Roundtable on new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
A roundtable discussion with author and historian Seth Rockman (Brown).
- Date: Friday, 16 January 2026 (14:00 - 16:00) (UK)
- Location: Lecture Room 7, Arts Building
Events in the School of History and Cultures
Public Lecture exploring how the production and consumption of goods shaped American slavery
A public lecture by historian Seth Rockman, whose research explores the relationships between slavery and capitalism in the making of modern America.
- Date: Friday, 16 January 2026 (18:00 - 19:00) (UK)
- Location: BRIG Cafe, Digbeth, Birmingham
Discover MA Military History by distance learning at Birmingham
Professor Jonathan Boff will provide an overview of our distance learning MA Military History programme and answer your questions.
- Date: Monday, 26 January 2026 (09:00 - 09:45) (UK)
Discover our postgraduate research degrees in Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Heritage, History, and African Studies and Anthropology
Dr Gareth Sears will give an introduction to the postgraduate research options in the School of History and Cultures - both on campus and via distance learning.
- Date: Tuesday, 27 January 2026 (16:00 - 16:45) (UK)
Tip of the spear black radicalism, prison repression, and the long attica revolt
A "New Routes in Transnational American Studies" readers-meet-author conversation.
- Date: Thursday, 29 January 2026 (18:00 - 20:00) (UK)
Understand how the past shapes the world we live in today: Discover MA History and Politics at Birmingham
Dr Matthew Francis, the Programme Lead, will provide an overview of MA History and Politics.
- Date: Friday, 30 January 2026 (11:00 - 11:45) (UK)
Medical dolls and manikins
Join us to discuss work-in-progress by historian Professor Jonathan Reinarz (Applied Health Sciences) and Dr Rebecca Whiteley (History).
- Date: Wednesday, 18 March 2026 (13:00 - 14:30) (UK)
- Location: Arts 105, Arts Building
Modern British Studies Conference 2026
Building on the Modern British Studies conference series inaugurated in 2015. Call for papers!
- Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 00:00 - Friday, 5 June 2026, 00:00 (UK)
- Location: Alan Walters Building
‘Reasons to sing’: singing, spirituality, and the search for meaning
A multidisciplinary conference exploring the experience of singing and song and its connection to spirituality and/or meaning making throughout human history.
- Date: Friday, 18 September 2026, 00:00 (UK)
- Location: University of Birmingham