Activity Type:
Lecture Series / Brown Bag
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Presenter:
Megan Brown
Date:
Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 12:30 to 14:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Zooom
Streaming Link:
Contact Person:
Kenneth Reilly
Contact Email:
ker104@pitt.edu
JMEUCE Lecture Series:
This talk places empire and decolonization at the heart of the history of European integration. When French officials came to the negotiating table to help found the European Economic Community (EEC), their sovereignty over Algeria was a paramount concern. As a result, they demanded that their European collaborators agree to name Algeria in the treaty establishing the EEC. This held unintended consequences before and after Algeria’s independence. Algeria’s exit from Europe proved plodding and uneven, demonstrating both the range of possibilities for what the shape of integrated Europe might have been and also the slow process of decolonization.
Megan Brown
Department of History, Swarthmore University
UCIS Unit:
European Studies Center
European Union Center of Excellence
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No
Pitt Undergrads:
9
Pitt Grad Students:
1