History Work in Progress Seminars
Autumn Term 2020
All seminars and lectures will take place on Zoom, details to be provided.
All seminars take place on a Thursday at 4pm, but please note that Gurminder Bhambra’s lecture is on a Wednesday at 3.30pm.
Week 5: Thursday 29 October
Doctoral researcher panel Paul Ewart (Sussex) Narrating the 1970s: From Modernity to Presentism Peter Halton (Sussex) ‘Commonweal’ and the anti-imperialism of William Morris
Week 7: Wednesday 11 November, 15:30 – 16:30
Martin Wight Lecture Gurminder Bhambra (Sussex) The Decolonial Project of Europe: From Colonial Histories to Postcolonial Reparations
Week 9: Thursday 26 November
Alex Walsham (Cambridge) Heirloom Books and Archives of Memory in Early Modern England
Week 10: Thursday 3 December
Alistair Grant and Angus Patterson (Sussex/V&A Museum) Changing Perspectives: Object Studies in Slavery and Empire for the V&A’s Proposed 19th-Century International Galleries