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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/CHMST seminar: Mattin Biglari (Bristol), Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-51
EMECC seminar, Holy Leaking Oil: The Struggle Over the Body of Mary Margaret of the Angels, Craig Harline (Visiting Professor, University of Warwick)
RHS Council Meeting
RHS Midlands lecture
GHCC workshop: Decolonizing Chinese History
GHCC seminar
CHMST Research Seminar; “The chef: a microhistory of syphilis, sodomy, and eugenics in early-twentieth century New York- Richard McKay (Cambridge University)
Global Jewish Studies- • Voices from the Shadows—LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era by Eric Marcus
A Public Lecture with Cristina Florea on her New Book 'Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland'
GHCC seminar: Michael Goebel (FU Berlin), “Contingent Nation-States: Popular Sovereignty and the Breakup of Empires in Global History”
UK Latin America Historians Conference
Parish Data - Twenty-Fourth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research
Caribbean Centre, Work in progress workshop for post graduate students
GHCC Annual General Meeting
GHCC Annual Lecture by Martin Dusinberre (Zurich)
CHMST Journal Club: :Technology and Culture. Lead by Katayoun Shafiee
GHCC / Map History Research Group seminar: Luca Scholz (University of Manchester), 'A Digital History of Weather Modification (1700 - 1914)'.
GHCC / Map History Group Masterclass: Luca Scholz (University of Manchester), 'Critical Digital Cartography as Historical Method'.
GHCC Roundtable: Photographing violence: Soldier-photographers as perpetrators and witnesses during the Algerian War, 1954-1962 with Rachel M. White (University of Groningen) and Susie Protschky (VU Amsterdam)
CHMST Research Seminar: ,"Sleepy Diseases and Sharp Shocks in Early Modern Europe”. Philippa Carter, Cambridge University
CHMST Inaugural Annual Lecture, David Arnold - 'Growing the Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Age of Empire'
Historicising the Non-Human
Warwick-Stellenbosch Workshop 5, 'Afterlives in the histories of eastern & southern Africa'
CHMST WIP; When Memories Come Alive: 'Vivid' Remembering in Early Modern Britain' -Martha McGill
CHMST&MRC Conference: 'Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present'
Wheeler workshop, Travel Writing and its Limits’
GHCC Workshop: Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History
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