Category: Seminar Series

PGF Seminar 10th February 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Clare Tonks (University of Edinburgh). Clare is in the final year of her PhD under the supervision of Professor Gordon Pentland. She previously studied for a BA in English Literature and Psychology at George Washington University in Washington DC and an MA in History and Literature at Columbia University, based in Paris. Her research examines the cultural memory of war and commemoration of the Napoleonic Wars in Britain from Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 until the Duke of Wellington’s death in 1852. She will deliver her paper entitled: “Material Culture of Battlefield Tourism at Waterloo”. 

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

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PGF Semester 2 Seminars – Wednesdays 1-2pm

*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

PGF Seminar 3rd February 1-2pm

We will be kicking off the first seminar of semester two with our very own Rob Granger. Rob is in the second year of his Northern Bridge funded PhD. He is researching the social, cultural and political attitudes under the late Franco dictatorship in Spain, to seek to understand how far the regime was underpinned by a culture of consent. Rob will deliver his paper entitled: ‘Nightmares and Miracles: Franco’s Madrid, 1939 – 1975’.

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

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Ramón Masats ‘Casa de Campo’, 1961
 

PGF Seminar 27th January 1-2pm

We will be hearing from our very own Jerome Ruddick.  Jerome is a PhD student working within the subject of Classics. He has a BA in Classics and Archaeology and an MSc in Forensic Archaeology. His PhD focuses on the Hellenistic period in Greece and the relationship between mythology, identity and material culture. Jerome intends on examining how material culture contributes to identity’s evolution and what this informs us about the nature of Greek belief.  Jerome will deliver his paper entitled: “The Festival of Despoina: Creating mythological narratives through material culture”.

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

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PGF Seminar 13th December 1-2pm

For our first PGF seminar of 2021 we will be hearing from our very own Leanne Smith.  Leanne is in the second year of her Northern Bridge funded PhD. Her research focuses on the religious and political thought of the Fifth Monarchy Men, a seventeenth century millenarian sect. Leanne will deliver her paper entitled ‘Politics of the Apocalypse: William Aspinwall’s godly republicanism‘.

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

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PGF Seminar 16th December 1-2pm

For our final PGF seminar of the year we will be hearing from Marcela Delia a current PhD student at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. Marcela gained both a bachelor and a magisterium degree in History at the University of São Paulo. During this time, she was awarded a scholarship by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) which allowed her to pursue her research further at the University of Edinburgh. Marcela’s current research looks at the relationships between Scottish governments, law, and witchcraft (c. 1590-1662). She will be delivering her paper entitled ‘Justices in that pairt: revisiting the Aberdeen witchcraft trials in light of a recent discovery (c. 1597)’.

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

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PGF Seminar 9th December 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Alice Robinson a Northern Bridge funded PhD student in her second year here at Newcastle University. Her research re-evaluates Percy Bysshe Shelley’s relationship with Ancient Rome through text. She has an MA in Classics and a BA in Classical Studies in English and specializes in Latin literature, intertextuality, and Romanticism. She will deliver her paper entitled “Mapping Ancient Rome in Percy Shelley’s Writing”. 

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

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PGF Seminar 2nd December 1-2pm


We will be hearing from our very own Katherine Waugh. Kat is in the second year of her PhD.  Her research uses oral history to examine experiences of industrial closure in County Durham, looking at how the memory of deindustrialisation crosses generations and continues to inform understandings of place, community, and politics in the present day. Her paper is entitled ‘Coal mining’s gone, the communities are still here”: Cross-generational experiences of deindustrialisation in County Durham”

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

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PGF Seminar 25th November 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Harry Lewis a current second year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Harry’s research focuses on the Jacobite’s in the Caribbean, notably on the impact they had on the development and functioning of the British Empire in the region. Harry will deliver his paper  “Jacobite Rebellions in the Caribbean”.  

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

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PGF Seminar 18th November, 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Elly Polignano a first year PhD candidate within our school. Her research focuses on the wide-spread literary form of the epigram and her thesis will offer the first critical edition and commentary of Marcus Argentarius’s thirty- seven epigrams.  Elly will deliver her paper “P.Oxy. 3723: limits and ambiguity on the elegiac genre“.

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

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