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Working Lunch with Visiting Fellows
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 12.15 pm, the Institute for European Global Studies invites to a Working Lunch with Visiting Fellows. This time, the scientific input will be provided by Jeremy Prestholdt, Donna Gabbacia and Michael J. Geary. Tobias Erhardt will chair the event.
Jeremy Prestholdt is Associate Professor of African and Global History at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He specializes in African, Indian Ocean, and global history with a thematic focus on consumer culture and politics. He holds a doctoral degree in African History from the Department of History at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. Among other awards, he has received a Rockefeller Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. At the Institute for European Global Studies he advances his research project “Politics of the Soil: Kenya, Decolonization, and Autochthony Discourse”. It explores the culture of political engagement in Kenya since the late colonial era and addresses the linking of politics and identity to physical space.
Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History and former Director of the Immigraiton History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, with with a focus on international migration studies, American studies, comparative gender and world history. She holds a doctoral degree in History from University of Michigan, USA, and has received many awards, including the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Prize for the best book in American Immigration History. In her research project, she focuses on “Imagining Nations of Immigrants” and seeks to explain why the U.S. features immigration so prominently in its histories and myths about itself.
Michael J. Geary is Assistant Professor of Modern Europe and the European Union at Maastricht University, Netherlands. He received his doctoral degree from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His research project, entitled "Integration or Disintegration" explores why the European Union needs a Post-enlargement Policy to deal with the multiple rounds of accession since the early 1970s. Amongst other fellowships, he was awarded the Global Europe Fellowship at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, a Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Catholic University of American (DC) and a European Parliament-Bronisław Geremek Research Fellowship at the College of Europe in Warsaw.
Working lunches are a new platform for communication initiated by Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch. They provide visiting fellows with a forum to present their research and to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.
Please register at europa@clutterunibas.ch, if you would like to participate in the event.