Seminar series
We host a regular seminar series highlighting current research in the department, with papers given by academic staff and graduate research students. Seminars are free and open to all.
If you are interested in giving a paper, please contact the seminar convenor Dr Serena Ferente.
All seminars take place at 18.30 in room S8.08, Department of History, Level 8, Strand Building. Seminars are followed by a wine reception.
Seminar programme 2011-12
11 October 2011
Dr Jane Buckingham, New Zealand South Asian Centre, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. 'Guilds in Ancient India and Corporate Social responsibility.'
15 November 2011
Sophie Ambler 'Grosseteste’s commentary on Aristotle and baronial rebellion in the reign of Henry III'. Neville Shack 'Switching Off ITV: The House of Lords and Resistance to Commercial Television in the 1950s'
17 January 2012
Prof Keiko Takeuchi, Seikei University, Tokyo (Visiting Professor, King's College London) 'British factory legislation in a global context: men, women and the Japanese Factory Act of 1911'
14 February 2012 (will start at 18:00)
Dhwani Patel 'Imperial illusions in thirteenth-century Rome: Charles I of Anjou and the ceremony of adventus'
Toby Green 'Angola, Upper Guinea and the Making of the Atlantic World: African "Agency" in the Long 17th Century'
Details of further seminars will be published here shortly.
Seminar archives