Research Seminars 2020-21
Term 1
| Week | Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm | Links |
| 1. | No seminar | |
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chair: Maxine Berg (GHCC) speaker: Catherine Hall (UCL) ‘Doing Reparative History: Bringing Race and Slavery Home’: a Discussion of Catherine Hall’s Article in Race and Class, 2018 discussant: Aleema Gray |
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chair: Mathew Thomson (CHM) speaker: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck), ‘Ordinary and Extraordinary: Sexual Violence and Psychiatry from the Fin de Siècle to #MeToo’ discussants: Hannah J. Elizabeth and Andrew Burchell |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KdLdoJRaFDCXEx4AP6rFMy69l-Kswzc6/view |
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chair: Christoph Mick (EHRC) speaker: Arthur Asseraf (Cambridge), ' News Networks in Colonial Algeria' discussant: Jack Bowman |
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chair: Anne Gerritsen (GHCC) speaker: Valerie Hansen (Yale) ‘When does Global History Begin?’ prepared questions from: Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis; Jonathan Davies; Liu Jiaqi; Sander Molenaar |
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ChapterReading week |
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chair: Mathew Thomson (CHM) speaker: Lukas Engelmann (Edinburgh) 'Covid-19 and the Case for a (new) History of Epidemiological Reasoning' discussant: Dr Chris Sirrs |
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chair: Charles Walton/Hannah Ayres (EMECC/Queer History Group) speaker: Kit Heyam (Northumbria ) ‘‘The Place of Witchcraft in Early Modern Queer History’ discussant: Aidan Norrie |
The Place of Witchcraft in Early Modern Queer History - video |
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chair: Maxine Berg (GHCC) Professor Jeremy Adelman (Princeton) - "The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing." This is the introductory chapter to Jeremy Adelman’s book in progress. A draft chapter will be posted before the seminar discussion. discussant: James Poskett, Nicolás Gómez Baeza |
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| 10. |
chair: Charles Walton (EMECC) speaker: Ed Holberton (Bristol). ‘Law, Liberty and Lyric in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic: Martha Fowke Sansom’s Poetry in The Barbados Gazette’ discussant: David Lambert |
Term 2
| Week | Seminar all takes place on Wed 4:30-6pm | Links |
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chair: Mathew Thomson: (CHM) speaker: Dan Healey (Oxford), ’Send me as far away as possible!’ Gulag doctors writing memoirs discussant: Max Hodgson |
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| 2. |
chair: Maxine Berg (GHCC) speaker: Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary) – ‘Philosophical Solitude: David Hume vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’: a discussion of Barbara Taylor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal discussant: Natalie Hanley-Smith |
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chair: Christoph Mick (EHRC) speaker: Dominique K. Reill (University of Miami), Money from Below after World War I: How Chaos Made Nations Feel Like the Best Continuance of Empire discussant: Pierre Purseigle |
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chair: Anne Gerritsen (GHCC/Science Hub) speaker: Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), ‘Is Deep History White?’. discussant: Ushehwedu Kufakurinani |
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| 5. |
chair: Charles Walton (EMECC) speaker: Lauren Working (Oxford): ‘'Indians Herbe', Ivory Box: Civility and Empire in Early Stuart London‘ discussant: Serin Quinn |
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| 6. |
Reading week |
Reading week 'reading' |
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chair: Rosie Doyle (Oral History Network) speaker: Dr Sara Bamdad (Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool), ‘Global Technologies, Local Patients: Challenges, Reflexivity, and Positionality’ discussant: Grace Redhead |
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chair: Anne Gerritsen (GHCC) speaker: Professor Marieke Bloembergen (Leiden University/KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), 'The Politics of "Greater India": Moveable Antiquities, Charmed Knowledge Networks and Spiritual seeking between Indonesia, India, and the West, 1880s-1960s' discussant: Somak Biswas |
Abstract - The Politics of 'Greater India' CSSH publication - The Politics of 'Greater India', a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India and the West |
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Chair: Beat Kümin (History/Warwick Network for Parish Research) 'British Parishes - History and Historiography' Speakers:
Respondent: Joe Chick (IAS Early Career Fellow) |
Advance reading: Toward a Social and Cultural Topography of Parish Participation My-Parish research & exchange platform Parish, Power & Politics webinar on Saturday 8 May 2021 |
| 10. |
chair: Charles Walton (EMECC) speaker: Suzanne Desan (Wisconsin, Madison) The October Days as a Military Clash: Men, Violence, and the Near Collapse of the Royal State during the French Revolution. discussant: Ronan Love |
Military Men, Violence and Gender |
Term 3
| Week | Seminar | Links |
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GHCC + YPCCS: Dr Dexnell Peters (Oxford), ‘The Liminal Zone: The Greater Southern Caribbean in the Revolutionary Atlantic World’ discussant: Liz Egan |
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'The Challenges of Global Intellectual History' chair: Maxine Berg speaker: Faridah Zaman (Oxford). |
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| 3. |
chair: Charles Walton (EMECC) speaker: Helen Berry, (Exeter), 'Child Labour, Philanthropy, and the London Foundling Hospital: the Problem With ‘Seeing’ British Imperial History at Home’ Discussant: Hannah Dennett |
Child Labour, Philanthropy, and the London Foundling Hospital |
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chair: Camillia Cowling speaker: Jose Lingna Nafafe (University of Bristol), Black Atlantic Abolition Movement in the 17th Century: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Vatican Court Case respondent: Selina Patel Nascimiento, Newman University, Birmingham |
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chair: Christoph Mick (EHRC) speaker: Paul Betts, Ruin and Revival: Civilising Europe after the second World War. discussant: Anna Ross
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