Events 2024-25

Upcoming Events, Spring 2025

14 January, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR
Daniel Lee, Fellow, SCAS.
Reader in Modern History, Queen Mary University of London
Writing the Story of One Roundup of Jews in the Holocaust: Marseille, January 1943
Zoom Webinar: N/A
ABSTRACT:
My new research project examines the roundup of Jews, criminals, and prostitutes in Marseille in
January 1943 as the key moment of the Holocaust in France. To decentre the July 1942 Vél d’Hiv
roundup of Jews in Paris, and focus instead on Marseille, offers a new way to understand mass
violence during the Holocaust. A micro-historical case study of Marseille considers other sections
of France’s Jewish population which remain invisible when placing a Parisian and Ashkenazic-centric
version of events at the heart of the narrative. Using the life trajectories of lower-ranking Nazis, to
chart how ideas developed in ghettos and killing fields of eastern Europe were transferred and put
into practice in Marseille, exposes the transnational nature of the Nazis’ Final Solution in a place with
which it is seldom associated: the Mediterranean. This project employs archival sources in France,
Germany and Israel, some of which have only recently been declassified.

16 January, 4:00 p.m. sharp. BOOK TALK
Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders
Emrah Yıldız (Global Horizons Junior Fellow, SCAS & Assistant Professor of Anthropology and
Middle East and North African Studies, Northwestern University) will read from his new book
Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders.The reading will be followed
by a three-way conversation with Ayşe Çağlar (Fellow, SCAS & University Professor of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna) and Shahram Khosravi (Professor of Social Anthro-
pology, Stockholm University).
The event will be followed by a reception.
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Venue: The Green Room Library, 4th floor of Linneanum

21 January, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR
Ayse Caglar, Fellow, SCAS.
University Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
Permanent Fellow, IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Political Economy of Displacement: (Im)mobilized Labor, Extractivism, and City-Making
Zoom Webinar: N/A
ABSTRACT:
Extraction and confined labor are typically associated with colonialism, occluding their broader
geographical, historical, and contemporary relevance. In my talk, I ask: how could we go beyond
the compartmentalized historiography of cities, (im)mobile labor, and displacement to unearth possible
commonalities and contour lines connecting disparate periods, processes, institutions, and groups of
actors in the making and remaking of cities? To answer this question, I suggest that we adopt a lens
of expanded extractivism that allows us to bring into  conversation the economies of (im)mobile labor,
confinement, and governance of the displaced as inscribed in distinct periods and regimes (such as 
forced, displaced labor, guest worker, temporary, circular, migrant worker, asylum seeker/Refugee).
 By tracing the historical geography of a street in Linz, Austria starting from the WWII, I show the
continuities and mutations as detected in discourses and actors that regulate and finance the “care” of
the displaced, as well as the spaces and practices of containment that is also visible today. Taking the
perspective of longue durée thereby opens new ways of situating the current and ongoing commodi-
fication of the care and containment of migrants and refugees and the histories of confined labor 
within Europe.

28 January, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Sari Nauman, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS
Associate Professor of History, University of Gothenburg
Time-Travelling Concepts: Historicizing Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

4 February, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Christiaan De Beukelaer, Global Horizons Senior Fellow, SCAS.
Senior Lecturer in Culture and Climate, University of Melbourne
Can Oceanic Climate Regimes Inform a Terrestrial Governance Architecture Fit for
the Anthropocene?
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

25 February, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Axel Palmér, Human Past Junior Fellow, SCAS.
Guest Researcher, Leiden University
Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Rigveda and Beyond
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

4 March, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Oana B. Albu, SCAS-Nordic Fellow, SCAS.
Associate Professor, Department of Management, Society and Communication,
Copenhagen Business School
Climate Movements, Platforms, and Trajectories of In/Visibility
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

11 March, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Linda Colley, Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes in Early Modern and
Modern History, SCAS.
Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University
Title TBA
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

18 March, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Emrah Yıldız, Global Horizons Junior Fellow, SCAS.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Middle East and North African Studies,
Northwestern University  
The Fantasy of “Smart” Sanctions: Some Ethnographic Lessons from Iran and Turkey
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

21 March. LECTURE & PANEL DISCUSSION
The 7th Wittrock Lecture & Panel Discussion
More information will follow.

25 March, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
David Cannadine, Guest of the Principal, SCAS.
Dodge Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University
Writing the Life of Queen Elizabeth II for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

1 April, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Mark Bassin, Fellow, SCAS.
Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas, Södertörn University.
Director of Research, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University
Contested Geo-Imaginaries of Civilization in Putin's Russia: "Eurasia" or the
"Russian World"?
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

8 April, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Bruce G. Carruthers, Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes on Global
Governance, SCAS.
John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Title TBA
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

29 April, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Mònica Ginés-Blasi, Barbro Klein Fellow, SCAS.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon
Labour Intermediaries as Invisibilizing Agents in Nineteenth-Century Chinese
Contract Migration
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

7 May. LECTURE
CUSP Lecture
More information will follow.

13 May, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Elizabeth Jacqueline Marcus, Fellow, SCAS.
Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Newcastle University
France’s Global University: Education, Empire and Transnational Entanglements
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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20 May, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Mehmet Somel, Human Past Senior Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Genetic Insights into Social Organisation of Neolithic Societies in Anatolia: Kinship
and Gender Roles
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

27 May, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Alisse Waterston, Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes in Transnational
Processes, Structural Violence, and Inequality, SCAS.
Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology Emerita, the City University of
New York
Title TBA
Zoom Webinar: TBC
ABSTRACT: -

The schedule is subject to change.