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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:
GHCC seminar, 'Becoming Turk: the Intellectual History of naming an ethnic group in 19th Century Europe’
Live Chat: Mitigating Circumstances in History
CGJS Talk: Bryan Cheyette, "Levi, Douglass and Slavery"
EMECC-GHCC seminar, John Gallagher (Leeds), Migration and Multilingualism in Early Modern World
GHCC workshop, Global methods and Chinese History: a hands-on workshop with Chen Hao and Anne Gerritsen
GHCC WiP, The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire with Henry Clements
CHM Workshop: Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
CHM Workshop: Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Global Diplomacy Network seminar, “Early Modern European Diplomacy: A Handbook”, with Dorothée Goetze and Lena Oetzel
GHCC Annual General Meeting
Public Lecture 'Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City: The Nantes Atrocities of 1793 and Atlantic World Violence'
Twenty-Third Warwick Symposium on Parish Research
‘“As Like to Cure Us as Kill Us”: Health Activism at Mid-Century’ CHM Works-in-Progress Seminar
GHCC Annual Conference, Global History of Violence
GHCC Book Talk, “Locating Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar” with Kanupriya Dhingra (Jindal Global University)
“South Asia in Global History” PGR workshop, with Prof Sangeeta Dasgupta (JNU)
Carolyn Rusterholtz, Geneva Graduate Institute: 'Population, South Asian and Sexual and Reproductive Health in 1980s Britain’
Conference, Work, Authenticity and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain
History UG Open Day
AHRC Network conference, Writing Global Diplomatic History
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