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. The Autumn seminars are held in Diamond Workroom 3, and room information for Spring will be updated soon.
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
Autumn 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 08.10.2024 | Margot Tudor - City, University of London | 'Protesting peacekeeping: making visible anti-colonial dissent in past UN missions' |
| 15.10.2024 | Maiken Umbach - University of Nottingham | 'Representing the Holocaust and combatting Antisemitism at the intersection of research and impact' |
| 22.10.2024 | Mark Hampton - Lingnan University, Hong Kong | 'Oswald Mosley and The European, 1953-59: Fascism, Empire, and European Unification' |
| 29.10.2024 | Stephen J Brooke - 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 Sheffield | Introducing New Colleagues: (Post-) Empire, Law and International Relations |
| 19.11.2024 | Hannah Murphy - King's College London | ''Health', Disease, and the Medical Making of Slavery, 1500-1780' |
| 26.11.2024 | Journalism Hub - University of Sheffield | Introducing the New Media History Research Hub |
| 03.12.2024 | Ashley Coutu - 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 | Doreen Kembazi - University of Warwick | 'Reservoirs of Venereal Diseases:’ Women and Medico-Moral Discourses in Idi Amin’s Uganda' |
| 17.12.2024 |
Charles West - University of Edinburgh Charmian Mansell, Cathy Shrank, Mirela Ivanova & Phil Withington - University of Sheffield |
New Books Celebration |
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title of Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 18.02.2025 | Law & Rights Hub - University of Sheffield | Law & Rights Roundtable |
| 25.02.2025 | Catherine Fletcher - Manchester Metropolitan University | TBC |
| 04.03.2025 | Kate Ferris - University of St Andrews | TBC |
| 11.03.2025 | Jane Ohlmeyer - Trinity College Dublin | TBC |
| 18.03.2025 | History Research Hubs Week | - |
| 01.04.2025 | Stephen Alfold - University of Leeds | 'Robert Cecil, Christopher Marlowe: biography and counter-biography' |
| 29.04.2025 | Stephen Mullen - University of Glasgow | TBC |
| 06.05.2025 | Adrian Bingham, Anwesha Roy, TBC - University of Sheffield | New Books Celebration |
| 13.05.2025 | Hilary Buxton - Kenyon College | TBC |