Autumn Semester
29 Oct 2019: Fuka Fujita (Kyoto) Religious Coexistence in the Eastern Mediterranean World. From the Perspective of Cyprus under the Latins
12 Nov 2019: Mariña Bermúdez Beloso (Santiago de Compostela) Comparing Peripheries. Galicia and Carinthia in Medieval Time
19 Nov 2019: Kate Skinner (DASA, Birmingham) Family Law in Post-Independence Ghana
26 Nov 2019: Anca Mandru (History, Birmingham) A Train Station on the Left. The Making of a Socialist Public Sphere in Romania (1882-1914)
03 Dec 2019: Helle Jorgensen (Ironbridge, Birmingham) Postcolonial Commemorative Practices Surrounding Monument aux Morts: the Afterlives of Indo-French Colonial Connections around Puducherry’s French War Memorial
10 Dec 2019: Matteo Barbato (CAHA, Birmingham) Beyond the Marxist and “culturalist” divide. Ideology and democracy in classical Athens
Spring Semester
23 Jan 2020: John Munro (History, Birmingham) The Colonialism of Neoliberal Gentrification
04 Feb 2020: Benedetta Rossi (DASA, Birmingham) Transformations, legacies, and survivals of slavery in the Nigerien Sahel
03 Mar 2020: Hannah Cornwell (CAHA, Birmingham) Roman Republic and Roman Empire
16 Mar 2020: Tara Hamlin/Jonathan Willis (History, Birmingham) Protestantism and visual imagery in the wake of the English reformation