Tag Archives: Research Seminar
Kristin Hoganson (Illinois) ‘Anglo-Saxonist Pig Tales: Trans-imperial Histories Revealed by the Berkshire Hog’
Kristin Hoganson is an acclaimed cultural historian of U.S. empire at the University of Illinois and is currently serving as the Harmsworth Professor at Oxford. Her talk should be of interest to anyone interested in empire, U.S. history, or food!
Tuesday 8 December, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
All welcome!
Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham) ‘Science, Memory, and Relics in Britain’
Tuesday 24 November, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Simon Ditchfield (York) ‘How to write global history in seventeenth-century Rome: thinking with ‘the Dante of the Baroque’ (Daniello Bartoli SJ)’
Tuesday 17 November, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Bert De Munk (Antwerp) ‘A long term and conceptual view on the history of European cities’
Tuesday 3 November, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Andrew Marsham (Edinburgh) ‘Observations on the First Muslim Empire’
Tuesday 27 October, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Laura King (Leeds) ‘Future Citizens and Future Leaders: The Political Positioning of Children in Britain, during and after the Second World War’
Tuesday 20 October, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Julia Hillner (Sheffield) ‘Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity: The Female View’
My new book, Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity, published in May 2015, tracks the long-term genesis of a late antique legal penalty, forced penance in a monastery. This paper will aim to take listeners through the main arguments of the book, by focussing on a particular aspect of the penalty: its use to address ‘deviant’ female behaviour. It will discuss the treatment of women in late Roman criminal law and the role of the household and the increasingly Christian community in dealing with ‘female’ crime, to understand better why monastic penance was apparently often (but by no means exclusively) imposed on women.
– Julia Hillner (speaker)
Book available here:
http://www.cambridge.org/
Tuesday 13 October, 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Matt Karp (Princeton): Visions of Modernity in the American Proslavery Argument
Tuesday 6th October 16:15
Jessop West Room G:03
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Sir Ian Kershaw (Sheffield): Writing a History of 20th Century Europe: Problems and Perspectives
Our first Department Seminar of the academic year!
Tuesday 29 Sept, 16:15, The Humanities Research Institute
All welcome.