Events

The School of History and Cultures has an extensive programme of events throughout the year including seminars, conferences and day schools.

Forthcoming Events

New Directions in West Midlands History

New Directions in West Midlands History
Date
19/04/2023
Description
On Wednesday 19 April we will be joined by a series of PhD students and professional archivists to discuss what the future directions of Birmingham and Black Country History might be.

'Debating benefactions, democracy and tyranny in the later Hellenistic world

'Debating benefactions, democracy and tyranny in the later Hellenistic world
Date
19/04/2023
Description
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar given by Benjamin Gray (Birkbeck).

Battlefield Balladry: How Irish-Americans Sang about the American Civil War

Battlefield Balladry: How Irish-Americans Sang about the American Civil War
Date
19/04/2023
Description
War Studies Seminar given by Catherine Bateson

Tea-time Talk

Tea-time Talk
Date
24/04/2023
Description
Each of the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities researchers will briefly present on their current projects and their engagement with material culture studies.

Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe

Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe
Date
26/04/2023
Description
Roundtable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe.

Understanding and Resisting Material Inequalities

Understanding and Resisting Material Inequalities
Date
27/04/2023
Description
What are material inequalities and how can scholars of material culture contribute to our understanding of them?

The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire

The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire
Date
03/05/2023
Description
Henrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham

Healing texts: bodies and grammar in Gellius and Galen

Healing texts: bodies and grammar in Gellius and Galen
Date
03/05/2023
Description
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar given by Jessica Lightfoot (Birmingham).

Culture, Power and Identity - School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Research Conference

Culture, Power and Identity - School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Research Conference
Date
05/05/2023
Description
Conference for UK Postgraduate Researchers on the topic of Culture, Power and Identity

Colonialism in Global Perspective

Colonialism in Global Perspective
Date
09/05/2023
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth Century America

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth Century America
Date
16/05/2023
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: Guest lecture by Dr Xine Yao

What kind of access does the digital provide?

What kind of access does the digital provide?
Date
17/05/2023
Description
As part of our 2022-23 focus on 'Material Inequalities' the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities at the University of Birmingham will be hosting a discussion exploring digital access.

Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction

Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction
Date
17/05/2023
Description
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA)

Ecologies of Resistance

Ecologies of Resistance
Date
22/05/2023
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.

The harbor of Khufu on the Red Sea Shore: on the footsteps of the workers who built the Great Pyramid

The harbor of Khufu on the Red Sea Shore: on the footsteps of the workers who built the Great Pyramid
Date
24/05/2023
Description
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar given by Pierre Tallet (Sorbonne Université)

PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia

PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia
Date
30/05/2023
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university.

Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History

Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History
Date
05/06/2023
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.

Disability in poetry and performance

Disability in poetry and performance
Date
06/06/2023
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: Readings/performances from Sarah James, Beth O'Brien, and Jamie Hale.

How Global Was the Age of Revolutions?

How Global Was the Age of Revolutions?
Date
07/06/2023
Description
Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)

Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge)

Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge)
Date
08/06/2023
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: Leigh Claire La Berge is a Professor of English at BMCC CUNY and a 2021-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin.

Bring Back the Bodies

Bring Back the Bodies
Date
14/06/2023
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.

Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective

Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective
Date
14/06/2023
Description
Leverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra

Graduate workshop

Graduate workshop
Date
20/06/2023
Description
One of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.

Conference: Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present

Conference: Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present
Date
27 - 28/06/2023
Description
Conference on Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present
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