Wednesday, April 22, 20265:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
We are pleased to announce that the next UCLA European History Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, April 22, at 5pm in Bunche 10383 and on Zoom. Lauren Stokes, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, will be joining us to speak on “The Jet Age in Eight Passengers.”
About the Talk
In 1944 millions more people had been bombed by an airplane than had ever flown on one. The men who gathered that November in Chicago to write the future of aviation law were an elite group: passengers of the airplane, rather than only its victims, who believed passionately that with the right legal framework, this new technology could be a "weapon of peace" rather than solely one of war. Eighty years and trillions of passengers later, we can ask: did they succeed? The Jet Age in Eight Passengers tells the story of the jet age through the collective biographies of eight passengers who defined it. This talk focuses on one of the key concepts of the book, which is that the jet age has been an age of border proliferation, as even countries that have maintained their shape have added borders in the sky at a dizzying rate
About The Speaker
Lauren Stokes is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, where she teaches classes on German and European history, comparative fascism, migration history, gender history, and the “History of the Present.” She is author of Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany (Oxford 2022), and several articles on migration history, including “The Permanent Refugee Crisis in the Federal Republic, 1949—” and “Racial Profiling on the U-Bahn: Policing the Berlin Gap during the Schönefeld Airport Refugee Crisis.” She has also co-edited both a special issue of Central European History on the borders of the German Democratic Republic (with Ned Richardson-Little) and a collection of essays on Racism and Anti-Racism in Divided Germany (with Michelle Kahn).
Venue
Bunche Hall Room 10383 (6th Floor of Bunche)
Online via Zoom (Please register to participate virtually)
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of History