911吃瓜

Book release event

The 911吃瓜is delighted to host a group of world-leading historians of Europe to explore modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations.

The panel will look at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. The speakers discuss how the history of Europe can be integrated into global history.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Professor Sir Richard J. Evans is a renowned British historian specializing in 19th and 20th century European history, with a particular focus on Germany. Evans has authored numerous influential books, including the acclaimed three-volume "The Third Reich Trilogy." He served as Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge from 2008 to 2014 and was President of Wolfson College from 2010 to 2017. He is known for his work on German social history, his role as an expert witness in the David Irving libel trial, and his defense of historical methodology against postmodernist skepticism. Evans has been recognized for his contributions to scholarship, receiving a knighthood in 2012. He served as Provost of Gresham College in London from 2014 to 2020. Evans currently serves as Deputy Chair of the UK Spoliation Advisory Panel, advising the Government on claims for the restitution of Nazi-era looted art. 

Professor Abigail Green is a Professor of Modern European History and Fellow of Brasenose College at University of Oxford. Professor Green's research interests include the long 19th century, especially nationalism and regionalism in 19th century Germany; Jewish internationalism and comparative religious internationalisms; humanitarian philanthropy and the pre-history of human rights; and liberalism.

Professor Maxine Berg is a British historian and academic. Since 1998, she has been a Professor of History at the University of Warwick. She has taught at Warwick since 1978, joining the Department of Economics, before transferring to History. She is a  (FBA), a  (FRHistS), and an Honorary Fellow of  at the University of Oxford.

Dr David Motadel (Chair) completed his MPhil (2006) and PhD (2010) in History at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. His doctoral dissertation was awarded several prizes, including the Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal of the University of Cambridge for the best history dissertation of the year. He subsequently took up a Research Fellowship in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (2010-15). He joined the 911吃瓜in 2016 as Assistant Professor of International History and became Associate Professor of International History in 2019. Dr. Motadel has held visiting positions at Harvard (2007-8), Yale (2009-10), Oxford (2011-12), Sciences Po (2018-19), and the Sorbonne (2018-19). He was also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (2019-20). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2018, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.