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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:
CHMST WiP Session: ‘Sit down, Jack, I’m going off my head’: Locating the patient’s voice in asylum casebooks, c.1900
CGJS Brutal Forms: The Legacies of Forced Labor in German Design after 1945, Patrick Greaney
History Research seminar, Do Labour Rights Deliver Workplace Justice? Workers, Power and Fairness in Postwar Central Europe, Radka Šustrová, Charles University, Prague
EMECC Seminar and New Colleague Introduction
CHMST Book Launch: Gems and the New Science, by Michael Bycroft
GHCC seminar, How to Write a Global History of Tax Avoidance?
Readings in History & Theory, Anna Kornbluh’s Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form
CHMST UKRI Grant Roundup
Daniel Rood: "The De-Judaization of Caribbean Trade and the Making of a British Imperial Nation in the 17th Century"
History Research seminar, In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America, Daniel Rood, University of Georgia
GHCC-EMECC joint seminar, Unchartered Maritime Worlds
CHMST WiP Session: Bodies, Work, and Leisure: Soviet Sanatoria and the Making of Medical-Administrative Discourse, 1917–1941
GHCC-LAWN joint seminar, “An Indigenous P’urhepecha History of Environmental Knowledge in Western Mexico”
GHCC Manuscript workshop Tom Long (Warwick), Republican Internationalism: Latin America and the Making of the Modern International Order, 1861-1919 (Harvard University Press)
History Research seminar, Ocean Bombay: Space, Itinerancy and Community in a Colonial Port City, 1839-1945, Tania Bhattacharyya (Warwick)
EMECC Workshop and Book Launch
CHMST PG-led Speakers Series: Eccentric Lives and Neurodivergent Histories in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century England
Global History reading group: Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History (2025)
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