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History Research Seminars

Semester 1 and 2 (October 2008 - March 2009)

‘Empire, religion, science’

Wednesday 5-6, Seminar Room 1, Governance Building, 53-67 University Road

15 October  ‘Lord Kelvin and Ireland: science, religion, and politics in
the nineteenth century.’
Dr Andrew Holmes (QUB)

29 October  ‘Writing the history of the Official republican
 movement.’ 
Dr Brian Hanley (QUB)

12 November ‘Natural History & Naturvölker in Africa: Missionary
adventures in Botany and Entomology.’
Professor Patrick Harries (University of Basel)

26 November ‘The Catholic Church and the British Empire: from Union   to Partition.’
Dr Oliver Rafferty, SJ (University of London)

10 December ‘The State and Provincial Health Care: the County Infirmary System in Eighteenth-Century Ulster.’
Dr Andrew Sneddon (QUB).
This seminar is held jointly with the Institute of Irish Studies/ School of Law seminar series ‘Ireland and the Law.’

11 February  ‘Colonial Modernities. The View from the Imperial
Verandah, 1880-1960.’
Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch (University of Oxford)

25 February ‘The appliance of science; the adaptation of science for civic purposes in 19th century Belfast.’
Dr Ruth Bayles (QUB)

11 March  ‘Glasshouses and cultivating the exotic in nineteenth
century botanical gardens.’
Dr Nuala Johnston (QUB)

25 March ‘Mapping Faith and Empire in the Middle Ages: Ireland on the Hereford world-map.’
Dr Diarmuid Scully (University College Cork)

These seminars are open to all to attend.

For more information contact Dr Eric Morier-Genoud
e.morier-genoud@qub.ac.uk or Dr Gillian McIntosh g.mcintosh@qub.ac.uk

Second semester 2007-08

Modernity, Memory, Identity

Wednesdays, 4.15pm, PFC 210 (unless otherwise indicated)

6 February (Week 2) Catholicism, Fascism and Republicanism in Irish politics: the political career of Michael Tierney, 1924-1944
Peter Martin (Queen’s University Belfast)
4.15pm, PFC 210
 
27 February (Week 5) Empire, sexuality and the memory of General Gordon, c. 1945-7
Max Jones (University of Manchester)
5pm, Lanyon Building G9 (note different time and venue)
 
5 March (Week 6)  Capa and the Loyalists, after Spain
Bob Coale (Université Paris 8)
4.15pm, PFC G06 (note different venue)
Co-hosted with Queen’s Department of Spanish and with the War and Memory Research Group at Queen's (WAM)
 
9 April (Week 8) The pasts and futures of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore
Emma Reisz (Queen’s University Belfast)
4.15pm, PFC 210
 
16 April (Week 9) ‘It’s the economy, stupid’: The evolution of Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland
Liam Kennedy (Queen’s University Belfast)
4.15pm, PFC 210
 
23 April (Week 10) My selves: (Auto)biography as confidence trick in Anglo-American culture between the wars
Matt Houlbrook (University of Liverpool)
4.15pm, PFC 210
 
30 April (Week 11) The religious crisis of the 1960s
Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham)
5pm, PFC G07 (note different time and venue)

 

First semester 2007-08
Wednesdays, 4.30 p.m.
Venue: PFC 210

10 October 2007   
Jacqueline Jones (Brandeis University) - ‘Creating and sustaining the Confederate project: the political coalition of elites and working class white men in Savannah, Georgia during the Civil War era’
 
17 October 2007
Anthony Stanonis (QUB) - ‘Through a Purple (Green and Gold) Haze: New Orleans Mardi Gras in American Culture’
 
24 October 2007
Emily West (Reading) – ‘”She is dissatisfied with her current position”: requests for enslavement on the eve of the Civil War’
 
14 November 2007
Todd Weir (QUB) – ‘Germany’s fourth confession: secularism and politics in Berlin’s Freigeistig Movement, 1845-1933’ (Discussion of Dr Weir’s planned monograph)

28 November 2007
Catherine Clinton (QUB) – ‘Breaking the silence: sexual hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond’

5 December 2007 
Paul Corthorn (QUB) – ‘Cold War politics and the memory of the Spanish Civil War’


For further details, please contact: Dr Sean O’Connell (s.oconnell@qub.ac.uk)  or (s.osullivan@qub.ac.uk)

Second Semester 2006-07

All seminars take place on Wednesdays at 4.15pm in Room 211, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University. Download the Seminar Programme here (pdf file) or see below.

7 February 
Tourism and dictatorship: Europe’s peaceful invasion of Franco’s Spain
(Sasha Pack, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Joint seminar with Spanish and Portuguese Studies
 
21 February 
A family affair? A new perspective on the Russian revolutionary movement
(Katy Turton, School of History and Anthropology, QUB) Download paper (pdf file)
 
28 February 
Reassessing the relationship between politics and evangelicalism: the Covenanter politics of Irish Presbyterians, c. 1800 to 1914
(Andrew Holmes, School of History and Anthropology, QUB)

Friday 16 March 
The permissive society and its enemies
(Dominic Sandbrook, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford)
Please note this seminar will be held at 2pm in PFC309
 
21 March 
Northern Ireland and the British Empire, 1923-1955 Download paper (pdf file)
(Philip Ollerenshaw, University of the West of England)
 
28 March 
Britain, the slave trade and the bicentenary of abolition: the challenges for museum display and interpretation
(Robert Blyth, School of History and Anthropology, QUB)
 
2 May 
International Tolstoyans, 1880-1940
(Charlotte Alston, University of Ulster)
 
9 May 
Asylum in Glasgow, 1875-1913
(Jens Gruendler, University of Trier)

For further details, please contact:
Katy Turton – email: k.turton@qub.ac.uk or Robert Blyth – email: r.blyth@qub.ac.uk

First Semester 2006-07

All Seminars take place on Wednesdays, 4.15 pm in Room 309, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University (except for paper on 27 Oct - please see below for time and venue).

4 October 
Problems in African-American Historiography: Reconstruction through the Great Migration
Brian Kelly (School of History and Anthropology, QUB) Download this Paper
 
18 October 
Martianus Capella and his influence on the Carolingian intellectual elite*
Sinéad O’Sullivan (School of History and Anthropology, QUB) 
 
25 October 
Economic forces and political instability in Ireland since 1700 *
Liam Kennedy (School of History and Anthropology, QUB) Download this Paper (word) / Download Chronology (excel) / Download Coli Indices (excel)

27 October (2pm) - Room 206, Peter Froggatt Centre
Making Slavery’s Cotton: Refashioning Self on Georgia’s Cotton Frontier
Prof. Susan O’Donovan (Harvard University)
 
15 November TBA
 
22 November 
Writing the history of MI6
Keith Jeffery (School of History and Anthropology, QUB)
 
29 November 
‘Posteritas sine libris’: a round-table on internet academic publishing and digital monographs*
Chair: Danny Kowalsky (School of History and Anthropology, QUB) Download this paper (pdf file)
 
13 December 
Northern Irish responses to the Irish Constitution
Peter Martin (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra)

* Please note that this paper will be pre-circulated on these webpages.