Work in Progress
Work in Progress
History PG Sessions
2023/2024 Schedule
Sessions every Monday, 5-6.30pm, with the exception of Reading Weeks.
If you have any questions or are interested in giving a paper, please get in touch with the 2023/2024 WIP co-conveners: Himesh Mehta, Anna Pravdica, and Brendan Tam.
Work in Progress Committee
2023/2024: Himesh MehtaLink opens in a new window, (), Anna PravdicaLink opens in a new window (Anna.Pravdica@warwick.ac.uk), and Brendan TamLink opens in a new window (Brendan.Tam@warwick.ac.uk).
2022/2023: Mathilde Alain (), Niels Boender (), David Fletcher (), Paola Medina-Gonzalez (), & Maria Tauber ()
Work in Progress Archive: 2021/2022Link opens in a new window & 2020/2021Link opens in a new window
Introductory Session, 9 October 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the first WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 9 October 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
During this introductory session we’ll catch up with returning PGs, welcome new additions to the community, and discuss what research everyone got up to over the summer! All PG students are encouraged to attend and share their work, no matter how unfinished, and any and all ideas and suggestions for future topics and speakers are welcome!
Professor Benjamin Smith, 16 October 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the second WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 16 October 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
Warwick History Professor Benjamin Smith's talk will touch on topics spanning from trade publishing and the US vs UK markets to doing academic research drugs and much more! + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding an informal PG social at the Dirty Duck from 6pm on Wednesday, 18 October - all members of the postgraduate community are welcome to attend!
IAS Fellow Dr Liz Egan, 23 October 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the third WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 23 October 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
Dr Liz Egan's paper 'The Story of a West Indian Policeman: Race, Class, and Justice in the Jamaica Constabulary Force' will use the memoir of Inspector Herbert Thomas to consider the role of policing in the maintenance of racialised colonial order, speaking to broader debates about race and colonialism in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Caribbean.
PGR Niels Boender, 30 October 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the fourth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 30 October 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
4th-year History PhD Niels BoenderLink opens in a new window will be talking about his experiences working as the editor for an collected academic volume in his paper 'Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Editing a Collection'. + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding an informal PG social at Bedford Street Bar in Leamington Spa at 6pm on Wednesday, 1 November!
PGR Paola Medina-Gonzalez, 13 November
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the fifth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 13 November 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
3rd-year History PhD Paola Medina-GonzalezLink opens in a new window will be discussing aspects of her doctoral thesis in her paper 'Cruel Insults to Memory: Wehrmacht Cross-dressing as Protean Masculine Performance'. + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding an informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 15 November!
PGR Himesh Mehta, 20 November 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the sixth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 20 November 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year History PhD Himesh MehtaLink opens in a new window will be discussing aspects of his doctoral research in his paper 'The "Psychedelic Renaissance" and the Individual'. + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 22 November - we hope to see you then!
PGR Angus Crawford, 27 November 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the seventh WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 27 November 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
1st-year History PhD Angus CrawfordLink opens in a new window will be discussing his master's research and the process of revising it into an article in his paper '"Problematising the Suburbs": Landscape and the Environment in St Olave, Southwark, c.1550-1700'. + The next PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 6 December!
PGR Kristi Flake, 4 December 2023
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the eighth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 4 December 2023 at 5–6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year History PhD Kristi FlakeLink opens in a new window will be discussing her doctoral research in her paper 'Troublesome Priests and Scandalous Idolators: The Clergy, the Book of Homilies, and the Meaning of Obedience after 1689'. + The WIP co-conveners will be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 5pm on Wednesday, 6 December!
Professor Peter Marshall, 15 January 2024
Join us in OC1.02 or on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the first (in person!) WIP session of Term 2 - this hybrid session will be held on Monday, 15 January 2024 at 3–5pm. We hope to see you there!
Professor Peter MarshallLink opens in a new window will be discussing aspects of his upcoming bookLink opens in a new window in his talk, 'What Can We Learn from Small and Quiet Places? Reformation in the Orkney Islands'. + Snacks, cakes, and a range of drinks will be served, and all will be welcome to join the WIP co-conveners for an informal pub social at Varsity following the event!
PGR Judy Law, 22 January 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the tenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 22 January 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year History PhD Judy LawLink opens in a new window will be presenting on her doctoral thesis, 'Zhangzhou Ware: Chinese Porcelain for Intra-Asian Trade during the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'. + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 31 January - join us then!
PGR Andrew Steels, 29 January 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the eleventh WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 29 January 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year History PhD Andrew SteelsLink opens in a new window will be presenting on his ongoing doctoral research in his paper, 'Merchant Families and the Organisation of Trade in the Levant, 1600–1750'. + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 31 January - join us then!
PGR Haijiao Wang, 5 February 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the twelfth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 5 February 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
1st-year History PhD Haijiao WangLink opens in a new window will be presenting on her ongoing doctoral research in her paper, 'Contours of Womanhood: Navigating Beauty, Emotion, and Relationships in Early Modern England'. + The WIP co-conveners will also be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 21 February!
PGR Brendan Tam, 19 February 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the thirteenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 19 February 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year History PhD Brendan TamLink opens in a new window will be presenting his paper, '"To keep up our spirits in these anxious times, we eat a good deal of turtle": Turtles, Exotic Consumables, and Patronage in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain'. + We will be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus from 6pm on Wednesday, 21 February!
PGR Nitya Gundu, 26 February 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the fourteenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 26 February 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year History PhD Nitya GunduLink opens in a new window will be presenting her paper, 'Bobbili Katha: Centring a Subaltern Narrative in the Examination of Eighteenth-Century Globalisation in South Asia'. + The WIP co-conveners will be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus sometime in March – stay tuned for further details so you can join us then!
PGR Haoqi Gao, 4 March 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the fifteenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 4 March 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
History PGR Haoqi Gao will be presenting his paper, 'Cold War, African Socialism, and the Rise of Harambee: The Case of the Kano Plain Irrigation Scheme'. + The WIP co-conveners will be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus sometime in March – stay tuned for further details so that you can join us then!
PGR Chloe Challender, 11 March 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the sixteenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 11 March 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
2nd-year part-time PhD Chloe ChallenderLink opens in a new window will be presenting her paper, 'Histories of Sexuality and the House of Lords'. + The WIP co-conveners will be holding the next informal PG social at Varsity on the University of Warwick campus sometime during the 3rd or 4th week of March, after the end of Term 2 – stay tuned for further details so that you can join us then!
PGR Sophie Ahlemeyer, 22 April 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the seventeenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 22 April 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
1st-year PhD Sophie AhlemeyerLink opens in a new window will be presenting her paper, 'Antagonistic Futurism: Using Reproductive Futurism as a Tool for Historical Analysis of Endometriosis'. + The WIP co-conveners will be holding a session with the Post-Doc Club on 29 April and are open to further Term 3 events, so stay tuned for details or get in contact with any suggestions!
Warwick History Post-Doc Club, 29 April 2024
Join us on TeamsLink opens in a new window for the eighteenth WIP session of the 2023/2024 academic year, to be held online on Monday, 29 April 2024 at 5–6.30pm. We hope to see you there!
This joint session with the Warwick History Post-Doc ClubLink opens in a new window will focus on submission, vivas, life post-PhD, and more, with club founders David FletcherLink opens in a new window and Dave SteeleLink opens in a new window, as well as a range of others who have completed their History PhDs at Warwick! + The WIP co-conveners are open to further Term 3 events, so stay tuned for details or get in contact with any ideas or suggestions.