Past Events 2010
7 December 2010 - Early Modern Seminar
Witchcraft in Exeter, 1558-1610
(Mark Stoyle - Southampton)
6 December 2010 - Latin American History
Research Seminar: "'Redes de patronazgo del virrey Sebastian de Eslava en el Nuevo Reino de Granada".
(Dr. Ainara Vázquez Varela - Warwick)
30 November 2010 (jointly with Stvdio) - Early Modern Seminar
Poetry and Portraits in the Renaissance
(Lina Bolzoni - SNS, Pisa)
18 November 2010 - C18 Seminar
'The Counterrevolution Is Not Over: Commemorating Legh Richmond'.
(Kevin Gilmartin - University of York)
17 November 2010 - History Research Seminar
'England's Culture Wars: godly reformation and its enemies, 1649-60'
(Professor Bernard Capp - University of Warwick)
16 November 2010 (jointly with the Centre for Caribbean Studies) - Early Modern Seminar
Smugglers and Privateers: Competing Imperial Ideologies in Later 17th Century Jamaica
(Leslie Theibert - Yale)
15 November 2010 - Latin American History
Reading Group: The “Dirty Wars”, Memory, and Reconciliation.
Selections from Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina (1987), Antonius Robben, ‘How Traumatized Societies Remember: The Aftermath of Argentina's Dirty War’, and Louis Bickford, ‘Human Rights Archives and Research on Historical Memory: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay’.
28 October 2010 - C18 Seminar
'The Purposes of Playing: print, people and performance in an imperial public sphere'
(Kathleen Wilson - SUNY Stony Brook)
25 October 2010 - Latin American History
Research Seminar: ‘“An officer of my royal armies, of experience, zeal and selflessness’. New perspectives on the appointment of military officers as Spanish American viceroys in the early eighteenth century’.
(Frank A. Eissa-Barroso - Warwick)
19 October 2010 - Early Modern Seminar
Oliver Cromwell and Ireland: Folklore, History, and Memory
(Sarah Covington - CUNY)
12 October 2010 (offered jointly with the Centre for the History of Medicine) - C18 Seminar
(Niklas Thode Jensen - European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
7 June 2010 - Latin American History
Reading Group: Popular-Elite division in nineteenth-century Mexico.
José Tomás de Cuéllar’s ‘Baile y cochino’, from La linterna mágica, Manuel de Ezcurdia’s ‘Modernidad de Cuéllar’, and ‘Introduction’ in William H. Beezley and Linda A. Curcio-Nagy (eds), Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction.
18 May 2010 - Early Modern Seminar
'Angels and Popular Belief in the English Mystery Cycles'.
(Dr. Laura Sangha - Warwick)
13 May 2010 - C18 Seminar
"Travels into Print: Writing, Exploration, c. 1780-1850"
Charles Withers (visiting Warwick IAS Fellow and University of Edinburgh)
11 May 2010 - History of Medicine Seminar
The Private Life of Public Health: East India Company Surgeons, Medicine and the Domestic Sphere, c. 1750-1850
(Professor Margot Finn - Warwick)
11 May 2010 - Americas Research Seminar
"Black-Indianness on Mexico's Southern Pacific Coast: Place and Identity in Performance and Narrative"
(Laura Lewis - James Madison University)
10 May 2010 - Latin American History
Research Seminar: 'Viceregal ineptitude or court politics? The suppression of the first viceroyalty of New Granada in 1723'.
(Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso - Warwick).
4 May 2010 - Americas Research Seminar
'Why Was There No Scramble for Latin America?'
(Professor Alan Knight - Oxford)
27 April 2010 - History of Medicine Seminar
Bruised Witness: Bernard Spilsbury and the performance of twentieth-century forensic expertise
(Dr Ian Burney & Dr Neil Pemberton - CHSTM Manchester)
27 April 2010 - Early Modern Seminar
'Verbal Violence in the religious confrontation in sixteenth-century France'.
(Prof Mark Greengrass - Paris)
26 April 2010 - Latin American History
Reading Group: Latin America’s identity and the Indian past.
Alejo Carpentier’s Concierto Barroco and selections from Rebecca Earle’s The return of the native: Indians and Myth-making in Spanish America, 1810-1930.
29 March 2010 - Latin American History
Discussion of paper by Alejandro Londoño titled 'Libertad de imprenta y ley penal en los orígenes del Estado colombiano'.
10 March 2010 - Global History Seminar
Global History and Public History: Reconstructing the Worlds of Welsh Copper
(Huw Bowen - Swansea)
10 March 2010 - History Research Seminar
"Work, Reward, and Labour Discipline in Seventeenth-Century England"
(Steve Hindle - Warwick)
8 March 2010 - Latin American History
Research Seminar: ‘Yankees, Toffs and Miss Quixote: Drunken Bodies, Citizenship and the Hope of Moral Reform in Nineteenth Century Mexican Fiction’.
(Deborah Toner - Warwick).
4 March 2010 - C18 Seminar
"The First Knowledge Economy: How Technological Change and Economic Development in the British Coal Industry Happened": Visiting IAS Fellow seminar
(Margaret Jacob - UCLA)
2 March 2010 - Early Modern Seminar
‘Topical Prints: printed visual culture from the Popish Plot to the Sacheverell and trial’.
(Mark Knights - Warwick)
24 February 2010 - Global History Seminar
Global Business and Local Knowledge: the Mechanisation and Globalisation of a ‘Simple’ Product
(Kristine Bruland - Geneva)
23 February 2010 - History of Medicine Seminar
Scientific playfulness in anatomist Thomas Bartholin's (1616-1680) studies of products of generation
(Ms Signe Nipper Nielsen - Cambridge)
10 February 2010 - History Research Seminar
"Global Cotton: Why an Asian Fabric Made Europe Rich"
(Dr Giorgio Riello- Warwick)
9 February 2010 - Americas Research Seminar
'The Impact of Colonial Projects and Policies on Racism: Discrimination and Segregation'
(Francisco Bethencourt - Kings College, London)
9 February 2010 - Early Modern Seminar
'Trying to clear the mess up: The 1663 East Riding Archdeaconry Visitation'.
(Professor Jim Sharpe - York)
9 February 2010 - History of Medicine Seminar
Epidemic Encephalitis and the Making of the Biomedical Brain
(Dr Kenton Kroker - Toronto)
8 February 2010 - Latin American History
Reading Group: Into the Pampas.
Selections from Lucio Mansilla’s A Visit to the Ranquel Indians and Nicolas Shumway’s ‘Argentine Nationalism Part 2’.
5 February 2010 - Americas Research Seminar
Latin American Modernities Symposium - jointly organised with the Centre for Social Theory
Speakers will include:Professor Nicola Miller (UCL), Mauricio Domingues and Aldo Mascereno
4 February 2010 - C18 Seminar
Revolutionaries in Paris: Paine and Jefferson, 1787-1792
(Mark Philp - Oxford)
2 February 2010 - - Americas Research Seminar
'Faulkner in Spanish America'
(Deborah Cohn - University of Indiana)
27th January 2010 - Global History Seminar
Settled Strangers? The Contested Place of ‘Asians' in East Africa
(Gerard McCann - Oxford)
26 January 2010 - History of Medicine Seminar
Good Doctors, Bad Blood: Immigrants, Anaemias, and Genetic Medicine
(Dr Roberta Bivins - Warwick)
21 January 2010 - Early Modern and C18 Seminar
The Cult of Seduction: Lust and Gender in English Culture, 1600-1800. Joint session with the C18th seminar.
(Faramerz Dabhoiwala - Oxford)
20 January 2010 - History Research Seminar
"Motherhood c. 1970-1990: An Oral History"
(Angela Davis - Warwick)
12 January 2010 - History of Medicine Seminar
Hookworm and the Imaginery in Early Public Health Campaigns
(Prof Lenore Manderson - Monash)
11 January 2010 - Latin American History
Research Seminar: The making of eighteenth-century Eurocentrism, the construction of America as an inferior world and the inception of the Colombian nation.'