Visiting Speakers

Laura Evans completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2010. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape) before joining the Department of Historical Studies as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in mid-2012. She is currently revising and publishing her doctoral research, which examined the social history of resettlement in the former Ciskei homeland and the variety of experiences that this process produced, while pursuing other new avenues of research that stem from the thesis. 

Manuel Pedro Ferreira received his PhD from Princeton University (USA), where he worked under Kenneth Levy. He teaches at the Musicology Department of Lisbon's Universidade Nova (FCSH), which he at times coordinated, and currently chairs CESEM (Music Sociology and Aesthetics Research Centre). He was recently elected to the Directive Board of the International Musicological Society. He published over ninety papers and authored or edited fourteeen books, mostly on medieval music. 

Matt fytche is Deputy Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, where he is also a Senior Lecturer on the history of psychoanalysis, and on psychoanalysis and literature. He is co-editor with Daniel Pick of Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism (Routledge, forthcoming), and his publications include The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and ‘Freud and the Neocons: the Narrative of a Political Encounter from 1949-2000)’, Psychoanalysis and History, 15, 2, 2013.

John Forrester's research interests include history and philosophy of psychoanalysis and human sciences. He is the Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and History. Forrester is completing a study (with Laura Cameron) of the reception of psychoanalysis in Cambridge in the early twentieth century.

Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Brussels and Berlin. He is the Artistic Director of Extra City Center for Contemporary Art in Antwerp, and he was a co-curator of Manifesta 7 in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, in 2008 (Trento).

Veronika Fuechtner is an Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College, where she also teaches in Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. She is the author of Berlin Psychoanalytic (University of California Press, 2011) and the co-editor of Imagining Germany, Imagining Asia (Camden House, 2013). She is currently co-editing Towards a Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1950 and completing a monograph on Thomas Mann's Brazilian mother and Mann's construction of race and "Germanness." Her research interests include the history of psychoanalysis and sexology, German-language modernism, contemporary culture, and film, and the connections between different global modernisms.  

Abosede George joined the faculty of Barnard in 2007. She specializes in women's history, urban history, the history of childhood in Africa, the study of gender and sexuality in African History, and the history of development work in Africa. She is currently working on a book about the politics of girl-saving and transformations in girlhood in 20th-century colonial Lagos, Nigeria.

James Giblin has been a member of the History Department at the University of Iowa since 1986. His primary research interest is Tanzania and East Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current work includes co-direction of a collaborative research project on the oral history of the Maji Maji war, a major rebellion against German colonialism in Tanzania during 1905-06.