Summer School at the European University Institute

Are you convinced that national history and its approaches are limited? Do you want to look beyond the nation in which you live? In this case, you may be interested in attending the HEC 2012 Summer School which will take place in one of the most evocative places in Florence: Villa Schifanoia.

The Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute is a major centre of comparative and transnational European history and of European history in a global perspective. The Summer School will allow you to broaden your research interests, whether in political, social, cultural, intellectual or economic history, from this broad perspective.

Well-known specialists from the European University Institute and from other outstanding European institutions will present interesting ways of writing the history of Europe as well as raising important questions about its development.

You will have the opportunity to meet our researchers, who are preparing their Ph.Ds, participate in the academic life of this centre of excellence, visit the Library, the Historical Archives of the European Union and find out how to apply to the European University Institute to pursue doctoral studies.

Courses are held in English. In the evening, you will have the opportunity to visit Florence, one of the most beautiful cities in the world!

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Monday, 10 September

8.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.15 Welcome by Head of Department

10.15-12.15 Keynote Lecture: Jan de Vries (Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California Berkeley), Global-Transnational-Comparative History

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Marcello Flores (Professor of Contemporary and Comparative History, University of Siena) TITLE tba

Discussant: Dirk Moses (EUI)

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-17.45 Laura Downs (EUI) What's feminist theory got to do with it? Republicanism, liberalism and the politics of childhood in France, 1919-1945

Tuesday, 11 September

9.00-11.00 Miroslav Hroch (Emeritus Professor Charles University, Prague), Comparing Nineteenth-Century National Movements

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Library Visit

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Luca Molà (EUI), Merchant Networks and Skilled Migrations: A Transnational Approach

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.30 Students presentations of research

Wednesday, 12 September

Morning Free

12.00-13.30 Lunch with Researcher Representatives

14.00-15.30 Ulf Brunnbauer (Chair of Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg), 19th and 20th century Emigration >From the Balkans in a Comparative Perspective

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-18.00 Student presentations of research

Thursday, 13 September

9.00-10.45 Amanda Vickery (Professor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary College, London), History Through the Key Hole: Love, Power and 18th century Homes

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-13.15 Jorge Flores (EUI),"Portuguese Asia" and Early Modern Ethnography

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Lucy Riall (EUI), British Imperialism and European Peripheries: a Perspective From 19th-century Sicily

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.00 Round-table

19.00-21.00 Farewell Dinner

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Contact:

Francesca Parenti
via Boccaccio 121
Florence I-50133
francesca.parenti..a..eui.eu