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
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

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