Research Seminars 2021-22
Term 1
| Week | Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm | Links |
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no seminar | |
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chair: Elise Smith speaker: Erica Charters (Oxford), How Epidemics End discussant: Ed Devane |
Paper for pre-readingLink opens in a new window Related blog, The end of the COVID-19 pandemicLink opens in a new window |
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chair: Claire Shaw speaker: Steven Press (Stanford), Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa discussant: Joachim Haeberlen |
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chair: Charles Walton speaker: Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth), Equality and the Horizon of Humanity discussant: Aditya Sarkar |
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chair: Laura Schwartz speaker: Stella Dadzie (independent scholar), A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and the Enduring Power of Resistance discussant: Meleisa Ono George |
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reading week | |
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chair: Anne Gerritsen speaker: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard), Narratives of Erasure: Mexico, India, and the Stories to End World Hunger discussant: James Poskett |
Largo dislocare: connecting microhistories to remap and recenter histories of science |
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chair: Charles Walton speaker: Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), Republican fraternity in action: Toussaint Louverture and the Saint-Domingue revolution (recording) discussant: Dexnell Peters |
seminar recording |
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CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION chair: Guido van Meersbergen speaker: Jonathan Saha (Durham), Revolting Animals in Colonial Myanmar discussant: Ushehwedu Kufakurinani |
Join MS Teams Meeting |
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chair: Mathew Thomson speaker: Sarah Crook (Swansea), History of Student Mental Health discussant: Josh Patel |
Mental health provision and student organising at British universities, 1962-1975 |
Term 2
| Week | Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm | Links |
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chair: Mathew Thomson speaker: Sabine Arnaud(CNRS), "Let us consider the child": The Rise of Pedology at the turn of XXth Century in France discussant: Andrew Burchell |
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chair: Anne Gerritsen speaker: Priya Satia (Stanford), Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire discussant: Aditya Sarkar |
Time's Monster: How History Makes History (introduction) Time's Monster: the Progress of War (chapter 1) |
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chair: Claire Shaw speaker: Alison Smith (University of Toronto), 'Annushka, the Kalmyk' discussant: Hannah Dennett |
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chair: Anna Hajkova speaker: Sarah Schulman (College of Staten Island), 'Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993' discussant: Laura Schwartz |
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chair: Naomi Pullin speaker: Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania), Does ‘Choice’ Have a History? discussant: Claudia Stein |
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| 6. | reading week | |
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chair: Mark Philp Roundtable discussion of Linda Colley’s The Gun, the Ship and the Pen Contributors, Mark Philp, David Lambert, Dexnell Peters, Guido van Meersbergen, Anna Ross, Ronan Love, Leiyun Ni |
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This event is now rescheduled to 11 May chair: Guido van Meersbergen speaker: Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds), The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico discussant: Camillia Cowling |
Join MS Teams Meeting |
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chair: Beat Kumin, Parish Network speaker: Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes) and Felicita Tramontana (Roma Tre), Adapting the Parish: Early Modern Religious Encounters in Asia and the Middle East |
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chair: Tim Lockley speaker: Ben Marsh (Kent), Dirt Eating, Race, and Circulating Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century American South discussant: Liana Valerio |
Dirt Eating, Race, and Circulating Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century American South |
Term 3
| 1. | no seminar | |
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chair: Mark Knights speaker: Paul Seaward (History of Parliament Trust), Institutions, Events and the National Palaver: on writing a history of parliament. Discussant: Maria Tauber |
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chair: Guido van Meersbergen speaker: Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds), The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico discussant: Rebecca Earle |
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| 4. | no seminar |