Modern North American History
North American Map, CC0
The political developments, societal transformations, cultural shifts, foreign policy initiatives, national security concerns, and international relations that originated from the US have left an indelible mark on the North American continent and the global landscape. This seminar series, organized by the Sciences Po Center for History (CHSP) in Paris and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in the Netherlands, forms a platform to explore these diverse and interconnected themes.
This series, one of very few of its kind in Europe, intersects with various significant historiographical trends, continuing the move towards a more integrated view of US and North American history. It pays special attention to the inclusion of global, imperial, transnational, and interconnected histories to reframe our understanding of the United States’ place in the world and the emerging focus on international environmental history and issues.
The platform, which meets once a month in a hybrid format, encourages active participation from doctoral students and aims to serve as an open and inclusive forum for discussing some of the most innovative recent scholarship. It aspires to bring together historians of different backgrounds and in different stages of their career, foster a historiographical and interdisciplinary conversation, and critically consider the contemporary societal and political ramifications of the historical events under discussion.
Provisional Calender 2024-2025
- September 23, 2024, 17:00-18:30 CEST (online)
Melani McAlister (George Washington University), Promises, Then the Storm: Memory, US Politics, and the Israel-Gaza War - October 7, 2024, 17:00-19:00 CEST (hybrid, in Person at Sciences Po)
Jayita Sarkar (University of Glasgow), Global Southwests: Capital and Uranium in Africa and America - November 18, 2024, 17:00-18:30 CET (online)
James T. Sparrow (University of Chicago) - December 9, 2024, 17:00-18:30 CET (online)
Emma Day (Oxford University) - January 27, 2025, 17:00-18:30 CET (online)
Evan McCormick (Columbia University) - February 17, 2025, 17:00-18:30 CET (online)
Lisa McGirr (Harvard University) - March 24, 2025, 17:00-19:00 CET (hybrid, in Person at Sciences Po)
Evan Bonney (Sciences Po, Centre d'histoire) - April 14, 2025, 17:00-18:30 CEST (online)
Gretchen Heefner (Northeastern University) - May 19, 2025, 17:00-19:00 CEST (hybrid, in Person at RIAS)
Jeanine Quené (RIAS)
Calender 2023-2024
Semestre 1
- 25 Septembre 2023, 17h-18h30 CET
Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Structures of Power: U.S. Infrastructure Building in the Circum-Caribbean During the Bad Neighbor Era - 23 Octobre 2023, 18h-19h30 CET
Matthew Connelly (Columbia U), America's Secrecy Industrial Complex: History and the Future - 20 Novembre 2023, 17H00-18H30 CET
Andrew Preston (Cambridge U), From Planning to Strategy: New Deal Liberalism and the Invention of National Security - 11 Décembre 2023, 17h30-19h00 CET
Rebecca Herman (UC Berkeley), Cooperating with the Colossus: US Military Basing in World War II Latin America
Semestre 2
- 29 Janvier 2024, 17h-18h30 CET
Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow), A Treacherous Ocean of Money: Finance and Failure across the Interwar Atlantic, 1920-1935 - 26 Février 2024, 17h-18h30 CET
Sarah Nelson (Leiden U), Networking Empire: Communications, Decolonization, and American Power in the 20th Century - 25 Mars 2024, 17h-18h30 CET
Augusta Dell’Omo (SMU Center for Presidential History), Human Rights for White Power - 29 Avril 2024, 17h-18h30 CET
Elsa Devienne (Northumbria U), Rubbish Tactics? Oil Spills, Beach Clean-Ups, and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (1969-2023)
