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Open Lectures
Throughout each academic year the School of History hosts several major lectures to compliment our regular research seminars.
Each lecture plays a vital role in allowing staff, students, and the general public to gather and celebrate the School's position at the forefront of contemporary historical research. Our strong reputation as a progressive and dynamic School ensures that we are able to attract guest lecturers of an exceptionally high calibre.
As with all of the University of Kent's Open Lectures; members of the general public are welcome to attend our lectures and the School hopes that you find them to be an engaging and informative experience.
2011-2012 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Roger Anstey Memorial Lecture
Saturday 10 September 2011 |
Dr Peter Thompson (University of Oxford) |
1744: The Logic of Slavery and the Logic of Revolt |
| Start of Year Lecture
Tuesday 27 September 2011 |
Professor Simon Keynes (University of Cambridge) |
Canterbury and the Vikings in the Reign of King Æthelred the Unready |
| St. Anselm Lecture
Thursday 19 January 2012 |
Dr John Goodall (Architectural Editor, Country Life) |
The English Castle |
| H. G. Wells Science and Society Lecture
5pm Wednesday 7 March 2012 |
Professor Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge) |
The Media Magnates of Victorian Physics (pdf poster) |
| Bolt Memorial Lecture
5pm Thursday 17 May 2012 |
Professor Sabine Broeck University of Bremen |
TBC |
| War, Media and Society Lecture
5pm Friday 18 May 2012 |
Professor David Stevenson (LSE) |
Germany's 1918 Defeat Reconsidered |
Open Lecture Archive
2010-2011 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Start of Year Lecture
28 September 2010 |
Professor Robert Bartlett (University of St. Andrews) |
Saint-Making in the Middle Ages |
| St. Anselm Lecture
Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
Dr Kevin Leahy |
The Staffordshire Hoard: Is Medieval Archaeology the New Rock and Roll? |
| Centre for the Study of Propaganda, War and Society Inaugural Lecture Friday 1 April 2011 |
Professor John Gooch (University of Leeds) |
Understanding War |
| Bolt Memorial Lecture
Friday 13 May 2011 |
Dr Jackie Fear-Segal (University of East Anglia) |
Photographs, Memory, and Native Americans in the Twenty First Century |
| History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities Lecture
Monday 16 May 2011 |
Professor Jonathan Moreno (University of Pennsylvania) |
The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America |
2009-2010 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Start of Year Lecture
Tuesday 6 October 2009 |
Professor Anthony Beevor | Playing Fast and Loose with History |
| Renaissance Lecture
Thursday 28 January 2010 |
Professor George Bernard (University of Southampton) |
Vitality and Vulnerability in the Late Medieval Church |
| St. Anselm Lecture
Wednesday 10 March 2010 |
Professor David D'Avray (UCL) |
The Namierite Fallacy: Royal Annulments in the Middle Ages |
| Bolt Memorial Lecture
Friday 18 June 2010 |
Professor Peter Coates (University of Bristol) |
Over Here: American Animals in Britain (A Natural History of Anti-Americanism) |
2008-2009 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Start of Year Lecture
Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
Dr David Starkey | Breaking Up: Britain and the Four Nations at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century |
| St. Anselm Lecture Wednesday 1 April 2009 |
Professor Paul Crossley (Courtauld Institute) |
Ductus and Memoria: Chartres Cathedral as Rhetoric |
| Defining the Metropolitan Region Colloquium
Friday 17 April 2009 |
Dr Paul Warde (University of East Anglia) |
Greater London: The Trading Metropolis as an Ecological System, 1500-1800 |
| Bolt Memorial Lecture
Wednesday 13 May 2009 |
Professor Phil Taylor (University of Leeds) |
The Failure of US "Strategic Communications" Since 9/11 |