http://hdl.handle.net/1813/591 2013-05-21T03:07:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31527 Title: Turning Your Dissertation into a Book - Professionalization Workshop Authors: Case, Holly Abstract: Panel discussion with John Ackerman, Director of Cornell University Press, and two History faculty members, Aaron Sachs (author of two books, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, published by Viking in 2006, and Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition with Yale University Press, which just came out in January of this year) and Camille Robcis, author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France, forthcoming with Cornell University Press this spring. Themes range from conceptualizing a book project to planning revisions to finding and approaching a publisher. Description: Professionalization workshop on turning your dissertation into a book (Friday, February 22 at Cornell University) 2013-03-03T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30797 Title: Interview with Vangelis Kechriotis, June 22, 2011 Authors: Kechriotis, Vangelis Abstract: Interview with Vangelis Kechriotis of the History faculty at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Interview conducted in Istanbul, Turkey on June 22, 2011. Kechriotis specializes in late Ottoman history, Christian and Jewish communities in the Balkans and elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, nationalism, and Ottoman urban history and imperial ideology. His dissertation, completed in 2005, is entitled: "The Greeks of Izmir at the end of the Empire a non-Muslim Ottoman Community between autonomy and Patriotism." Description: PART I: On how Kechriotis came to study late Ottoman history (1:30) Why Greeks became more interested in Ottoman history after 1999/2000 (8:20) On the fruit of the recent convergence of young Greek and Turkish scholars on late Ottoman history (12:00) Kechriotis’ take on how Greeks and Turks relate to that history and his work on Izmir (16:05) Can a good historian do politics? Is there a politics that allows for the inclusion of detail? (41:05). PART II: What is the historian's role in bringing societies to a meaningful engagement with their past (0:00) How we should be training the next generation of historians in the field (6:55) Kechriotis' long-term scholarly agenda (13:40) 2012-12-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30796 Title: Interview with James Ward, March 22, 2012 Authors: Ward, James Abstract: Interview with James Ward, scholar of modern East-Central European history and lecturer of modern European history here at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interview conducted in Belfast, Northern Ireland on March 22, 2012. James is the author of the forthcoming book No Saint: Jozef Tiso, 1887-1947. Tiso was the priest-president of wartime Slovakia. That book is coming out with Cornell University Press sometime in spring of 2013. Description: How Ward came to work on Jozef Tiso (1:18) How Ward's biography of Tiso developed over time (5:10) On Ward's historical interests beyond East-Central Europe, including Manila in the Philippines (15:45) Ward's next project on the East-Central European history of expropriation (22:58) Ward's take on what should be going on in the field of East-Central European history (27:36) On teaching East-Central European and Russian/Soviet history in Belfast (30:15) 2012-12-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30795 Title: Interview with Balazs Apor, March 23, 2012 Authors: Apor, Balazs Abstract: Interview with Balazs Apor, Director of the MPhil program in European Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Interviewed conducted in Dublin, Ireland on March 23, 2012. Balazs Apor specializes in the history of East-Central Europe under communism, especially on the leader cult. He has co-edited two volumes, including The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (2004), and The Sovietization of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on the Postwar Period (2008). He is currently at work on a monograph on the leader cult of the Hungarian Stalinist Matyas Rakosi. Description: How Apor came to the study of communist leader cults (1:00) How Apor's view of Rakosi and the leader cult has changed since starting work on it (2:20)How the assessment of Rakosi’s legacy has changed (or not) since 1956 (4:00) On the inadequacy of the term "cult of personality" versus "leader cult" (7:45) On the challenges of doing research on Rakosi's leader cult and what Apor found in his research that surprised him (11:15) The extent to which people were willing participants in leader cults and why (18:30) Comparison of Rakosi to other leaders like Miklos Horthy and Imre Nagy in terms of leader cults (29:25) On whether writing about the leader cult speaks to how Hungarians come to terms with their own history (45:15) On teaching East-Central European history in Ireland and where the field is headed (49:05) 2012-12-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28222 Title: Interview with Joachim von Puttkamer, December 6, 2011 Authors: von Puttkamer, Joachim Abstract: Interview with Joachim von Puttkamer, Professor of East European History at the Friedrich Schiller University and co-director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, Germany. Interview conducted in Jena on December 6, 2011. Professor von Puttkamer is the author of a number of books and articles, including a monograph on schooling in Hungary 1867-1914 (Schulalltag und nationale Integration in Ungarn: Slowaken, Rumänen und Siebenbürger Sachsen in der Auseinandersetzung mit der ungarischen Staatsidee, 1867-1914) published in 2003, and a synthetic overview of East-Central European history and historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries (Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert) in 2010. Description: Interview Themes - Puttkamer's path to the study of East-Central Europe and his first monograph on the regulation of factories in pre-revolutionary Russia (2:22) How contemporary politics in Germany have influenced the study of East-Central Europe (11:10) Strengths and weaknesses of Anglo-American, German, and East-Central European academic cultures and historiographies compared (16:42) Relationship between those who study Western Europe and those who study East-Central Europe -- is there a "European" historiography? (25:00) Why aren't East-Central Europeanists writing broader European histories? (32:45) On the origins and activities of the Imre Kertész Kolleg (38:40) How Puttkamer views his own role as a historian of this region (47:52) The most exciting work in the field; opportunities and challenges (56:35) 2011-12-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/21954 Title: Interview with Taner Akcam, November 8, 2010 Authors: Akcam, Taner Abstract: Interview with Taner Akcam, Associate Professor of History at Clark University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on November 8, 2010. Professor Akcam is the author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, published by Metropolitan Press in 2006. Description: Interview Themes: How Akcam came to be a scholar of genocide (00:47) Why the study of genocide has been so prevalent and controversial of the past 20 years (10:12) Akcam's arrest and the issues that brought him into politics in the 1970s (16:09) How Akcam saw the Turkish state in the 1970s (20:48) Early responses to the work of Akcam on the Armenian issue (26:12) Retrospective view of the aspirations of the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Turkey (30:08) The next generation of intellectuals in Turkey and elsewhere and their relationship to ideology (34:53) The impact of the current preoccupation with memory on contemporary politics (42:20) Dangers of the politics of grievance (48:08) Akcam's interest in writing about Islam (54:13) Aspects of Turkish national consciousness that historians should concern themselves with (1:01:28) 2011-01-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/21953 Title: Interview with Steven A. Barnes, October 19, 2010 Authors: Barnes, Steven A. Abstract: Interview with Steven A. Barnes, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on October 19, 2010. Professor Barnes is the author of the book Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society, which is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2011. Barnes is also the author of a website on the history of the gulag called Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Description: Interview Themes: How Barnes came to be interested in the gulag (00:57) The evolution of Barnes's gulag project (04:12) The argument of Barnes's forthcoming book and how it will likely be received (18:32) Most interesting and exciting directions in Soviet historiography now (32:10) 2011-01-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/21952 Title: Interview with Nikolay Koposov, October 7, 2010 Authors: Nikolay, Koposov Abstract: Interview with Nikolay Koposov, research director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland and former dean of the Smolny college of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Saint-Petersburg State University (1998-2009). Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on October 7, 2010. Prof. Koposov has written on early modern France, approaches to history, and the politics of historical memory in Russia. His works have been published in French and Russian, including most recently a French translation of his 2001 book originally published in Russian, How Historians Think (De l'imagination historique). Description: Interview Themes: The contours of the historical profession in the USSR in the 1970s (01:49) Koposov’s path to the study of history (08:03) Political implications of social history in the USSR in the 1970s (13:10) Political shifts in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s as reflected in the historical profession (16:45) Koposov’s cohort of like-minded historians (26:24) Retrospective perspectives on the period preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union (28:33) On the collapse of communism from a historian’s perspective (32:33) Hopes and aspirations for St. Petersburg State in the 1990s (38:30) The fate of St. Petersburg State over time (42:23) On scholars who influenced Koposov (49:32) 2011-01-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/21951 Title: Interview with Elizabeth McGuire, September 30, 2010 Authors: McGuire, Elizabeth Abstract: Interview with Elizabeth McGuire, Ph.D. UC Berkeley (2010) and currently academy scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on September 30, 2010. The title of Dr. McGuire's book manuscript is "The Sino-Soviet Romance: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with Russia, Russians, and the Russian Revolution." Description: Interview Themes: How McGuire came to her dissertation topic (00:43) How the macro links to the micro in the history of the Sino-Soviet romance (03:14) Practical challenges of writing transnational history across area studies boundaries (05:52) McGuire's approach to narrative in her work (09:17) The work of the historian in a post-area-studis world (11:33) On training grad students to think transnationally (14:30) Projects that can be undertaken with knowledge of Russian and Chinese (17:23) Primary intellectual influences on McGuire (21:52) 2011-01-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/17395 Title: Interview with Claudia Verhoeven, May 13, 2010 Authors: Verhoeven, Claudia Abstract: Interview with Claudia Verhoeven, Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University, conducted in Ithaca, NY on May 13, 2010. Professor Verhoeven is author of "The Odd Man Karakazov: Imperial Russia, Modernity and the Birth of Modern Terrorism," published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Description: Interview Themes: What Verhoeven hoped to achieve with The Odd Man Karakazov (00:58) Greatest challenge of writing the book (10:02) How historians learn to recognize the new in history (16:29) Primary influences on Verhoeven's research and writing thus far (24:44) Implications of Verhoeven's work for the field of Russian history (31:38) Recent works published that suggest what is interesting now (38:00) Verhoeven's plans for future research (40:05) 2010-09-07T04:24:38Z