History Seminars Semester 2, 2011-2012
Alternate Thursdays, 4 for 4.15pm, Room A113, Samuel Alexander Building
All welcome
* 8 February (Please note that this takes place on a Wednesday)
A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American-Caribbean Crossings
Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University (co-sponsored by English & American Studies)
* 21 February (Please note that this takes place on a Tuesday and is in Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre SG1, not A113)
Outsourcing Empire: The Founding of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1864
Hans van de Ven, Cambridge (co-sponsored by the Centre for Chinese Studies)
* 8 March
Amnesty International and the politics of human rights in post-war Britain
Tom Buchanan, Oxford
* 26 April
Wives and property or wives as property? Income tax and the making of a female Indian subject, 1916-1937
Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS
* 10 May
Inequality: A Historical Approach
Francisco Bethencourt, King’s College, London
* 16 May (Please note that this talk will start at 5pm)
The Wicked Uncles in Conservative Party Politics: Press Barons and the "Culture of Property" after 1918 in Germany and Great Britain
Ute Daniel, Brunswick & LSE (co-sponsored by RICC)
History Lunchtime Seminars, Seminar 2
Informal sessions with short papers/presentations of work-in-progress
Wednesdays, 1-2pm
Samuel Alexander Building A202
All welcome (and feel free to bring your lunch with you).
* 15 February
"Face to the kishlak!": transforming agrarian relations in the Uzbek SSR, 1924-1928
Beatrice Penati, Newton fellow
* 7 March
10 Rillington Place and the Changing politics of the Backstreet Abortionist in Modern Britain 1949-1971
Neil Pemberton and Emma Jones, CHSTM
* 14 March
Researching Scotland's Lost Revolution: a Case Study in Serendipity
Dan Szechi
* 18 April
Protecting against the misrepresentation of quality: false lengths, yarn counts and trust in nineteenth-century cotton production
Aashish Velkar