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March 9, 2021

Polyphemus’ Supper: Surviving War in 17th-Century Europe (Tryntje Helfferich)

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This talk will survey some of the disruptions and devastations caused by the Thirty Years War but will focus on people’s survival tactics, which included everything from fighting back, to...

March 16, 2021

Central European Zionisms and the Habsburg Colonial Imaginary

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