Research Seminars – History Department 2019 / 2020

4.15 – 5.30: 3 October  (University Place, Room 3.204)
Diana Jeater (University of Liverpool)
‘A European obsession with vengeance: reclaiming ngozi spirits from the ethnographic record’

4.15 – 5.30: 7 November (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A115)
Rob Waters (Queen Mary)
‘Race and respectability in mid-twentieth-century London’

4.15 – 5.30: 28 November  (University Place, Room 3.204)
Helen Parr (Keele University)
‘Professional, Regimented and Aggressive: Social class, masculinity and the experiences of Parachute Regiment soldiers during and after the 1982 Falklands War’

4.15 – 6.00:  5 December (Ellen Wilkinson Building, Graduate School Conference Room)
‘New Directions in the Study of (pre-modern) Empire’
Research event organised by Stephen Mossman (with Domantas Audronis and Ben Pope).

4.15 – 5.30: 6 February  (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A101)
Andreas Wirsching (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich)
Title TBC

4.15 – 5.30: 21 February (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A101)
Paula Hohti and Sophie Pitman  (Aalto University, Finland)
‘Refashioning the Renaissance’ (provisional title)

4.15 – 5.30: 5 March (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A101)
Clare Hickman (University of Newcastle)
‘Pine Fresh: A history of pine aroma and health from the sanatorium to the domestic bathroom’

4.15 – 5.30: 19 March  (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A101)
Anthony Downey (Birmingham City University)
‘Performing Rights: Contemporary Art, the Refugee Condition, and the Alibi of Engagement’

4.15 – 5.30: 23 April  (University Place, Room 3.204)
Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire)
‘Embracing change: ‘economical reform’ at the 18th-century Bank of England’

4.15 – 5.30: 7 May  (University Place, Room 3.204)
Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS)
‘Ottoman responses to the Congress of Vienna stipulations on the issues of slavery and Barbary corsairs’ (provisional title)

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