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 | Catherine Fletcher - Manchester Metropolitan University | 'The Future Forms of Public History' |
| 04.03.2025 | Kate Ferris - University of St Andrews | 'Enacting and Resisting Dictorial Power in Everyday Life in Fascist Italy' |
| 11.03.2025 | Jane Ohlmeyer & 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 | Deborah Sutton - Lancaster University | 'Imperial Salt Harvests: Science, Landscape and Ecology at Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, 1880 to 1980' |
| 01.04.2025 | Stephen Alfold - University of Leeds | ‘Robert Cecil and the East Indies’ |
| 29.04.2025 | Stephen Mullen - University of Glasgow | 'Forgetting Scotland's Slavery Past' |
| 06.05.2025 | Adrian Bingham, Anwesha Roy, TBC - University of Sheffield | New Books Celebration |
| 13.05.2025 | Hilary Buxton - 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 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