HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE

SEMINAR SERIES, 2017-18

Tea, coffee and biscuits are served from 4pm before every seminar, and
please join us in a local pub afterwards to continue the discussion.
Each public lecture is followed by a wine reception.

Wednesday 27 September
4.15pm Steinstücken: Little Island of Freedom. A micro-level view of
the Cold War

Mark Fenemore (Man Met) GM 231

Wednesday 11 October
5.30pm Re-inventing the Citizen in (East-)Central Europe: 1918 and
the Consequences

Public Lecture Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin) GM LT3

Wednesday 25 October
4.15pm Proving God in early modern Europe

Lloyd Strickland (Man Met) GM 231

Wednesday 8 November
4.15pm Marie Orliac's London: French female migrants and trans-
Channel cultural relations in early twentieth century Britain
Charlotte Faucher (University of Manchester) GM 231

Wednesday 22 November
5.30pm ‘The Gentle Weapon’: Social Ostracism, Gender and
Massive Resistance in Montgomery Alabama

Public Lecture Helen Laville (Man Met) GM LT3

Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education
 Wednesday 6 December
4.15pm Jacob Harris: Jewish Triple Murderer, 1734: A Case of the
English Antisemitic Dog that did not bark for a hundred
years?
Sam Johnson Tony Kushner (University of Southampton) GM LT3
Memorial
Seminar Co-hosted with the Centre for Jewish Studies

Wednesday 17 January
4.15pm The Manchester Centre for Youth Studies: Thinking
Historically about Childhood

Melanie Tebbutt and April Pudsey (Man Met) GM231

Wednesday 31 January
4.15pm Neutrality explained. Early Nazi propaganda campaigns in
Spain during World War II

Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío (Man Met) GM 231

Wednesday 21 February
5.30pm A Shropshire Lad in Ancient Rome: A. E. Housman and
ancient ‘homosexuality’
Public Lecture Jennifer Ingleheart (University of Durham) GM LT3

Co-hosted with the Manchester Classical Association

Wednesday 7 March
4.15pm Crusading, chivalry and masculinity in fifteenth and early
sixteenth century England

Katherine Lewis (University of Huddersfield) GM 231

Wednesday 21 March
4.15pm A Better Future for the World: Ethiopia, Somalia and the
Establishment of the United Nations

Donna Jackson (University of Chester) GM 231

For further information, please contact Andy Crome at a.crome@mmu.ac.uk

and Craig Griffiths at c.griffiths@mmu.ac.uk