Dark Horizons? New Directions in European History

8 - 10 July 2025

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Draft Programme

 

Please see the draft programme below

TUESDAY 8 JULY

1:00pm Registrations: Coffee, Tea, Water

2:00-2:30pm (206-220) Mihi: Welcome

Speakers: Prof. Maartje Abbenhuis (President AAEH)

 

2:30-4pm SESSION 1
Room 1 (206-209) Room 2 (206-201) Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 7 Environmental histories of resources

 

Panel: 14 International history

 

Panel: 6 Currents of resistance

4pm-4:30pm Afternoon Tea

4:30-5:30pm SESSION 2 (2-papers)
Room 1 (206-209) Room 2 (206-201) Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 11 Germans in the Pacific

 

Panel: 10 Consuming ‘insecurity’

 

Panel: 4 Rethinking Hungarian nationalism

 

5:30-7:00pm Keynote: Assoc. Professor Scott Manning Stevens (Akwesasne Mohawk, Syracuse) 201-393

 

WEDNESDAY 9 JULY

8:30am Registrations: Coffee, Tea, Water

9-10:30am (Tūtahi Tōnu Marae) Hui: Indigenous Approaches to European History

Speakers:

Assoc. Prof. Scott Manning-Stevens

Prof. Rev. Upolu Vaai

Prof. Angela Wanhalla

Chair: Dr Peter Keegan

Please note: Attendees are asked to remove their shoes at the entrance of the marae. Please refrain from eating or drinking within the marae meeting space.

10:30-11am Morning Tea (Tūtahi Tōnu Marae)

11-12:30pm SESSION 3
Room 1 (206-209) Room 2 (206-201) Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 13 Indigenous Sovereignties

 

Panel: 23 First World War Panel: 2 Death in Cyprus

12:30-2pm Lunch

2 – 3:30pm SESSION 4
Room 1 (206-209) Room 2 (206-201) Room 3 (206-203)
Panel: 12 Imperial competition

Panel: 8 Cultural and scientific tensions

 

Panel: 3 Monarchy in Imperial Germany

 

3:30-4pm Afternoon Tea

4-5:30pm SESSION 5
Room 1 (206-220) Room 2 (206-201) Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 24 Roundtable: Dissonant memories

 

Panel: Panel:
5:30 – 7:00pm Keynote Annette Baker (201-330)

THURSDAY 10 JULY

9:00am Registrations: Coffee, Tea, Water

9:30-10:30pm SESSION 6 (2-papers)

Room 1 (206-209)

Room 2 (206-201)

Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 8 Displacement and refuge

Panel: 19 NZ Wars

Panel: 26 The global 1970s

10:30-11am Morning Tea

11-12:30pm SESSION 7

Room 1 (206-209)

Room 2 (206-201)

Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 5 Fascism and anti-fascism

Panel: 18 Melancholy/powerful emotions

Panel: 15 International courts

 

12:30-2pm Lunch

2 – 3:30pm SESSION 8

Room 1 (206-209)

Room 2 (206-201)

Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 21 Afterlives of the Holocaust

Panel: 22 Travel and discovery

Panel: 1 Bullets in History

3:30-4pm Afternoon Tea

4-5:30pm SESSION 9

Room 1 (206-209)

Room 2 (206-201)

Room 3 (206-203)

Panel: 20 Post-Soviet worlds

Panel: 16 Politics of marriage and gender

Panel: 2 An individual’s history

 

5:30-6:30pm (206-220) AAEH General Meeting and Book Prize Announcement

Chair: Prof. Maartje Abbenhuis

Room Support: Maartje Abbenhuis

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Submissions close: 6 November 2024
Early-bird ends: 8 April 2025

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Email: AAEH2025@auckland.ac.nz