Upcoming seminar on 'War, Anti-Fascism and Transnational Justice'
Come join us our seminar to hear our speakers, Adrian Pole and Lena Christophe, share their work on anti-fascism, war and transnational justice
Join us next Wednesday, Feb 21st, at 14:00 (GMT), for our 'War, Anti-Fascism and Transnational Justice' seminar online (on Zoom)
Adrian Pole (University of Chester)
“Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades and their Transnational Encounters with the Enemy in Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939”
Adrian Pole is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Chester. His research revolutionises our understanding of the International Brigades by placing the transnational fighting unit’s varied encounters with the people, places, politics and culture of civil-war Spain at the centre of its analysis, rather than treating them as secondary to the ‘main business’ of waging antifascist war. His article on the International Brigades and Spanish Children won honourary mention for the Contemporary European History Prize in 2022.
Lena Christoph (University of Vienna)
”Political and Transnational Solidarity and the International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam”
Lena Christoph is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and part of the research group GLORE – “Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons Learned from the Postwar (1945-1951).” In her dissertation project, she works on the resettlement of displaced persons to and from the Philippines in the immediate years after World War II. Before her PhD, Lena studied International Development (BA) and History (MA) at the University of Vienna and at Monash University, Melbourne. She received the Vienna Global History scholarship for her Masters thesis on “Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam.”In 2024 she will be a German Historical Institute, Washington D.C research fellow.
Seminars of interest
9th Feb, 13:00-14:00- Discussion Group: (Re)Producing the Concept: On Arabic Critical Theory- 1. (Online)
Please register via the Google Forms link here.
Twentieth-century Arabic social and political thought engaged with European social theory: Existentialism first found its way to Egypt before travelling to Lebanon and Syria; the Soviet Union funded translations of Marxist philosophy and literature through their publishing houses; and many committed intellectuals studying in France brought back French theory to the Arab world in the 1960s. But the coordinates of Marxism, once rooted in the Soviet communist as well as Arab nationalist party-forms, underwent a process of transformation in the wake of the 1967 Arab defeat. The re-commitment of the Arab intellectual post-1967 to the question of national liberation from one of an implied Arab unity mandated rethinking the epistemological conjuncture of science, philosophy, and politics. While translation practices once took the task of Arabizing critical theoretical concepts lightly, many intellectuals became concerned with the status of the concept in Arabic. Lebanese Marxist theoretician Mahdi Amel stressed the importance of the task being not one of mere translation, but of (re)producing the concept through the specificities of Arab social and cultural formations. In this talk, Kiblawi will discuss his in-progress translation of Mahdi Amel’s key theoretical works, reflect on Amel’s translation of theory from French into Arabic, and his own translation of Amel’s work into English.
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Since 2009, the seminar has sought to expand and challenge perspectives in transnational and global history. We aim to provide a platform for graduate students and academics who are early career, precarious or from the Global South.
We seek new voices and fresh perspectives to help us do the same. Our TGHS family is looking to expand! If you are a graduate student in history or an associated discipline at Oxford University and like what we have been doing or have ideas about what we could be doing and want to get involved, email us at admin@oxfordtghs.com. We would love to hear from you!