Centre events Back to 'Centre for Modern and Contemporary History' There are no forthcoming events currently being advertised. Please check back soon. Previous events: 2023 3rd May - The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire8th February - How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora?8th February - Conservative Birmingham 2022 7th December - Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today7th December - BRIHC In Public Event: What is housing poverty, who does it affect and how?29th November - BRIHC In Public Event: New Perspectives on the War in Ukraine23rd November - Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners16th November - Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-202027th April - The Commonwealth Games: A Roundtable Discussion23rd February - Researching Black British Histories 2021 27th October - Decolonization and Fossil Developmentalism: Energy, Climate, Extractivism and Empire/Nation in the Twentieth Century 2020 23rd January - The League of Nations @ 100: Humanitarian Histories 2019 30th November - Birmingham History Day 201913th November - Revolutionary Fibres: Materials and Industrial Design in Maoist China9th November - Black Country History Day 201918th June - A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton, American Capitalism, and the Origins of Our Troubled Times27th March - Checking Normality's Privilege: On the Persistence of the Natural20th March - Conservative Women and Nationalist Feminism in Britain between the Wars13th March - Anti-colonial feminism and the League of Nations: the cosmopolitan nationalism of Indian women's organisations, 1933-19396th March - Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism6th March - How to Kill a Governess: the fundamental violence of Victorian Sexuality 2018 28th November - Catholicism in Wartime Germany, 1939-1945 22nd November - Your Infertility: Our Problem? 21st November - Multiculturalism and Decolonisation 14th November - The Lessons of Dispossession: Lost Property in the Long Eighteenth Century 24th October - The Color of Hours: Race, Time, and Space in the Making of Postwar Detroit 19th October - Roundtable: Empire, Race, Humanitarianism. 17th October - Film screening: What is Democracy? 10th October - The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene 5th July - Small Nations and Global Identities: Czech Questions - A Symposium 13th June - Pacifists making guns: the Galtons of Birmingham and Britain's industrial revolution 1st June - Masculinities in Twentieth Century Britain 21st March - Research Seminar 16th March - Postponed: Empire, race, and humanitarianism in the twentieth century 6th March - Women in Brazilian History 28th February - History and the digital - new methodologies for future & present historians 24th January - Trump: One Year On 2017 25th November - Birmingham History Day 2017 1st-2nd September - Women's History Network Conference 2017 5th-7th July - Modern British Studies Conference 2017: British Studies in a Broken World 25th-26th May - Everyday empires, trans-Imperial circulations in a multi-disciplinary perspective 26th April - The Tramp's Tale: A Story of Soviet Border-Crossings, 1945-50 13th March - The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World 8th March - Forum for Early Career Researchers 2nd March - CBOMGS Seminar: History, time, and economic crisis in Central Greece | Cancelled 1st March - Co-operatives and Decolonisation: A Beautiful Friendship? 22nd February - Birmingham Teaching Fellows Session 8th February - Beyond Empire's Ambit: Narcotic Drugs between Science and State Crime 1st February - Baubles of the Bourbons: The Fate of Royal Heritage in Nineteenth-Century France 26th January - Revolutions Past and Present: Their legacy and future 18th January - The Vanquished 11th January - Violence, Resilience and the 'Coolie' Identity: Life on the Ships to the Caribbean, 1834-1920 2016 8th December - Winter roundtable 7th December - The floating university and the politics of knowing in America and the interwar world' 28th November - Air power in the French empire: the armée de l'air in the Levant (1918-1940) 23rd November - We Are the World: The End of Empire and the Rise of Global Humanitarianism 16th November - MCH BRIHC: Forests, Fields, and Peasant Revolution: The 'Green Cadres' and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 9th November - The United Nations and Sanctions against South Africa, 1946-1965 19th October - Objects, Rituals and Money: Everyday material cultures and the Prosecution of Spiritual Healing in the Anglo-Creole Caribbean 5th October - Making the Brazilian Northeast: A Region within the Nation and the World (1924-1968) 23rd-24th September - Tea with the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt and the Modern Imagination 2nd-3rd June - The global Middle East in the age of speed 5th May - Arabic and Persian printing history and culture 27th April - The politics of the American army 9th March - Religion, Conversion and Identity among the Armenians of Safavid Iran 7th March - Malthus and China 3rd March - From Mudros to Lausanne: British Policy in the Near East, Greece and Turkey, 1918-1923 1st March - Deconstructing 'dynasty': lineage and ethnicity in the golden horde and central Europe 24th February - Contested Icons: Poland, Chile, and the Global Politics of Human Rights in the mid-1980s 3rd February - The emergency episteme of the 'tribe' in Afghanistan, 1850-2015 27th January-3rd April - Janet Mendelsohn: Varna Road 20th January - The Vanquished: Europe and the Aftermath of the Great War 2015 4th December - Disentangling the World: The Politics of Autarky after the First World War 18th November - War as Adventure. The Experience of the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War' 13th November - Automating Data Extraction from Chinese Texts 11th November - An Old Warlord's Guide to World Peace and Love: Yan Xishan's Confucian Cosmopolitan International 6th November - (Auto)-Mobility in the global Middle East: defining the field 21st October - The Global Transformation of Time 1870 – 1950 9th July - Picturing Balsall Heath 9th-12th July - Ghost Streets Of Balsall Heath 25th March - Economic History as if People Mattered: A Workshop for Dr Francesca Carnevali 25th March - Modern and Contemporary History roundtable 18th March - Mrs Thatcher's peacock blue sari: ethnic minorities, electoral politics, and the Conservative Party, c.1951-1986 16th March - The Flood Pulse: The Social-Ecology of the 1931 Central China Flood 11th March - Taming the imperial imagination: sentiment, 'science', and colonial knowledge on the northwest frontier of India, 1857-1878 4th March - Spotted throughout with red: Canadian state surveillance and the Women's Liberation Movement, 1969-1988 11th February - Modern and contemporary history seminar 5th February - Film screening: Nowhere to call home, a Tibetan in Beijing 4th February - Strategic internationalism: mandates, minorities, and problem of non-states in interwar international law 28th January - D-Day in Asia: Japan's Operation Ichigo in China of 1944 21st January - Viola Klein and the problem of married women's employment in post-war Britain 2014 3rd December - Love in a box: Reflections on youth, texts and personhood in mid-20th century Egypt; and on the poetics of archive-making in the early 21st 26th November - A case of goats mingling with sheep? The identification and employment of civilian experts in the British Army of the First World War 26th November - A basket of food: Greece in the 1940s 19th November - Forging a feminist internationalisation: the British Women's International League between the wars 12th November - The Mixed Inheritance of Empire: Don Chesworth, Multiculturalism and the British Left 29th October - Chinese 'Illegalities' in Colonial Southeast Asia: Lessons from the Fin-de-Siècle Maritime World 22nd October - The Global War: British Strategy 1914-16 15th October - Global houses, global homes: mobility and migration in the long eighteenth century 8th October - Roundtable on Contemporary Global Environmental History 8th October - The 'Incorruptible Kodak': Photography, lantern slide lectures and cultures of colonial mission and humanitarianism in the Congo Reform Association 1904-1911 24th-25th June - The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 50 years on 12th May - Ruinscape and slumscape: picturing history and violence in global East Asia 26th March - The Limits of Solidarity: Europeanism, Anti-Colonialism and Socialism at the Congress of the Peoples of Europe, Asia and Africa in Puteaux, 1948 20th March - The Stuart Hall Project 19th March - Ban Polaris and Scrap the Force de Frappe: nationalism and internationalism in the first wave to ban-the-bomb in Britain 18th March - Ken Loach's 'Save the Children Fund Film' 12th March - Photographs of atrocity: lantern slides and humanitarian campaigns in the Belgian Congo in the early 20th century 5th March - Economy and Colonial History: German Togo and the Cotton Project 26th February - Matter matters: outlines of a historiographic provocation 12th February - Birmingham Centre for Modern and Contemporary History Annual Lecture 5th February - The global struggle for rubber in WWII 29th January - China Trans Formed: How Sex Changed from Colonial to Sinophone Modernity 22nd January - South Africa, 1960-1: from 'Wind of Change' to armed struggle 15th January - Water, Sovereignty and Global Science: The Grand Canal Project in China, 1910s-1930s 2013 11th December - Modern and Contemporary History seminar Title TBA 4th December - 'Wales England Wed'? English-Welsh hybridity in the two world wars 27th November - Cities of vice: red light districts in Asian ports 20th November - Theft on the trains: cheminot behaviours in wartime 13th November - Saving the remnant or building a Soviet state? The dilemmas of international humanitarian intervention in early Soviet Armenia 30th October - Humanitarianism and humdrum internationalism: British society at the end of 23rd October - Thinking queer/Rethinking the interwar 16th October - 'Self-extermination or self-determination': the (re-)construction of east central Europe, 1917–23 9th October - 'Truth be told': some problems with historical revisionism in Kenya 2nd October - World in motion: professional circuits through 19th-century China 28th-29th June - New Times Revisited? Examining Society, Culture and Politics in the Long 1980s 2nd May - Getting Grants, Getting Published and Staying Sane? Life After the PhD 30th April - Birmingham Centre for Modern & Contemporary History annual lecture 25th April - Margaret Thatcher in modern British history 20th March - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 13th March - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 1st March - Imperial Humanitarianism 27th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 20th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 6th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 30th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 24th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 16th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 9th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 2012 12th December - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 5th December - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 30th November - The end of the Ottoman Empire as twentieth-century history 28th November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 21st November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 14th November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 7th November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 23rd October - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 19th October - Global History at Birmingham 17th October - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 10th October - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar 3rd October - The Crisis in Syria - a Birmingham Round Table 22nd February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar 7th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar