History Department Postgraduate Conference

The 2021 Department of History Postgraduate Conference is an opportunity for postgraduate researchers in the department to showcase their work. The conference will be taking place over a series of morning sessions from Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th May.

All are welcome to attend!

View the full programme here: ProgrammeLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

Plain text programme

Day 1 - Tuesday 25th May

9.30 - Opening remarks, Mark KnightsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

9.45 - Panel 1: Early Modern Religion and Identity (chaired by Mark KnightsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch recording

Annabelle Goman	Identity and Assimilation in Early Stuart England: The Dutch ‘Strangers’ of Colchester, 1603-1642
Connor Talbot	Faction and Family in the Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638
Hannah StrawLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	The Hagiography of a Syphilitic Saint: Deathbed Conversation Narratives of the 2nd Earl of Rochester
David FletcherLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	“A stage-sermon, or a pulpit-play”: Theatricality, and the liminality between the stage and the pulpit, 1660-1714

12.00 - End of Day 1

Day 2 - Wednesday 26th May

9.30 - Panel 2: Early Modern Bodies (chaired by Rebecca EarleLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch recording

Imogen KnoxLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	Conversations with demons: possession, bewitchment, and self-destruction in early modern Britain
Serin QuinnLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	“The Spanish Potato, he holds as a bauble”: New World Foods and the Early Modern English Body
Daniel Gettings	‘Internal’, ‘External’ and ‘Super essential’: water, environment and the early modern body

11:00 - Coffee break

11:30 - Panel 3: Modern Gender and Identity (chaired by Meleisa Ono-GeorgeLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch Recording

Hannah Sherwood	Battleground for the Sexualised Female Body
Montel Gordon	Policing the crises and black communities: The economic crises and policing during the 70s and 80s
Sue Lemos	‘For ourselves, by ourselves’: The Black Lesbian and Gay Centre (Project) in London, 1980s-1990s

13:00 - End of Day 2

Day 3 - Thursday 27th May

9.30 - Panel 4: Science, Childhood and Disability in Europe, 1870-1960 (chaired by Anna HájkováLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch recording

Milana Aronov	Autism and Behavioural Therapies in the Light of History of Children’s Mental Health in France, 1960s
Samir HamdoudLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	Care, Life and Death at the Royal Albert, 1870-1920

10:30 - Coffee break

10:45 - Panel 5: Gender, Benevolence and Politics (chaired by Mark PhilpLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch recording

Maria TauberLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	“For I did not care to be a farmer’s wife” – managing the role of the MP’s wife in late 17th century England
Dave SteeleLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	The Gendered Crowd: Restitution of the hidden feminine component of British reform crowds, 1816-1848
John Wilmot	Contested benevolence: rival medical charities in 1830s Coventry
Oihane EtayoLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	Opposers of change; drivers of change: gendering food reform activism through network analysis

12:45 - End of Day 3

Day 4 - Friday 28th May

9:30 - Panel 6: Racial and Colonial Politics (chaired by Daniel BranchLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch Recording

Xiaofang Ma	African Americans in the Anglo-American Atlantic Public Spaces from 1800 to 1865
William Harrop	‘A potential Garden of Eden’: Cotton, empire and decolonisation in the Aden Protectorate, 1947-1960
Niels Boender	The Ghosts at the Banquet: Kiama Kia Muingi and the legacies of colonial violence in Kenya, 1956-1959

11:00 - Coffee break

11:15 - Panel 7: Race, Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts (chaired by Aditya SarkarLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window) Watch Recording

Dhimoyee Banerjee	The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen; Practice and Legacies of Indian Matrilinies
Liz EganLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window	Remembering Morant Bay: Articulating codes of race and colour through the Morant Bay Rebellion

12:30 - Closing Remarks, Rebecca Earle Watch RecordingLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

12:45 - Lunch break

13:30 - Post Conference Social

PG Throwback Friday

PG Throwback Friday - Bring an object from your past (it can be anything from your comfort blanket to your lucky pencil, or a photo of your pet!) and get ready to explain its significance for your own History!

15:00 - End of Day 4

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers has now closed, but can be found here: Call for PapersLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window