Fletcher Joins LSE for History Seminar Series

For academic year 2024-2025, The Fletcher School joins The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to host an exciting transatlantic seminar series. 

Titled as the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, this hybrid series will take place in person at both campuses and on Zoom. Those interested may email Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson (e.ingleson@lse.ac.uk) for Zoom links, room locations, and further information on the subjects and speakers.

The full 2024-2025 seminar program includes:

 

October 16, 2024

Margot Tudor (City University, London)

Protesting peacekeeping: dissent and women activists across UN missions during mid-century decolonisation.

Commentary: Jasmine Gani (London School of Economics)

 

October 30, 2024

Sarah Snyder (American University, Washington)

A Global Reordering of Overseas Americans During the Cold War.

Commentary: David Milne (University of East Anglia)

 

November 20, 2024

Aimee Genell, (Boston University)

Exporting Egypt to the Gulf: Autonomy in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914.

Commentary: Katerina Dalacoura (London School of Economics)

 

December 4, 2024

Brian Spivey (University of California, Irvine)

An Environmental Third Way: The People’s Republic of China at the 1972 UN Conference of the Human Environment.

Commentary: Dario Fazzi (Leiden University)

 

January 29, 2025

Aden Knapp (Yale University)

The Rose Mary Doctrine: Hot Commodities, Cold Nationalizations, and the Litigation of Decolonization, 1950s–1980s.

Commentary: Christopher Dietrich (Fordham University)

 

February 12, 2025

Anna Calori (University of Glasgow)

Cultivating Development. Non-aligned agro-industrial partnerships in Zambia and Yugoslavia.

Commentary: Rachel Applebaum (Tufts University)

 

March 12, 2025

Ahmad Umar (Aberystwyth University)

Rethinking ‘Revolt against the West’: Pan-Asianism and International Order, 1880-1945.

Commentary: Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics)

 

March 26, 2025

Or Rosenboim (University of Bologna)

Economies of Faith: The international thought of Barbara Ward.

Commentary: Sinja Graf (London School of Economics)