1. Centre for Transnational HistoryNewsletter
Winter 2012
School of History
University of St Andrews
St Andrews, Scotland, UK
New Members of Staff
Sarah Easterby-Smith teaches and researches modern European history, with a special interest in the
global connections and transnational links made between France, Britain and the wider world in the
eighteenth century. Her research focuses on the relationship between science, society and culture during
this period, and on how information, knowledge and cultural influences moved (or failed to move)
between nations and across social groups. Sarah is currently completing her monograph, Cultivating
Commerce, which is a social history of botany in France and Britain between 1760 and 1815. Prior to
coming to St Andrews, Sarah held a 2011-12 Dibner Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California and
was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in 2010-11. She holds a PhD in History from
the University of Warwick.
Heidi Mehrkens studied Modern History, Medieval History and Law at the Technical University of
Braunschweig. Her doctoral thesis Statuswechsel.Kriegserfahrung und nationale Wahrnehmung im
Deutsch-Französischen Krieg 1870/71 (Essen 2008) formed part of the DFG-funded project ‘France and
Germany at War (18th-20th Century).’ From 2005-2012, she was assistant professor at Braunschweig
University with research and teaching interests in modern European political, military and media history.
She joined the Heirs to the Throne Project in March, and is currently embarking on a transnational study
comparing British, French, and Prussian heirs to the thrones’ interactions with representatives of the
constitutional state (1815-1914).
Research Seminars
10 October 2012
Tomasz Kamusella (University of St Andrews)
Ethnolinguistic Nationalism in Modern Central Europe: How to Define and ‘Measure’ It?
24 October 2012
Silke Strickrodt (German Historical Institute, London)
In Search of a Moral Community: Little Popo and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century
7 November 2012
Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews)
Experiencing Fascism: Everyday Articulations of Power and Agency in 1930s Venice
14 November 2012
Stéphane van Damme (Sciences Po, Paris)
Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Mercantilist Economy of
Oriental knowledge, 1755-1780
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2. Summer School
17-20 June 2013
From the Margins: Revisiting European History
The Summer School will be focusing on themes in modern European history from c.1500 onwards. The
central theme of revisiting European history from the ‘margins’ will address both geographical as well as
analytical margins. The three days of the summer school will thus evolve around a transnational, cross-
border perspectives on European history around three broader themes i) circulations and trading zones,
ii) bordering and border regions, iii) as well as the dynamics of centres and peripheries.
The organising GRAINES network aims at facilitating exchange opportunities for PhD candidates and
members of staff within the network, and thus seeks to build an international, multi-linguistic network of
young scholars with an interest in modern European history. The three key axes of the GRAINES network
are: cross-national perspectives, trans-epochal and inter-disciplinary, with the core of scholars coming
from history, literature and cultural studies.
The Summer School is open to applicants from within the organising GRAINES network including St
Andrews, Basel, Cologne, SciencesPo Paris, Charles University Pragueand University of Vienna, as well as
guests.
A Call for Applications will be available shortly via:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/transnat
www.grainesnetwork.com
Organizer: GRAINES Consortium (http://grainesnetwork.com/)
Venue: SciencesPo campus at Menton (southern France)
Our Research Projects
Heirs to the Throne in the Constitutional Monarchies of Nineteenth-Century Europe (1815-1914)
Leader: Frank Müller
Timeline: 2012-2017
Website: http://heirstothethrone-project.net/
Funded by: the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Encyclopedia of the Social and Political History of Southern Africa’s Languages
Leaders: Tomasz Kamusella and Finex Ndhlovu (University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia)
Timeline: 2012-2017
Contract with Publisher: Palgrave
Cultures of Natural Knowledge: Enquiry, Textuality and Social Participation in the Eighteenth Century
Leaders: Sarah Easterby-Smith and Emily Senior (Birkbeck, University of London)
Timeline: 2010-2014
Special issue of Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies (December 2013)
International conference on ‘Aesthetic Enlightenments’ to be held in California, January 2014 (fully funded
by the Huntington Library, California)
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3. Current PhD Projects
Andrew Dodd
The Return of the Nation-State? German Political Culture in Transition, 1985-1998
Denis Kitzinger
Cultural Criticism and Catholic Conservatism: An Intellectual Biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand
Niall MacGalloway
The Italian Occupation of South-Eastern France, 1940-1943
Miriam Schneider
“Sailor Prince” in the Age of Empire: Creating a Monarchical Brand in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Marie Ventura
Like Clockwork: The Development of the Modern Perception of Time in Industrial Britain (1753-1914)
GRAINES Consortium
GRAINES (or the Graduate Interdisciplinary Network for European Studies) combines the expertise and
fields of research from scholars across Europe including Austria (University of Vienna), the Czech Republic
(Charles University Prague), France (Sciences Politiques, Paris), Germany (University of Cologne),
Switzerland (University Basel) and the United Kingdom (St Andrews, Scotland).
Website: http://grainesnetwork.com/
GRAINES Activities
November 2012
Work Meeting of the Consortium, Basel Graduate School of History, Universität Basel, Switzerland
June 2013
From the Margins: Revisiting European History, Menton, France
Our Partners
British International History Group, http://www.bihg.ac.uk/Home.aspx (Andrew Williams is a member of
the Executive)
German Historical Institute, London (http://www.ghil.ac.uk/)
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html)
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4. Lectures of the Centre’s Members
January 2013
Tomasz Kamusella
The Politics of Script and Language in Modern Central Europe
University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
January 2013
Stephen Tyre
A Transnational End of Empire
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
December 2012
Heidi Mehrkens
Ferdinand Philippe von Orléans: Ein Todesfall und ein fragiles Regime (1842-1848)
Workshop ‚Geboren, um zu herrschen? – Gefährdete Dynastien in interdisziplinärem und interkulturellem
Kontext,‘ Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.
December 2012
Kate Ferris
Participation in the round table discussion on 'popular opinion under fascism' with Prof. Christopher
Duggan and Prof. Stephen Gundle.
Institute of Historical Research, London
5 Dec 2012
November / December 2012
Riccardo Bavaj
Westernization and Knowledge Transfer: Ernst Fraenkel and Richard Löwenthal Between Exile,
Remigration and West Germany’s Public Spheres. Chemnitz, Germany & Geneva, Switzerland
November 2012
Frank Müller and Heidi Mehrkens
Dashed Hopes and Mourned Prospects in France and Germany: Prince Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans
(1842) and Emperor Frederick III (1888), conference on Royal Loss: Untimely deaths, public and private
mourning, and the monarchs who never were, University of York
October 2012
Bernhard Struck
Inclusion or Exclusion? Ethnic Groups, Territorial Overlaps and the Mapping of German Border Regions,
1820s-1880s
Conference ‘Mapping History’ at Montana State University, Bozeman, USA
September 2012
Conan Fischer
Political Catholicism and Franco-German Relations during the Inter-War Years
24th Annual Conference, British International History Group, Leicester
September 2012
Bernhard Struck
How to Write Transnational History: Methodological Aspects of a Contemporary Paradigm in Historical
Research
PhD Workshop, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
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5. Journals and Book Series
International History Review
Co-edited by Andrew Williams
Nationalisms Across the Globe (book series)
Oxford: Peter Lang, founded and co-edited by Tomasz Kamusella
Publications of the Centre’s Members
Conan Fischer
A Vision of Europe: Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929-1932. 2014/15
[Forthcoming]. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Failed European Union: Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression of 1929-32 (pp 1-20).
2012. International History Review, Vol 34, No 4.
Riccardo Bavaj
‘The West:’ A Conceptual Exploration. 2011. European History Online / Europäische Geschichte Online.
URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/bavajr-2011-en
Young, Old, and In-Between. Liberal Scholars and ‘Generation Building’ at the Time of West Germany’s
Student Revolt (pp 177-194). 2011. In: Anna von der Goltz, ed. ‘Talkin’ ’bout My Generation:’ Conflicts of
Generation Building and Europe’s 1968. Göttingen: Wallstein.
Kate Ferris
Everyday Life in Fascist Venice. 2012. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
'A model republic' and (with N. Bas & N. Miller) 'Abolition.' In: A. Körner, N. Miller & A. Smith. eds. 2012.
America Imagined. Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America.
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2012.
Kate Ferris, Bernhard Struck, together with Jacques Revel have jointly edited the themed issue Size
Matters. Scales in Transnational and Comparative history, in: International History Review (vol 33/4,
December 2011). The journal issue has been voted runner up of Routledge 2012 History Journals.
Tomasz Kamusella
The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (Foreword by Professor Peter Burke).
2012. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave (Paperback edition)
The Change of the Name of the Russian Language in Russian from Rossiiskii to Russkii: Did Politics Have
Anything to Do with It? (pp 73-96). 2012. Acta Slavica Iaponica. Vol 32.
Gillian Mitchell
From ‘Rock’ to ‘Beat’: Towards a Reappraisal of Popular Music in Britain, 1958-1962, Popular Music and
Society (Published online, 2012 – hard copy forthcoming in 2013).
A Very ‘British’ Introduction to Rock‘n’Roll: Tommy Steele and the Advent of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Britain, 1956-
1960 (pp 205-225). 2012. Contemporary British History. Vol 25.
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6. Frank Müller
The Prince, the Crypt, and the Historians: Emperor Friedrich III and the Continuity of Monarchical
Geschichtspolitik in Imperial Germany (pp 521-540). 2012. German Studies Review. Vol 35.
Bernhard Struck
(with Kate Ferris/Jacques Revel). Introduction. Space and Scales in transnational history (pp 573-584).
2011. In: Size Matters. Scales in Transnational and Comparative History, special issue: International
History Review. Vol 33/4, December.
Conquered Territories, Entangled Histories and Variations of Nationalism. Franco-German and German-
Polish Borderlands during and after the Napoleonic Wars (pp 95-113). 2011. In: Hagemann, Karen/Forrest,
Allan/François, Etienne (eds.), War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th
Century Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Andrew Williams
Andrew Williams, Amelia Hadfield, J. Simon Rofe. 2012. International History and International Relations.
London: Routledge.
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