Work in Progress 2021-2022
2021/2022 Schedule
Every Monday, 5-6.30pm (excluding holidays and Reading Week)
Term 3 Schedule:
| 2nd May | Camilo Uribe Botta | Collect, classify, identify and... sell at auctions. Collecting orchids for science and commerce in Colombia. 1840-1900 |
| 9th May | Shalini Rudra |
Seizure of in-Transit Medicines: The conflict between anti-counterfeit laws and the legitimacy of the trade of generic medicines
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| 16th May | Dave Steele | WRITING UP - How to make the thesis ‘A good read’? |
Term 2 Schedule:
| 17th Jan | David Fletcher | The Atheism Spectrum... grappling with ambiguous terms |
| 24th Jan | Dr Guido van Meersbergen | Special session on finishing a project |
| 31st Jan | Leiyun Ni | Keeping Cows in Macao: Household Economy in Foreign Communities in 1840s |
| 7th Feb | Paola Medina-Gonzalez | Taking the Shot: The Camera as Documentary and Accountability |
| 14th Feb | READING WEEK - NO SESSION | |
| 21st Feb | Daniel Gettings | Sobriety, Life and Community: Water in the Early Modern English Public House |
| 28th Feb | Liz Egan | Creole Whiteness, Womanhood, and the Home in Jamaica, 1865-1938 |
| 7th March | Shalini Rudra | TBC |
| 14th March | Pierre, Josh and Maria | Special Session: Life after the PhD |
Term 1 Schedule:
| 11th Oct | various | Showcase session: explaining the WiP and sharing abstracts/papers from last year |
| 18th Oct | Imogen Knox | Emotions and suicide in early modern supernatural narratives |
| 25th Oct | Hannah Straw | "The Worst Man Alive": The Posthumous Creation of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham |
| 1st Nov | Steve Russ | Feeling for a Context: A Background for Bernard Bolzano, a Bohemian Reformer |
| 8th Nov | READING WEEK - NO SESSION | |
| 15th Nov | Qianwen Qing | Conflicts and Scandal in the British Caribbean, 1680-1720 |
| 22nd Nov | Francesca Farnell | "Is this Sara, or the devil that speaketh these words?”: Sounding Out Women as Demoniacs in Sixteenth-Century England |
| 29th Nov | Niels Boender | Consensual decolonisation? 'Subversion' and the independence negotiations in Kenya, 1960-3 |
| 6th Dec | Serin Quinn | Red and Gold: The Uses of Tomatoes as Ornamental Plants, 1500-1800 |
If you're interested in giving a paper, or have any questions, please get in touch with one of the conveners:
Imogen Knox imogen.knox@warwick.ac.uk
Louise Morgan louise.morgan@warwick.ac.uk
Dave Steele dave.steele@warwick.ac.uk
David Fletcher d.fletcher.1@warwick.ac.uk
Organisers:
Imogen KnoxLink opens in a new window
Louise MorganLink opens in a new window
Dave SteeleLink opens in a new window
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