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Research Seminars
The School of History is dedicated to diverse and innovative historical research. Our Research Seminars provide a forum for students, academics and members of the general public to engage with the latest research by our academic staff; research postgraduates; and guest academics.
The seminars take place on Wednesday evenings at 5pm in Rutherford Seminar Room 7 (RS7) unless otherwise stated.
Spring Term 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 25 January | Dr Julian Lewis, MP |
The strategic base as an alternative to counter-insurgency |
| 1 February | Dr William Ashworth University of Liverpool |
The British Industrial Revolution and the Ideological Revolution |
| 8 February (4.30pm, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1, Marlowe Building) | TBC University of Kent, School of European Culture and Languages |
KIASH Lecture Title TBC |
| 15 February | Dr George Conyne University of Kent, School of History |
The Federal Judiciary and the Civil Rights Movement c.1955-70 |
| 22 February | Dr William Pettigrew University of Kent, School of History |
English politics and the rise of American slavery |
| 29 February | Dr Thomas Mohnike University of Strasbourg |
Geographies of Germanization and Degermanization in Strasbourg and Alsace, 1840-50 |
| 7 March (5pm, Venue TBC) | Professor Simon Schaffer University of Cambridge |
H.G. Wells Science & Society Lecture Title TBC |
| 14 March | Ben Coombs University of Kent, School of History |
Tanks for Russia: 1941-1945 |
| 21 March | Dr Rebekah Higgitt National Maritime Museum |
Nevil Maskelyne post-mortem: the making of a villain |
| 28 March | Dr John Wills University of Kent, School of History |
The Armageddon Experiment: Domm Town, Nevada Test Site, USA |
Autumn Term 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5 October | Professor Martin Daunton University of Cambridge |
New Deal to Cold War: Reconstructing the post-war economy |
| 12 October | Dr Charlotte Sleigh University of Kent, School of History |
‘It is indeed a thing ominous for a toad to be born of woman’: Frogs and toads in early modern science |
| 19 October (4.30pm, Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College) | Professor Richard Schechner University of Kent, School of Arts |
KIASH LectureThe Conservative Avant-Garde |
| 26 October | Thomas Williams Universite Libre Brussels |
Seeing occupied Europe: German soldiers' tourism during the Second World War |
| 2 November | Dr Antoon Vrints University of Ghent |
Social protest in an occupied country: Collective action during the First World War in Belgium |
| 9 November | Ian Phimister University of Sheffield |
Brokers and Boers: The City of London and the coming of war in South Africa, 1895-1899 |
| 16 November (4.30pm, Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College) | Professor Andrew Saint University of Kent, School of Architecture |
KIASH Lecture Who makes architecture? |
| 23 November | Dr Timothy Bowman University of Kent, School of History |
The British Army Officer Corps, 1902-1922 |
| 30 November | Emeritus Professor David Turley University of Kent, School of History |
Countering racism in the early twentieth century: Black social science and the example of Charles S. Johnson |
| 7 December | Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea University of Kent, School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) |
The armed forces and state-building in nineteenth century Peru |