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PhD Workshop starts today at MainzThe Leibniz Institute of European History has convened international PhD students to a workshop on European history across boundaries from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, including Europe’s relations with the world. The Graduate Workshop 2017/18 starting today takes place in cooperation with Lyndal Roper, Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford. Early career researches working in this field present their dissertation projects and discuss the transcultural and transnational scope of their findings.[caption id="attachment_505" align="alignnone" width="300"] Leibniz Institute of European History: Fellowship Programme http://www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowships[/caption]The programm covers a range of topics that aim to cross and reflect boundaries and borders from early modern to contemporary history. Participants are:Desiree E. Krikken (Groningen), My plot, your plat, our inhabited landscape: Early modern land surveyors and the record of European physical spaceAlberto Rodríguez Martínez (Seville), Local politics and cross-border negotiations in the Low Countries (1598–1621)Valerio Zanetti (Cambridge), Embodied Feminity in Renaissance EuropeJulia Maclachlan (Manchester),Male Homosexuality 1945–70: Transnational Scientific and Social Knowledge in British and West European contextsBetto van Waarden (Leuven), Political Visibility: Celebrity leaders and the emerging mass press in Europe, 1895–1908Joana Duyster Borreda (Oxford), Towards an International History of Nationalism: Performing, Remembering and Disseminating Catalan Culture AbroadCarlos Domper Lasús (LUISS Rome), Polls without Democracy: Elections under European dictatorships during the Cold War: Spain and Portugal in a comparative frameworkMari Hauge (EUI), Another third standpoint? Scandinavian left-wing intellectuals and their Cold WarChristian Wiesner (Innsbruck), Reception and regulation of the Tridentine reforms: The Roman curia of the 16th and 17th Century and the implementation of the residential obligation of priests and bishopsTanja Zakrzewski (Potsdam), Conversos and Moriscos: Identity and violence in Early Modern SpainIris Busschers (Groningen), Making Missionary Lives: Collective biography, missionary memory, and Dutch self-fashioning in the context of Reformed Missions to Dutch New Guinea and East Java, c. 1900–1949Norman Aselmeyer (EUI), Fractured Spaces: East Africa, the Uganda railway, and patterns of disintegration, c. 1890–1914Conveners: Gregor Feindt, Johannes Paulmann (Mainz) and Lyndal Roper (Oxford)Venue: Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, GermanyDate: 24 – 26 January 2018The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), an independent research institution in Mainz (Germany), contributes to the history of Europe across boundaries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It fosters research on the social, political, cultural and religious dynamics in Europe from the early modern period into the twentieth century and focusses on processes of establishing, coping with and enabling difference. The IEG has a fellowship programme for PhD students, PostDoc researches and Senior Research Fellows. For further details see here.&#160;