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RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAMME

The Departmental Research Seminars are open to both staff and postgraduates in the University. Details of the Seminars are circulated to those people on our mailing list. If you wish to be added to our mailing list please contact Awen Dafydd.  The evening Seminar programme is currently organised by  Dr Karen Stober.  If you are interested in attending please contact Dr Karen Stober

 

The Departmental Research Seminar Programme for 2009/10:

Seminars will normally be held in C165 Hugh Owen Building at 5pm on Wednesdays.

 

SEMESTER II, 2009-10

3 February                  

Simon Loseby (Sheffield), Lost cities: the end of the ancient civitas in
seventh-century Francia

 

10 February                

Peter Lambert (Aberystwyth), Historical Cultures in Nazi Germany

 

17 February                

Scott Lloyd (Aberystwyth), From one extreme to the other, Wales and the Arthurian legend

 

24 February                

John Walton (Leeds), General Franco at the seaside: San Sebastián
under the dictatorship

 

3 March                      

Elizabeth New (Aberystwyth), Seals in Medieval Wales: First impressions

 

10 March                    

t.b.c.

 

17 March                    

Jim Cooper (Aberystwyth), Thatcher and Reagan:  My life with the evil twins

 

21 April                      

Bettina Bildhauer (St Andrews), How the Middle Ages look on film: time and historiography in Hollywood and Babelsberg

 

28 April                      

Andrew Porter (London), Evangelical Visions and Colonial realities: the study of Britain's modern empire and religion

 

5 May                         

Toby Barnard (Oxford), The cultures of print in eighteenth-century Ireland: patterns and problems

        

Research Seminars held during 2009/2010 are:

  • Penny Summerfield (Manchester), Dunkirk and the popular memory of Britain at war, 1940-1958
  • Patrick Healy (Oxford): title to be announced.
  • Mark Stoyle (Southampton), The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda during the English Civil War
  • Eryn White (Aberystwyth), ‘A little paradise’? Work and Worship in the Trefeca ‘Family’, 1752-1773

 

Past Seminars

 

 

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