past presenters at behw
behw thanks all our presenters for sharing their work and insights with us!
2023/24
Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Brown University. “The Broken Promise. A Personal Political History of Israel and Palestine.”
Alexandra (Ola) Morehead, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “The Roots of Suffering: Environmental Memorials in Post-War Poland.”
Mariah Min, Assistant Professor of English, Brown University. “Long Live the Cannibal Horse-King of England: Character and Racial Purposivity in Richard Coer de Lyon.”
Ji Soo Hong, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “Business of Détente: Petroleum, Petrochemicals, and the Making of Soviet Synthetica, 1956-1982.”
Alexis Peri, Associate Professor of History, Boston University. “Diplomacy of the Heart: Soviet and American Women in Correspondence, 1943-1953.”
Jorge Rosario Rosario, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “Voices of the Uprooted: Language, Migration, and Repatriation in Displaced Persons Camps in Postwar Europe, 1945-1950.”
Matthew Wormer, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst. “The East India Company Charter of 1793 and the Origins of the Asian Plantation Complex.”
Jenny Lhamo Tsundu, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “A Fairy Tale, for the Time Being.”
2021/22
Minayo Nasiali, Associate Professor of History, UCLA. “Sea Traffic: A Clandestine History of Shipping, Exploitation, and Rebel Sailors Across Empires, 1920-1939”
Hannah Frydman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. “Queering the Newspaper Reader in the Golden Age of France’s Mass Press.”
Norman Frazier, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “Hearing Heinrich Zille: Courtyards and the Making of Working-Class Berlin, 1853-1923.”
Emma Griffin, Professor of Modern British History, University of East Anglia. “Breadwinner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy.”
Matthew Specter, Lecturer in Late Modern European History, UC Berkeley. “Seeing like a World Power The German-American Synthesis.”
Kira Thurman, Associate Professor of History & German Studies & Musicology, University of Michigan. “Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.” (co-sponsored with German Studies at Brown)
Claudia Verhoeven, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University. “Love and Terror: A Revolutionary History of the Manson Murders.”
Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies. “Antisemitism in History and Politics.”
2020/21
Leland Gregoli, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “The Matter of Flanders and Picardy: World War 1 and the Death of the Middle Ages.”
H. Glenn Penny, Professor of German History, University of California Los Angeles. “Unbinding German History, 1750s to the Present.”
Luca Scholz, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and History, Art History and Cultural Practices, University of Manchester. “Violent Skies. Mapping the History of Weather Modification.”
James Wang, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “The Origins of Mitteleuropa, Liberalism and Economics between the German Empire and Austria-Hungary before the Great War.”
Jenny Lhamo Tsundu, PhD Candidate, Brown University. “How A Place Moves: Bratsk, 1922-1993.”
Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of History, University of Maine. “Visualizing the Holocaust.”