the columbia
university seminar on
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
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2011-2012
Sept.
22
RONALD REAGAN IN IRELAND, 1984: A DIFFERENT COLD WAR?
Van
Gosse (Franklin and Marshall College)
Oct.
27
JUSTIFYING THE POLICE STATE: PROSECUTING NAZIS AND LEGITIMATING INFORMERS IN SOVIET-OCCUPIED GERMANY
Devin
Pendas (Boston College)
Nov.
16
FACING LEONID BREZHNEV AND EACH OTHER DURING THE HIGH ERA OF DETENTE: NIXON, BRANDT, AND MEIR, 1969-1974
Carole
Fink (The Ohio State University)
Dec.
8
HENRY KISSINGER, AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL AND COLD WARRIOR
Mario
Del Pero (University of Bologna)
Jan.
25
THE PIVOT OF THE WORLD: U.S. POWER AND THE PACIFIC IN THE 1940S
Daniel
Immerwahr (Northwestern University)
Feb.
9
'VICTOR'S JUSTICE' AS 'JEWISH REVENGE': THE MALMEDY MASSACRE TRIAL AND ITS AFTERMATH
Stephen
Remy (Brooklyn College)
Mar.
1
POLITICS OF SURVIVAL: NORTH KOREA AND THE 'COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM'
Charles
Armstrong (Columbia University)
Apr.
5
ACADEMIC INTELLECT AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: THE CASE OF HISTORIANS IN PUBLIC
Thomas
Bender (New York University)
2010-2011
Sept.
21
REFLECTIONS ON FRENCH DECOLONIZATION, 1945-1962
Irwin
Wall (University
of California Riverside, New York University)
Nov.
4
OPPORTUNISTIC KILLINGS AND PLUNDER OF JEWS BY THEIR NEIGHBORS: A NORM OR AN EXCEPTION IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED EUROPE?
Jan
Gross (Princeton
University)
Feb.
3
BETWEEN ANTIFASCISM AND ANTITOTALITARIANISM: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUALS ON NATIONAL SOCIALISM
Samuel
Moyn (Columbia University)
Mar.
9
'TOO MANY BALINESE': CONTROLLING POPULATION, RICE, AND MIGRATION DURING SUHARTO'S NEW ORDER
Brad
Simpson
(Princeton University)
Mar.
31
NECESSARY WARS OF CHOICE
Marilyn
Young (New York University)
Apr. 21
THE IDEA OF AN AMERICAN CENTURY
Alan
Brinkley
(Columbia University)
2009-2010
Oct. 15
ALIEN NEIGHBORS, FOREIGN FRIENDS: ASIAN AMERICANS,
HOUSING, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN CALIFORNIA
Charlotte
Brooks
(Baruch College, CUNY)
Nov. 17
FEAR ITSELF: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FROM NEW DEAL TO COLD WAR
Ira
Katznelson (Columbia University)
Dec. 3
DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL AND THE RULE OF EXPERTS IN FRANCE AFTER WORLD WAR II
Herrick
Chapmann (New York University)
Feb. 25
COMMUNISM'S COLLAPSE: GEOPOLITICS, INTERNAL INSTITUTIONS, HISTORY
Stephen
Kotkin (Princeton University)
Mar. 11
FACTORIES V. FINANCE: JIMMY CARTER, PAUL VOLCKER AND THE 1970S INFLATION
Judith
Stein (City
College/The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Apr. 22
DEBATING THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS DURING THE COLD WAR, 1945-1965
Volker
Berghahn (Columbia University)
2007-2008
Sept. 26
THE
FUEHRER’S PREVENTIVE MEASURES? THE GERMAN INVASION
OF SOVIET UNION, PREVENTIVE WAR PROPAGANDA, AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY
Thomas Heinrich (
Oct. 22
QUESTIONING AUTHORITY:
POLITICAL RESISTANCE AND THE ETHIC OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Diana Judd (
Dec. 10
AUSTRIAN NEUTRALITY
AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, 1955-2007
Siegfried Beer (
Jan. 31
WARRIORS OF THE NEW
AGE
Bonnie Smith (
2006-2007
Sept. 18
PARIS: CAPITAL OF
ANTIFASCISM
Anson Rabinbach (
Nov. 28
THE BIRTH OF
NEOLIBERALISM IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1970S
Judith Stein (City College/The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Dec. 13
MURDER,
BOTCHED ABORTIONS AND MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Douglas Morris (Federal Defenders of New York, Inc.)
Feb. 6
POLICING PARIS: THE
ORIGINS OF MODERN IMMIGRATION CONTROL BETWEEN THE WARS
Clifford Rosenberg (City College, CUNY)
Mar. 26
SO WHAT WAS THE
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY?
Sarah Phillips (
Apr. 24
THE ECLIPSE OF THE ECONOMIC
EGALITARIAN TRADITION IN AMERICA
Michael Thompson (
2005-2006
Sept. 27
REFUGEES WHO RETURNED
TO EAST GERMANY FROM WEST GERMANY
Mario Kessler (Yeshiva
University)
Oct. 25
TIMES SQUARE: 100
YEARS OF SPECTACLE
Marshall Berman (CUNY)
Nov. 29
THE THIRD SHOT: ENDING
THE FIRST NUCLEAR WAR, AUGUST 1945
Michael Gordin (Princeton University)
Feb. 23
THE EMPIRE’S TWO
CAPITALS: MUSLIM SPACE AND THE SECULAR STATE IN PARIS AND ALGIERS, 1905-1940
James McDougall
(Princeton University)
Mar. 27
ZIONISM IN THE EARLY
BOLSHEVIK STATE: BETWEEN LEGALITY AND PERSECUTION
Ziva Galili (
May 1
BRITISH WAR FACTORIES:
WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT CLASS, GENDER, AND LEISURE IN 1940S BRITAIN
Geoffrey Field
(Purchase, SUNY)
2004-2005
Nov. 22
LAW AND MESSIANIC
COUNTERWAR FROM FDR TO GEORGE W. BUSH
Anders Stephanson (
Dec. 9
WHY DID THEY TRASH
MCDONALD’S: FRENCH RESISTANCE TO
NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION
Herman Lebovics (Stony Brook, SUNY)
Feb. 16
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA
AND THE LEFT
Gerald Meyer (Hostos
Mar. 2
THE UNITED STATES AND
TWO OSTPOLITIKS: DE GAULLE AND WILLY BRANDT
Irwin Wall (University of
Apr. 11
GERMANS FROM RUSSIA:
THE POLITICAL NETWORK OF A DOUBLE DIASPORA
Renate Bridenthal (Brooklyn College and The Graduate
Center, CUNY)