College of Arts and Law events Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoom The therapeutic wanderings of Pericles DatesThursday 6 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, Zoom Mithras Trio DatesFriday 21 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The Bramall Search for:Search All eventsPerformanceResearch seminarsLectures, Talks and Workshops 24Mar Ceremony: Pop Comes to Campus DatesThursday 24 March (09:00) - Friday 28 October 2022 (19:00)LocationFoyer - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionResearchers are ripping open the pages of the student newspapers, exploring the gig culture on campus, and curating a public exhibition featuring archive material in partnership with Birmingham Music Archive. 5Oct Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today. 5Oct Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Jane Buikstra (Arizona State) 5Oct Isata Kanneh-Mason DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOur 2022/23 season is opened in style with the award-winning and captivating pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. 6Oct The therapeutic wanderings of Pericles DatesThursday 6 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Kirsty Bushell (Actor). 7Oct First Encounters: Musical Journeys From The First Age of Globalisation DatesFriday 7 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThis performance explores music which spanned the continents of Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music from the Ming and Qing dynasties played on the Chinese guzheng and harpsichord. 9Oct Orchestral Taster Sessions: Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 9 October 2022 (18:00-21:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionYour opportunity to try out our period/early music orchestra: Baroque-Classical Orchestra directed by Professor Andrew Kirkman. 12Oct Who is public space for? A roundtable discussion DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (14:00-16:00)LocationRoom 223 - 2nd Floor - Arts Building, Zoom and in-PersonDescriptionParticipants will reflect on the question of who public space is for and offer possible answers for 10 minutes each, 12Oct Cyphers of Britishness: indirectness, colonial interests, and a new anthropology of Britain DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Farhan Samanani (UCL). 13Oct Poor naked wretches DatesThursday 13 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Steve Unwin. 14Oct Iyad Sughayer DatesFriday 14 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionChosen as "One to Watch" by International Piano Magazine, Iyad makes his Barber Concerts debut with this performance. 19Oct Imagined ecologies and the sounds of extinction, 1900-1949 DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionAlexandra Hui, Mississippi State University, with commentary from David Gange, Birmingham 19Oct Theophrastus' Object Lessons DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar) 19Oct Professor Sylvie Delacroix Inaugural Lecture DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (17:30-18:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)DescriptionHabitual Ethics: What if data-intensive technologies' ability to mould habits with unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass disability of profound consequences? 20Oct Digitizing Early Modern performance: a roundtable DatesThursday 20 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute roundtable with the University of Illinois Digital Theatre. 21Oct Mithras Trio DatesFriday 21 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPraised for their "exquisite phrasing", "full-blooded commitment" and "bold, passionate colours", the Mithras Trio is fast growing a reputation as one of the next generation's most exciting piano trios. 26Oct Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (12:00-13:30)LocationArts Building Room 335DescriptionCentre 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. 26Oct Transatlantic lives: narratives of slavery, freedom, and diaspora in West Africa and Brazil DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationArts Building Lecture Room 7 (223), ZoomDescriptionKristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University gives the annual Fage Lecture. 26Oct Athens and the Antigonids DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin) 26Oct Public Lecture on Buddhist Philosophy of Religion DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (17:00-18:30)LocationAlan Waters Building - Room G11Description"Explanation or Insight: How Buddhist Knowledge Can Set You Free" by Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS) 26Oct Sean Shibe DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOne of the foremost guitarists of his generation, Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, incorporating electric guitar into his recitals. 27Oct Emancipating the Anthropocene through eco-Shakespeare performance: the global Cymbeline project DatesThursday 27 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Randall Martin. 28Oct Demonic and Divine DatesFriday 28 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPerennially popular pianist Kenneth Hamilton presents the first of two lecture-recitals this academic year, memorably traversing themes of the demonic and divine in Romantic music. 29Oct BEASTdome DatesSaturday 29 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - The BramallDescriptionBEAST welcomes Iranian electronics composer and performer, Hadi Bastini, and former University of Birmingham resident artist, Loula Yorke for their opening concert of the 2022/23 season. 4Nov Jordan Bak and Joseph Havlat DatesFriday 4 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAward-winning Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak brings gems of the viola repertoire our Elgar Concert Hall. 9Nov Health agency in the prenatal precision medicine context DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Julia Brown (University of California, San Francisco). 9Nov Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists, who have worked as consultants to video games developers, alongside industry professionals in videogame dev, to talk about their own experiences. 10Nov 'Anglo-Italian Shakespeare', with La Sapienza colleagues, Rome DatesThursday 10 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by La Sapienza. 11Nov An Afternoon At Court DatesFriday 11 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescription'An Afternoon at Court' presents songs and sagas of royal figures across the ages, from King Harald's Saga by Judith Weir to Schubert's Ave Maria. 12Nov University Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 12 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionEnjoy the stunning architecture of Lichfield Cathedral as the University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir perform Evensong under their director Dr Paul Rodmell. 16Nov Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020 DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionGrace Huxford, Bristol 16Nov "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Federico Santangelo (Newcastle) 17Nov Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 17 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionBlanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan 18Nov King Edwards School DatesFriday 18 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe talented students from King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls give their annual Barber Concert. 19Nov Instrumental Choirs Gala DatesSaturday 19 November 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationSt George’s Church - EdgbastonDescriptionJoining forces to present this gala concert are three of the Music Society's instrumental choirs. Open to all, these ensembles also provide opportunity for young conducting talent. 20Nov University Wind Band and String Orchestra DatesSunday 20 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society welcomes you for an afternoon of music performed by the student-led Wind Band and String Orchestra. 23Nov Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis BRIHC roundtable focusses on academics' collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or individuals working in a professional 'public engagement' capacity. 23Nov Berlin & beyond: queer nightlife, grassroots organising, and communities of care DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Luis Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham). 25Nov Turini Ensemble DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe newly-formed Turini Ensemble brings together four of the UK's finest early musicians. They present exciting and emotionally moving music from the lavish and colourful baroque era. 25Nov University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe University Brass Band and student-led Chamber Choirs team up for an evening of entertainment. 26Nov Mass In Blue DatesSaturday 26 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society's 150 strong chorus perform with their director Julian Wilkins. 27Nov Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionCommence the festive season with an afternoon of performances from the highly acclaimed Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices. 27Nov Honorary President Q+A: Jess Gillam DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe committee and Student President of the University of Birmingham Music Society present a relaxed Q&A session with their 2022 Honorary Music Society President, renowned British Saxophonist, Jess Gillam. 30Nov The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionHenrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham 30Nov Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA) 30Nov Soul Strings DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAn exciting collaborative project between master sarod players, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, and violin virtuoso Jennifer Pike. 1Dec Aboutness in Shakespeare's poetry DatesThursday 1 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Stephen Guy-Bray. 1Dec Evil, Suffering, and Hope: Art and Poetry Exhibition DatesThursday 1 December 2022 (15:00-18:00)LocationWestmere House - Birmingham B15 2RA - G15 on the campus MapDescriptionThis exhibition event, organised by the Global Philosophy of Religion project, showcases an engagement between artwork, poetry, and philosophy. 2Dec Clipper Erickson DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAmerican pianist and musicologist, Clipper Erickson, presents the music of Canadian-American composer Nathaniel Dett, alongside Beethoven's Appassionata, and a work by Ukranian composer Mykola Lysenko 2Dec University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Jazz Orchestra give their autumn term concert featuring the works of Maria Schneider. 3Dec Gospel Revisited DatesSaturday 3 December 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationTown Hall - BirminghamDescriptionGospel Revisited brings Gospel music to the major concert venues and performance spaces in the region, encouraging new audiences to discover the vast wealth of the Gospel music. 4Dec Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 4 December 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the birthdays of John Williams (90th) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (150th). 7Dec Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis roundtable argues that to understand its contemporary manifestations, we need to study populism's historical roots, its engagement with other political movements and its impact on political structures. 7Dec Analysing social change in rural Ukraine DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Deema Kaneff (University of Birmingham). 8Dec Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 8 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame). 10Dec Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 10 December (18:30) - Sunday 11 December 2022 (17:00)LocationSt Michael's Church - Tenbury WellsDescriptionBirmingham University Singers make their annual visit to St Michael's Church with Dr Paul Rodmell. 12Dec University Carol Service DatesMonday 12 December 2022 (18:15-20:15)LocationThe Great Hall - Aston WebbDescriptionThe University invites you to attend the annual University Carol Service in The Great Hall. The University's multifaith chaplaincy lead the service, with music from the University Upper Voices choir. 8Feb How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? DatesWednesday 8 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSaima Nasar (Bristol) and Becky Taylor (UEA) 22Feb Classics in the Classroom DatesWednesday 22 February 2023 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 22 February we will be discussing how Classicists in schools and universities can best work together to develop meaningful opportunities for both students and teachers. 8Mar Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography DatesWednesday 8 March 2023 (15:00-16:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 8 March we will be joined by Megan Brown (Swarthmore College) and Alessandro Iandolo (Harvard) to discuss the issues at stake in writing histories of decolonization. 15Mar How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 15 March 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'. 22Mar ''Women Palavers'': Marriage, and Gender Struggles in Colonial Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria DatesWednesday 22 March 2023 (15:15-16:45)LocationZoomDescriptionMorenikeji Asaaju, Birmingham 19Apr New Directions in Birmingham and Black Country History DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn 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. 26Apr Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionRoundatable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe. 30Aug EuroSLA 32 DatesWednesday 30 August (00:00) - Sunday 3 September 2023 (00:00)LocationAston Webb BuildingDescriptionThe 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association 24Mar Ceremony: Pop Comes to Campus DatesThursday 24 March (09:00) - Friday 28 October 2022 (19:00)LocationFoyer - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionResearchers are ripping open the pages of the student newspapers, exploring the gig culture on campus, and curating a public exhibition featuring archive material in partnership with Birmingham Music Archive. 5Oct Isata Kanneh-Mason DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOur 2022/23 season is opened in style with the award-winning and captivating pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. 7Oct First Encounters: Musical Journeys From The First Age of Globalisation DatesFriday 7 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThis performance explores music which spanned the continents of Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music from the Ming and Qing dynasties played on the Chinese guzheng and harpsichord. 9Oct Orchestral Taster Sessions: Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 9 October 2022 (18:00-21:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionYour opportunity to try out our period/early music orchestra: Baroque-Classical Orchestra directed by Professor Andrew Kirkman. 14Oct Iyad Sughayer DatesFriday 14 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionChosen as "One to Watch" by International Piano Magazine, Iyad makes his Barber Concerts debut with this performance. 21Oct Mithras Trio DatesFriday 21 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPraised for their "exquisite phrasing", "full-blooded commitment" and "bold, passionate colours", the Mithras Trio is fast growing a reputation as one of the next generation's most exciting piano trios. 26Oct Sean Shibe DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOne of the foremost guitarists of his generation, Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, incorporating electric guitar into his recitals. 28Oct Demonic and Divine DatesFriday 28 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPerennially popular pianist Kenneth Hamilton presents the first of two lecture-recitals this academic year, memorably traversing themes of the demonic and divine in Romantic music. 29Oct BEASTdome DatesSaturday 29 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - The BramallDescriptionBEAST welcomes Iranian electronics composer and performer, Hadi Bastini, and former University of Birmingham resident artist, Loula Yorke for their opening concert of the 2022/23 season. 4Nov Jordan Bak and Joseph Havlat DatesFriday 4 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAward-winning Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak brings gems of the viola repertoire our Elgar Concert Hall. 11Nov An Afternoon At Court DatesFriday 11 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescription'An Afternoon at Court' presents songs and sagas of royal figures across the ages, from King Harald's Saga by Judith Weir to Schubert's Ave Maria. 12Nov University Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 12 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionEnjoy the stunning architecture of Lichfield Cathedral as the University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir perform Evensong under their director Dr Paul Rodmell. 18Nov King Edwards School DatesFriday 18 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe talented students from King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls give their annual Barber Concert. 19Nov Instrumental Choirs Gala DatesSaturday 19 November 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationSt George’s Church - EdgbastonDescriptionJoining forces to present this gala concert are three of the Music Society's instrumental choirs. Open to all, these ensembles also provide opportunity for young conducting talent. 20Nov University Wind Band and String Orchestra DatesSunday 20 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society welcomes you for an afternoon of music performed by the student-led Wind Band and String Orchestra. 25Nov Turini Ensemble DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe newly-formed Turini Ensemble brings together four of the UK's finest early musicians. They present exciting and emotionally moving music from the lavish and colourful baroque era. 25Nov University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe University Brass Band and student-led Chamber Choirs team up for an evening of entertainment. 26Nov Mass In Blue DatesSaturday 26 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society's 150 strong chorus perform with their director Julian Wilkins. 27Nov Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionCommence the festive season with an afternoon of performances from the highly acclaimed Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices. 27Nov Honorary President Q+A: Jess Gillam DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe committee and Student President of the University of Birmingham Music Society present a relaxed Q&A session with their 2022 Honorary Music Society President, renowned British Saxophonist, Jess Gillam. 30Nov Soul Strings DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAn exciting collaborative project between master sarod players, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, and violin virtuoso Jennifer Pike. 2Dec Clipper Erickson DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAmerican pianist and musicologist, Clipper Erickson, presents the music of Canadian-American composer Nathaniel Dett, alongside Beethoven's Appassionata, and a work by Ukranian composer Mykola Lysenko 2Dec University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Jazz Orchestra give their autumn term concert featuring the works of Maria Schneider. 3Dec Gospel Revisited DatesSaturday 3 December 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationTown Hall - BirminghamDescriptionGospel Revisited brings Gospel music to the major concert venues and performance spaces in the region, encouraging new audiences to discover the vast wealth of the Gospel music. 4Dec Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 4 December 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the birthdays of John Williams (90th) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (150th). 10Dec Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 10 December (18:30) - Sunday 11 December 2022 (17:00)LocationSt Michael's Church - Tenbury WellsDescriptionBirmingham University Singers make their annual visit to St Michael's Church with Dr Paul Rodmell. 12Dec University Carol Service DatesMonday 12 December 2022 (18:15-20:15)LocationThe Great Hall - Aston WebbDescriptionThe University invites you to attend the annual University Carol Service in The Great Hall. The University's multifaith chaplaincy lead the service, with music from the University Upper Voices choir. 5Oct Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today. 5Oct Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Jane Buikstra (Arizona State) 12Oct Who is public space for? A roundtable discussion DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (14:00-16:00)LocationRoom 223 - 2nd Floor - Arts Building, Zoom and in-PersonDescriptionParticipants will reflect on the question of who public space is for and offer possible answers for 10 minutes each, 12Oct Cyphers of Britishness: indirectness, colonial interests, and a new anthropology of Britain DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Farhan Samanani (UCL). 19Oct Imagined ecologies and the sounds of extinction, 1900-1949 DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionAlexandra Hui, Mississippi State University, with commentary from David Gange, Birmingham 19Oct Theophrastus' Object Lessons DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar) 26Oct Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (12:00-13:30)LocationArts Building Room 335DescriptionCentre 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. 26Oct Transatlantic lives: narratives of slavery, freedom, and diaspora in West Africa and Brazil DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationArts Building Lecture Room 7 (223), ZoomDescriptionKristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University gives the annual Fage Lecture. 26Oct Athens and the Antigonids DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin) 9Nov Health agency in the prenatal precision medicine context DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Julia Brown (University of California, San Francisco). 9Nov Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists, who have worked as consultants to video games developers, alongside industry professionals in videogame dev, to talk about their own experiences. 16Nov Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020 DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionGrace Huxford, Bristol 16Nov "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Federico Santangelo (Newcastle) 23Nov Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis BRIHC roundtable focusses on academics' collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or individuals working in a professional 'public engagement' capacity. 23Nov Berlin & beyond: queer nightlife, grassroots organising, and communities of care DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Luis Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham). 30Nov The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionHenrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham 30Nov Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA) 7Dec Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis roundtable argues that to understand its contemporary manifestations, we need to study populism's historical roots, its engagement with other political movements and its impact on political structures. 7Dec Analysing social change in rural Ukraine DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Deema Kaneff (University of Birmingham). 8Feb How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? DatesWednesday 8 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSaima Nasar (Bristol) and Becky Taylor (UEA) 22Feb Classics in the Classroom DatesWednesday 22 February 2023 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 22 February we will be discussing how Classicists in schools and universities can best work together to develop meaningful opportunities for both students and teachers. 8Mar Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography DatesWednesday 8 March 2023 (15:00-16:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 8 March we will be joined by Megan Brown (Swarthmore College) and Alessandro Iandolo (Harvard) to discuss the issues at stake in writing histories of decolonization. 15Mar How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 15 March 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'. 22Mar ''Women Palavers'': Marriage, and Gender Struggles in Colonial Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria DatesWednesday 22 March 2023 (15:15-16:45)LocationZoomDescriptionMorenikeji Asaaju, Birmingham 19Apr New Directions in Birmingham and Black Country History DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn 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. 26Apr Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionRoundatable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe. 5Oct Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today. 5Oct Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Jane Buikstra (Arizona State) 6Oct The therapeutic wanderings of Pericles DatesThursday 6 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Kirsty Bushell (Actor). 12Oct Who is public space for? A roundtable discussion DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (14:00-16:00)LocationRoom 223 - 2nd Floor - Arts Building, Zoom and in-PersonDescriptionParticipants will reflect on the question of who public space is for and offer possible answers for 10 minutes each, 12Oct Cyphers of Britishness: indirectness, colonial interests, and a new anthropology of Britain DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Farhan Samanani (UCL). 13Oct Poor naked wretches DatesThursday 13 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Steve Unwin. 19Oct Imagined ecologies and the sounds of extinction, 1900-1949 DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionAlexandra Hui, Mississippi State University, with commentary from David Gange, Birmingham 19Oct Theophrastus' Object Lessons DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar) 19Oct Professor Sylvie Delacroix Inaugural Lecture DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (17:30-18:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)DescriptionHabitual Ethics: What if data-intensive technologies' ability to mould habits with unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass disability of profound consequences? 20Oct Digitizing Early Modern performance: a roundtable DatesThursday 20 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute roundtable with the University of Illinois Digital Theatre. 26Oct Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (12:00-13:30)LocationArts Building Room 335DescriptionCentre 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. 26Oct Transatlantic lives: narratives of slavery, freedom, and diaspora in West Africa and Brazil DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationArts Building Lecture Room 7 (223), ZoomDescriptionKristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University gives the annual Fage Lecture. 26Oct Athens and the Antigonids DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin) 27Oct Emancipating the Anthropocene through eco-Shakespeare performance: the global Cymbeline project DatesThursday 27 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Randall Martin. 9Nov Health agency in the prenatal precision medicine context DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Julia Brown (University of California, San Francisco). 9Nov Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists, who have worked as consultants to video games developers, alongside industry professionals in videogame dev, to talk about their own experiences. 10Nov 'Anglo-Italian Shakespeare', with La Sapienza colleagues, Rome DatesThursday 10 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by La Sapienza. 16Nov Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020 DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionGrace Huxford, Bristol 16Nov "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Federico Santangelo (Newcastle) 17Nov Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 17 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionBlanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan 23Nov Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis BRIHC roundtable focusses on academics' collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or individuals working in a professional 'public engagement' capacity. 23Nov Berlin & beyond: queer nightlife, grassroots organising, and communities of care DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Luis Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham). 30Nov The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionHenrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham 30Nov Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA) 1Dec Aboutness in Shakespeare's poetry DatesThursday 1 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Stephen Guy-Bray. 7Dec Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis roundtable argues that to understand its contemporary manifestations, we need to study populism's historical roots, its engagement with other political movements and its impact on political structures. 7Dec Analysing social change in rural Ukraine DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Deema Kaneff (University of Birmingham). 8Dec Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 8 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame). 8Feb How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? DatesWednesday 8 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSaima Nasar (Bristol) and Becky Taylor (UEA) 22Feb Classics in the Classroom DatesWednesday 22 February 2023 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 22 February we will be discussing how Classicists in schools and universities can best work together to develop meaningful opportunities for both students and teachers. 8Mar Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography DatesWednesday 8 March 2023 (15:00-16:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 8 March we will be joined by Megan Brown (Swarthmore College) and Alessandro Iandolo (Harvard) to discuss the issues at stake in writing histories of decolonization. 15Mar How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 15 March 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'. 22Mar ''Women Palavers'': Marriage, and Gender Struggles in Colonial Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria DatesWednesday 22 March 2023 (15:15-16:45)LocationZoomDescriptionMorenikeji Asaaju, Birmingham 19Apr New Directions in Birmingham and Black Country History DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn 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. 26Apr Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionRoundatable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe. 30Aug EuroSLA 32 DatesWednesday 30 August (00:00) - Sunday 3 September 2023 (00:00)LocationAston Webb BuildingDescriptionThe 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association
Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoom
The therapeutic wanderings of Pericles DatesThursday 6 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, Zoom
24Mar Ceremony: Pop Comes to Campus DatesThursday 24 March (09:00) - Friday 28 October 2022 (19:00)LocationFoyer - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionResearchers are ripping open the pages of the student newspapers, exploring the gig culture on campus, and curating a public exhibition featuring archive material in partnership with Birmingham Music Archive.
5Oct Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today.
5Oct Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Jane Buikstra (Arizona State)
5Oct Isata Kanneh-Mason DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOur 2022/23 season is opened in style with the award-winning and captivating pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
6Oct The therapeutic wanderings of Pericles DatesThursday 6 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Kirsty Bushell (Actor).
7Oct First Encounters: Musical Journeys From The First Age of Globalisation DatesFriday 7 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThis performance explores music which spanned the continents of Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music from the Ming and Qing dynasties played on the Chinese guzheng and harpsichord.
9Oct Orchestral Taster Sessions: Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 9 October 2022 (18:00-21:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionYour opportunity to try out our period/early music orchestra: Baroque-Classical Orchestra directed by Professor Andrew Kirkman.
12Oct Who is public space for? A roundtable discussion DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (14:00-16:00)LocationRoom 223 - 2nd Floor - Arts Building, Zoom and in-PersonDescriptionParticipants will reflect on the question of who public space is for and offer possible answers for 10 minutes each,
12Oct Cyphers of Britishness: indirectness, colonial interests, and a new anthropology of Britain DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Farhan Samanani (UCL).
13Oct Poor naked wretches DatesThursday 13 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Steve Unwin.
14Oct Iyad Sughayer DatesFriday 14 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionChosen as "One to Watch" by International Piano Magazine, Iyad makes his Barber Concerts debut with this performance.
19Oct Imagined ecologies and the sounds of extinction, 1900-1949 DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionAlexandra Hui, Mississippi State University, with commentary from David Gange, Birmingham
19Oct Theophrastus' Object Lessons DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar)
19Oct Professor Sylvie Delacroix Inaugural Lecture DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (17:30-18:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)DescriptionHabitual Ethics: What if data-intensive technologies' ability to mould habits with unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass disability of profound consequences?
20Oct Digitizing Early Modern performance: a roundtable DatesThursday 20 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute roundtable with the University of Illinois Digital Theatre.
21Oct Mithras Trio DatesFriday 21 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPraised for their "exquisite phrasing", "full-blooded commitment" and "bold, passionate colours", the Mithras Trio is fast growing a reputation as one of the next generation's most exciting piano trios.
26Oct Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (12:00-13:30)LocationArts Building Room 335DescriptionCentre 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.
26Oct Transatlantic lives: narratives of slavery, freedom, and diaspora in West Africa and Brazil DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationArts Building Lecture Room 7 (223), ZoomDescriptionKristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University gives the annual Fage Lecture.
26Oct Athens and the Antigonids DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin)
26Oct Public Lecture on Buddhist Philosophy of Religion DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (17:00-18:30)LocationAlan Waters Building - Room G11Description"Explanation or Insight: How Buddhist Knowledge Can Set You Free" by Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS)
26Oct Sean Shibe DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOne of the foremost guitarists of his generation, Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, incorporating electric guitar into his recitals.
27Oct Emancipating the Anthropocene through eco-Shakespeare performance: the global Cymbeline project DatesThursday 27 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Randall Martin.
28Oct Demonic and Divine DatesFriday 28 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPerennially popular pianist Kenneth Hamilton presents the first of two lecture-recitals this academic year, memorably traversing themes of the demonic and divine in Romantic music.
29Oct BEASTdome DatesSaturday 29 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - The BramallDescriptionBEAST welcomes Iranian electronics composer and performer, Hadi Bastini, and former University of Birmingham resident artist, Loula Yorke for their opening concert of the 2022/23 season.
4Nov Jordan Bak and Joseph Havlat DatesFriday 4 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAward-winning Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak brings gems of the viola repertoire our Elgar Concert Hall.
9Nov Health agency in the prenatal precision medicine context DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Julia Brown (University of California, San Francisco).
9Nov Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists, who have worked as consultants to video games developers, alongside industry professionals in videogame dev, to talk about their own experiences.
10Nov 'Anglo-Italian Shakespeare', with La Sapienza colleagues, Rome DatesThursday 10 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by La Sapienza.
11Nov An Afternoon At Court DatesFriday 11 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescription'An Afternoon at Court' presents songs and sagas of royal figures across the ages, from King Harald's Saga by Judith Weir to Schubert's Ave Maria.
12Nov University Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 12 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionEnjoy the stunning architecture of Lichfield Cathedral as the University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir perform Evensong under their director Dr Paul Rodmell.
16Nov Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020 DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionGrace Huxford, Bristol
16Nov "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
17Nov Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 17 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionBlanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan
18Nov King Edwards School DatesFriday 18 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe talented students from King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls give their annual Barber Concert.
19Nov Instrumental Choirs Gala DatesSaturday 19 November 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationSt George’s Church - EdgbastonDescriptionJoining forces to present this gala concert are three of the Music Society's instrumental choirs. Open to all, these ensembles also provide opportunity for young conducting talent.
20Nov University Wind Band and String Orchestra DatesSunday 20 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society welcomes you for an afternoon of music performed by the student-led Wind Band and String Orchestra.
23Nov Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis BRIHC roundtable focusses on academics' collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or individuals working in a professional 'public engagement' capacity.
23Nov Berlin & beyond: queer nightlife, grassroots organising, and communities of care DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Luis Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham).
25Nov Turini Ensemble DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe newly-formed Turini Ensemble brings together four of the UK's finest early musicians. They present exciting and emotionally moving music from the lavish and colourful baroque era.
25Nov University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe University Brass Band and student-led Chamber Choirs team up for an evening of entertainment.
26Nov Mass In Blue DatesSaturday 26 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society's 150 strong chorus perform with their director Julian Wilkins.
27Nov Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionCommence the festive season with an afternoon of performances from the highly acclaimed Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices.
27Nov Honorary President Q+A: Jess Gillam DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe committee and Student President of the University of Birmingham Music Society present a relaxed Q&A session with their 2022 Honorary Music Society President, renowned British Saxophonist, Jess Gillam.
30Nov The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionHenrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham
30Nov Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA)
30Nov Soul Strings DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAn exciting collaborative project between master sarod players, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, and violin virtuoso Jennifer Pike.
1Dec Aboutness in Shakespeare's poetry DatesThursday 1 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Stephen Guy-Bray.
1Dec Evil, Suffering, and Hope: Art and Poetry Exhibition DatesThursday 1 December 2022 (15:00-18:00)LocationWestmere House - Birmingham B15 2RA - G15 on the campus MapDescriptionThis exhibition event, organised by the Global Philosophy of Religion project, showcases an engagement between artwork, poetry, and philosophy.
2Dec Clipper Erickson DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAmerican pianist and musicologist, Clipper Erickson, presents the music of Canadian-American composer Nathaniel Dett, alongside Beethoven's Appassionata, and a work by Ukranian composer Mykola Lysenko
2Dec University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Jazz Orchestra give their autumn term concert featuring the works of Maria Schneider.
3Dec Gospel Revisited DatesSaturday 3 December 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationTown Hall - BirminghamDescriptionGospel Revisited brings Gospel music to the major concert venues and performance spaces in the region, encouraging new audiences to discover the vast wealth of the Gospel music.
4Dec Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 4 December 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the birthdays of John Williams (90th) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (150th).
7Dec Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis roundtable argues that to understand its contemporary manifestations, we need to study populism's historical roots, its engagement with other political movements and its impact on political structures.
7Dec Analysing social change in rural Ukraine DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Deema Kaneff (University of Birmingham).
8Dec Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 8 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame).
10Dec Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 10 December (18:30) - Sunday 11 December 2022 (17:00)LocationSt Michael's Church - Tenbury WellsDescriptionBirmingham University Singers make their annual visit to St Michael's Church with Dr Paul Rodmell.
12Dec University Carol Service DatesMonday 12 December 2022 (18:15-20:15)LocationThe Great Hall - Aston WebbDescriptionThe University invites you to attend the annual University Carol Service in The Great Hall. The University's multifaith chaplaincy lead the service, with music from the University Upper Voices choir.
8Feb How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? DatesWednesday 8 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSaima Nasar (Bristol) and Becky Taylor (UEA)
22Feb Classics in the Classroom DatesWednesday 22 February 2023 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 22 February we will be discussing how Classicists in schools and universities can best work together to develop meaningful opportunities for both students and teachers.
8Mar Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography DatesWednesday 8 March 2023 (15:00-16:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 8 March we will be joined by Megan Brown (Swarthmore College) and Alessandro Iandolo (Harvard) to discuss the issues at stake in writing histories of decolonization.
15Mar How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 15 March 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'.
22Mar ''Women Palavers'': Marriage, and Gender Struggles in Colonial Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria DatesWednesday 22 March 2023 (15:15-16:45)LocationZoomDescriptionMorenikeji Asaaju, Birmingham
19Apr New Directions in Birmingham and Black Country History DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn 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.
26Apr Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionRoundatable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe.
30Aug EuroSLA 32 DatesWednesday 30 August (00:00) - Sunday 3 September 2023 (00:00)LocationAston Webb BuildingDescriptionThe 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association
24Mar Ceremony: Pop Comes to Campus DatesThursday 24 March (09:00) - Friday 28 October 2022 (19:00)LocationFoyer - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionResearchers are ripping open the pages of the student newspapers, exploring the gig culture on campus, and curating a public exhibition featuring archive material in partnership with Birmingham Music Archive.
5Oct Isata Kanneh-Mason DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOur 2022/23 season is opened in style with the award-winning and captivating pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
7Oct First Encounters: Musical Journeys From The First Age of Globalisation DatesFriday 7 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThis performance explores music which spanned the continents of Europe and Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music from the Ming and Qing dynasties played on the Chinese guzheng and harpsichord.
9Oct Orchestral Taster Sessions: Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 9 October 2022 (18:00-21:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionYour opportunity to try out our period/early music orchestra: Baroque-Classical Orchestra directed by Professor Andrew Kirkman.
14Oct Iyad Sughayer DatesFriday 14 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionChosen as "One to Watch" by International Piano Magazine, Iyad makes his Barber Concerts debut with this performance.
21Oct Mithras Trio DatesFriday 21 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPraised for their "exquisite phrasing", "full-blooded commitment" and "bold, passionate colours", the Mithras Trio is fast growing a reputation as one of the next generation's most exciting piano trios.
26Oct Sean Shibe DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionOne of the foremost guitarists of his generation, Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, incorporating electric guitar into his recitals.
28Oct Demonic and Divine DatesFriday 28 October 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionPerennially popular pianist Kenneth Hamilton presents the first of two lecture-recitals this academic year, memorably traversing themes of the demonic and divine in Romantic music.
29Oct BEASTdome DatesSaturday 29 October 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - The BramallDescriptionBEAST welcomes Iranian electronics composer and performer, Hadi Bastini, and former University of Birmingham resident artist, Loula Yorke for their opening concert of the 2022/23 season.
4Nov Jordan Bak and Joseph Havlat DatesFriday 4 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAward-winning Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak brings gems of the viola repertoire our Elgar Concert Hall.
11Nov An Afternoon At Court DatesFriday 11 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescription'An Afternoon at Court' presents songs and sagas of royal figures across the ages, from King Harald's Saga by Judith Weir to Schubert's Ave Maria.
12Nov University Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 12 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionEnjoy the stunning architecture of Lichfield Cathedral as the University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir perform Evensong under their director Dr Paul Rodmell.
18Nov King Edwards School DatesFriday 18 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe talented students from King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls give their annual Barber Concert.
19Nov Instrumental Choirs Gala DatesSaturday 19 November 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationSt George’s Church - EdgbastonDescriptionJoining forces to present this gala concert are three of the Music Society's instrumental choirs. Open to all, these ensembles also provide opportunity for young conducting talent.
20Nov University Wind Band and String Orchestra DatesSunday 20 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society welcomes you for an afternoon of music performed by the student-led Wind Band and String Orchestra.
25Nov Turini Ensemble DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe newly-formed Turini Ensemble brings together four of the UK's finest early musicians. They present exciting and emotionally moving music from the lavish and colourful baroque era.
25Nov University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 25 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe University Brass Band and student-led Chamber Choirs team up for an evening of entertainment.
26Nov Mass In Blue DatesSaturday 26 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society's 150 strong chorus perform with their director Julian Wilkins.
27Nov Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionCommence the festive season with an afternoon of performances from the highly acclaimed Birmingham University Singers and University Upper Voices.
27Nov Honorary President Q+A: Jess Gillam DatesSunday 27 November 2022 (17:30-19:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe committee and Student President of the University of Birmingham Music Society present a relaxed Q&A session with their 2022 Honorary Music Society President, renowned British Saxophonist, Jess Gillam.
30Nov Soul Strings DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAn exciting collaborative project between master sarod players, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, and violin virtuoso Jennifer Pike.
2Dec Clipper Erickson DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionAmerican pianist and musicologist, Clipper Erickson, presents the music of Canadian-American composer Nathaniel Dett, alongside Beethoven's Appassionata, and a work by Ukranian composer Mykola Lysenko
2Dec University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 2 December 2022 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Jazz Orchestra give their autumn term concert featuring the works of Maria Schneider.
3Dec Gospel Revisited DatesSaturday 3 December 2022 (19:00-21:00)LocationTown Hall - BirminghamDescriptionGospel Revisited brings Gospel music to the major concert venues and performance spaces in the region, encouraging new audiences to discover the vast wealth of the Gospel music.
4Dec Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 4 December 2022 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - The BramallDescriptionThe Music Society Philharmonic Orchestra celebrate the birthdays of John Williams (90th) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (150th).
10Dec Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 10 December (18:30) - Sunday 11 December 2022 (17:00)LocationSt Michael's Church - Tenbury WellsDescriptionBirmingham University Singers make their annual visit to St Michael's Church with Dr Paul Rodmell.
12Dec University Carol Service DatesMonday 12 December 2022 (18:15-20:15)LocationThe Great Hall - Aston WebbDescriptionThe University invites you to attend the annual University Carol Service in The Great Hall. The University's multifaith chaplaincy lead the service, with music from the University Upper Voices choir.
5Oct Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today.
5Oct Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Jane Buikstra (Arizona State)
12Oct Who is public space for? A roundtable discussion DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (14:00-16:00)LocationRoom 223 - 2nd Floor - Arts Building, Zoom and in-PersonDescriptionParticipants will reflect on the question of who public space is for and offer possible answers for 10 minutes each,
12Oct Cyphers of Britishness: indirectness, colonial interests, and a new anthropology of Britain DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Farhan Samanani (UCL).
19Oct Imagined ecologies and the sounds of extinction, 1900-1949 DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionAlexandra Hui, Mississippi State University, with commentary from David Gange, Birmingham
19Oct Theophrastus' Object Lessons DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar)
26Oct Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (12:00-13:30)LocationArts Building Room 335DescriptionCentre 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.
26Oct Transatlantic lives: narratives of slavery, freedom, and diaspora in West Africa and Brazil DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationArts Building Lecture Room 7 (223), ZoomDescriptionKristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University gives the annual Fage Lecture.
26Oct Athens and the Antigonids DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin)
9Nov Health agency in the prenatal precision medicine context DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Julia Brown (University of California, San Francisco).
9Nov Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists, who have worked as consultants to video games developers, alongside industry professionals in videogame dev, to talk about their own experiences.
16Nov Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020 DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionGrace Huxford, Bristol
16Nov "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
23Nov Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis BRIHC roundtable focusses on academics' collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or individuals working in a professional 'public engagement' capacity.
23Nov Berlin & beyond: queer nightlife, grassroots organising, and communities of care DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Luis Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham).
30Nov The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionHenrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham
30Nov Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA)
7Dec Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis roundtable argues that to understand its contemporary manifestations, we need to study populism's historical roots, its engagement with other political movements and its impact on political structures.
7Dec Analysing social change in rural Ukraine DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Deema Kaneff (University of Birmingham).
8Feb How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? DatesWednesday 8 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSaima Nasar (Bristol) and Becky Taylor (UEA)
22Feb Classics in the Classroom DatesWednesday 22 February 2023 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 22 February we will be discussing how Classicists in schools and universities can best work together to develop meaningful opportunities for both students and teachers.
8Mar Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography DatesWednesday 8 March 2023 (15:00-16:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 8 March we will be joined by Megan Brown (Swarthmore College) and Alessandro Iandolo (Harvard) to discuss the issues at stake in writing histories of decolonization.
15Mar How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 15 March 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'.
22Mar ''Women Palavers'': Marriage, and Gender Struggles in Colonial Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria DatesWednesday 22 March 2023 (15:15-16:45)LocationZoomDescriptionMorenikeji Asaaju, Birmingham
19Apr New Directions in Birmingham and Black Country History DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn 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.
26Apr Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionRoundatable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe.
5Oct Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today.
5Oct Structural and Physical Violence at the Birth of Democracy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective DatesWednesday 5 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Jane Buikstra (Arizona State)
6Oct The therapeutic wanderings of Pericles DatesThursday 6 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Kirsty Bushell (Actor).
12Oct Who is public space for? A roundtable discussion DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (14:00-16:00)LocationRoom 223 - 2nd Floor - Arts Building, Zoom and in-PersonDescriptionParticipants will reflect on the question of who public space is for and offer possible answers for 10 minutes each,
12Oct Cyphers of Britishness: indirectness, colonial interests, and a new anthropology of Britain DatesWednesday 12 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Farhan Samanani (UCL).
13Oct Poor naked wretches DatesThursday 13 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Steve Unwin.
19Oct Imagined ecologies and the sounds of extinction, 1900-1949 DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionAlexandra Hui, Mississippi State University, with commentary from David Gange, Birmingham
19Oct Theophrastus' Object Lessons DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Yun Lee Too (Independent Scholar)
19Oct Professor Sylvie Delacroix Inaugural Lecture DatesWednesday 19 October 2022 (17:30-18:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)DescriptionHabitual Ethics: What if data-intensive technologies' ability to mould habits with unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass disability of profound consequences?
20Oct Digitizing Early Modern performance: a roundtable DatesThursday 20 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute roundtable with the University of Illinois Digital Theatre.
26Oct Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (12:00-13:30)LocationArts Building Room 335DescriptionCentre 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.
26Oct Transatlantic lives: narratives of slavery, freedom, and diaspora in West Africa and Brazil DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationArts Building Lecture Room 7 (223), ZoomDescriptionKristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University gives the annual Fage Lecture.
26Oct Athens and the Antigonids DatesWednesday 26 October 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin)
27Oct Emancipating the Anthropocene through eco-Shakespeare performance: the global Cymbeline project DatesThursday 27 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Randall Martin.
9Nov Health agency in the prenatal precision medicine context DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given by Julia Brown (University of California, San Francisco).
9Nov Archaeology, history, and the videogame industry DatesWednesday 9 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis workshop will bring together historians and archaeologists, who have worked as consultants to video games developers, alongside industry professionals in videogame dev, to talk about their own experiences.
10Nov 'Anglo-Italian Shakespeare', with La Sapienza colleagues, Rome DatesThursday 10 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by La Sapienza.
16Nov Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020 DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionGrace Huxford, Bristol
16Nov "Non-political classes" between Republic and Principate DatesWednesday 16 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationArts-LR1 and ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (in-person/hybrid seminar): Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
17Nov Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 17 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionBlanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan
23Nov Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis BRIHC roundtable focusses on academics' collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or individuals working in a professional 'public engagement' capacity.
23Nov Berlin & beyond: queer nightlife, grassroots organising, and communities of care DatesWednesday 23 November 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Luis Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham).
30Nov The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionHenrietta Harrison, Oxford with commentary from Shirley Ye, Birmingham
30Nov Ennius' Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction DatesWednesday 30 November 2022 (16:00-17:30)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar series 2022-23 (online seminar): Hannah Čulik-Baird (UCLA)
1Dec Aboutness in Shakespeare's poetry DatesThursday 1 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationStratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Institute, ZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Stephen Guy-Bray.
7Dec Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionThis roundtable argues that to understand its contemporary manifestations, we need to study populism's historical roots, its engagement with other political movements and its impact on political structures.
7Dec Analysing social change in rural Ukraine DatesWednesday 7 December 2022 (15:15-16:45)LocationOnline via ZoomDescriptionAnthro Talk seminar given Deema Kaneff (University of Birmingham).
8Dec Blanche McIntyre (director at the RSC and Globe) in conversation with Erin Sullivan DatesThursday 8 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame).
8Feb How do we now write histories of the exclusion of South Asians from Uganda and their diaspora? DatesWednesday 8 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSaima Nasar (Bristol) and Becky Taylor (UEA)
22Feb Classics in the Classroom DatesWednesday 22 February 2023 (16:00-17:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 22 February we will be discussing how Classicists in schools and universities can best work together to develop meaningful opportunities for both students and teachers.
8Mar Decolonization and Development: New Directions in the Historiography DatesWednesday 8 March 2023 (15:00-16:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 8 March we will be joined by Megan Brown (Swarthmore College) and Alessandro Iandolo (Harvard) to discuss the issues at stake in writing histories of decolonization.
15Mar How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 15 March 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'.
22Mar ''Women Palavers'': Marriage, and Gender Struggles in Colonial Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria DatesWednesday 22 March 2023 (15:15-16:45)LocationZoomDescriptionMorenikeji Asaaju, Birmingham
19Apr New Directions in Birmingham and Black Country History DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionOn 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.
26Apr Practices of Judgment in Early Modern Europe DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionRoundatable discussing the ways in which judgment was refined, exercised and practiced in Early Modern Europe.
30Aug EuroSLA 32 DatesWednesday 30 August (00:00) - Sunday 3 September 2023 (00:00)LocationAston Webb BuildingDescriptionThe 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association