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Research Seminar 2025-26

Term 1

Week Seminars take place on Wednesdays 1-3pm in PS1.28 Physical Science Links

3

22Oct

‘I will take money for the arts from murderers, from rapists, from anybody’: The British State as Cultural Patron

Speaker: Scott Anthony, Sciences Museum, London

Chair: Song-Chuan Chen

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29Oct

Reading the Sudanese Mahdist Revolt as a Conceptual Repository: A Messianic Approach to ‘Religion’ and ‘Economy’

Speaker: Hengameh Ziai, SOAS

Chair: Katayoun Shafiee

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5

5Nov

The War on Drugs

Speaker: David Farber, University of Kansas

Chair: Jake Newbury

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9

3Dec

Red Masks: Soviet Colonialism in the Global South

Speaker: Alessandro Iandolo, UCL

Chair: Anna Toropova

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Term 2

Week Seminars take place on Wednesdays 1-3pm Links

1

14 Jan

Speaker: Lorna Finlayson, University of Essex

Room: OC1.01 Oculus Building

 

4

4 Feb

2 - 3pm

Speaker: Joan Scott, Professor Emerita, Princeton

Room: FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building

 

8

4 Mar

Speaker: Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia

Room: S0.20 Social Sciences

 

10

18 Mar

12-2pm

Speaker: Josh Patel, Edge Foundation

Room: OC0.02 Oculus Building

 

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