Professor Geoff Eley (University of Michigan) will be visiting the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on Monday 16 May 2016 to give a seminar paper on 'Europe in the World, 1914-1940: Race, Colony, Empire'.
The event will be held in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, 16.00-17.30, with a reception afterwards in the McMillan Room.
Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan. His books include: Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002); A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005); and Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945 (2013). He is a long-standing member of the Editorial Board of the journal Social History.
The event is jointly sponsored by Social History and by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology as part of the Economic and Social History seminar series.
All are welcome to attend (staff, postgraduate and other students, and visitors).