The Department of History has an extensive programme of events throughout the year including seminars, conferences and day schools.
Forthcoming Events
- Date
- 03/05/2018 - 05/07/2018
- Description
- The conference will take place 4-5 July 2018 at the University of Birmingham. Themes include the body as material culture, bodily display, bodily practices, health in the city and plastic bodies.
- Date
- 23/05/2018
- Description
- Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre workshop
- Date
- 23/05/2018
- Description
- Event listing for the University of Birmingham's Eighteenth-Century Resources in the Cadbury Research Library seminar
- Date
- 23/05/2018
- Description
- The role that family and kinship ties play in the reproduction of society and social values is a key concern that unites the arts, social sciences and a wide range of other disciplinary areas.
- Date
- 24/05/2018
- Description
- Dr Katy Layton-Jones delivers the Centre for West Midlands History research seminar.
- Date
- 30/05/2018 - 01/06/2018
- Description
- First workshop of the interdisciplinary project aimed at furthering comparative understandings of regionalism in Brazil.
- Date
- 01/06/2018
- Description
- This workshop aims to provide a forum for the first systematic reflection on histories of masculinity in modern Britain since the publication, nearly thirty years ago, of Michael Roper and John Tosh's landmark collection, Manful Assertions (Routledge, 1991).
- Date
- 08 - 09/06/2018
- Description
- We will consider what is at stake in the current moment as well as general tendencies, dynamics and lived experiences of previous cycles of credit and physical money. A public conversation that seemed to be opening up at the start of the global financial crisis but 'never ended up taking place' is still desperately needed.