Humanities Book Launch
Thursday 9th May 2019, 3 - 6 pm - Graduate Space, 4th Floor, Humanities
This event is free but registration is required as snacks will be available all afternoon and we need to know numbers!
PROGRAMME
15.00 – 15.50 Session 1
Dr James Poskett - History
Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920 with University of Chicago Press (May 2019)
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo38181419.html
Dr Michela Coletta - SMLC
Decadent Modernity: Civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920
Liverpool University Press (October 2018)
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781786941312/
Dr Yvette Hutchison – Theatre and Performance Studies
African Theatre 17: Contemporary Dance.
Woodbridge: James Currey/ Boydell & Brewer Inc. (Nov), Co-editing with Chukwuma Okoye (Nov 2018)
Contemporary Plays by African Women. Methuen (Co-editing with Amy Jephta) (28 Jan 2019)
Professor Thomas Docherty - English
Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics
Bloomsbury Press
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/political-english-9781350101395/
Professor Thomas Docherty and Dr Birgit Breidenbach
Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories
Routledge
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16.00 – 16.50 Session 2
Dr Simon Peplow - History
Race and riots in Thatcher’s Britain, MUP (Jan 2019)
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526125286/
Dr Theodora Hadjimichael - IAS and Department of Classics and Ancient History
The Emergence of the Lyric Canon
OUP (April 2019)
Dr Alessandra De Martino Cappuccio - SMLC
Diversità sulla scena Accademia University Press, Turin (2018)
co-editor with Paolo Puppa Emeritus Professor (University Ca’ Foscari), and Dr Paola Toninato (Warwick). A collection 11 essays in Italian.
https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/diversita-scena-accademia-university-press/libro/9788899982775
Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen – Culture and Media Policy Studies
Remembering British Television: Audience, Archive and Industry by Joanne Garde-Hansen and Kristyn Gorton, Bloomsbury (March 2019)
https://bloomsbury.com/uk/remembering-british-television-9781844576616/
Professor Zahra Newby – Classics and Ancient History
Newby and R. E. Toulson eds., The Materiality of Mourning, Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. 2018
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17.00 – 17.50 Session 3
Dr Caroline Petit – Classics and Ancient History
Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence: Médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome, Brill (Sept 2018)
https://brill.com/view/title/38707
Dr Douglas Morrey – French Studies
The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema
Bloomsbury (Summer 2019)
Dr Anna Ross - History
Beyond the Barricades, OUP (Jan 2019)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beyond-the-barricades-9780198833826?cc=gb&lang=en&
Dr Maria Pavlova - SMLC
'Dreaming again on things already dreamed'. 500 Years of Orlando Furioso
Oxford: Peter Lang (2019), ed. by M. Dorigatti and M. Pavlova
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64510
Professor Rebecca Earle – History
Potato, Bloomsbury (March 2019)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/potato-9781501344336/
Dr John T. Gilmore - English
Guillaume Massieu, Coffee: A Poem, translated and introduced by John T. Gilmore.
Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2019. (1 August 2019.)
ISBNs:
978 1910345 79 5 (pbk)
978 1910345 80 1 (hbk)
978 1910345 81 8 (ebk)
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