Research Seminars and Reading Groups

Undergraduate students are very welcome to attend the Department Research Seminar which takes place on Wednesdays from 12-2 pm. You can find out what talks are coming up on the department calendar.

The History Department is also host to an extensive collection of research centres and groups which run their own activities and events including:

• Centre for the History of Medicine
• Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre
• European History Research Centre
• Global History and Culture Research Centre

For more information on these Centres and other research groups and projects in the Department, see here. Please get in touch with Centre Directors if you would like to know more.

 

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Events Calendar

The Department of History Events Calendar gives details of all seminars, conferences, workshops and events. Upcoming department events are listed below:

Mon 25 Nov '24

1pm:

PGT Lunch

Tue 26 Nov '24

1pm:

CANCELLED - GHCC Reading Group: Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Rethinking Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Wed 27 Nov '24

1pm:

History Research seminar

Thu 28 Nov '24

1pm:

EMECC seminar with Marek Słoń (John Paul II Catholic University Lublin / Poland) Parishes and Towns: New Approaches in Polish Historiography

Fri 29 Nov '24

10am:

GHCC workshop, The Traveller's Tale: Global Forms and Circulations’

Wed 04 Dec '24

12pm:

GHCC-Map History Group joint seminar, ‘World Mapping as Worldmaking: Cooperation and Cartographic Internationalism in the Interwar Period’

4:30pm:

CHM Research Seminar: Elisabeth Yang (Wellcome Trust Early Career Award Fellow, University of Leeds), 'Constructing Moral Babies: The Medical and Scientific Enterprise of Infancy in Victorian America and Britain’.

Thu 05 Dec '24

12pm:

GHCC-EMECC joint seminar, ‘War, Travel and Cultural Exchange: William Gell and the British in Iberia’

Wed 08 Jan '25

12pm:

GHCC New Yera's lunch & seminar Kim Wagner (QMUL), ‘Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History’

Wed 15 Jan '25

1pm:

GHCC WiP, Doreen Kembabazi

4:30pm:

EHRC Book Launch: Anca Cretu,

Thu 16 Jan '25

1pm:

EMECC seminar, Disability History

Fri 17 Jan '25

4pm:

EMECC workshop, heritage in the Early Modern Midlands connected to Lord Leyceste