Professor Glenda Sluga
Professor of International History
D.Phil (Sussex), BA Hons (Melbourne), MA (Melbourne)
Room 405 MacCallum Building
Glenda Sluga has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, the history of European nationalisms, gender history, and is interested in the history of identity and difference more broadly. She has just completed a study of the international history of the idea of the nation in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is currently researching two new books, one on the Congress of Vienna, and the other on the early years of the United Nations. In 2002 she was awarded the Max Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2006 she was appointed a member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO.
Research Areas
- Intellectual history of the nation
- American and British diplomatic history
- The History of International Relations
- Gender in European History
- Australian immigration History
- The History of Human Rights
- The History of Trieste
- Madame de Stael
- Cosmopolitanism
- Internationalism and Empire
- Peacemaking
Current Projects
- ARC-Discovery, 'Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism at the Congress of Vienna.'
- ARC-Discovery, ‘Nation, Race, Rights after the Second World War.'
- The History of Cosmopolitanism, wih Barbara Caine (Monash) & David Garrioch (Monash)
- The History of Realpolitik
- Women in International Politics
Selected Publications
Books
2006 The Nation, Psychology and International Politics (Palgrave)
Reviews:
– Reviews in History (2008)
– International Studies Review (2007)
– Nations and Nationalism (2007)
2001 The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (State University of New York Press, National Identities series), hardback and paperback.
2000 Gendering European History - co-authored with Prof. Barbara Caine (Leicester University Press/Cassells), hardback and paperback. [Also published as Europa e la donna, 1780-1920, con B. Caine (Wizarts, P. S. Elpidio, 2003) [cloth and electronic versions]; Europas historia 1780-1920: Ett genusperspektiv, och Barbara Caine (Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 2003)]; and Género e historia. Mujeres en el cambio sociocultural europeo, de 1780 a 1920 (Madrid, Narcea-SEPS, 2000).
Reviews:
– Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (2008)
Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (Melbourne University History Monograph), reprinted as an electronic publication with RMIT Publishing
Articles and book chapters
2010 "Cosmopolitanism its Pasts and Practices," (with Julia Horne) Journal of World History, special issue on cosmopolitanism and history, 21, 3.
"Unesco and the (One) World of Julian Huxley," Journal of World History, special issue on cosmopolitanism and history, 21, 3.
2009 "A Short History of the Study of Nationalism'" European Studies Forum, Spring, 39, 1: 37-44.
"Passions, Patriotism, and Nationalism and Germaine de Stael," Nations and Nationalism, 15,12: 1-20.
"The Aftermath of War", Oxford Handbook on Fascism ed. R. Bosworth (OUP, Oxford), 70-91.
"The Transformation of International Institutions: Global Shock as Cultural Shock," in Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Daniel Sargent, and Erez Manela (eds), The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s (Harvard University Press). IN PRESS.
"René Cassin: The Rights of Man and The History of Human Rights, 1945-1966," in Stefan Ludwig Hoffman (ed), The Twentieth Century History of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press). Also published in German translation, "Rene Cassin: Les droits de l’homme und die Geschichte der Menschenrechte, 1945-1966," in Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen). IN PRESS.
2007 "Writing the History of the Origins of UNESCO," Sixty years of Unesco (Paris).
2008 "New Histories of the United Nations," (with Sunil Amrith), Journal of World History, 19.3 (2008): 251-274.
2005 "What is National Self-Determination? Nationality and psychology during the apogee of nationalism," Nations and Nationalism, vol. 11, 1.
"Gender Images and the New World Order: On the European Debates of an International Peace Order after the First World War," in J. Davy, K. Hagemann, & U. Katzel (eds), Pacifists/Pacifism: Peace and Conflict research as Gender Research (Klartext, Essen).
"The Nation," in M. Spongberg (ed.) The Palgrave Guide to Women Writing History (Palgrave, Basingstoke).
"Gender," in P. Finney (ed), Palgrave Advances in International History (Palgrave).
2004 "Whose history?" in S. Macintyre (ed), The Historian’s Conscience (Melbourne University Press).
“The Nation and the Comparative Imagination,” in D. Cohen and M. O’Connor (eds.), Cross-Cultural Histories (Routledge).
“Masculinity, Nations and the New World Order,” in K. Hagemann and S. Dudnik (eds), Masculinity in Politics and War: Rewriting the history of Politics and War in the Modern Era (Manchester University Press).
2003 “Defining Liberty: Italy and England in Madame de Stael’s Corinne,” in Women’s Writing, vol.10, 2.
“L'italianitá e fascismo: alieni, allogeni, ed assimilazione” in M. Cattaruzza (ed.), Nazionalismi di frontiera: Identit á contrapposte sull'Adriatico nord-orientale 1850-1950 (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli).
2002 “Narrating Difference and Defining Nation in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western Europe,” European Review of History, 9, 2, 2002: 183-197.
2001 “Bodies, Souls, and Sovereignty: The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Legitimacy of Nations,” Ethnicities 1 (2), pp. 207-232.
2000 “Female and National Self-Determination: A Gender Re-Reading of the ‘Apogee of Nationalism’,” Nations and Nationalisms, Special Issue on Gender, 6 (4), pp. 495-521.
“Italian National Identity and Fascism: Aliens, Allogenes and Assimilation on Italy’s North-Eastern Border” in G. Bedani and B. Haddock (eds.), The Politics of Italian Identity (University of Wales Press).
1999 “Fascism, Anti-fascism, and italianità: Contesting Memories and Identities,” in R. Bosworth and P. Dogliani (eds.), Italian Fascism (Macmillan, London).
1998 “Identity, Gender, and the History of European Nationalisms,” Nations and Nationalisms, 4, pp. 87-111.
“Inventing Ethnic Spaces: ‘Free Territory’, Sovereignty and the 1947 Peace Treaty,” Acta Histriae IV, pp. 173-186.
“Trieste: Ethnicity and the Cold War, 1945-1954” from Journal of Contemporary History 29 (1994): 285-229, reprinted in L. B. Fields, R. J. Barber and C. Riggs (eds.), Reading the Global Past (Bedford Books, USA).
“Writing History into Politics: Balkan Boundaries,” in L. Holmes and P. Murray (eds.), Rethinking Boundaries (Ashgate, London).
Areas of teaching and research supervision
Teaching
Professor Sluga is intermittently responsible for teaching Late-Modern European History units of study, including Twentieth-Century European Culture and Politics, Writing History, the European Studies core unit of study, Contemporary Europe, from 2011 International History and seminars in international and political history.
Supervision
She is available to supervise in the following areas: International History; history of international organisations; history of internatnationalism, cosmopolitanism and empire; modern continental European history; intellectual history of the nation and nationalism; diplomatic history; the history of gender and identity; the Cold War; Eastern Europe; and European migrants in Australia.
Selected Conference Activity
Invited presentations
2009
November: Australian Academy of the Humanities, Keith Hancock Public Lecture.
April: Transnationalism and the History of International Organizations, UNESCO Conference, Cambridge University.
2008
March: Faculty member, Harvard University, History Department, Graduate Conference, Gender and International History.
April: Commentator, New Histories of the Risorgimento conference, Columbia University.
October: The Global Seventies conference, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.
December: Commentator, International History, Graduate Conference, University of Berne.
December: "Cosmopolitanism", Seminar, École Normale Supérieur, Paris.
2007
January: "Crossing Boundaries and Cold War Studies Conference", University of Cambridge.
January: "The History of International Organisations", Workshop, Oxford University, with University of Oslo.
March: "After Empire: Transnationalism and the End of the First World War" Conference, New World Order Network, Duke University.
January: Fascism, Workshop, University of Reading.
June: "Biography and the Nation", Monash University/King’s College Workshop, Prato, Italy.
2006
"Nationalism", RIHSS Key Ideas Lecture series, University of Sydney.
"Biography and the nation", Monash University/King’s College Workshop, Prato, Italy.
2005
"Popular Culture in Discourses of the Nation and Nationalism", International Congress for the Historical Sciences, Sydney.
Chair and discussant, UNESCO 60th Anniversary History symposium, Paris.
2004
Invited Lecture, "The International History of Race and Nation, 1919 and 1945", Race, Nation, and Ethnicity, Horning Endowment Lecture Series, Oregon State University.
Invited Lecture, "The International History of Race and Nation, 1919 and 1945", Race, Nation, and Ethnicity, Horning Endowment Lecture Series, Oregon State University.
2003
"Racisms" Public Lecture series UWA, Perth, October 2003.
2002
“Globalization and Sites of Intra-National Transactions: The Erosion of Borders and the Challenges for the European Union,” International Conference, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy, July 15-19, 2002. Organizers: Rajan Menon, Monroe Rathbone Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University, and Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University.
"Gender and Sociability", International Workshop, Monash University, Prato, Italy, June 2002. Organizers: Professor Moira Gatens, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, and Professor Barbara Caine, Department of History, Monash University.
2001
“Cross-Cultural Histories”, German Historical Institute Research Workshop, University of Cincinnati. Organizers: Professor Maura O’Connor, University of Cincinnati, and Professor Debra Cohen, American University.
March 28, Public Lecture: “Trieste and the Foibe”, University of Bologna, Italy, invited by Professor Patrizia Dogliani.
March 30, “Towards a Cultural History of Diplomacy”, Diplomatic History Workshop, European University Institute, invited by Professor Peter Becker.
April 2-3, “Writing Identity (and the Nation) into History”, Identity and Temporality Workshop, European University Institute, invited by Professor Bo Strath.
April 18, Discussant for paper presented by Professor Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University, University of Florence, invited by Professor Setrag Manoukian.
April 20, “Discourses of Nation”, Representations Seminar, run by Professor Peter Becker, European University Institute, Florence.
April 27-29, “East and West in The Comparative History of Nations and Nationalisms”, Europe 1000-2000 Conference. Organizer: Professor Laszlo Kontler, Central European University, Budapest.
May 16-17, “Certain Curious Anomalies” (organised with the Warren Centre, Harvard University), Conference for the Opening of the Rothermere Institute for American Studies, Oxford University, invited by Professor Ernest May.
June 18, Discussant for paper presented by Professor Eleni Varikas, University of Paris, Gender Summer School, European University Institute, invited by Professor Luisa Passerini.
September 22-26, “Gender and Demobilization”, Demobilizing the Mind Conference. Organizer: Professor John Horne, Trinity College Dublin.
November 22-25, “Gender and Nation 1919”, University of Graz, Modernity Colloquium, Krakow. Organizer: Professor Helmut Konrad.
2000
“Which Europe, What is a Nation: Shifting Historical Paradigms”, Keynote Address, Nation and Identity: Europe in the 20th Century Conference, Monash University.
“Defining Liberty: Italy and England in Madame de Stael’s Corinne”, La Bella Libertà, Georgetown University, Florence Campus.
“Psychology and National Self-Determination: Towards a Cultural History of Nationalism”, Charles Warren Centre, Harvard University.
“Comparative Nationalisms”, Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research Seminar, Fordham University, New York.
“Psychology and National Self-Determination: Towards a Cultural History of Nationalism”, Department of History, University of New South Wales.
“History of the Present”, Panel with Claus Offe and Timothy Garton Ash, Sydney.
Public Forum on Kosovo, Queensland University of Technology.
Public Forum on “Memory, Civil Society and Nationalism in Eastern Europe and Indonesia”, State Library of NSW.
Other Professional Contributions
Glenda is a member of the 12-person International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO. She is currently co-editor of a monograph series "Critical Histories of Subjectivity and Culture", and on the editorial advisory boards for the European Review of History, National Identities, and Modern Italy. She has edited the special issue for the Journal of World History" on "New Histories of the United Nations", with Dr Sunil Amrith (Cambridge) and "Cosmopolitanism: Its Past and Practices" (21:3 2010), with Julia Horne.
She has peer reviewed for Historical Journal, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, International History Review, International Studies Quarterly, European Women’s Studies Journal, Nations and Nationalisms, National Identities, Australian Historical Studies, Royal Australian Historical Studies Journal among others.
Glenda has been a visiting scholar at Leiden University, Netherlands; History Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge University; European University Institute, Florence; Charles Warren Centre, Harvard University; Centre for Asia-Europe Studies, Institute des Études Politiques, Paris; and the University of Melbourne. In 2009, she will be a Visiting Fellow at Bologna University.