Summer School Programme

"Comparative and Transnational History: Theories, Methodology and Case Studies"

13-16 September 2010, Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia, via Boccaccio 121 Florence, Italy

Conveners: Kiran K. Patel, Antonella Romano and Steve Smith

 

Monday 13 September

8.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.15 Welcome by the Head of Department

10.15–12.15 Keynote lecture:

Laura Lee Downs (EHESS, Paris), Children at War: Civilian evacuation and theories of child-rearing in France and Great Britain, 1939-40

12.15–13.30 Lunch

13.30–15.30 Lecture and discussion:

Johannes Paulmann (University of Mannheim), Welfare Without Borders? On the Entangled History of German Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

15.30–15.45 Coffee Break

15.45–17.45 Lecture and discussion: 

Antonella Romano (EUI),  The 'Spiritual Conquest' of the Early Modern World: a comparative perspective

 

Tuesday 14 September

9.00-11.00

Gareth M. Austin (LSE), How to "Provincialize" Europe: thoughts on and from global economic history

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (EUI), "Trans-"national" Aristocratic Networks and Social Promotion in Early Modern Europe. Some General Remarks

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00

Giulia Calvi (EUI), Global Bodies. Rethinking gender across time and space

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.30 Presentation of his/her project by the participants (Group I)

 

Wednesday 15 September

Morning free

12.00-13.30 Lunch with Researchers’ Representatives

14.00-15.30 VISIT TO THE LIBRARY

16.00-18.00 Presentation of his/her project by the participants (Group II)

18.00-19.15 Lecture and discussion:

Kiran Patel (EUI), Doing Comparative History. Some insights into the making of a comparison of the United States and Germany during the 20th century

 

Thursday 16 September

9.00-10.45 Lecture and discussion:

Berthold Molden (University of Vienna), A Thousand And One Histories? Transnational research on European contemporary history and memory

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.15 Lecture and discussion:

Steve Smith (EUI), A Comparative History of Modern Cremation

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00

Claudia Anna Gazzini (Max Weber Fellow), Law Without Borders: transnational approaches to the legal history of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world

16,00-16,20 Coffee-break

16.00-18.00 Roundtable

19.00–21.00 Farewell dinner

N.B. Meetings with Professors of the HEC Dept. will be arranged upon request throughout the Summer School