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Departmental Research Seminar, Spring 2010

Unless otherwise stated, the seminar meets Thursdays at 4:30pm in The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Refreshments will be available from 4:00pm. All are welcome. For further details please contact:

David Clayton (convenor)
tel: 01904 432988
e-mail: dwc1@york.ac.uk

Andrea Key
tel: 01904 432969
e-mail: ak25@york.ac.uk

Week 2 21 Jan

Andy Wood (UEA)
'Paternalism and popular memory in early modern England'

Week 3 28 Jan

David Clayton (University of York)
'"Water famished-Hong Kong": water shortages and colonial state-building in Hong Kong, 1948-64'
Week 4 4 Feb

Chris Renwick (University of York)
'William Beveridge, Social Biology, and British Social Science'
Week 5 11 Feb

Rowland Weston, (The University of Waikato, New Zealand)
'William Godwin as Historian'

Week 6 18 Feb

Henrice Altink (University of York)
'"Because of my sex and any other reason for which I am not responsible": the freedom of labour in post-emancipation Jamaica'
Week 7 25 Feb

Adam Morton (University of York)
'Pissing on the Papists: shame and iconoclasm on the printed page in early modern England'

Note: Seminar will be held in BS/008
Week 8 4 Mar

No paper

Week 9 10 Mar

The Aylmer Lecture : Prof. Alexandra Walsham (Universities of Exeter & Cambridge) ‘
'The Reformation of the Landscape, Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland'

Note: Wednesday. Starts at 5.30PM in P/L/002

11 Mar

Steven R. Welch (University of Melbourne)
'Commemorating "Heroes of a Special Kind": Deserter Monuments in Germany'

 

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