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History Department Postgraduate Conference
The 2021 Department of History Postgraduate Conference is an opportunity for postgraduate researchers in the department to showcase their work. The conference will be taking place over a series of morning sessions from Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th May.
All are welcome to attend!
View the full programme here: Programme
Join the conference sessions here: http://bit.ly/PGConf-Teams-Meeting-Link
Plain text programme
Day 1 - Tuesday 25th May
9.30 - Opening remarks, Mark Knights
9.45 - Panel 1: Early Modern Religion and Identity (chaired by Mark Knights) Watch recording
Annabelle Goman | Identity and Assimilation in Early Stuart England: The Dutch ‘Strangers’ of Colchester, 1603-1642 |
Connor Talbot | Faction and Family in the Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638 |
Hannah Straw | The Hagiography of a Syphilitic Saint: Deathbed Conversation Narratives of the 2nd Earl of Rochester |
David Fletcher | “A stage-sermon, or a pulpit-play”: Theatricality, and the liminality between the stage and the pulpit, 1660-1714 |
12.00 - End of Day 1
Day 2 - Wednesday 26th May
9.30 - Panel 2: Early Modern Bodies (chaired by Rebecca Earle) Watch recording
Imogen Knox | Conversations with demons: possession, bewitchment, and self-destruction in early modern Britain |
Serin Quinn | “The Spanish Potato, he holds as a bauble”: New World Foods and the Early Modern English Body |
Daniel Gettings | ‘Internal’, ‘External’ and ‘Super essential’: water, environment and the early modern body |
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Panel 3: Modern Gender and Identity (chaired by Meleisa Ono-George) Watch Recording
Hannah Sherwood | Battleground for the Sexualised Female Body |
Montel Gordon | Policing the crises and black communities: The economic crises and policing during the 70s and 80s |
Sue Lemos | ‘For ourselves, by ourselves’: The Black Lesbian and Gay Centre (Project) in London, 1980s-1990s |
13:00 - End of Day 2
Day 3 - Thursday 27th May
9.30 - Panel 4: Science, Childhood and Disability in Europe, 1870-1960 (chaired by Anna Hájková) Watch recording
Milana Aronov | Autism and Behavioural Therapies in the Light of History of Children’s Mental Health in France, 1960s |
Samir Hamdoud | Care, Life and Death at the Royal Albert, 1870-1920 |
10:30 - Coffee break
10:45 - Panel 5: Gender, Benevolence and Politics (chaired by Mark Philp) Watch recording
Maria Tauber | “For I did not care to be a farmer’s wife” – managing the role of the MP’s wife in late 17th century England |
Dave Steele | The Gendered Crowd: Restitution of the hidden feminine component of British reform crowds, 1816-1848 |
John Wilmot | Contested benevolence: rival medical charities in 1830s Coventry |
Oihane Etayo | Opposers of change; drivers of change: gendering food reform activism through network analysis |
12:45 - End of Day 3
Day 4 - Friday 28th May
9:30 - Panel 6: Racial and Colonial Politics (chaired by Daniel Branch) Watch Recording
Xiaofang Ma | African Americans in the Anglo-American Atlantic Public Spaces from 1800 to 1865 |
William Harrop | ‘A potential Garden of Eden’: Cotton, empire and decolonisation in the Aden Protectorate, 1947-1960 |
Niels Boender | The Ghosts at the Banquet: Kiama Kia Muingi and the legacies of colonial violence in Kenya, 1956-1959 |
11:00 - Coffee break
11:15 - Panel 7: Race, Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts (chaired by Aditya Sarkar) Watch Recording
Dhimoyee Banerjee | The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen; Practice and Legacies of Indian Matrilinies |
Liz Egan | Remembering Morant Bay: Articulating codes of race and colour through the Morant Bay Rebellion |
12:30 - Closing Remarks, Rebecca Earle Watch Recording
12:45 - Lunch break
13:30 - Post Conference Social
PG Throwback Friday | PG Throwback Friday - Bring an object from your past (it can be anything from your comfort blanket to your lucky pencil, or a photo of your pet!) and get ready to explain its significance for your own History! |
15:00 - End of Day 4
Call for Papers
The Call for Papers has now closed, but can be found here: Call for Papers
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