Postgraduate Forum Seminars – Semester 1 Timetable

We have a full schedule for our first semester covering a broad range of fantastic subjects.

All the seminars for semester 1 will take place online and details of the Zoom meeting will be sent in the week prior to the seminar.

Grab a cuppa and join us on Wednesday’s 1-2pm.

 

  • 11th November – Adrian Pole (University of Edinburgh), “‘No exit today – It’s a Revolution!’ Britons in Revolutionary Catalonia, 1936”

 

  • 18th November – Elly Polignano (Newcastle University), P.Oxy.3723: limits and ambiguity on the elegiac genre

 

  • 25th November – Harry Lewis (University of Edinburgh), Jacobite Rebellions in the Caribbean

 

  • 2nd December – Katherine Waugh (Newcastle University), The Industrial Past in the Deindustrialised Present: Exploring cross-generational experiences of County Durham’s pit closures

 

  •  9th December – Alice Robinson (Newcastle University), Mapping Ancient Rome in Percy Shelley’s Writing

 

  • 16th December – Marcela Delia (University of Edinburgh), Justices in that pairt:  revisiting the Aberdeen witchcraft trials in light of a recent discovery (c. 1597)

 

  • 13th January – Leanne Smith (Newcastle University), Politics of the Apocalypse: William Aspinwall’s godly republicanism

 

  • 20th January – Thomas Little (Newcastle University), My Secret Life—the erotic adventures of a Victorian gentleman

 

  • 27th January – Jerome Ruddick (Newcastle University), “The Festival of Despoina: Creating mythological narratives through material culture”

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