
Prof. Lorraine Daston (MPI Berlin)
Valentina Sebastiani
Il Privilegio di Pubblicare Erasmo. Johannes Froben (1460 c.-1527), Stampatore di Basilea.
Wednesday 6 October 2010, 6.00PM Triaria
Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Prof. Susanna Burghartz (University of Basel)
Prof. Roger Chartier (Collège de France)
Ilse Josepha Maria Lazaroms
Against the Great. Joseph Roth (1894-1939) and the Dilemma of Jewish Anchorage
Friday 1 October 2010, 10.00Am Belvedere
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Prof. Sander Gilman (Emory University, Atlanta)
Prof. Raphael Gross (Frankfurt am Main/QM London)
Stefan Donecker
Origines Livonorum. Fruehneuzeitliche Hypothesen zu Herkunft und Urstrung der 'undeutschen' Livlaender
Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 10.00AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Sebastian Conrad (EUI)
Prof. Olav Moerke (University of Kiel) - External Supervisor
Prof. Ralph Tuchtenhagen (Humboldt University Berlin)
Lone Martinsen
History as a Mass Experience. Re-examining the Historical Fictions of Bernhard Severin Ingemann in a Political Context 1824-1836
Thursday 23 September 2010, 5.00PM
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Prof. Claus Moeller Joergensen (University of Aarhus)
Prof. Henrik Horstboll (The Royal Danish Library)
Michael Kuur Sorensen
Young Helgelians before and after 1848 - When Theory meets Reality
Thursday 23 September 2010, 9,30AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI)
Examining board
Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Rainer Forst (Universitaet Frankfurt am Main)
Prof. Iain Hampsher Monk (University of Exeter)
Francesco Catastini
Antifascismo, Resistenza e scelta in due Comunità Toscane. Roccastrada e Calenzano: 1922-1944
Monday 20 September 2010, 10.00AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Donatella Della Porta (EUI)
Prof. Philippe Buton (Université de Reims)
Prof. Simone Neri Serneri (Università di Siena)
Ramon Muñoz Ramon
Globalisation and the International Markets for the Mediterranean Export Commodities: the Case of Olive Oil, 1850-1938
Friday 10 September 2010, 10.00AM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Jaime Reis (EUI and Universidade de Lisboa)
Examining Board
Prof. Giovanni Federico (EUI)
Prof. Carlos Sudrià (Universidad de Barcelona)
Prof. Kevin O'Rourke (Trinity College, Dublin)
Mathieu Grenet
La Fabrique Communautaire. Les Grecs à Venise, Livourne et Marseille, v. 1770-v.1830
Monday 6 September 2010, 5.00PM Cappella
Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)
Examining Board
Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI)
Prof. Francesca Trivellato (Yale University) - videoconference
Prof. Brigitte Marin (Université de Provence)