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:

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, 'Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In quest of an ideal'

Thu 16 Jan '25

1pm:

EMECC seminar, Deafness in Early Modern History

Fri 17 Jan '25

1pm:

Map History Research Group Symposium, ‘Life, Loss and Mapping Environmental Change’

4pm:

EMECC workshop, Midlands History & Heritage - Collaborative Approaches

Tue 21 Jan '25

11am:

CHM WiP: Andrew Burchell, 'Enacting (chronic) diseases: rheumatic and diabetic organisations in mid-century Britain'

1pm:

GHCC reading group, Lauren Benton, They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (2024)

Wed 22 Jan '25

1pm:

History Research seminar

4pm:

CHM Research Seminar: Hannah Halliwell

Thu 23 Jan '25

10am:

GHCC conference ‘The Problem of Eurocentrism in Global Diplomatic History'

1pm:

EMECC seminar, Carlos Alves, Water infrastructure in eighteenth-century Spain

Wed 29 Jan '25

12:30pm:

Roundtable discussion on Global Fashion History

Wed 05 Feb '25

1pm:

History Research seminar

Thu 06 Feb '25

1pm:

EMECC Annual Birmingham Midlands Exchange

Fri 07 Feb '25

10am:

Warwick-JSPS conference, Categories at Work in Global History

Tue 11 Feb '25

4pm:

CGJS Talk: Will Jones, "Sexual(ized) Violence against Men and Boys in the Nazi Concentration Camps."

Tue 18 Feb '25

11am:

CHM WiP: Sophie Mann

Wed 19 Feb '25

1pm:

History Research seminar

Thu 20 Feb '25

1pm:

EMECC-GHCC joint seminar, Sara Caputo (Cambridge) ‘Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel’

Fri 21 Feb '25

10am:

EMECC/GHCC/Map History Group Workshop on historical maps

Wed 26 Feb '25

1pm:

GHCC-CSGR joint seminar, Alan Lester (Sussex), ‘The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism’

4:30pm:

CHM Research Seminar: Michael Sappol (Visiting Researcher, University of Uppsala), ‘Queer Anatomies: Perverse desire and aesthetics in the anatomical image 1600-1860; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet’

Thu 27 Feb '25

12pm:

GHCC-LAWN joint seminar: Jordana Dym (IAS) ‘(What is) Lost and Gained in Translation: The Traveling Maps of Antonio de Ulloa's Relación del Viage Histórica a la America Meridional (1748-1772)