Events

June 2023, Ukraine Summer School

In June 2023, the History and English departments hosted a two-week summer school, with funding support from the Institute of Advanced Study. The programme welcomed 20 students from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

4-11 November 2023

The Last Taboo of Motherhood project team, based in the Centre for the History of Medicine, are pleased to announce that their project with Fuel Theatre, also entitled The Last Taboo of Motherhood, will feature in Warwick Arts Centre’s Resonate Festival from 4-11 November 2023. There will be a panel discussion about the creation of the work in the Arts Centre on 8 November at 7.45pm.

More information on the Festival and updates on the panel discussion. List of further tour dates.

16 January 2024

Winter History Graduation, 11am Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre. Followed by celebration drinks reception, 12:30pm in Panorama 1, Rootes Building.

Forthcoming Events

CHM Research Seminar, Wednesday 31 January 2024, 1 - 3pm, FAB 3.32

'Martine McCutcheon versus Darren Anderton: Sick Notes, Britain, and the Welfare State’

Warwick’s Centre for the History of Medicine is delighted to host Dr. Gareth Millward (Syddansk Universitet Denmark) who will speak about work from his new book, Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State. Lunch (pizza) will be provided.

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Holocaust Memorial Day talk: Zoe Waxman (Oxford), Women’s Bodies as a Site of Genocide

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 2 - 4pm, OC 1.01, Oculus Building

Holocaust Memorial Day talk organised in cooperation with the European Research Centre, the Student Union, Chaplaincy, and the Jewish Student Society.

Thinking about both the women who survived and who did not survive the Holocaust demonstrates that especially under extreme conditions gender continues to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Whilst men and women were both sentenced to the same fate, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival.

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