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* The word combines the root "anthropo", meaning "human" with the root "- cene", the standard suffix for "epoch" in geologic time.
* The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.
* Source: The Encyclopedia of Earth, cit. in www.anthropocene.info
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- Students can expect high-quality academic instruction and opportunities to develop projects responding to the resources of the participating institutions.
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Summer School Menton (GRAINES), 17-20 June 2013
From the Margins: Revisiting European History, c.1400 to present
Programme
The Basics
We are very much looking forward to the Summer School in Menton. For three days it will
bring together some 35 scholars from across Europe – and beyond Europe. There will be 22
PhD researchers present from more than ten different countries and eleven members of
staff from the different GRAINES institutions.
The Summer School is designed around three different kinds of learning formats and
interaction: (i) three Key Notes given by invited external experts followed by discussions; (ii)
Reading Groups based on selected key readings provided by the pre-circulated reader; (iii)
brief Presentations and Comments by PhD researchers. By providing these three different
formats we seek to enhance a structured, interactive but also informal way of discussing
broader issues, selected readings as well as ongoingresearch projects in the making on
European history.Both Key Notes and Reading Groups will be held with the entire group. For
the PhD presentations we will split the group in two. The latter is partly due to time
constraints but we also hope to create a stimulating discussion atmosphere by having one
part of the Summer School meeting in a slightly smaller format.
Central to the summer school are the two interactive formats of Reading Groups as well as
Presentations and Comments. With the three Key Note speakers, Monika Juneja
(Heidelberg), Elena Marushiakova (Sofia), AkiyoshiNishiyama (Tokyio) we are hoping to add
expertise from the European “margins”. All three provide expert views on Europe and
European history though from different perspectives including a Japanese scholar with an
interest in European borderlands, a Bulgarian scholar specialising in Roma and ethnic
identities and an Indian-German-French academic combining European and South-Asian
interests.
Since we only have two half and two full days, key to the success and joy of the summer
school will be some preparation from all beforehand. For the Reading Groups on the three
key axes (Circulations; Centres/Peripheries; Borders) the reader provides all key texts
(further readings will be made available electronically for those who wish to read further).
Along with the reader we will provide some key guidelines and guiding questions that we
seek to address and discuss during the Reading Groups. Each Reading Group will be lead by
members of staff who will introduce the general topic, the relevance of the topic for
European history and historiography as well as briefly introduce the selected readings. This
will be followed by a discussion based around the key readings. Some PhD researchers will
be working closer to one of the three axes, some might be further away. It would of course
be our hope that all are prepared to contribute to discussions and debates. However, we
would like to strongly invite those who work closer to one of the three axes to share how
their research areas and interest might link to the readings or question these.
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The PhD project presentations will be based on pre-circulated papers (max. 7 pages, by 1
June). These will be briefly presented (5 minutes) followed by brief comments from peers
(again 5 minutes max.). This will be followed by a discussion, questions and answers. The
diversity and range of topics made it difficult and at times somewhat arbitrary to group
projects under one of the main axes as you will see below. However, we tried to make some
connection between reading groups followed by PhD presentations that (might) have some
connections to both the readings and the key notes. Due to the broad nature, there will be a
closer connection in some cases than others.
Monday (17 June)
2-3.30pm Welcome and Intro (Basel, St Andrews, SciencesPo)
First part: Circulations and trading zones
3.30-c.5.30pm Reading Group and Discussion of Key Texts“Circulations and Trading Zones”
Introduction and Moderation: Susanna Burghartz, Martin Lengwiler, Ulrike Lindner
6-7.30pm Key Note with discussion: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg) “Material encounters and
mythical worlds: peripatetic objects in the making of Europe”
8 pm Dinner
Tuesday (18 June)
9-11.00am PhD presentations
Circulations Group I: ModerationStéphane van Damme
DavinaBenkert (Basel) Commodity flows and knowledge economies: Merchands, scholars
and publishers in Basel in the late 16th
century (comment: Jordan Girardin)
Manuel Klaus (Basel) Trade Relations between Swiss Companies and Latin American
MilitaryDictatorships between 1964-1983 from a Transnational Point of View (comment:
Pascal Schillings)
Alexander vanWickeren (Cologne) The circulation of knowledge on tobacco growth in the
Alsatian-Badian border area around 1800 (comment: Tom Cunningham)
MariuszLukasiewicz (Geneva) The Johannesburg Stock Exchange: Between the Goldfields of
the Witwatersrand and the City of London. 1887‐1899 (comment: SofiyaZahova)
Circulations Group II: Moderation Ulrike Lindner
Sarah-MariaSchober(Basel) Entangled Persons – The Physicians of Basel around
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1580(comment Carla Lessing)
TetianaGrygoryeva(Kyiv) Ceremonies of Diplomatic Communication between Polish-
Lithuanian Commonwealth and theOttoman Empire within European Cultural Landscape of
the 17th Century (comment Johannes Kontny)
Cem Kara (Munich) Dervishes and “modern Europe.” Cultural Contact and Exchange through
the Bektashi Order in the long 19th Century (comment Martin Schaller)
BálintTolmar (Budapest) Labor Migration between Eastern Europe and the Third World: the
case of Cuban Guestworkers in Socialist Hungary, 1980-1990 (comment BjörnNordgren)
11.30am – 12.00pm Discussion of interim results (brief inputs from MartynaMirecka group I
and DimitriosVarvaritis group II)
12.30-2.30pm Lunch (individual)
Second part: Centers and peripheries
2.30-c.4.30pmReading Group and Discussion of Key Texts “Centres and Peripheries”
Introduction and Moderation Jakob Vogel, Stéphane van Damme, MarkianProkopovych
5.00-6.30pm Key Note with discussion Elena Marushiakova (Sofia): “Roma from Central and
Eastern Europe and their contemporary migrations to Western Europe”
8 pm Dinner
Wednesday (19 June)
9-11.00am PhD presentations
Centres and Peripheries I: ModerationMarkianProkopovych
KatrinKuchler (Vienna) A Genealogy of the History of European Philosophy (comment
DimitriosVarvaritis)
ChongXu (Paris) Nielsen affaire and the anti‐German movement in the French Concession of
Shanghai during the Great War (comment Veronica Jicinska)
Tom Cunningham Edinburgh) Sport in Colonial Kenya c1900-1970: Colonisation of the Body?
(commentDavinaBenkert)
Pascal Schillings(Cologne) The Networks of European Antarctic Exploration around 1900
(comment TetianaGrygoryeva)
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Centers and Peripheries II: Moderation Susanna Burghartz
BjörnNordgren (St Andrews) The Second Swedish Phase of the Thirty Years’ War (1635-1648)
(comment Sarah-Maria Schober)
Carla Lessing (Galway) “Civilizing the wild Irish”: Rhetoric of difference in the British Isles, c.
1300-1700 (comment Manuel Klaus)
SofiyaZahova(Sofia) The discourses on center and periphery in the historiographies on the
Montenegrin past (comment Alexander von Wickeren)
Daniela Javorics (Budapest), Conceptions of Europe in Austria and Hungary after WW
I(comment Scott Schorr)
11.30am – 12.00pm Discussion of interim results (brief inputs from Veronica Jicinska group I
and BálintTolmar group II)
12.30-2.30pm Lunch (individual)
Third part: Borders and Contact Zones
2.30-c.4.30pmReading Group and Discussion of Key Texts on “Borders and Contact Zones”
Introduction and Moderation Tomasz Kamusella, Bernhard Struck
5.00-6.30pmKey Note with discussion AkiyoshiNishiyama (Tokyo) “History of a Borderland
Seen from a 'Borderless' Country: Alsace-Lorraine and Japan”
Thursday (20 June)
9-11.00am PhD presentations
Borders and Contact Zones I: Moderation Jakob Vogel
Martin Schaller (St Andrews) The Margins Within. Comparative Perceptions of Scotland and
Bavaria, c.1780s to 1830s (comment KatrinKuchler)
VeronikaJicinska (Prague) Franz Kafka as a postcolonial writer? (commentCem Kara)
JohannesKontny (Vienna) The Nationalization of Border Towns during the Interwar Period:
Eupen and Znojmo/Znaim as Focal Points of Belgian and Czechoslovak Nationalizing Policies
(comment Chong Xu)
MartynaMirecka (St Andrews) British perceptions of Poland-Lithuania in the “long” 17th
century(comment Alexander von Wickeren)
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Borders and Contact Zones II: Moderation Roberto Zaugg
JordanGirardin(St Andrews) Geneva between Enlightenment and Isolation
The impact of the Napoleonic period on the city's spatial representations by travellers (1798
- 1814) (comment MariuszLukasiewicz)
Scott Schorr (St Andrews) The Eureka Initiative - An Introduction to Transnational Research
& Development and Cross-Border Technology Exchange in Europe (comment BálintTolmar)
DimitriosVarvaritis(London) Antisemitism from the European margins: the case of Greece
(comment Daniela Javorics)
11.00am – 12.00pm Discussion of Interim Results (brief input by Manuel Klaus group I and
Cem Kara group II) followed by Final Discussion
12.00-1.30 pm Reception