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 | - Manchester Metropolitan º£½ÇÉçÇø | 'The Future Forms of Public History' |
| 04.03.2025 | - º£½ÇÉçÇø of St Andrews | 'Enacting and Resisting Dictorial Power in Everyday Life in Fascist Italy' |
| 11.03.2025 | & 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 | - Lancaster º£½ÇÉçÇø | 'Imperial Salt Harvests: Science, Landscape and Ecology at Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, 1880 to 1980' |
| 01.04.2025 | - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Leeds | ‘Robert Cecil and the East Indies’ |
| 29.04.2025 | - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Glasgow | 'Forgetting Scotland's Slavery Past' |
| 06.05.2025 | , TBC - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield | New Books Celebration |
| 13.05.2025 | - 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 - City, º£½ÇÉçÇø of London 'Protesting peacekeeping: making visible anti-colonial dissent in past UN missions' 15.10.2024 - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Nottingham 'Representing the Holocaust and combatting Antisemitism at the intersection of research and impact' 22.10.2024 - Lingnan º£½ÇÉçÇø, Hong Kong 'Oswald Mosley and The European, 1953-59: Fascism, Empire, and European Unification' 29.10.2024 - York º£½ÇÉçÇø, 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 - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield Introducing New Colleagues: (Post-) Empire, Law and International Relations 19.11.2024 - King's College London ''Health', Disease, and the Medical Making of Slavery, 1500-1780' 26.11.2024 Journalism Hub - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield Introducing the New Media History Research Hub 03.12.2024 - Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford º£½ÇÉçÇø 'From a West African Savanna to a Portuguese Dining Table: Ivory on the Move in a Late Medieval World' 10.12.2024 - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Warwick 'Reservoirs of Venereal Diseases:’ Women and Medico-Moral Discourses in Idi Amin’s Uganda' 17.12.2024 - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Edinburgh
Charmian Mansell, Cathy Shrank, Mirela Ivanova & Phil Withington - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield
New Books Celebration