History research seminars
A series of talks for academics exploring aspects of history research, offering fresh insights and perspectives on events from antiquity to the modern era.
About
About these seminars
Our History Research Seminar welcomes leading historians, archaeologists, Egyptologists and classicists from around the globe.
Most events are now in person back on campus, in the Grosvenor East Building, room 3.13. We aim to simultaneously open the seminars over Zoom.
Please contact organisers Dr April Pudsey and Dr Philip Booth if you have questions or want a Zoom link.
This year's events
Semester two seminar dates
January 2023
Wednesday 25 January
Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture
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Prof Jill Hicks-Keeton, Oklahoma: Gender, Gentile Inclusion, and Jewish Identity in Antiquity: What to do with a Woman?
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6:00pm, Zoom
February 2023
Wednesday 15 February
LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture
- Dr Tom Hulme, Belfast: Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality Before Liberation
- 5:00pm, Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
March 2023
Wednesday 1 March
- Prof. Catherine Fletcher, Manchester Met: Roads to Rome: Two Thousand Years of Travel Along the Routes of Empire
- 6:00pm, Portico Library and Zoom
Tuesday 7 March
- Dr Aida Fernandez Prieto: A History from Below: (In)Visible, Vulnerable and ‘Agents’. Non-Elite Girls and Women in Ancient Greece
- 6:00pm Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
Wednesday 8 March
- Dr Mara Keire, Oxford: ‘Just Kidding’: Humour and Sexual Harassment since the 1970s
- 2:00pm Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
Wednesday 15 March
- Jack Beesley, Manchester Met PhD candidate: Homosexuality in the Early Modern Period
- 2:00pm Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
Wednesday 29 March
- Dr Rhianne Keyes, Birkbeck: Sexual Violence in 20th Century Africa
- 2:00pm Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
May 2023
Wednesday 10 May
- Dr Shannon Eaves, College of Charleston: Sexual Violence and American Slavery
- 2:00pm Zoom only
Monday 22 May
- Dr Ville Vuolanto, Tampere and Dr April Pudsey, Manchester Met: Playing with Ancient Childhood
- 5:00pm, venue tbc and zoom
Wednesday 24 May
- Dr Nandini Pandey (John Hopkins): Diversity in the Roman Empire
- 2:00pm, Zoom only
June 2023
Wednesday 6 June
Pride Month Lecture
- Dr Tom Sapsford, Boston College: ‘Red-Cheeked Boyfriends Tenderly Kiss Me’: Alan Ginsberg, Catullus and Sappho
- 6:00pm, Zoom only
Wednesday 14 June
- Dr Simon Topping, Plymouth: African American Soldiers in Northern Ireland
- 2:00pm, Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
Wednesday 28 June
- Dr Rueben Verwaal, Rotterdam: Experiencing Hardness of Hearing and Ear Trumpets in Early Modern Europe
- 2:00pm, Grosvenor East 3.13 and Zoom
Past events
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2021/2022
2022
Wednesday 28 September, 2pm
- Prof Mike Huggins (Cumbria), Match-Fixing: A Normal Part of Past Sport?
Wednesday 12 October, 6pm
- Manchester Classical Association, Dr Martin Bauer (Innsbruck), Historiography and the Public in Classical Greece, Book now
Wednesday 19 October, 2pm
- Dr Violaine Chauvet (Liverpool), Burial in Old Kingdom Egypt, Looking for New Kingdom Thebes: Excavations at the Mut Temple in Luxor
Wednesday 26 October, 6pm
- Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage and the Manchester Classical Association, Black History Month Lecture, Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre, Dr Sam Agbamu (RHUL), Is ‘Race’ a Theme in Petrarch’s Africa, and Why Should We Care? Book now
Wednesday 2 November, 5pm
- Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage, Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre 1, Dr Misha Ewen (Historic Royal Palaces), Stories, Archives, Voices: Inclusive History at Historic Royal Palaces, Book now
Wednesday 9 November, 2pm
- Society for the History of Women in the Americas, Prof Brenda Stevenson (Oxford), Slavery in the US
Wednesday 16 November, 5pm
- Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage and the Society for the History of Women in the Americas, Pamela Roberts, Play Screening: ‘An Evening with Mrs Terrell and Friends’
Wednesday 23 November, 6pm
- Cultures of Disability and the Manchester Classical Association, Ellen Adams (KCL), Languages and Landscapes: Using British Sign Language in Historic Storytelling, Book now
Wednesday 30 November, 2pm
- Dr Marini Ini (Manchester), Quarantine, Diseased Landscapes and Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Wednesday 7 December, 2pm
- Adam Aderman (PhD Candidate, Manchester Met), Trauma and the Roman Army
Wednesday 14 December, 2pm
- Dr James Dixon (Conservation Officer, Cheshire West and Chester Council), Bringing Creativity to Built Heritage
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2020/2021
2020
28 October - A Pilgrim’s Experience of the Holy Land: moving through time and space
- Dr Phil Booth, Manchester Met
3 December - ‘Half-victims’? Jewish ‘Mischlinge’ in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 (Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture)
- Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus, University of Manchester
9 December - Island exile in Colonial Australia
- Dr Katy Roscoe, University of Liverpool
2021
13 January - Sherlock Holmes in Russia
Prof Louise McReynolds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3 February - Iconographic Memory of World War II. Between global narratives and local embeddings
Dr Sonja Kmec, University of Luxembourg
17 February - Challenges in the Study of the Mongol Empire and Central Eurasian History
Dr Timothy May, University of North Georgia
3 March - Othering the slave, othering the slaveowner: US perceptions of enslavement in a global context, 1865-1930
Dr Catherine Armstrong, Loughborough University
24 March - Hiding in plain sight: the role and meaning of disguise in medieval lives
Dr Ben Wild, Manchester Met / Manchester Fashion Institute
28 April - Memory and Srebrenica
- Dr Sarah Wagner, George Washington University
26 May - Ancient Egyptian Dream Interpretation, from Pharaonic to Late Antique Times
Dr Luigi Prada, Oxford University / University of Uppsala
9 June - The Highland Land Wars, 1874–1930: one social movement or many
Dr Iain Robertson, University of the Highlands and Islands
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2019/2020
2019
2 October - Death in Early Modern Venice
Alex Bamji, University of Leeds
23 October - Overcoming Adversity: Vera Cambridge and the Women’s Amateur Athletics Association in Inter-War Britain
Prof Dave Day, Manchester Met
20 November - Table Talk and the Sense of Taste: How Political and Religious Identity took its Seat at the Table
Anna Fielding, Manchester Met
20 November - ‘It’s 150 a year, and I dare say we shall be ruined!’: Renting the middle-class home in nineteenth century Manchester
Thomas McGrath, Manchester Met
2020
15 January - ‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: Entangled histories of male homosexuality, 1950-1970
Julia Maclachlan, University of Manchester
15 January - ‘Voices in my ear’: Intimacies at London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, 1974-1990
Ralph Day, Birkbeck, University of London
29 January - Constructing spaces, constructing bodies: Sport, control and order (and some fun) in the new Dutch culture around 1900
Nick Piercey, Manchester Met
11 March - Regendering the Tetrarchy
Julia Hillner, University of Sheffield
Contact
Contact us
For more information about the seminar series, you can contact the organisers Dr April Pudsey and Dr Phillip Booth.