Programmes and Events
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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:
History Research seminar, Defence without Delusion: the University and its Enemies, Lorna Finlayson, University of Essex
postponed - EMECC lunchtime talk The Invention of Society, Stuart Carroll
EMECC book launch and new year reception
EHRC workshop-'Globalizing Eastern Europe'
CHMST WIP, University of Warwick, 'Almoners, Patients, and the Formation of Medical Social Work in London, 1895-1948'
GHCC New Year's Lunch and book talk with Michiel van Groesen (Leiden), An Ocean of Rumours: News and Information in the Atlantic World
A Lecture by Helen Finch 'Queer Jewish solidarity in the aftermath of the Holocaust'
Roundtable on 'Caribbean Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions'
GHCC seminar
EMECC seminar, Everyday Travel and Communities in Early Modern England
Chad Welmon, in cooperation with the departmental history research seminar
History Research seminar, The Politics of History, Joan Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
CHMST Research Showcase
Public Film Screening and Panel Discussion-'For Women, About Women' (Yevheniia Hyrhorovych, 1930, Ukraine)
GHCC seminar
EMECC lunchtime seminar, Unsettling Mobilities: Space, Identity, and the ‘Becoming’ of British Imperial Agents in and En Route to the Indian Subcontinent, 1757-1840
Caribbean Centre seminar 'Clearer View From Atop Fedon's Camp: Rewriting Slavery and Rebellion in Grenada in 1795-96'.
GHCC seminar
CHMST ‘What are we reading’ Session
Chad Welmon, in cooperation with the departmental history research seminar
History Research seminar, After the University, Chad Wellmon (University of Virginia)
EHRC workshop-'Queer German Studies'
CHMST Research Seminar; Alka Raman, UCL, 'Indian cotton textiles and chintz making in Britain’
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