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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 new members' introductions
GHCC-JSPS seminar, ‘Categories at Work in Global History’
Uppers and Downers: JOINT Workshop
Uppers and Downers: JOINT Workshop
Re-imagining Politics and Society, 1750-Present: A Symposium Celebrating Mark Philp’s Academic Career
GHCC Seminar, Galley Slaves Turned Merchants: the Role of Muslim Captives in the Production and Transmission of Things and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
CHM Research Seminar: Jolien Gijbels (Free University, Brussels), Surgical consent: negotiating gynaecological operations in the John Hopkins Hospital, ca. 1890-1910
History Research seminar
EMECC Work-in-Progress Seminar: Ministers, Maps and Mistresses: Extra-Illustrating the Restoration
CHM Research Seminar: Bonnie Evans (Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary), ‘The World Health Organization and International Approaches to Developmental Psychology and Children’s Rights 1948-2024’.
A panel discussion on The Global and Art History
GHCC Reading Group: Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Rethinking Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
History Research seminar
EMECC seminar with Marek Słoń (John Paul II Catholic University Lublin / Poland) Parishes and Towns: New Approaches in Polish Historiography
GHCC workshop, The Traveller's Tale: Global Forms and Circulations’
GHCC-Map History Group joint seminar, ‘World Mapping as Worldmaking: Cooperation and Cartographic Internationalism in the Interwar Period’
CHM Research Seminar: Elisabeth Yang (Wellcome Trust Early Career Award Fellow, University of Leeds), 'Constructing Moral Babies: The Medical and Scientific Enterprise of Infancy in Victorian America and Britain’.
GHCC-EMECC joint seminar, ‘War, Travel and Cultural Exchange: William Gell and the British in Iberia’
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