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Research Seminars and Reading Groups
The postgraduate students are very welcome to attend the Department Research Seminar which takes place on Wednesdays from 4.30-6 pm on Microsoft Teams. Last year's speakers included Catherine Hall (UCL) ‘Doing Reparative History: Bringing Race and Slavery Home'; Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck), ‘Ordinary and Extraordinary: Sexual Violence and Psychiatry from the Fin de Siècle to #MeToo’, Jeremy Adelman (Princeton) 'The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing', Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary) ‘Philosophical Solitude: David Hume vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ and Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), ‘Is Deep History White?’.
The History Department is also host to an extensive collection of research centres and groups which run their own activities and events including:
- Centre for the History of Medicine
- Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre
- European History Research Centre
- Global History and Culture Research Centre
For more information on these Centres and other research groups and projects in the Department, see here. Please get in touch with Centre Directors if you would like to know more.
Events Calendar
The Department of History Events Calendar gives details of all seminars, conferences, workshops and events. Upcoming department events are listed below:
EMECC-IHR Long 18th Century workshop, Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory and the Making of History
GHCC workshop, (Co-)Writing Global Diplomatic History
CHMST WIP; Michael Bycroft, University of Warwick, presenting on his book proposal ‘Can Empiricism Save the Humanities?’
History Research seminar, Post-war Higher Education Expansion in Britain and the Transformation of Liberal Education: Education for Leadership to Education for Consumerism, Josh Patek, Edge Foundation
GHCC workshop 'Traversing boundaries: Intermediaries and the path to independence'
EMECC workshop, Espionage, Intelligence and Code Breaking
GHCC seminar with Marttin Biglari (Bristol)
EMECC seminar, Leaky Nun, Craig Harline (Visiting Professor, University of Warwick)
RHS Council Meeting
RHS Midlands lecture
GHCC workshop: New Directions for Global History
GHCC seminar
CHMST Research Seminar; Richard McKay
Global Jewish Studies- • Voices from the Shadows—LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era by Eric Marcus
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