History Research Seminar
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The History Research Seminar is central to the academic life of the School of History, Philosophy, and Digital Humanities, running most weeks during term time.
Seminars take place on Tuesday afternoons throughout the Autumn and Spring terms, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.
Seminars in weeks 3 - 8 & 10 will take place in the Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 1.
Week 9 will be 38 Mappin Street, Workroom 3.
Each seminar features a 45-minute presentation followed by a discussion.
For more information, please contact Julia Moses at j.moses@sheffield.ac.uk.
All are welcome!
Upcoming seminars
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 11.02.2025 | History Research Hubs | - |
| 25.02.2025 | - Manchester Metropolitan University | 'The Future Forms of Public History' |
| 04.03.2025 | - University of St Andrews | 'Enacting and Resisting Dictorial Power in Everyday Life in Fascist Italy' |
| 11.03.2025 | & Daniel Patterson - Trinity College Dublin | 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women in Early Modern Ireland and the VOICES Project' - Joint session with SCEMS |
| 18.03.2025 | History Research Hubs | - |
| 25.03.2025 | - Lancaster University | 'Imperial Salt Harvests: Science, Landscape and Ecology at Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, 1880 to 1980' |
| 01.04.2025 | - University of Leeds | ‘Robert Cecil and the East Indies’ |
| 29.04.2025 | - University of Glasgow | 'Forgetting Scotland's Slavery Past' |
| 06.05.2025 | , TBC - University of ºù«Ӱҵ | New Books Celebration |
| 13.05.2025 | - Kenyon College | 'Rehabilitating the Empire: Care and the Colonial State in First World War Britain' |
Past Seminars
- Autumn 2024
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Date Speaker Title of Paper 08.10.2024 - City, University of London 'Protesting peacekeeping: making visible anti-colonial dissent in past UN missions' 15.10.2024 - University of Nottingham 'Representing the Holocaust and combatting Antisemitism at the intersection of research and impact' 22.10.2024 - Lingnan University, Hong Kong 'Oswald Mosley and The European, 1953-59: Fascism, Empire, and European Unification' 29.10.2024 - York University, Toronto 'The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Race and Policing in Late twentieth-century Britain' 05.11.2024 Anna Ross & Madeline Woker - University of ºù«Ӱҵ Introducing New Colleagues: (Post-) Empire, Law and International Relations 19.11.2024 - King's College London ''Health', Disease, and the Medical Making of Slavery, 1500-1780' 26.11.2024 Journalism Hub - University of ºù«Ӱҵ Introducing the New Media History Research Hub 03.12.2024 - Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University 'From a West African Savanna to a Portuguese Dining Table: Ivory on the Move in a Late Medieval World' 10.12.2024 - University of Warwick 'Reservoirs of Venereal Diseases:’ Women and Medico-Moral Discourses in Idi Amin’s Uganda' 17.12.2024 - University of Edinburgh
Charmian Mansell, Cathy Shrank, Mirela Ivanova & Phil Withington - University of ºù«Ӱҵ
New Books Celebration