News
- Paper "Empire goes South: The Black Sea and the Colonisation of the Russian Frontier
in the 19th Century"
Maritime Humanities Workshop "An Empire of the Seas: Russian Maritime Expansion in the White
and the Black Seas (18th-19th Centuries)", organised by Stella Ghervas
Newcaslte University, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Armstrong Building 2.49, 8 May 2019 - Paper "Odessa: The Rise and Fall of a Free Port, 1819-1858"
International Conference "The Construction of Free Ports: Political Communication, Commercial Development
and Administrative Control"
Venice, Ca' Foscari University, Sala Marino Berengo, 29-30 April 2019 - Paper "What is a Peace Treaty?"
Workshop "What is a Treaty?", organised by David Armitage
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 28-29 March 2019 - Keynote Lecture "La mer Noire: colonisation d'un espace de frontière au XIXe siècle"
International Conference "Les communautés suisses de la mer Noire"
University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Anthropole Salle 5093, 7-8 February 2019 - Roundtable (Organizer): "An Empire of the Seas? The Future of Russian Maritime
and Oceanic History"
50th Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, 7 December 2018 - Book Discussion: "A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada"
50th Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, 8 December 2018 - Interview: "Exploring the Maritime Histories that Connect the World"
Newcastle University Press Office, 31 October 2018 - Panel (Organizer): "Maritime Humanities: History and Beyond"
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University and Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute
Spence Watson Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building, Room 2.98, Newcastle University, 1 November 2018, 16:00-18:00 (Poster)
The event inaugurates the chair of Professor Stella Ghervas, a specialist in Russia and its maritime history, whose recent appointment begins a new chapter in the maritime humanities at Newcastle University.
Participants: David Armitage (Harvard University), Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University), Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University) and Philip Steinberg (Durham University). - Chapter: "Ein Palimpsest für den Frieden: Die Heilige Allianz und das Ende des französischen Empire" [A Palimpsest for Peace: The Holy Alliance and the End of French Empire],
in Die Heilige Allianz. Entstehung - Wirkung - Rezeption, ed. Anselm Schubert and Wolfram Pyta (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2018), pp. 61-78. - Course: "What is Europe? Politics, Power, and Peace, 1700-2018"
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Harvard Summer School, 2018 - Article: "Le Lion peureux en quête de paix: L'Union européenne et sa phobie de la puissance", Questions Internationales, No. 91-92 (2018): 129-135.
- Paper: "Conquering Peace: Designing a New International Architecture after the First World War",
Conference "The Promise of a New Europe: The Paris Peace Treaties of 1919-20 and the International Order in the Interwar Years"
Andrássy University, Budapest, 23-24 May 2018 - Paper: "‘European Values’: Decoding the Palimpsest of EU Treaties",
25th International Conference of Europeanists, "Europe and the World: Mobilities, Values and Citizenship"
Organized by the Council for European Studies, Chicago, 28-30 March 2018 - Chapter: "The Black Sea", in Oceanic Histories, ed. David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 234-266.