Events 2021

Remote Relations: A (Very Brief) History of Teletherapy

Monday 29 November 2021

This seminar will run as part of the ‘Doing History’ events series. This series is led by AboutFace York in affiliation with the Centre for Global Health Histories.

What's New? Continuity and Change in the Politics and Provision of Abortion in Contemporary South Africa

Monday 22 November 2021

Part of the 'Doing History' events series led by AboutFace York.

Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Online Open Day 16 November 2021

Tuesday 16 November 2021

Open Days are the perfect chance to find out more about studying at the University of York. The next Postgraduate Open Day is taking place on Tuesday 16 November 2021. Why not come and meet us? 

How we Feel: Cultural Variations on a Natural Theme

Monday 15 November 2021

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, run by the AboutFace project.

Celebrating the industrial past: Regional commemorations of British railway

Thursday 4 November 2021

Join Dr Sophie Vohra of the National Railway Museum to explore the commemoration of local railways in Britain.

Experiencing Placebo: Toward a Biocultural History of the Brain

Monday 18 October 2021

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, run by AboutFace York.

Small bills and petty finance: Co-creating the history of the Old Poor Laws, 1750–1834

Thursday 7 October 2021

An illustrated presentation discussing some of the ways in which overseers’ vouchers can be used by researchers, and a new project on provision for people in need under Old Poor Laws.

“What are you historically classified as?” Reflections of an Historian in Health Sciences in a Time of Transformation

Monday 4 October 2021

This seminar will run as part of the ‘Doing History’ events series, led by AboutFace York in affiliation with the Centre for Global Health Histories.

Undergraduate Online Open Day, September 2021

Sunday 19 September 2021

Thinking about a degree in History? Come and meet us during the online Undergraduate Open Day on 19 September 2021.

Undergraduate Virtual Open Days June 2021

Saturday 26 June 2021

Thinking about a degree in History? Come and meet us during the online Undergraduate Open Days on 26 or 27 June 2021.

Aylmer Lecture 2021 - Relocating the Holy Places: Jerusalem in Early Medieval Europe

Thursday 24 June 2021

Discover how small portable objects enabled biblical sites to be relocated in Early Medieval Europe. Historian Julia Smith of the University of Oxford will discuss the various uses mobile objects were put to, as well as the significance attributed to them.

IPUP Seminar: Keeping the Roof On: Stately Homes in Heritage Film and TV

Tuesday 22 June 2021

Rosy Alexander-Jones will speak about her research on heritage film and historic houses. Her work looks at the history of stately homes in film and the lasting impact of the period drama.

IPUP Seminar: Cultures of memory and reminiscence in British army regiments, 1880-1960

Thursday 10 June 2021

Geoff Cubitt will speak about his latest research on regimental magazines and the cultures of memory and reminiscence in British army regiments from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day June 2021

Wednesday 9 June 2021

Open Days are the perfect chance to find out more about studying at the University of York. The next Postgraduate Open Day is taking place on Thursday 9 June 2021. Why not come and meet us? 

The Social Intellectual: Experience and Thought in the Middle Ages

Thursday 25 March 2021

This international conference explores the organic relationship between lived experience and academic/religious thought, beginning from the position that intellectual activity and social experience were closely intertwined in the medieval period.

From Corporeal Ethics to Carnal Instincts: Sexual Desires in the Long-Eighteenth Century

Monday 1 March 2021

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, run by AboutFace York.

"The Bounds of Compassion?": medical mercy killings in South Africa, 1979s-1990s

Monday 15 February 2021

Part of the 'Doing History' event series run by AboutFace York in connection with the Centre for Global Health Histories.

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day

Thursday 4 February 2021

Open Days are the perfect chance to find out more about studying at the University of York. The next Postgraduate Open Day is taking place on Thursday 4 February 2021. Why not come and meet us? 

Angry Bodies

Monday 1 February 2021

Part of the 'Emotions, History and the Body' research seminar series, led by the AboutFace project.