History Research Seminars 2010-11
The Department runs an active programme of research seminars and public lectures and hosts seminars and events by its various research centres and by the Historical Association. All seminars and events are open to staff, students, members and the general public.
2010
Wednesday 6 October, 5.30pm
Dr Angela Woods (Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University): ‘Narrative Medicine and the ‘I’ of Illness Narrative’
CISSMI Research Seminar, Humanities Building, Room 4.44
Thursday 7 October, 5.15pm
Dr Gethin Matthews (Cardiff University): 'The Welsh Voices of the Great War Project'
Historical Association, Humanities Building, Room 2.01
Wednesday 20 October, 7.15pm
Dr Toby Thacker (Cardiff University): 'A Welsh lad meets Joseph Goebbels: Gareth Jones' reports from Nazi Germany, 1932-1934'
History/Archaeology Humanities Forum, Centre for Lifelong learning, Senghennydd Road, Rm MO.34
Discovering the Past and Present lecture series
Thursday 28 October, 5.15pm
Prof Sharif Gemie (University of Glamorgan): 'Outcast Europe: Refugees and the Second World War'
Historical Association, Humanities Building
30-31 October 2010
‘Emperors, Usurpers, Tyrants: the History and Archaeology of Western Britain from AD350 to 500’
Two-day conference sponsored by Cardiff University and the Monmouthshire Antiquarian Association
Thursday 4 November, 5.10pm
Dr Orri Vésteinsson (University of Iceland): ‘The creation of a political structure: thing and hof in Viking age Iceland’
Humanities Building, Rm 4.45
Wednesday 10 November, 5.30pm
Dr Angela Davies (Centre for History of Medicine, Warwick University): 'Motherhood, medicine and oral history'
CISSMI Research Seminar
Wednesday 17 November, 7.15pm
Prof. Peter Edbury (Cardiff University): ‘Constructing the Third Crusade’
History/Archaeology Humanities Forum, Centre for Lifelong learning, Senghennydd Road, Rm MO.34
Discovering the Past and Present lecture series
Thursday 18 November, 5.10pm
Prof. Chris Scull (Visiting Professor, Cardiff University): ‘Who was buried at Wics? Community and identity in the 7th-century emporia of England’
Humanities Building, Rm 4.45
Saturday 20 November 2010 - all day
Lifestories at St Fagans National History Museum
Tuesday 23 November, 5.15pm
Dr Edward Coleman (University College, Dublin): ‘The Lord Edward's Irish Crusaders (1270-72) and the Hiberno-Norman contribution to crusade in the thirteenth century’
Cardiff Centre for the Study of the Crusades, Humanities Building
Wednesday 24 November, 5.15pm
Richard Toye (Exeter): ‘Consensus’ or ‘common Ground’? The rhetoric of the post-war settlement and its collapse’
Humanities Building, Rm 4.45
Thursday 25 November, 5.15pm
Prof. Dan Power (Swansea University): ‘The Decline of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy 1204-59’
Historical Association, Humanities Building
Tuesday 30 November
Rhys Morgan (Cardiff University): 'Being Welsh in the 'near-abroad': identity and community among the Welsh in Ireland, 1558-1641'
Welsh History Society seminar series, Humanities Building
Thursday 2 December, 5.10pm
Dr Andy Seaman (Cardiff University): ‘Dinas Powys and the Roman to Early Medieval Transition in Wales and the West’
Humanities Building, Rm 4.45
Monday 6 December, 5.15pm
Carrie Hammond, Title TBC
FIG Network, School of Psychology, Tower Building, Room 12.10
Wednesday 8 December, 5.30pm
Prof. Anne Borsay (School of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University): ‘Disability in the Poetry of the First World War’
CISSMI Research Seminar
Wednesday 15 December, 5.15pm
Anne Baldwin (Huddersfield): 'City mothers? Women who became local councillors 1919-1937'
RHS speaker series, Humanities Building
2011
Tuesday 8 February
Michelle Walker (Bangor University): 'English in-migrants in north-west Wales 1970-2010: An Oral History'
Welsh History Society and RHS speaker series, Humanities Building
Thursday 10 February, 5.15pm
Professor Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University): 'Representing Resistance: French Crime Fiction and the Second World War'
Historical Association, Humanities Building
Monday 14 February, 5.15pm
'The Welsh Family', FIG Network, Cardiff School of Welsh
Tuesday 15 February, 5.15pm
Dr Kathryn Hurlock (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘ “Ferocious at home, but unwarlike abroad”: the Irish and the Crusades, 1095-1291'
Cardiff Centre for the Study of the Crusades, Humanities Building
Tuesday, 15 February - Y Ddarlith Gymraeg - The Welsh Language Lecture
Dr Lowri Hughes (Bangor University): 'Cymru ac Ewrop: safbwyntiau O. M. Edwards ac Emrys ap Iwan'
Welsh History Society seminar series, Humanities Building
Thursday 3 March, 5.15pm
Prof. Janet Burton (Lampeter): ‘Monastery, community and identity in the twelfth century’
Historical Association, Humanities Building
Monday 14 March, 5.15pm
'Supplementing the family: Friendship and beyond', FIG Network, Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Tuesday 15 March
Dr Steve Thompson (Aberystwyth University): 'Zulus, Toreadors and Gondoliers: The Jazz Bands of 1926'
Welsh History Society seminar series, Humanities Building
Monday 21 March, 5.10pm
Prof. Helen King (Reading): ‘Agnodike: Reinterpreting women in the history of medicine’
Humanities Building, Rm 4.45
Wednesday 23 March, 7.15pm
Dr Danijela Spiric (Cardiff University): ‘Music, Identity and the Yugoslav Nation, c. 1900-1945’
History/Archaeology Humanities Forum, Centre for Lifelong learning, Senghennydd Road, Rm MO.34
Discovering the Past and Present lecture series
Thursday 24 March 2011, 5.15pm
Dr Phil Withington (Christ’s College, Cambridge): ‘Intoxicants and Early Modernity’
Historical Association, Humanities Building
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Dr Celyn Gurden-Williams: 'Lady Llanover (1802-1896): Mother and Matriarch'
Welsh History Society seminar series, Humanities Building
Wednesday 13 April, 7.15pm
Dr Jody Mellor: ‘The history of Muslims in Cardiff’
History/Archaeology Humanities Forum, Centre for Lifelong learning, Senghennydd Road, Rm MO.34
Discovering the Past and Present lecture series
Wednesday 25 May, 7.15pm
Dr Stephanie Ward (Cardiff University): ‘Marriage and Family in South Wales and the North-East of England in the Era of the Great Depression’
History/Archaeology Humanities Forum, Centre for Lifelong learning, Senghennydd Road, Rm MO.34
Discovering the Past and Present lecture series
Other related seminar series:
- CEIR Centre for Editorial and Intertexual Research
- Crime Narratives in Context
- Ireland-Wales Research Network
- Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Medicine and the Imagination Research Group
- Centre for Welsh American Studies
Contacts
| Research seminars | Dr Keir Waddington |
| Historical Association | Professor Peter Edbury |