Research Seminar 2022-23
Term 3
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2 3 May |
chair: Anne Gerritsen speaker: David Arnold (Emeritus Professor), Photography and Technology in British India discussant: Nilakshi Das, University of Leicester |
Term 2
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Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm, OC0.04 |
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1. 11 Jan |
chair: Charles Walton speaker: Nataliia Voloshkova (Kazimierz Wielki University), "They Differ in Many Respects from the Moscovites": Representations of Ukrainian Lands and People in British Travel Accounts in the Long Eighteenth Century' discussant: Christoph Mick |
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2. 17 Jan |
Please note this session is on Tuesday 17 Jan online only chair: Claire Shaw speaker: Clara Mattei (The New School for Social Research), The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism discussant: Ronan Love |
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3. 25 Jan |
chair: Roberta Bivins speaker: Jonathan Reinarz (Birmingham), One of the Most Melancholy of Accidents: Changing Narratives in British Burns Treatment, 1800-2000 discussant: Andrew Burchell |
The Most Melancholy of Accidents: Changing narratives in British burns treatment, 1800-2000 |
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4. 1 Feb |
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE chair: Anne Gerritsen speaker: David Arnold (Emeritus Professor, Warwick), Photography and Technology in British India discussant: Nilakshi Das |
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5. 8 Feb |
chair: Guido van Meersbergen speaker: Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Seeing through the Stomach: Caste and Connected Medical Discourses on Alcoholic (Mal)nutrition discussant: Somak Biswas |
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| 6. | Reading week, no event | |
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7. 22 Feb |
CANCELLED chair: Hilary Marland speaker: Laura Kelly (Strathclyde), Pro-choice Activism in 1980s Dublin: An Oral History of the Women's Right to Choose Group discussant: Fabiola Creed |
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8. 1 Mar |
CANCELLED chair: Anna Hajkova speaker: François Guesnet (UCL), History of Antisemitism |
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9. 8 Mar |
Please note this event takes place in H0.61, Humanities Buildingchair: Camillia Cowling speaker: Bethan Fisk (Bristol), Slavery and the Administration of Catholicism on the Mines of the Black Pacific discussant: Anthony McFarlane, Emeritus Professor |
Slavery and the Administration of Catholicism on the Mines of the Black Pacific |
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10. 15 Mar |
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE chair: Tim Lockley speaker: Emma Hart (Pennsylvania), Tobias Smollett and the Making of Imperial Britain discussant: Adam Challoner |
Term 1
| Week | Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm, OC0.04 | Links |
| 1. | no seminar | |
| 2. |
chair: Mark Philp speaker: Oskar Cox Jensen (Newcastle), Vagabonds and the Writing of History discussant: Natalie Hanley-Smith |
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| 3. |
chair: Guido van Meersbergen speaker: Samia Khatun (SOAS), What is Nur? Rethinking Histories of Cotton in Bengal discussant: Catriona Sharples |
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| 4. |
chair: Claudia Stein speaker: Cathy Gere (UCSD), "Drugs Into Bodies:" AIDS and the Constitutional Limits of Capitalism discussant: Himesh Mehta |
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| 5. |
chair: Laura Schwartz speaker: Maria Helena Machado (USP), An Enslaved Mother and Her Children: Slavery and Death in Late XIXth Century Brazil discussant: Camillia Cowling |
An Enslaved Mother and Her Children Content warning: Readers may find the references to racism and violence in the paper distressing |
| 6. | reading week | |
| 7. |
chair: Sophie Mann speaker: William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin), Smelling the Past: Why the Humanities Should be Less Sniffy and more Nose-Wise discussant: Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis |
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| 8. |
chair: Mark Philp speaker: Lukas Schemper (ZFL Berlin), Sovereignty, International Organization, and the Moral Economy of Saving Lives at Sea in the Ottoman Empire discussant: Pierre Purseigle |
The Moral Economy of Saving Lives at Sea in the Ottoman Empire of the mid-19th Century |
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CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE chair: Laura Schwartz speaker: Rosa Campbell (Cambridge), To Feel their Warmth, Sisterhood and Closeness: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Vietnamese and Chinese Communism, 1969-1979 discussant: Aditya Sarkar |
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| 10. |
chair: Beat Kumin speaker: Allen Grieco (Senior Research Associate Emeritus, Villa I Tatti/Harvard, Florence), European Food Classification in the New World: discussant: Serin Quinn |
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