The cluster "Conflict and Identity" has been set up to provide a place to discuss historical concepts and events that shaped the identity of European countries since the late early modern age. We are interested in questions pertaining to war and peace, nationalism and national identity formation, but also in issues related to transnationalism and internationalism, global entanglements and regional specificities. The focus is on both states and non-state/supra-state actors, as well as on matters of governance and political theory and practice from the level of policy makers to that of wider societies. Even though the starting point of analysis is Europe, broadly defined, the analytical net is cast widely to include Europe’s functioning in a global context in order to include questions related to colonialism and empire.
The cluster organises various activities that bring together academic staff and students who do research on political, social, intellectual and cultural history of European countries, as well as on transnational relations in Europe. These activities include seminars, workshops, reading groups, and are organized both separately and in cooperation with other ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ research clusters, institutes and departments.
Spokesperson: Dr Artemis Photiadou
Keywords: Enlightenment, World War I, World War II, European integration, genocide, wartime violence, human rights, post-Cold War system, nationalism, communism, post-communism, peace movements in Europe
Dr Dina Gusejnova
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Modern European History; Intellectual and Cultural History; History and Social Theory
Dr Paul Keenan
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Cultural History of 18th-Century Russia
Professor N. Piers Ludlow
Professor of International History
Research interests:
Western Europe since 1945; European Integration; Cold War Transatlantic Relations; Britain in the EC/EU
Dr David Motadel
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Modern Europe; Europe’s Relations with the Wider World
Dr Artemis Photiadou
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Britain and Europe; European Political Regimes; Intelligence History
Professor Paul Nolte
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor
Research interests:
Space, Territory, and Landscape in Modern Germany; Human Geo-Interventions; History and Current Transformation of Democracy; Theories of Modernity and Social Order.
Dr Svetozar Rajak
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Cold War; Eastern Europe; Balkans
Dr Alex Mayhew
Associate Professor
Research interests: First World War; Modern Warfare; Morale; Crisis; Identity; Modern Britain
Dr Paul Stock
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Intellectual and Cultural History; Long Eighteenth Century; Britain; Idea of Europe; Spatial History; History of Cartography; Travel and Tourism
2021/22:
2020/21:
2019/20:
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2 March 2020: (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS), Professor Matthew Jones, Professor Anita Prazmowska, Professor David Stevenson - ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Festival:
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11 February 2020: (Oxford) - Annual International History Lecture:
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10 February 2020: (Cambridge), (UCL), (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology), (Konstanz) and Dr David Motadel - Book Launch: The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
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10 December 2019: Professor Ulrich Herbert (GHIL Visiting Professor, 2019/20) -
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21 November 2019: Dr Paul Stock - Book Launch: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
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30 October 2019: (University of Oxford) and Dr Tim Hochstrasser - Book Talk: The Europe Illusion? Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration
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23 October 2019: (George Washington University) - Department of International History and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS:
2018/19:
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Book launch, Andrea Mason, British Policy Towards Poland, 1944-1956. Date to be determined.
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21 November 2019: Dr Paul Stock - Book Launch: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
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27-28 June 2019: Conference organised with The National Archives, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians, the University of Strathclyde and the British International History Group: "
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26 March 2019: Sir Stephen Wall (FCO), Professor Piers Ludlow, Dr Lindsay Aqui (University of Cambridge), "Chronicle of a Brexit Foretold? Britain and Europe in the Thatcher Era, 1975-85".
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28 February 2019: Annual Lecture, Professor Anne Deighton (University of Oxford): "'Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do’: Britain and the EU"
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25 February 2019: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Festival “New World Orders”, International History Lecture, Professor David Stevenson, Professor Michael Cox (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS) and Professor Annika Mombauer: "
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17 January 2019: Book launch, Professor Philip Murphy (University of London):
2017/18:
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Dina Gusejnova (2016) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Tim Hochstrasser and P. Schröder (eds., 2003) , , Springer.
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Tim Hochstrasser (2000) , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Paul Keenan (2013) , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
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N. Piers Ludlow (2016) , Palgrave MacMillan, London, UK.
- N. Piers Ludlow (2020) ‘’, International History Review
- N. Piers Ludlow (2020) ‘A Double-Edged Victory: Fontainebleau and the Resolution of the British Budget Problem, 1983-84’ in M. Gehler (ed.), , Nomos, Germany.
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David Motadel (2014) , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., USA.
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Anita Prazmowska (2015) , I.B. Tauris, London, UK.
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Anita Prazmowska (2010) , I.B. Tauris, London, UK.
- Paul Preston (2020) , William Collins, London, UK.
- Paul Preston (2022) , William Collins, London, UK.
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David Stevenson (2017) , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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David Stevenson (2019) '', The International History Review, 41, 6, pp. 1301-1324.
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David Stevenson (2020) '', History, 105, 365 (2020), pp. 268-290.
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Paul Stock (2010) , Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA.
- Paul Stock (2019) , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
- Paul Stock (2022) Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 48:1, 1-22.
Dr David Motadel, 2018-19: Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner
Professor Anita Prazmowska, 2016-18: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
Professor Prazmowska was awarded a two-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, 2016-18. The topic of her research was "The Cold War Jigsaw: Poland's role in the Angolan Civil War, 1976-1986".