Past Events 2012
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History Research Seminar
25 January 2012
Prof Maxine Berg, Dr Daniel Branch and Dr Laura King (Warwick) Current and future research projects
8 February 2012
Dr Frank Eissa-Barroso, Prof David Hardiman and Dr Mia Lee (Warwick) Current and future research projects
22 February 2012
Indivar Kamtekar (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University) 'Looking Beyond Flags: The 1940s in India’
2 May 2012
David Gentilcore (Leicester) ‘In Theory and Practice: Exploring Food, Diet and Health in Europe, 1500-1950’
Americas Research Seminar
17 January 2012
Professor José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (CIDE, IAS Visiting Fellow) 'The Sound and the Fury: The Multicultural Persuasion in Mexico and the U.S.'
14 March 2012
Professor Rebecca Earle (Warwick) 'Eating the New World'
23 May 2012
Professor Linda Biesele Hall (University of New Mexico) 'Dolores del Río: Beauty, Celebrity, and Power in Two Cultures'
Early Modern Seminar
7 February 2012 (Joint with the History of Medicine Seminar Series)
Dr Ole Peter Grell (Open University) 'A Natural Philosopher in Action. The Many Faces of an Early Modern Professor of Medicine: the Case of Ole Worm (1588-1654)'
21 February 2012 (Joint with the Medieval Studies Seminar)
Dr John Watts (Oxford) 'Neo-classicism and English political culture in the decades around 1500’
6 March 2012
Dr Cesare Cuttica (Paris 8) 'Casting Light on a "Villain": Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) Between Patriarchalism and Patriotism in the Long Seventeenth Century' Podcast
8 May 2012 (Joint with the Eighteenth-Century Seminar)
Dr David Lambert (Warwick) 'African geography on the cusp of modernity: From Ptolemy to Park'
Eighteenth Century Seminar
19 January 2012
Steve Shapiro (Warwick) 'Are Americans paranoid?: Global Conspiracy (1797-98) and the Crisis of the Cultural Capital'
1 February 2012
Dror Wahrman, Hanneke Grootenboer, Rosie Dias Visual cultures workshop
9 February 2012
David O'Shaughnessy (Warwick) 'Paddy in London: Staging the Irish in the 18th Century'
1 March 2012 (Joint meeting with Global Seminar)
Brian Cowan (McGill) 'Café or Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee and Sociability'
6-9 March 2012
Gillian Russell (Australian National University, visting IAS Fellow)
- ‘Botany Bay Theatricals: Theatre History and the Imagining of Australia, 1796-2011’[6 March]
- 'Revolutionary Drama' [8 March]
- 'Romantic Public Cultures' workshop [9 March]
13-14 April 2012
Workshop organised by David O'Shaughnessy The London-Irish in the Long Eighteenth Century (1680-1830)
28 April 2012 (sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre)
Conference organised by Kae Scarth and Joe Morrisey 'Spaces of Work 1770 – 1830: HRC One-day Interdisciplinary Conference'
8 May 2012 (jointly with the Early Modern Seminar)
Dr David Lambert (Warwick) 'African geography on the cusp of modernity: From Ptolemy to Park'
French History Seminar
25 January 2012
Professor Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield/Warwick) 'Aristocrats and the Politics of Information in Sixteenth-Century France'
1 March 2012
Dr Ruth Harris (University of Oxford) 'Albert Schweitzer: between France, Germany, and Africa'
Gender and Feminist Theory Reading Group
8 February 2012
The Affective Turn in Feminist Theory
Readings:
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Gorton, Kristyn: 'Theorising Emotion and Affect: Feminist Engagements', Feminist Theory, 8(3), 2007, 333-48
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Ruth Leys 'Turn To affect: A Critique', Critical Inquiry 37 (3), 2011, 434-472
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F Callard and C Papadopoulis, 'Biology’s Gift: Interrogating the Turn to Affect' Body & Society 16, March 2010, 29-56
29 February 2012
Affective and Embodied Labour
Readings:
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Weeks, Kathi, 'Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labour, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics', Ephemera, 7(1), 2007, 233-49
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Wolkowitz, Carol, Chapter 4. 'Customer Services', Bodies at Work, (London: Sage, 2006)
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Molinier, Pascale, 'Of Feminists and their Cleaning Ladies: Caught Between the Reciprocity of Care and the Desire for Depersonalisation', The Commoner Special Issue: Care Work, Domestic Labour and Social Reproduction
Global History Seminar
25 January 2012
Prof Hans van de Ven (Cambridge) 'The Chinese Maritime Customs Service’
21 February2012
Organised by Dr Bronwen Everill (Warwick) 'When China Met Africa’ - Film screening
1 March 2012 (jointly with the Eighteenth Century Seminar)
Prof Brian Cowan (McGill University) 'Cafe or Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee & Sociability’
6 March 2012
Prof Adam McKeown (Columbia University, IAS Visiting Fellow) 'Eight Myths of Asian Migration History and Why They Matter Today’
8 March 2012
Dr John Darwin (Oxford) 'Global History and the History of Empires’
14 March 2012 (part of the 'Europe's Asian Centuries' project)
Prof Stephane van Damme (Sciences-PO) & Romain Bertrand (Sciences-Po) 'The Trial of the Indies: How to Develop a Symmetric System of Knowledge’
24 May 2012
James Belich (Oxford) ‘Settler Races? Comparing European Migrations, 1500-1800’
History of Medicine Reading Group
7 February 2012
Sarah Hodges‘Looting’ the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s
21 February 2012
Mathew Thomson 'Sterilisation, Segregation and Community Care: Ideology and Solutions to the Problem of Mental Deficiency in Inter-War Britain'
1 May 2012
Hilary Marland 'Disappointment and desolation: women, doctors and interpretations of puerperal insanity in the nineteenth century'
15 May 2012
David Hardiman 'Knowledge of the Bhils and their Systems of Healing'
5 June 2012
Claudia Stein 'Coming into Focus: Posters, Power, and Visual Culture in the History of Medicine’
19 June 2012
This week we'll be reading two exciting new poetry collections recently produced by the public engagement work of the CHM Postdoctoral Fellows Dr Laura King and Dr Sarah York. Laura's collection, 'Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord?' contains poems written by fathers on fatherhood. Sarah's book, 'War, Memory, and Trauma' has poetry written by local school children.
History of Medicine Seminar Series
17 January 2012
Dr Julie Roberts (Warwick Medical School) 'Bonding through spectatorship: Ultrasound Imaging and Maternal-Fetal Attachment'
7 February 2012
Dr Ole Peter Grell (Open University, History Department) 'A Natural Philosopher in Action: The many faces of an Early Modern Professor of Medicine: the Case of the Ole Worm (1588-1654)'
28 February 2012
Dr Karl Borromäus Murr (Director, Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg) 'A Life Between Mystical Experience and Mental Illness: the Textile Worker, Capuchin and Lamplighter Jacob Gruber (1874-1954)'
13 March 2012
Dr Richard McKay (History Department, Kings College London) '"Patient Zero'': The Legacies of an Influential HIV/AIDS Origin Myth'
8 May 2012
Dr Elfed Huw Price (Associate Member of the CHM) ‘George Henry Lewes (1817-1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalist Materialism and Symbolic Perception’
15 May 2012
Dr Claire Jones (Director of the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Leeds) 'Bodily Concerns: Disease and Public Health in Wakefield Asylum, 1832 – 1930'
Latin American History Reading Group
18 January 2012
Prof. José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (CIDE, IAS visiting fellow) Reading group: 'Tocqueville in Mexico?' Selections from José Antonio Aguilar Rivera's Cartas Mexicanas de Alexis de Tocqueville.
STVDIO: The Renaissance Research Group
17 January 2012
Megan Moran (Queensborough Community College CUNY, visiting research fellow within the Renaissance Centre) 'Parents and their children: Navigating Family Ties, Gender Dynamics, and Domesticity in Early Modern Venice'
25 January 2012 (Jointly organised with Medieval Seminar Series and Italian)
Sonia Gentili (Sapienza University, Rome) 'Petrarch and philosophy: sonnet 35 and its sources'
8 February 2012
Medieval to Renaissance lunch
28 February 2012
Eugenio Refini (Warwick) 'Found in Translation: Vernacular Readings of Aristotle and the Humanistic Turn'
13 March 2012
Paul Botley (Warwick) 'Richard Thomson (c. 1570-1613), Bible Translator and Wandering Scholar'
2 May 2012 (Jointly organised with the Medieval Research Seminar Series)
Louise Bourdua (Warwick) 'Venetian Giottesque in Trecento Art'
22 May 2012
Lawrence Green (Warwick) '"Come home wilde heades, then gad no more abroad": Some Notions of 'Home' in the Writings of Thomas Churchyard'