Previous Events

The final CModS postgraduate forum interdisciplinary session of the term, pairing PhD candidates Tim Lawrence and Andrew Munzer on the theme of American Stories/American Spaces

How to Make Secrets: Pesticides, Nerve Gas and Knowledge Transfer in the Cold War

Thursday 1 March 2012

Department of History Research Seminar with Brian Balmer (University College, London)

MA in Culture and Thought after 1945 taster session

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Taster and information session for prospective applicants, with coffee and cakes!

Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection

Tuesday 28 February 2012

A Guided Tour at Leeds University art gallery by artist Matt Smith

Aesthetic perceptions

Tuesday 28 February 2012

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

After Girl Power: What’s Next? Girls’ Studies Conference

Friday 24 February 2012

Centre for Women's Studies conference 24-25 February 2012

Centre for the Americas Inaugural Lecture

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Professor Philip D. Morgan, 'A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American-Caribbean Crossings in the Eighteenth Century'

Mining the Meaning: David Peace's 'GB84' and the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike

Monday 20 February 2012

Modern School Research Seminar with Dr Katy Shaw (University of Brighton)

The Law Becomes Us: Rediscovering Judgment

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Centre for Women's Studies seminar with Prof Margaret Davies, Flinders University

Feminist Narratives

Tuesday 14 February 2012

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

Occam's razor and models of ecological complexity

Friday 10 February 2012

York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis (YCCSA) Interdisciplinary Seminar

‘Going on an Outing? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Identity and Sexuality in the Historic House

Friday 10 February 2012

Lunchtime lecture hosted by English Heritage

Juggling with Machetes: The US Occupation of Nicaragua, 1927-1933

Thursday 9 February 2012

Department of History research seminar with Alex Goodall (University of York)

'La vie moderne'

Tuesday 7 February 2012

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

Authors for Peace Seminar with Priya Basil

Thursday 2 February 2012

Seminar hosted by the English Society and the Aftermaths Research Strand, with support from Writers at York

Bookgroup with Priya Basil

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Aftermaths research strand and York English Society event

Parker Tyler, Mae West and Queer Fandom

Thursday 26 January 2012

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum Event

Sperm Bomb: Art, Feminism, and the American war in Vietnam

Monday 23 January 2012

Department of History of Art research seminar with Professor Mignon Nixon (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Drawing on the Holocaust

Monday 23 January 2012

Aftermaths Spring workshop

Art in China: Global Challenges and Opportunities in Presenting the Art of Other Civilisations

Monday 23 January 2012

History of Art lecture by visiting Professor Ding Ning from Peking University

Debating Multidirectional Memory

Friday 13 January 2012

'Translating Freedom' event with Professor Michael Rothberg

Postcolonial perspectives

Thursday 8 December 2011

Postgraduate reading group meeting

Standing in defiance of nature?: Imperial change in British West Africa, 1900-39

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Department of History research seminar with Chris Prior, University College Dublin

The Possibilities for and of a Global Sociology

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Department of Sociology seminar

The impact and politics of inequality

Tuesday 6 December 2011

A public lecture on inequality by Professor Kate Pickett and Professor Richard Wilkinson

The Materials of Mourning: Death, Materiality and Memory in Victorian Britain

Saturday 3 December 2011

Postgraduate conference

Writing the Sixties

Friday 2 December 2011

History of Art event

Is it bad for us to die?

Thursday 1 December 2011

Philosophy Open Course Lecture by Dr Chris Belshaw

Comparative Histories: Sport and Medicine in the long 20th Century

Thursday 1 December 2011

Department of History research seminar with Vanessa Heggie, University of Cambridge

The nice and the nasty: Towards a consensus morality

Monday 28 November 2011

Baroness Mary Warnock

Up To A Point: The Psychoanalyst and the Essay

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Public lecture by Professor Adam Philips, writer and psychoanalyst

Postgraduate Seminar - Adam Phillips

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Department of English postgraduate seminar with Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips

The virtues of character

Thursday 17 November 2011

Philosophy Open Course Lecture by Dr Debbie Roberts

Postcolonial perspectives

Thursday 17 November 2011

Postgraduate reading group meeting

FR Leavis and British Student Protests, 1963-1974

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Modern School seminar with Dr David M Fowler, University of Cambridge

Social Theory in an Age of Limits

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Department of Sociology seminar

Between Words and Images

Wednesday 16 November 2011

'Aftermaths' research workshop

If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Gender and Identity

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Centre for Women's Studies seminar

An Empire of Machines: Britain in the Second World War

Thursday 10 November 2011

Department of History research seminar with David Edgerton, Imperial College

Modernity and the Challenge of Electronic Communication in Ford Madox Ford's A Call and Henry James's In the Cage

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Modern School Guest Lecture

Thinking together cultural sociology and urban studies: the example of Brussels

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Department of Sociology seminar

Social Change in York 1900-2011

Saturday 5 November 2011

Seminar forming part of the ESRC Festival of Science

The self and how to know it

Thursday 3 November 2011

Philosophy Open Course Lecture by Dr Nick Jones

Black Identity in Education

Monday 31 October 2011

Discussion to mark Black History Month

Postcolonial perspectives

Thursday 27 October 2011

Postgraduate reading group meeting

York workshop on the research project Elites in an Egalitarian Society: Legitimizing forms of elite recruitment, reproduction and circulation

Thursday 27 October 2011

Department of Sociology workshop

(Self)-Transformation through Transportation:Empathy, Neoliberalism and International Development

Wednesday 26 October 2011

Centre for Women's Studies seminar with Dr Carolyn Pedwell

'Lumumba' film screening

Monday 24 October 2011

A rare screening of Raoul Peck’s extraordinary film about Patrice Lumumba to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

Bright Side of the Landscape

Monday 24 October 2011

History of Art departmental seminar with Professor TJ Clark

The Passion in Exile: Jeanette Winterson's Venice and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement

Thursday 20 October 2011

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

Social Change in Post-War Britain: biographical accounts from the 1958 National Child Development Study

Thursday 20 October 2011

Department of History research seminar with Mike Savage, Sociology

Spectres Haunting ... Postcommunism and Postcolonialism

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Modern School guest lecture by Professor Neil Lazarus

Bookgroup with Ellen Banda-Aaku

Monday 17 October 2011

Reading and discussion of her novel 'Patchwork', winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing

Doing business with indigenous peoples: Transnational corporations and human rights

Monday 17 October 2011

Human Rights public lecture series

Things Unspeakable: Theatre after 1945

Friday 7 October 2011

A three-day international, interdisciplinary conference on theatre and human rights

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Bringing human solidarity back into the rights equation

Thursday 6 October 2011

Public lecture by Justice Albie Sachs

Translating Freedom reading group

Monday 3 October 2011

Reading group organised by the Translating Freedom interdisciplinary research project team

Translating Freedom reading group

Tuesday 6 September 2011

Reading group organised by the Translating Freedom interdisciplinary research project team

Development and Empire, 1929-1962

Friday 1 July 2011

A two-day conference organised by the British Empire research cluster in the department of History

Theatre and Ghosts: Renaissance to Present Day

Friday 1 July 2011

Department of Theatre, Film and Television day conference

York Deviancy Conference

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Critical perspectives on crime, deviance, disorder and social harm

Rememoration and Reconstruction

Tuesday 28 June 2011

CModS postgraduate forum event

A talk by JM Coetzee

Friday 24 June 2011

A public reading by the Nobel Prize-winning author

A reading by John Banville

Thursday 23 June 2011

A public reading by the Booker Prize-winning novelist, followed by an interview and book signing

Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive

Thursday 23 June 2011

A major international conference

The Singing Sepoy: India, Empire and First World War Writing

Wednesday 22 June 2011

Modern School research seminar with Dr Santanu Das, Queen Mary's, University of London

Reading South Africa roundtable

Wednesday 22 June 2011

Department of English Modern School event with Professor Dorothy Driver, Professor Carrol Clarkson, Dr Lucy Graham and Zoe Wicomb

Re-routing Cosmopolitanism: The birth, near-death and re-birth of the modernist South African short story in English

Tuesday 21 June 2011

University of York Public Lecture delivered by Professor Dorothy Driver, University of Adelaide

Women's Time: Martin and Truitt in the Moment of Minimalism

Monday 20 June 2011

Department of History of Art research seminar with Professor Anne Wagner

Watching and Being Watched

Saturday 18 June 2011

A postgraduate conference organised by the Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum

Cultures of the Global: an interdisciplinary conversation

Thursday 16 June 2011

This informal discussion event will bring together scholars from across the fields of History, History of Art, English and Related Literatures, Politics, Philosophy and Human Rights to explore the complex and fractured conception of the ‘global’ in the modern period.

Creativity and Physics

Thursday 16 June 2011

Creativity across the Disciplines seminar with Dr Yvette Hancock

Postgraduate lunch with Whitney Davis

Thursday 16 June 2011

Professor Whitney Davis (Berkeley), will host a lunch and round-table discussion for postgraduate students

York Festival of Ideas

Thursday 16 June 2011

York's first Festival of Ideas on the theme of Beckett, the Body and the Bible, bringing together a range of world-class speakers, exhibitions, performances and artistic endeavour. Runs from 16 June to 10 July 2011.

First Impressions: The Young Freud

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Lecture by Professor Adam Phillips, Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature, writer and psychoanalyst

Victorian Glassworlds: Reflections on a Project, its Genesis and Aftermath

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Department of History of Art guest lecture - part of the one-day symposium 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?'

Postgraduate seminar with Adam Phillips

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Professor Adam Phillips, Honorary Visiting Professor, writer and psychoanalyst

What is to become of the Crystal Palace?

Wednesday 15 June 2011

An interdisciplinary workshop organised by the British Art Research School of the History of Art Department and the Centre for Modern Studies.

Why Visual Studies Needs World Art History

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Department of History of Art research seminar. presented by Professor Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley.

Conflict and Memory

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Postgraduate symposium organised by the Cultural Memory Studies Discussion Group in association with the Centre for Modern Studies

Public reading by poet Andrew Motion

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Writers at York event in conjunction with The Zahir

Obstacles faced when developing primary school children's creativity

Thursday 2 June 2011

Creativity across the Disciplines seminar with Dr Robina Shaheen

Utility and Waste

Tuesday 31 May 2011

CModS postgraduate forum event

Disability/Postcoloniality: Contexts, Categories and Critique

Tuesday 31 May 2011

Research seminar organised by the Postcolonial Perspectives reading group, led by Professor Stuart Murray, University of Leeds

Television Narratives Symposium

Saturday 28 May 2011

Department of Theatre, Film and Television in association with the Centre for Modern Studies

Some of the greatest acts of scientific creativity described by a somewhat uncreative scientist

Thursday 26 May 2011

Creativity across the Disciplines seminar with Paul Walton, Department of Chemistry

Age Play: Supporting What?

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Department of Sociology seminar with Dr Carla Reeves, University of Huddersfield

On Sentimentality

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Seminar on the sentimental, as viewpoint, spectacle, attribution and accusation, across a number of periods, places and disciplines

How Do You Draw?

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Lecture to coincide with the opening of an exhibition at the Norman Rea Gallery

Field analysis, boundary drawing and socio-cultural inequality

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Department of Sociology workshop

Cultural boundaries and inequality in comparative perspective

Monday 23 May 2011

Department of Sociology seminar with Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

The Monster Picasso

Monday 23 May 2011

Department of History of Art research seminar with Professor TJ Clark

Caribbean Research Seminar in the North

Friday 20 May 2011

Hosted by the Department of History. Speakers will look at the sugar industry and the politics of identity in the recent past.

Sartre: Creating Oneself

Thursday 19 May 2011

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar with Professor Tom Baldwin

Personalisation in practice? Two approaches to conducting benefits interviews in Jobcentre Plus

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Department of Sociology seminar with Dr Merran Toerien

(Dis)taste

Tuesday 17 May 2011

CModS postgraduate forum event

Paper, Scissors, Stone

Friday 13 May 2011

Poetry reading and book launch with Dr Kit Fan

Evolving a creative interdisciplinary culture

Thursday 12 May 2011

Creativity across the Disciplines seminar with Leo Caves, Department of Biology

Jens Peter Jacobsen and The Contradictions of Atheism

Wednesday 11 May 2011

The Modern School's annual Jacques Berthoud lecture delivered by Professor James Wood, Harvard University.

White Rose Southern Africa Network event

Friday 6 May 2011

James Currey, The African Writers Series: Publishing Texts from South Africa

Wittgenstein

Thursday 5 May 2011

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar with Rachael Wiseman

Poetics in the Era of Digital Reproduction

Thursday 5 May 2011

CModS Postgraduate Forum event with Dr Drew Milne, University of Cambridge

Theory Alongside Theory? Critical Theories Across the Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday 4 May 2011

Book Launch and Interdisciplinary Reception

Victorian Women Artists Revisited

Wednesday 27 April 2011

British Art Research School conference

The Here and Now: Thinking the Contemporary Across Disciplines

Tuesday 26 April 2011

An open, interdisciplinary afternoon to think about the nature and status of the contemporary across the humanities and social sciences

Working with Walter Benjamin: Everyday life, Media and the City

Wednesday 30 March 2011

A symposium, part of the Working with Key Thinkers series hosted by the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Modern Studies

Myths and Fairy Tales in Film and Literature post-1900

Friday 25 March 2011

A two-day international conference hosted by Film and Literature in association with CModS

Critical Perspectives on Art Gallery and Museum Audiences

Wednesday 23 March 2011

A seminar co-hosted by the Department of Sociology and the Humanities Research Centre

Gendering the Recession

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Modern School Research seminar with Professor Diane Negra, University College Dublin

Charting Narration in Women's Graphic Memoir

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Centre for Modern Studies graduate workshop with Robyn Warhol, Ohio State University

The Office and the Really Real: Structures of Address in Mockumentary and Reality TV

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Professor Robyn Warhol, Ohio State University, Director of Project Narrative

The Extraordinary Everyday

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum event

David Smith: Heavy Metal

Monday 14 March 2011

Department of History of Art research seminar with Professor Anne Wagner

Cross Dressing, "Hunnish Scenes", and a "Virgin Birth": A 1920s Cause Celebre

Monday 14 March 2011

Lecture by Lucy Bland, London Metropolitan University, to mark Women's History month

Hegel

Thursday 10 March 2011

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar with James Clarke

20th century 'tramping' sites in the Czech Republic

Thursday 10 March 2011

Department of History research seminar with James Symonds, University of York

Human Tendencies

Wednesday 9 March 2011

Centre for Modern Studies guest lecture by Professor Ed Cohen, Rutgers University

Knowledge and Stakes

Wednesday 9 March 2011

Department of Philosophy colloquium with Igal Kvart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Postgraduate workshop

Wednesday 9 March 2011

Professor Ed Cohen, Rutgers University, will lead a workshop based on the introduction to his book A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body

A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism

Thursday 3 March 2011

A 3-day festival and conference organised by the Centre for Women's Studies

Digging for Metaphors: Archaeology and Contemporary Fiction

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Modern School research seminar with Dr Adam Gutteridge, Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past

Some Controversies in the Philosophy of RG Collingwood

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Department of Philosophy colloquium with James Connelley, University of Hull

(Anti-) Communism

Tuesday 1 March 2011

CModS postgraduate forum event

How to Do Queer with Things

Thursday 24 February 2011

Workshop to mark Queer History month with Dr Robert Mills, King's College, London

Kant: A Uncreative Genius?

Thursday 24 February 2011

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar with Andrew Ward

Poison and cure: Ted Hughes's prose

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Modern School research seminar with Professor Neil Corcoran, University of Liverpool

Department of Philosophy colloquium

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Maja Spener, University of Oxford

Cezanne and the Space of a Room

Monday 21 February 2011

Department of History of Art research seminar with Professor TJ Clark

All in the Same Boat? - Displacement, difference and urban homelessness

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Department of Sociology seminar with Dr Emma Jackson

Punishment and Repression

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum event

Queering the House: Jess and Robert Duncan

Monday 14 February 2011

Department of History of Art research seminar with Dr James Boaden

Spinoza: Creative Thought Within the Rigid Bounds of Reason

Thursday 10 February 2011

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar with Professor Peter Lamarque

Living Beyond Theory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial

Thursday 10 February 2011

A two-day postgraduate symposium

Modern Acting Madness

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Lecture by Adam Phillips, Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of English and Related Literature

Why should we believe in ontological foundations?

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Department of Philosophy colloquium with Jan Westerhoff, University of Durham

Postgraduate seminar

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Department of English and Related Literature seminar with Adam Phillips, Honorary Visiting Professor, writer and psychoanalyst

Governing Manchester's unruly poor in an era of austerity

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Department of Sociology seminar with Dr James Rees

Contesting Authority: Voice, Legitimacy and Justice in Contemporary Black Women's Autobiography - CANCELLED

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Centre for Women's Studies research seminar with Dr Suzanne Scafe

About Dogs - Inaugural White Rose Animal Seminar

Friday 4 February 2011

Why attending to animal being in cultural texts reshapes how we think about them and their period.

Berkeley’s Revolution in Vision

Thursday 3 February 2011

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar with Professor Tom Stoneham

Aesthetic Autonomy and Heteronomy

Wednesday 2 February 2011

One-day conference exploring the relationship between artworks and extra-aesthetic developments

Does mobility have a future? The end of the road?

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Department of Sociology seminar with Professor John Urry

Explaining the Explanatory Gap

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture by Professor David Papineau, King's College London

Modern School Irish Seminar

Monday 31 January 2011

Discussion of Flann O'Brien's novel, The Third Policeman

Women in Hybrid Roles in IT Employment: A Case of 'Nimble Fingers'?

Monday 31 January 2011

Centre for Women's Studies research seminar with Professor Judith Glover

Rituals of Expropriation: Maya Deren and the 'artist-native'

Friday 28 January 2011

CModS postgraduate forum event with John David Rhodes, University of Sussex

Creativity and invention

Thursday 27 January 2011

Creativity across the Disciplines seminar with Professor Derek Attridge

Distraction and its friends

Wednesday 26 January 2011

Modern School research seminar with Professor Michael Wood, University of Princeton

Minimal word meanings

Wednesday 26 January 2011

Department of Philosophy colloquium with Emma Borg, University of Reading

Reveal the Tension: The Grid, the Cut, the Body and the Absurd

Monday 24 January 2011

Opening of exhibition of Adeline de Monseignat's latest works

The International Tolstoyan Movement 1880-1940

Thursday 20 January 2011

Department of History research seminar with Charlotte Alston, University of Northumbria

Beyond the Box Office

Friday 7 January 2011

A presentation and debate organised by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, on the cultural impact of film and its relevance to our lives

The Turner Prize

Tuesday 14 December 2010

Lightning Rods discussion led by Sarah Turner and James Boaden from the Department of History of Art

Implementing Pharmacogenetics into Pharmacy Practice: A (Re)professionalising Project?

Tuesday 14 December 2010

SATSU Brown Bag seminar series

World Literature and Combined and Uneven Development

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Modern School Research Seminar

A (Mainly Epistemic) Argument for Multiple-Vote Majority Rule

Wednesday 8 December 2010

School of PEP/Department of Philosophy colloquium

Against Meaning

Tuesday 7 December 2010

David Joselit, Yale University. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Plato

Thursday 2 December 2010

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar series

Performing Works of Music Authentically

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Department of Philosophy Colloquium - POSTPONED DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER

Time, Timing and Narrative at the Interface Between Science, Policy and Citizenship: A Xenotransplantation Case Study

Tuesday 30 November 2010

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Rage against the Machine? Cyberspace Narratives in Rushdie's 'Fury'

Monday 29 November 2010

Dr Yael Maurer, Tel-Aviv University

Warhol in Kazakhstan

Monday 29 November 2010

Department of History of Art research seminar with Richard Meyer, Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California

Novelties

Saturday 27 November 2010

A one-day postgraduate symposium on nineteenth-century literature and culture

Freud's Impossible Life

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Seminar by Adam Philips

Coercion and Integrity

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Department of Philosophy/School of PEP Colloquium

Scenes from Windows: Urban Rhythms, Improvisation and Memory

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Department of Sociology seminar

Some Conceptions of Creativity and a Key Creative Moment

Thursday 18 November 2010

Creativity in the History of Philosophy seminar series

British Policy towards the Korean War, 1950-1

Thursday 18 November 2010

Department of History Research Seminar

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and The Rise of Mass Picture Identification

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Modern School Research Seminar

Making Things Secure: Data as Objects of Violence and Things of Beauty

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Department of Sociology seminar

Hard Eyes? Data Processing in Welfare Systems for High Cost High Risk Populations

Tuesday 16 November 2010

SATSU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Affiliations:Sites of Inscription exhibition opening night

Monday 15 November 2010

Opening night of exhibition of photographs by Jim Brogden and Paul Wilson

Defending Human Rights: Global and Local Perspectives

Friday 12 November 2010

Event hosted by the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), University of York, and International Service (IS), a York-based development agency.

Coming to Terms with East Germany's Past: Reflections on the Commemorations of 1989

Thursday 11 November 2010

Department of History Research Seminar

Free Will: Human and Divine

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Department of Philosophy Colloquium

Ai WeiWei and Contemporary Art from China

Wednesday 10 November 2010

A major symposium organised by the Department of History of Art

Cultural Landscapes

Wednesday 10 November 2010

An Architectural History and Theory Research School Symposium

The Queer Aesthetics and Politics of the Sex Predator

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Gillian Harkins, University of Washington

Hearing from poets: letters to poems

Monday 8 November 2010

Inaugural lecture by Professor Hugh Haughton

We Live Beyond Any Tale That We Happen to Enact

Thursday 4 November 2010

Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture by Professor Galen Strawson

The Scottish Miners' Strike of 1984

Thursday 4 November 2010

Department of History research seminar with Jim Phillips, University of Glasgow

Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn meets Arrow

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Department of Philosophy colloquium with Samir Okasha, University of Bristol

A history of future's past: Recovering and using British sociology's lost biological roots

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Department of Sociology seminar with Dr Chris Renwick

Regenerative Medicine in Europe: A Synopsis of Some Key Results

Tuesday 2 November 2010

SATSU Brown Bag seminar

Troubling Memories: Nineteenth-Century Histories of the Slave Trade and Slavery

Friday 29 October 2010

Royal Historical Society lecture by Professor Catherine Hall, University College London

Nudging and Manipulation

Wednesday 27 October 2010

Department of Philosophy colloquium witih Martin Wilkinson, University of Auckland

What is this ‘Black’ in ‘Black’ History and Culture?: Interdisciplinary Reflections upon Blackness and Racial Categories

Tuesday 26 October 2010

A workshop and discussion forum to mark Black History month, convened by Liz Buettner and Linda Ali

Contemporary British Drama and Intermediality

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Modern School Research Seminar

Not Modern Art: An Exchange

Monday 18 October 2010

Department of History of Art research seminar

Leavis at York

Saturday 16 October 2010

A one-day conference

The legacy of FR Leavis

Friday 15 October 2010

Lecture by Professor John Sutherland

What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say

Saturday 3 July 2010

A three-day conference at the University of York

On Satisfaction - lecture

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Honorary Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips

Morals and Education - postgraduate seminar

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Honorary Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips

Charles Sheeler and the Problematic Past

Monday 21 June 2010

David Peters-Corbett, University of York

Historicism, Value Pluralism, and the Problem of Judgement: Rereading Leo Strauss

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Professor Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago

Feminism, value pluralism and the problem of judgement

Tuesday 15 June 2010

Professor Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago

Lightning Rods Inaugural Seminar

Tuesday 8 June 2010

A forum for informal discussions on texts, events and ideas that are sparking wide debate.

Aby Warburg meets Chantal Akerman: Trauma and the Gesture of Pathos

Monday 7 June 2010

Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

Department of Theatre, Film and Television 1st Annual Postgraduate Symposium

Friday 4 June 2010

For staff and students from the universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield

Narrative and Maps

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Colorado

10 x 10 x 10 seminar

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Department of Sociology Departmental Seminar

Neoliberalism, Aesthetics, and the Inexorability of Agency

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Jane Elliott

Creativity and evil

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Professor Berys Gaut, University of St Andrews

Department of Sociology seminar

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Professor Les Back

Adam Foulds reading

Monday 17 May 2010

Writer in Residence, Department of English and Related Literature

The concept of 'the organism' in Philosophy of Biology

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Professor Catherine Wilson, University of Aberdeen

Distance relationships and sexuality

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Dr Mary Holmes, Department of Sociology, Flinders University

Colour and liveness in the work of Henry Darger

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Michael Moon, Emory University

Think Pig! Beckett's Animal Philosophy

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

Gesture: Signs of the Body in Visual Studies

Monday 3 May 2010

Esther Gabara, Duke University

Derek Jarman's 'The Last of England' and the Last Gasp of London

Thursday 29 April 2010

Postgraduate Forum inaugural talk

The Killer in You is the Killer in me: Homosexuality and Fascism

Wednesday 28 April 2010

A lecture and reception in the Berrick Saul building

Recent trends in queer studies

Tuesday 27 April 2010

A master class for postgraduate students

Dementia and second stories: an example approached through conversation analysis

Friday 23 April 2010

Sarah Collins (CASLC, Department of Health Sciences and Hull York Medical School)

Narrative Workshop II

Friday 23 April 2010

Half day narrative research seminar

Femininities Conference

Thursday 22 April 2010

This three-day international conference, organised by the Department of History, marks the ten year anniversary of the department's annual Cultural History Conference.

The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship

Thursday 25 March 2010

A one-day conference hosted by the Film and Literature Programme of the Department of English in association with the Centre for Modern Studies.

Modernism's Translation (Modern school research seminar)

Monday 15 March 2010

Dr Rebecca Beasley (Oxford University)

Commemorating “Heroes of a Special Kind”: Deserter Monuments in Germany

Thursday 11 March 2010

Steven R. Welch (University of Melbourne)

My Happiness, Right or Wrong

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Honorary Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips on D. W. Winnicott.

Action, Right, and Morality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

The Capacity To Be Alone

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Honorary Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips

"On Dignity"

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Professor Michael Rosen (Harvard University)

Shooting Hemingway

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Professor Oliver Harris (Keele University)

Affective citizenship and the management of unease

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Anne-Marie Fortier, Lancaster University

Does the state value diversity in contemporary Iran? The case of minorities' education (Politics research seminar)

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Hossein Godazagar (Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of York)

British Sculpture, c1757-1947: Global Contexts

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Kirsty Breedon (University of York), Sarah Burnage (York City Art Gallery), Jason Edwards (University of York), David J Getsy (Art Institute of Chicago), Sarah Monks (University of East Anglia), Sarah Turner (University of York)

On not making boys: David Smith, Frank O‟Hara, and Gender Assignment

Monday 1 March 2010

David Getsy (Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Chair in Art History and Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

’Because of my sex and any other reason for which I am not responsible’: the freedom of labour in post-emancipation Jamaica

Thursday 18 February 2010

Henrice Altink (University of York)

On the Idea of Public Philosophy (Politics research seminar)

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Tim Stanton (University of York)

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of Africa

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Professor David Attwell (University of York)

Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (joint politics-PEP seminar)

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Guy Standing (University of Bath)

William Beveridge, Social Biology, and British Social Science

Thursday 4 February 2010

Chris Renwick (University of York)

Philosophy Colloquium - ‘Direct Realism and the Properties of Experience’

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg)

A Prophet without Honour? - Ervin Bossanyi and Stained Glass in the 20th Century

Monday 1 February 2010

Sarah Brown (Director of the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management, University of York)

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture ‘Vats, Sets, and Tits’

Friday 29 January 2010

A.W. Moore (Oxford)

Of Sweetness and Light and Other Utilities

Thursday 28 January 2010

Dr Helen Small (Oxford University)

Water famished Hong Kong: water shortages and colonial state building in Hong Kong, 1948-64

Thursday 28 January 2010

David Clayton (University of York)

Ai Weiwei: a transcultural iconoclast?

Monday 25 January 2010

Dario Gamboni (Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University of Geneva)

Philosophy Colloquium - Introspection, What?

Thursday 21 January 2010

A Philosophy Colloquium by Eric Schwitzgebel from the University of California).

Losing the North: curating Latin American art in a global context

Monday 14 December 2009

Cuauhtémoc Medina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Cultural Imperialism and the "Tribal Drum": Public Broadcasting and the British World, c. 1922-1970

Thursday 10 December 2009

Simon Potter, NUI, Galway

The sexuality of abstraction: finding lesbian meaning in Agnes Martin's grids

Monday 7 December 2009

Jonathan D Katz, University of Buffalo, Terra Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute and Guest Curator, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Beyond empiricism: Is there an ethical way of judging "Good" and "Bad" History?

Thursday 3 December 2009

Guy Halsall, University of York

"To Make You See": Modernism's Visual Turn

Tuesday 1 December 2009

Jacques Berthold Lecture with Laura Marcus, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh University

How the West Was Sung

Monday 30 November 2009

An illustrated musical history of the Western given by expert film pianist and film music historian Neil Brand

Michel Serres, The Hard and the Soft

Thursday 26 November 2009

Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London

The environmental movement in contemporary Britain

Thursday 26 November 2009

James McKay, University of Birmingham

Inaugral Lectures - History of Art at York: from the medieval to the modern

Monday 23 November 2009

Professor Christopher Norton, Professor Helen Hills, Professor Mark Hallett and Professor David Peters Corbett, Department of History of Art

A reading of his poems

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Peter Robinson

War and Peace: Harry Bates's Lord Roberts Memorial in London, Glasgow and Kolkata

Monday 16 November 2009

Jason Edwards, Unviersity of York, UK

'The Thing in the Coffin' and the Coffin as Thing: The Body and Burial in Dracula

Thursday 12 November 2009

David McAllister, University of York

Business, Development and Decolonization: The Case of Zambia

Thursday 12 November 2009

Larry Butler, University of East Anglia

H G Robley and the ethnological macabre

Monday 26 October 2009

Roger Blackley, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Centre for Modern Studies