Sebastian Conrad, “European History after the Global Turn”
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Curti Lounge, Room 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N. Park St.) @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Sebastian Conrad, Professor of History, Free University of Berlin Co-sponsored by Center for German and European Studies, DAAD, and the Mosse Program.
Sebastian Conrad is s Professor of History at Freie Universität Berlin. He joined the faculty in 2010 after teaching for several years at the European University Institute in Florence. He was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, a visiting professor at the Ècole des Hautes Études in Paris, and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara; in the spring 2017, he held the Theodor Heuss Chair at the New School, New York. Sebastian Conrad is currently interested primarily in trans-national and global history approaches and their contribution to an understanding of the interactions and entanglements of the past. He has a background in both modern Western European and Japanese history, and he has worked on issues of colonialism and post-colonialism, trans-nationalism, intellectual history, memory, and historiography.