March-April 2022

• Yuexin Rachel LIN (University of Exeter), from 15/03 to 15/04/2022 

Dr Yuexin Rachel Lin is a historian of the Sino-Russian frontier, with a particular interest in forced migration, diasporas, nationalism, ethnicity, and the legacies of empire. Her current research focuses on the Russian refugee crises of 1916-1922 and its implications for the development of international law and humanitarian practice in the region. She has completed a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Exeter, and most recently worked as a research associate with the German Historical Institute, Moscow.

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• Kirsten CAMPBELL (Goldsmiths College, University of London), from 18/03 to 18/04/2022

Kirsten Campbell is a Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She holds doctorates in modern languages and law from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and previously practised as a commercial litigation lawyer. Kirsten was the principal investigator of the European Research Council funded project, ‘The Gender of Justice’, which analysed the prosecution of sexual violence in armed conflict through a case study of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research on gender, conflict-related sexual violence, and international criminal law has been published in numerous journals and books. Kirsten has advised on NGO, United Nations, and British and European policy and justice initiatives in this area.

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• Rosario FORLENZA (LUISS University, Rome), from 28/03 to 28/04/2022

Rosario Forlenza is an Assistant Professor of History and Political Anthropology in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University, Rome. Previously, he worked at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, New York University and Columbia University, and held fellowships at the Australian Catholic University, the University of Oslo, and Potsdam University. His main research interests lie in the transnational history of modern Europe, religion and politics, symbolic politics, the history of democracy, authoritarianism and revolution, nationalism and the politics and memory. 

Rosario is the author of On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943-1948 (Oxford University Press, 2019), and co-author with Bjørn Thomassen of Italian Modernities: Competing Narratives of Nationhood (Palgrave, 2016). His articles have appeared in, among others, The American Historical Review, Past & Present, History and Anthropology, Contemporary European History, History Workshop Journal, and Journal of Cold War Studies. He is currently working on a comparative history of revolutions from the perspective of political anthropology, on the sacralization of politics in totalitarian regimes, on trickster politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and on the transformation of Catholic politics in modern European and global history.

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• Andrea MARTINI, from 15/03 to 15/05/2022

Andrea Martini is carrying on a research project titled Transnational Fascism and Its Impact on Europe After WWII (1945-1952) supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The project would cast new light on the links among the fascists since 1945 and, in the meantime, the reactions of European democracies against the resurgence of fascist groups in that period. 

He obtained his PhD Title in International Studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale in 2017 with a project that focused on the trials against the fascists and the nazi-collaborators held in the immediate post-war period in Italy. His interests concern the post-war fascist history, the transitional justice studies, and the gender history. 

He published several articles, including ‘Defeated? An analysis of Fascist memoirist literature and its success’ (Modern Italian Studies, Vol 25, 2020 - issue 3) and the book “Dopo Mussolini” (Roma, 2019).

• Gerassimos MOSCHONAS, from 21/03 to 21/04/2022

Gerassimos Moschonas, PhD University of Paris II, is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, Greece. He has held visiting positions at Free University of Brussels, University of Leicester, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Paris 8, Montpellier 1 University, and the University of Paris II.
He is the author of In the Name of Social Democracy, The Great Transformation: 1945 to the Present (London: Verso, 2002) and La Social-démocratie de 1945 à nos jours (Paris: Montchrestien, 1994).
Recent publications (selection): ‘European Social Democracy, Communism and the Erfurtian Model’ (chapter, SAGE, 2018); “Superficial Social Democracy: PASOK, the State and the Shipwreck of the Greek Economy” (chapter, Palgrave 2020); “The coronavirus crisis in the light of the past: the 1929 Crash, the 2008 crisis and their consequences in the relations between state and markets” (DiaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute, 2021, in Greek). He is currently
working on the social democratic response to the financial and sovereign debt crises in the light of the 1929 Crash.
Fields of research: Social Democracy, Radical Left, History of the European Left, European Union and Political Parties, Europarties, Elections, Greek Politics.

• Paul BETTS, OXPO Research Fellow, from 28/03 to 26/04/2022

My research and publications center on Modern European Cultural History in general and 20th Century German History in particular. I am especially interested in the relationship between culture and politics over the course of the century, and have worked on the themes of material culture, cultural diplomacy, photography, memory and nostalgia, human rights and international justice, death and changing notions of private life. My published work includes the books Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback, 2012), which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History by the Wiener Library, and The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004; paperback, 2007). I am finishing a book, Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe after World War II (Basic Books, 2020).

I have also co-edited seven volumes: The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and 20th Century German History (Berghahn, 2017), with Jennifer Evans and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann; Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe (Palgrave, 2016), with Stephen A. Smith; Heritage in the Modern World: Historical Preservation in International Perspective, Past & Present Supplement 10 (OUP, 2015), with Corey Ross; Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust Studies (Continuum, 2010), with Christian Wiese; Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (Berghahn Books, 2008; pb, 2011), with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann; Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2008), with Katherine Pence; Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth Century German History (Stanford University Press, 2003), with Greg Eghigian. Co-Curator, traveling exhibition and catalogue, Tito in Africa: Picturing Solidarity, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade (June-September 2017), Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (November 2017-March 2018), Die Wende Museum, Los Angeles (Spring 2019). 

Since 2003, the Institute has organized regular seminars for doctoral students pursuing research in its areas of interest. The next seminar will take place in Middelburg on 11-13 May 2022. We kindly invite applications from current doctoral candidates whose research covers any aspect of American culture, media, society, politics, or foreign relations, current or historical.

We are particularly interested in studies in the following research areas:
-U.S. in the world
-Culture and ideology
-Environmental issues
-Race and gender studies
-Social justice movements, civil and political rights.

We welcome proposals for research papers (e.g. a dissertation chapter), or for papers that give an overview of the project in its entirety. Participants will present their paper and contextualize it within their research project in 15 minutes. Each presentation is followed by a group discussion of approximately 45 minutes, providing extensive opportunities for feedback.

Applicants are invited to submit their proposals, consisting of a 300-word abstract and a CV, no later than Thursday, 25 March 2022. These should be addressed to the seminar coordinators, Dr. Gaetano Di Tommaso and Paul Brennan, and sent to info@roosevelt.nl.

To support a culture of diversity and inclusion, we strongly encourage proposals from students that reflect the diversity of our field in terms of gender, ethnicity, and disability.

Participants will be expected to have a paper (approximately 6,000 words) ready for pre-circulation by Friday, 22 April 2022.

Accommodation and meals in Middelburg will be provided by the RIAS. A hybrid option for online participation may be provided for as might prove necessary due to contingencies stemming from the COVID pandemic.

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