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Life-Cycles

This seminar will address issues relating to the life-cycle such as age, intergenerational relationships, parenthood, ageing, childhood and youth, from long-chronological and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Convenors: Dr Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich); m.c.h.martin@greenwich.ac.uk, Dr Leonard Schwarz (Birmingham); l.d.schwarz@gre.ac.uk, Dr Ofra Koffman (Goldsmiths); [o.koffman@gold.ac.uk].

Venue: Pollard Room, IHR

Time: Tuesdays, 5.15 pm
Spring Term 2010
12 January Dr Maria Tamboukou (University of East London)
Ordinary / Extraordinary: Narratives, Politics, History
26 January Neils Manen (University of York/IHR)
Agency and reform: the regulation of chimney sweep apprentices, 1770-1840
9 February Claire Shaw (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies/ IHR)
Revolutionising Deafness: 1917 and the Birth of a Deaf-Soviet Identity
23 February Dr John Broad (London Metropolitan University)
Women, land and inheritance strategies in early modern England
9 March Mary Evans, Emeritus Professor, (University of Kent)
Listen with Mother: Love, Hate and the Maternal in the Twentieth Century
23 March April Gallwey (University of Warwick)
'But my mother had to do that all her life'*: Intergenerational comparisons between the post-1945 lone mother and her mother

* Ann D’Arcy, Mental Health Testimony Archive, National Sound Archive.

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