Histories of Activism GroupDr Daniel Laqua
PhD, M.St., BALecturer in History
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 331 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 3491 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Before joining Northumbria University in September 2009, Daniel worked as a Teaching Fellow in Modern European History at University College London (UCL), where he had previously written his doctoral thesis and been a teaching assistant. He also holds a European Doctorate diploma, awarded by a consortium of ten European universities as part of an EU-funded scheme. Daniel is the joint convenor of the ‘Histories of Activism’ research group at Northumbria. He has worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris and for the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in London (PCF5)
Qualifications
PhD in History, University College London (UCL), 2009
M.St. in Modern History, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2003
BA (Hons) in History, Wadham College, University of Oxford, 2002
Teaching Interests
Daniel is the convenor and tutor of the following modules:
‘Cultures, Structures and Ideas: Making Sense of Historical Concepts’ (year 1, HI0407): this module focuses on four concepts – ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘the state’ and ‘modernity’, and the ways in which they took (or changed) shape in different historical contexts.
‘Into the Dark Valley: Europe, 1919–1939’ (HI0533): this module deals with particular events in the history of interwar Europe (e.g. the crises of the Weimar Republic, the Popular Front in France, the Spanish Civil War) but also sheds light on international developments such as the work of the League of Nations and the impact of anti-colonial activism.
‘Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Crisis and Change in Western Europe, 1965–1987’ (year 3, HI0624): this module tackles crisis and conflict in Western European societies. Topics include the long-lasting legacies of war and dictatorship, changes in youth culture, and the role of political protest movements.
Daniel also lectures and teaches seminars on ‘The Making of Contemporary Europe’ (year 1, HI0401). He contributes to various team-taught modules and to the Department’s postgraduate provision.
Research Interests
Daniel’s research deals with transnational movements and associations in 19th/20th-century Europe. He is particularly interested in competing conceptualisations of global order, the role of peace groups and the relationship between nationalism and internationalism. Daniel is currently finalising his first monograph which examines European internationalism through the prism of congresses, conferences and campaigns that took place in Belgium. Daniel has two longer-term publication plans: one on the international structures of pacifists in the 1920s and 1930s, and one on the politics of crisis in Western Europe during the 1970s.
Research Students
Daniel teaches on the MRes course and supervises three PhD students, two as first supervisor and one as second supervisor. He is happy to work with students interested in transnational history, the history of international movements and organisations as well as the cultural and political history of 19th-/20th- century Western Europe.
Affiliations and Memberships
Member, Society for the Study of Labour History
Member, Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung (the German Peace History Association)
Member, Association Belge d'Histoire Contemporaine / Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis
Member, Internationalism and Cultural Exchange, 1870-1920 network
Member, History of International Organisations network
Select Publications
Books:
[as editor, with Gita Deneckere and Christophe Verbruggen], Beyond Belgium: Transnational Social and Cultural Entanglements, 1900-1925 (= themed issue of the Revue belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, forthcoming 2012).
[as editor] Internationalism Reconfigured: Transnational Ideas and Movements Between the World Wars (I.B. Tauris, 2011).
Chapters and Articles:
‘The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s’, The International History Review, vol. 33, no. 4 (2011), pp. 705-726.
‘Transnational Intellectual Cooperation, the League of Nations, and the Problem of Order’, Journal of Global History, vol. 6, no. 2 (2011), pp. 223-247.
‘Internationalisme ou affirmation de la nation? La coopération intellectuelle transnationale dans l’entre-deux-guerres’, Critique Internationale, no. 52 (2011), pp. 51-67.
‘Reconciliation and the Post-War Order: The Place of the Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte in Interwar Pacifism’, in Daniel Laqua (ed), Internationalism Reconfigured: Transnational Ideas and Movements between the World Wars (I.B. Tauris, 2011), pp. 209–37.
‘Laïque, démocratique et sociale’? Socialism and the Freethinkers’ International’, Labour History Review, vol. 74, 3 (2009), pp. 257-73.
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