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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:
Welcome Lunch and introductory round-table: Our Global Histories
CHMST Launch Party
GHCC Work-in-Progress, Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University)
History Research Seminar, ‘I will take money for the arts from murderers, from rapists, from anybody’: The British State as Cultural Patron, Scott Anthony (Science Museum, London)
CHMST Research Horizons: 10 Year plans
History UG Open Day
GHCC Reading Group, Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel, Rethinking Global History (CUP 2024)
“From the Stacks to the Savannahs: Research Methods for Finding Lost Caribbean Writers of the Mid-Twentieth Century.”
History Research seminar, Reading the Sudanese Mahdist Revolt as a Conceptual Repository: A Messianic Approach to ‘Religion’ and ‘Economy’, Hengameh Ziai (SOAS)
EMECC seminar, Christianity, Pain and the Decline of Torture in Seventeenth-Century Europe
CHMST WIP; Adyeeri Kembabazi -‘Reservoirs of Venereal Diseases:’ Women and Medico-moral discourses in Idi Amin’s Uganda.
GHCC Work-in-Progress with Early Career Researcher
History Research Seminar, War on Drugs
GHCC-EMECC joint book talk, Ruthless: A New History of Britain's Rise to Wealth and Power
GHCC seminar with Heeral Chhabra (Liverpool), Streets Dogs and Global History via India
CHMST Journal Club: Isis
EMECC-STVDIO Workshop: Waste, Recycling and Leftovers in Early Modern and Renaissance Europe
CHMST-WIP; Somak Biswas Cambridge--'Race and Mobility: AIDS and the Screening Debate in Britain, 1985-1990'
David Motadel (in cooperation with GHCC): Globalising Europe
GHCC Roundtable, Globalising Europe, David Motadel (LSE)
CHMST Research Seminar,Rebecca Williams-'Why Men? Gender and Population Control in Postcolonial India
GHCC new members' introductions
History Research seminar with Alessandro Iandolo (UCL), Red Masks: Soviet Colonialism in the Global South
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