Staff-PG Seminar in History, 2010-11Staff-Postgraduate Seminar 2010-11
History's Staff-PG Seminar provides an excellent opportunity for staff, postgraduate students and visitors to come together and exchange ideas. All sessions take place on Wednesdays at 5.30 pm in Lipman room 033 unless stated otherwise.
The seminar series is as representative of the subject group’s interests as possible and offers a mixture of contributions from staff, postgraduates, and external speakers, including speakers from other universities in the region.
Details on the first seminars for 2010/11 can be found below. You can also download the full new programme as a .pdf file on the right.Semester 1
29 September 2010
Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh)
Dependency and ‘crowding out’: the role of the state in Scotland since 1918
13 October 2010
Katherine Foxhall (King's College)
Sickness and the sea: convicts, emigrants and the nineteenth-century Australian voyage
27 October 2010
Alex Cowan (Northumbria University)
Seeing is believing: women on their balconies in Early Modern Venice
10 November 2010
Dave Brown (University of Manchester)
The Persistence of the Peculiar Solution: Transatlantic Abolitionism, Race, and Colonization
24 November 2010
Vicky Long (Northumbria University) Click here to listen MP3 format
Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Representations of men and mental illness in twentieth-century Britain
8 December 2010
Theo HoppenGladstone, Salisbury and the End of Irish assimilationism
Semester 2
2 March 2011
Richard Keogh (Northumbria University)
“Nothing is so bad for the Irish as Ireland alone”: Catholic Loyalty in mid-Victorian Ireland
16 March 2011
Angela McShane (Victoria and Albert Museum)
‘No Kings Rule the World but through Love and Good Drinking’: Political Drinking, Print and Material Culture in 17th Century England
30 March 2011
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University)
Intellectuals, the League of Nations and the Nationalist Temptation
PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be held as the plenary of the School of Arts & Social Sciences' PG Symposium, Ellison Building, room E005, 5.30 pm
4 May 2011
Kate Bradley (University of Kent)
‘ASBO Britain’? Class, community, civil society and the definition of ‘bad’ behaviour in post-war Britain
Date posted: January 1, 2011
