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Colonial Science and its Histories
Institute of Historical Research
Thursdays: 3-5pm
Convenor: Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford/IHR) valentina.pugliano@history.ox.ac.uk
- 11 March
Mr Simon Pooley (University of Oxford)
Ecological imperialism at the Cape of Good Hope - 18 March
Dr John McAleer (National Maritime Museum)
Stargazers at the world’s end: observatories, telescopes and ‘views’ of empire in the nineteenth-century British world - Wed 31 March
Ms Iris Montero Sobrevilla (University of Cambridge, HPS)
Of hummingbirds, hearts and epilepsy: natural knowledge and authority in the Hernandian corpus, 1571-1651 - 22 April
Ms Helen Cowie (University of Warwick)
An American in Paris and a Spaniard in Paraguay: geographies of natural knowledge in the Hispanic World, 1750-1808 - 29 April
Dr Rohan Deb-Roy (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
Burdwan fever and the making of a malarian locality, 1865-1875 - 6 May
Ms Lowri Jones (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Title tbc - 20 May
Ms Anna Winterbottom (Queen Mary, University of London)
Botanical networks and materia medica of Madras 1660-1720 - 3 June
Dr James Delbourgo (Rutgers University)
Sir Hans Sloane’s milk chocolate and the whole history of the cacao - (10 June) *tbc
Dr Fredrik Jonsson (University of Chicago))
Rival ecologies of global commerce: Adam Smith and the natural historians
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Histories of Education and Childhood (DOMUS)
Seminar Programme: October 2009-June 2010
Time: 5.00-6.30pm
Venue: School of Education, Education Building, Edgbaston, University of Birmingham
Organiser: Kevin Myers (k.p.myers@bham.ac.uk)
- 10 May 2010
Dr Andrea Peterson (University of Birmingham)
World War 1 in children’s literature
Venue: School of Education, Room 106/107, Education Building, Edgbaston - 7 June 2010
Sian Roberts (Birmingham Archives and Heritage Services and University of Birmingham)
From the ‘Margins of Chaos’ to the margins of history: telling the life of a woman teacher and humanitarian activist
Venue: School of Education, Ro om 106/107, Education Building, Edgbaston
UCL Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminar
Convenors: Antonia Fitzpatrick, Barbara Gaspar, Aaron Hope.
Venue: Room G09, UCL History Department
Time: 6.15 pm.
Details:
Spring Term
- 22 March 2010
Thomas Pickles (St Catherine's Oxford)
Scriptural Exegesis and the Topography of Monastic Foundation in Early Anglo-Saxon England
Summer Term
- 17 May 2010
Peter Biller (York)
Putting Heretics to the Question: the case of Bernard Gui
German Historical Institute London Seminars - Spring Term 2010
Time: Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ.
Details:
- 16 March 2010:
Peter Williams (Edinburgh)
What it is to Write a Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach
Please check for any last-minute changes on 020 7309 2050 or at http://www.ghil.ac.uk/events_and_conferences/seminars_and_lectures.html.
Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine will be available after the seminars. Guided tours of the Library will be available before each seminar at 4 p.m.
Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies: Seminar in Dissenting Studies 2010
Date: The seminar will meet monthly on Wednesdays from January to July (excepting May) from 5.15 to 6.45 pm.
Details: The Board Room, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are welcome. Those with an interest in Dr Williams’s Library and its collections and in the history of Protestant dissent are especially invited to attend.
The Board Room is on the first floor on the left. If there are more than 20 attending, the Seminar will move to the Lecture Hall on the ground floor
- 17 March 2010
Christopher Daily (SOAS)
David Bogue, Robert Morrison, and the planting of dissent in China - 21 April 2010
Mark Burden (Queen Mary)
From Uniformity to Disunity: political and theological controversy at the dissenters' academies, 1660-1720 - 16 June 2010
Stephen Burley (Queen Mary)
New College, Hackney and the liberal dissenting academies, 1751-96 - 14 July 2010
Simon Dixon (Queen Mary)
“Will no one allow the consideration of finance to enter their minds?” Competition and co-operation in the funding of the northern dissenting academies, 1786-1860
Further details: The Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies is a collaboration between the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams’s Library. The co-directors are Professor Isabel Rivers, Queen Mary, and Dr David Wykes, Director, Dr Williams’s Library. For further information see the website.
The Globalization of Music: Origins, Development, & Consequences, c1500–1815
Lecture Series by D. R. M. Irving
Date: Mondays at 5pm
Details: Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU
- 8 March 2010
Class and Gender
Further details: D. R. M. Irving (drmi2@cam.ac.uk). See here for further details. All welcome.
Black and Asian Britain
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in conjunction with the Black & Asian Studies Association
Date: January to April 2010, 6.00 – 7.30pm.
Details: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1.
- 24 March 2010
Kathy Chater
Who was 'Black' in 18th century England? - 12 May 2010
Caroline Bressey
White Women and Black History: the case of Catherine Impey - 2 June 2010
Daniel Whittall
Black West Indians in Britain and the politics of empire, c. 1931-1948
Further details: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in conjunction with the Black & Asian Studies Association. All welcome.
Medieval Work in Progress Research Seminars
Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
- Thursday 11 March 2010, 6.00pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Annual ICMA at The Courtauld Lecture
Barbara Drake Boehm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Count of Clermont and the Case of Conques: Unravelling Some Mysteries of Medieval Enamelling
Organised by Dr Joanna Cannon.
Further details: Seminars are free and open to all.
London Seminar for Early Modern Visual Culture
University College London, Seminar Room 3, Department of Art History, 20-21 Gordon Square,London WC1H 0AG
- Monday15 March
Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
postponed to early May - more details to follow
Further details: Seminars are free and open to all, and will be held at 6.00pm. Organised jointly by Rose Marie San Juan (r.sanjuan@ucl.ac.uk) and Joanna Woodall (joanna.woodall@courtauld.ac.uk)
Centre for History in Public Health Seminars
LG 8, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT
- Thursday 18 March 2010, 12.45pm – 2.00pm
Rosemary Eliot (University of Glasgow)
‘Inhaling democracy: cigarette advertising and citizenship in West Germany, 1961 – ca. 1975’ - Thursday 29 April 2010, 12.45-2.00pm
Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)
Epidemics, risk and medical responsibility: AIDS and doctors’ duty to treat’
Further details: Seminars are free and open to all. Funded by the Wellcome Trust. To be put on the mailing list contact Alex Mold.
Labour and Society Seminar Series
This February, the Labour and Society Research Group (LSRG) – a forum established by scholars from Newcastle University and Northumbria University – is launching a new seminar series. The programme for spring 2010 includes the following events:
- Wednesday 12 May 2010, 5.30pm, Room 121 (Gallery Suite), Lipman Building, Northumbria University
Rosemary Eliot (University of Glasgow)
Memories, Spaces and Places: Red May Days 200 Years Ago
Further details: For general queries about the Labour and Society Research Group, please contact the group’s convenor, Matt Perry. You can subscribe to the LSRG mailing list here. If you encounter any difficulty with this, please get in touch with Daniel Laqua.
University of Greenwich History Research Seminar
Spring term 2010
- March 16th 5-7 p.m.
Maritime Greenwich Campus, Queen Anne 075
Dr Anne Logan (University of Kent)
Humanitarianism in Action: the work of Margery Fry (1874-1958) - Friday April 23rd, 9-5 p.m
Maritime Greenwich Campus, Queen Anne 063
One-day symposium
Play, Past and Present: Global Perspectives - Tuesday May 4th 5-7 p.m.
Maritime Greenwich Campus, Queen Anne 063
Dr Anne Stott (Open University)
Enlightenment, Romanticism and Sentiment: William Wilberforce and the Language of Abolition
We usually go for a drink and a meal afterwards. All welcome. For more information contact Mary Clare Martin (020-8331-9919).
Other Narratives of War Public Seminar Series
University of Greenwich, Old Naval College
- Wednesday 17 March 2010, 5pm in QA063
Dr Emma Hanna (University of Greenwich)
The Great War on the Small Screen: Televisual Narratives of the First World War
Mairead McClean (University of Greenwich)
For the Record: (An AHRC funded film) unravels the complex story of internment; the why, the how and the ‘for what’? - Wednesday 21 April 2010, 5pm in Queen Anne 063
Dr June Balshaw (University of Greenwich) and Pauline Rush (Greenwich graduate)
Family History, Archives and War: Constructing Lives and Creating Stories - Wednesday 5 May 2010, 5pm in Queen Anne 063
Dr Hilda Kean (Dean of Ruskin College, Oxford)
The Great British Cat and Dog Massacre of World War Two
- Wednesday 26 May 2010, 5pm in Queen Anne 075
Dr Maggie Millman (London Metropolitan University)
Soldiers from the War returning”: Comradeship and Ex-Servicemen’s Organisations after the First World War
Dr June Balshaw and Kate Martin (University of Greenwich)
‘We’ll meet again’: Female Reunions, the Women’s Land Army and the Second World War
All talks take place at the University of Greenwich, Old Naval College. For more information e-mail June Balshaw or call 020 8331 7874