History Department Events Calendar
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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CHM Research Seminar: Gareth Millward, “Martine McCutcheon versus Darren Anderton: Sick notes, Britain, and the welfare state”FAB 3.32In person, with lunch. |
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GHCC seminar with Ana Struillou (IHR), “Struggle and Smoke: Early Itineraries of Tobacco between the Spanish and Maghribi Empires”FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building |
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Holocaust Memorial Day talk: Zoe Waxman (Oxford), Women’s Bodies as a Site of GenocideOC 1.01, Oculus BuildingHolocaust Memorial Day talk organised in cooperation with the European Research Centre, the Student Union, Chaplaincy, and the Jewish Student Society. Thinking about both the women who survived and who did not survive the Holocaust demonstrates that especially under extreme conditions gender continues to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Whilst men and women were both sentenced to the same fate, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival. |