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Research Seminars 2021-22

Term 1

Week Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm Links

1.

no seminar  

2.

chair: Elise Smith

speaker: Erica Charters (Oxford), How Epidemics End

discussant: Ed Devane

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Related blog, The end of the COVID-19 pandemicLink opens in a new window

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3.

chair: Claire Shaw

speaker: Steven Press (Stanford), Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa

discussant: Joachim Haeberlen

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4.

chair: Charles Walton

speaker: Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth), Equality and the Horizon of Humanity

discussant: Aditya Sarkar

Equality and the Horizon of Human Expectations

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5.

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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6.

reading week  

7.

chair: Anne Gerritsen

speaker: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard), Narratives of Erasure: Mexico, India, and the Stories to End World Hunger

discussant: James Poskett

Beyond Borlaug's Shadow

Largo dislocare: connecting microhistories to remap and recenter histories of science

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8.

chair: Charles Walton

speaker: Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), Republican fraternity in action: Toussaint Louverture and the Saint-Domingue revolution (recording)

discussant: Dexnell Peters

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9.

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION

chair: Guido van Meersbergen

speaker: Jonathan Saha (Durham), Revolting Animals in Colonial Myanmar

discussant: Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

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10.

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

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Term 2

Week Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm Links
1.

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

Let Us Consider the Child

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2.

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)

Time's Monster: the Past and Future (chapter 6)

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3.

chair: Claire Shaw

speaker: Alison Smith (University of Toronto), 'Annushka, the Kalmyk'

discussant: Hannah Dennett

Annushka, the Kalmyk

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4.

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

United in Anger

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5.

chair: Naomi Pullin

speaker: Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania), Does ‘Choice’ Have a History?

discussant: Claudia Stein

The Choices We Make: The Roots of Modern Freedom

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6. reading week  
7.

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

Introduction

Epilogue

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8.

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

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9.

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

Introductory reading

relevant essay collection

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10.

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

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Term 3

1. no seminar  
2.

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

Reading chapter

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3.

chair: Guido van Meersbergen

speaker: Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds), The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico

discussant: Rebecca Earle

The Capital of Free Women, chp6

4. no seminar