IHR seminars > Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900
Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900
Convenors: Catherine Hall (UCL), Keith McClelland (UCL), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam University), Zoe Laidlaw (RHUL), Sonya Rose (Michigan/Warwick)
Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor
Time: Thursday 17.30
Welcome to our programme for the Spring Term. Because of the renovation to the IHR, seminars are taking place this year in other parts of Senate House. Please note the unusual locations and check before coming, in case of any changes.
As always, we particuarly welcome regular participants to the seminar who can help to develop an ongoing conversation about the relationship between nation and empire.
| 19 January | David Lambert (Warwick) Mastering the Niger: James McQueen's map of Africa and the struggle over Atlantic slavery |
| 2 February | Di Paton (Newcastle) Witchcraft, Poison, Law, and Atlantic Slavery |
| 16 February | Kate Donington (UCL) Feeding the ghosts: George Hibbert and the memory of British slave ownership; Jessica Moody (York), A proud and shameful eminence: slavery, memory and civic identity in Liverpool |
| 1 March | Gad Heuman (Warwick) Slavery, Apprenticeship and Emancipation in the Caribbean |
| 15 March | Bill Schwarz (QMUL) Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
Roundtable discussion including: Nick Draper (UCL), Richard Drayton (KCL) |
