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*Everyone is welcome – email Leanne at l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk for Zoom details.

· 3rd February – Rob Granger (Newcastle University), “Nightmares and Miracles: Franco’s Madrid, 1939 – 1975”

· 10th February – Clare Tonks (University of Edinburgh), “Material Culture of Battlefield Tourism at Waterloo”

· 17th February – Henry Brown (University of Oxford), “Anarchists in Uniform: The Militarisation of Anarchist Culture during the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)”

· 24th February – Claire Heseltine (University of Oxford), “‘And her loveliness’: the wounding and death of Penthesilea in Roman art”

· 3rd March – Oded Haim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “From Defeat to Victory: Why did Rome Win the Second Punic War?”

· 10th March – Jamie Gemmell (University of Edinburgh), “Projects of Racialisation: Oroonoko and African Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World”

· 17th March – Indigo Reeve (University of Edinburgh), “A Stressful Life: Childhood Health in South-East Scotland”

· 24th March – Meena Menon (University of Leeds), “Social Movements and Local Sovereignty in the Age of Transnational Capital and Ecological Devastation in Postcolonial India”

· 5th May – Cathy Bishop (Swansea University), “Practicalities of incense in New Kingdom Egypt”

· 12th May – Yolanda Panou (University of Edinburgh), “Becoming a victim of μανία: Representations of child killing on the Athenian stage”

· 2nd June – Kathryn Watts (University of Edinburgh), TBC · 9th June – Mihai Hotea (University of Nottingham), “Should democratic leaders engage in bilateral summits with dictators? A case-study of the US, UK and communist

Our next seminar will take place online on Wednesday 11^th November 1-2pm.  

Adrian Pole Seminar

We will be hearing from Adrian Pole a current PhD candidate at University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on cross-cultural interactions between international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and the people, places, and politics of 1930s Spain. Adrian will deliver his paper “No exit today – It’s a Revolution!’ Britons in Revolutionary Catalonia, 1936”.

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

• 2^nd 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)”

 

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

 

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

 

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