Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

On April 10, join us for a conversation with Dr. Tara Zahra, the author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

Dr. Tara Zahra is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. Zahra's research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, and humanitarianism. Her latest book, Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars was published by W.W. Norton Press in 2023. With Pieter Judson, she is currently working on a history of the First World War in the Habsburg Empire. Zahra is also the author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration and the Making of the Free World (Norton, 2016) and, with Leora Auslander, Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (Cornell, 2018). Her previous books include The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II (Harvard, 2011) and Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands (Cornell, 2008).