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Centre for History of the City Launch Event
May 8, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free
Centre for the History of the City Launch Event
If you’d like to come along – even if it’s just for a single session – or if you’re interested in becoming involved with the Centre, please drop Andrew Heath (a.d.heath@sheffield.ac.uk
9.00-9.30 Coffee
9.30-10:00 Welcome and Introductions
10-11.20 Approaching the Urban Past: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (chair: Simon Loseby)
Hannah Probert (Dept. of History), GIS and Historical Research
Phil Withington (Dept. of History), ‘Urbanization and Early Modern English Society’
Tom Goodfellow (Dept. of Town and Regional Planning), ‘Historicizing the Urban Informal Economy in East Africa’
11.20 to 11.40 Coffee
11.40 to 13.00 Cities, Community, and Civil Engagement (chair: Catherine Fletcher)
Adrian Bingham (Dept of History) and Gary Rivett (York St. John), Stories of Activism in Sheffield Vanessa Toulmin (Head of Engagement, University of Sheffield), Blackpool and Castlegate Simon Ogden, Head of City Regeneration at Sheffield City Council, The Castlegate Project
13.00 to 13.45 Lunch
13.45 to 14.30 Plans for the Centre (led by Andrew Heath and James Shaw)
14.30-16.00 The City in the Early Modern Atlantic World (chair: Tom Leng)
Mark Peterson (Berkeley), ‘Boston in the Mind’s Eye: City Thinking in the Early Modern Atlantic World’ (chapter available for pre-circulation from a.d.heath@sheffield.ac.uk)
Comment: Simon Middleton (Dept. of History)
Details
- Date:
- May 8, 2015
- Time:
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9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Event Category:
- One Off Events
- Event Tags:
- Centre for the History of the City, Department Research, Early Modern Society, Launch event, Stories of Activism, The Castlegate Project, Urban Past
Organizer
- Department of History
- Phone:
- 0114 222 2555
- Email:
- history@sheffield.ac.uk
- Website:
- www.sheffield.ac.uk/history
Venue
- Humanities Research Institute
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34 Gell Street
Sheffield, South Yorkshire S3 7QY United Kingdom + Google Map