Author: Bernhard Struck

While researching for my short essay on the development of transnational history and its impact on the historiography of women’s history, I came across another dimension that I could incorporate into my project: that of gender history and theory. While

The unconference was an interesting exercise for me in evaluating how I work and think versus how my peers work and think. While I have looked up “polish women migration” “polish women transition period” so many times at this point,

Saturday’s unconference was really helpful for me. I was quite intimidated by the idea of sitting and writing with someone looking over my shoulder, but it was actually really nice to be able to talk out my idea and narrow

Today, conflict and ‘law’ are inseparable. The ‘Hauge Laws’ regulate conflict, proscribing weapons which cause unnecessary suffering, as well as the targeting of civilians. These proscriptions can be traced to the 1868 preamble to the St Petersburg Declaration prohibiting explosive

Tourism is not only a major force within a country’s economy, but also vital within the Western cultural lifestyle. [1] Within Europe, tourism provided some reconstruction of normality after the tragedies of the Second World War.[2]The twentieth century brought about new understandings

International Women’s Movements and Transnational Feminism: International Women’s Organisations in the Interwar Years Muthunlakshmi Reddi, founder-president of the Women’s Indian Association, stated at the 1933 International Council of Women that “from its infancy, the women’s movement was international in character”.[1]

  France, at the end of the 1960s, saw nuclear protest movements emerge because of rising ecological fears.[1]Meanwhile, in 1967, ‘Nature and Youth’ formed in Norway as a radical environmentalist group.[2] Clearly, there existed a European trend of environmental mobilisation in Europe

The Cold War has commonly been interpreted as the antithesis to globalisation. Following the Second World War, rather than being united in peace, the world was harshly divided into two distinct camps. The Iron Curtain separating East and West was

Project Title – Rapanui and the Obliteration of Isolated Civilizations: Causes, Effects, and Methods of Comprehension  Word Count: 656  Rapanui, a tiny grass-covered rock that is more commonly referred to as Easter Island, is the most isolated island in the Pacific

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Hi, everyone! Since we were cut short for time, I’m transferring all of my thoughts to my blog post for the week – but am happy to share in our unconference on Saturday if needed. In my previous post, I

As I have researched and read for my project, I feel like I have already greatly shifted and morphed my ideas. I am primarily interested in the international and transnational flows and connections surrounding women’s movements and suffrage. While this

My reading has taken some odd turns in recent weeks, stretching from disease to sovereignty and finally to a (now technically obsolete) document. This document banned the use of explosive projectiles under 400g for being both inhumane and providing no

Antje Dietze and Katja Naumann talked about how historians must look at space and spatial perspectives through a transnational lens. They talk about how space itself is a socially constructed concept, explaining that “the predominance of the national space has