Thesis Defences - Academic Year 2011/2012
Jannis Panagiotidis
Laws of Return? Co-Ethnic Immigration to West Germany and Israel (1948-1992)
Supervisor: Prof. Philipp Ther
Examining Board: Prof. Dirk Moses (EUI); Prof. Christian Joppke (Universität Bern); Prof. Leo Lucassen (University of Leiden)
Friday 8 June 2012, Cappella, 13:00
Bart van der Steen
Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla. The Autonomous Movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Examining Board: Prof. Steve Smith (EUI); Prof. Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen); Prof. Dennis Bos (Leiden University)
Monday 21 May 2012, Cappella, 10:00
Alanna O'Malley
A Time for Pride and Prejudice: Anglo-American Relations at the UN during the Congo Crisis, 1960-1965
Supervisor: Prof. Kiran Patel
Examining Board: Prof. Federico Romero (EUI); Prof. Marilyn Young (New York University), videoconference; Prof. Nigel Ashton (London School of Economics)
Friday 27 April 2012, Seminar room 2 (Badia), 15:00
Sven Mesinovic
Die Eroberung der Meere. Die Unterwasserlaboratorien Helgoland (BRD) und Tektite (USA) im Umweltdiskurs 1968-1973
Supervisor: Prof. Sebastian Conrad
Examining Boad: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI); Prof. Helmut Trischler (Forschungsinstitut des Deutschen Museums); Dr. Sabine Höhler (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology)
Friday 23 March 2012, Sala del Capitolo (Badia), 15:00
Aleksandar Miletic
Retreat from Market Economy in East-Central and Southeast Europe, 1918-1928
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Federico
Examining Board: Prof. Federico Romero (EUI); Prof. Milan Ristović (University of Belgrade); Prof. Martin Ivanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Friday, 2 March 2012, Cappella, 10:00
Alessandra Becucci
L’arte della politica e la politica dell’arte nello spazio europeo del Seicento. Ottavio Piccolomini: contatti, agenti e acquisizioni di arte nella Guerra dei Trent’anni
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla
Examining Board: Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI); Prof. Elena Fumagalli (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia); Prof. Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Monday 6 February 2012, Cappella, 15:00
Jyrki Johannes Lessig
Essays on Stability of Classical Gold Standard: Money Supply, International Capital Mobility and Symmetry of Business Cycles
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Federico
Examining Board: Prof. Youssef Cassis (EUI); Prof. Rui Esteves (University of Oxford); Prof. Lennart Schon (Lund University)
Monday 30 January 2012, Seminar room 2 (Badia), 10:00
José María Lanzarote Guiral
Prehistoria Patria. National Identities and Europeanisationin the Construction of Prehistoric Archaelogy in Spain (1860-1936)
Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Romano
Examining Board: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (EUI); Prof. José Alvarez Junco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Prof. Michael Werner (Ecole des hautes études, Paris)
Monday 23 January 2012, Cappella, 14:00
Igor Sosa Mayor
El noble atribulado. Nobleza y teología moral en la Castilla moderna (c. 1550-c.1650)
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Examining Board: Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI); Prof. Adolfo Carrasco Martínez (Universidad de Valladolid); Prof. Dr. Michael G. Müller (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle)
Thursday 15 December 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Amelia Almorza Hidalgo
Género, emigración y movilidad social en la expansión Atlántica; Mujeres españolas en el Perú colonial (1550 - 1650)
Supervisor: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI); Prof. Jean Paul Zúñiga (Ecole des hautes études, Paris); Prof. Nancy van Deusen (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario)
Tuesday 13 December 2011, Cappella, 11:00
Chara Rovithi
Agents of Memory in the Making: The Greek War-Disabled of WWII
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Becker (EUI and Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)
Examining Board: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI); Prof. Gustavo Corni (Università di Torino) - videoconference; Prof. Jorgos Margaritis (Tessaloniki University)
Monday 12 December 2011, Belvedere, 10:00
Pascale Falek
A Precarious Life. East European Female Jewish Students in Interwar Belgium
Supervisor: Prof. Philipp Ther
Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI); Prof. Viktor Karady (Central European University, Budapest); Prof. Jean-Philippe Schreiber (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Saturday 29 October 2011, Seminar room 2 (Badia), 10:00
Joonas Korhonen
Social Choreography of the Viennese Waltz: The Transfer and Reception of the Dance in Vienna and Europe, 1780-1825
Supervisor: Prof. Philipp Ther
Examining Board: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI); Prof. Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds); Prof. Hannu Salmi (University of Turku)
Thursday 27 October 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Anna Bara
Siberian Bosses. Elite Formation and Legitimization in Russia from a Regional Perspective (1991-2004)
Supervisor: Arfon Rees (EUI and University of Birmingham)
Examining Board: Prof. László Bruszt (EUI); Prof. Cameron Ross (University of Dundee); Prof. Marie Mendras (CERI/CNTS Science-Po, Paris/LSE)
Friday 14 October 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Admir Skodo
Idealist-Historicist Moments: Varieties of Agency in British Historical Thought Before, During and After the Second World War
Supervisor: Martin van Gelderen
Examining Board: Prof. Steve Smith (EUI); Prof. Tim Stanton (University of York); Prof. Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton University)
Thursday 13 October 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Mark Jones
Violence and Politics in the German Revolution 1918-19
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Examining Board: Prof. Dirk Moses (EUI); Prof. Richard Evans (University of Cambridge); Prof. Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin)
Friday 7 October 2011, Cappella, 10:00
Paola Molino
L'Impero di Carta. Hugo Blotius Hofbibliothekar nella Vienna di Fine Cinquecento
Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Romano
Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI); Prof. Karl Vocelka (University of Vienna); Prof. Anna Maria Nuovo (Università degli Studi di Udine)
Friday 30 September, 2011, Cappella, 14:00
Wendy Robins
Contending for Laurels: Catharine Macaulay, History and Feminism in Eighteen Century England
Supervisor: Prof. Martin van Gelderen
Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI); Prof. Karen O'Brien (University of Birmingham); Prof. Iain Hampsher-Monk (University of Exeter)
Thursday 29 September 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Arto Tapio Kokkinen
On Finland's Economic Growth and Convergence with Sweden and the EUI5 in the 20th Century
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Federico
Examining Board: Prof. Youssef Cassis (EUI); Prof. Jaime Reis (ICS - University of Lisbon); Prof. Markus Lanne (University of Helsinki)
Friday 16 September 2011, Cappella, 13:00
Katalin Prajda
Rapporti tra la Repubblica Fiorentina e il regno d'Ungheria a livello di diplomazia, migrazione umana, reti mercantili e mediazione culturale nell'età del regime oligarchico (1382-1434) che corrisponde al regno di Sigismondo di Lussemburgo (1387-1437)
Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Molho
Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI); Prof. Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University); Prof. John Padgett (University of Chicago) - videoconference
Friday 9 September 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Daniel Gerster
Katholiken im kalten Krieg. Ein Beitrag zur politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1957-1983
Supervisor: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Examining Board: Prof. Martin van Gelderen (EUI); Prof. Benjamin Ziemann (University of Sheffield) external supervisor; Prof. Paul Nolte (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Friday 9 September 2011, Cappella, 15:00
Olsi Jazexhi
Ottomans into Illyrians. Passages to Nationhood in 20th century Albania
Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Molho
Examining Board: Prof. Steve Smith (EUI); Prof. Nathalie Clayer (Ecole des hautes études, Paris); Prof. Bülent Bilmez (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Wednesday 7 September 2011, Sala Belvedere, 9:00
Angelos Ntalachanis
Leaving Egypt - Greeks and their Strategies 1937-1967
Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Molho
Examining Board: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI); Prof. Alexander Kitroeff (Haverford College, Pennsylvania); Prof. Christos Hadziiosif (Foundation of Research and Technology, Crete)
Friday 2 September 2011, Sala Triaria, 15:00