{"id":1064,"date":"2026-03-06T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:34:37","slug":"pgf-semester-2-seminars-wednesdays-1-2pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2026\/03\/06\/pgf-semester-2-seminars-wednesdays-1-2pm\/","title":{"rendered":"PGF Semester 2 Seminars 2021 – Wednesdays 1-2pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

*Everyone is welcome – email Leanne at l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk for Zoom details.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 3rd February <\/strong>– Rob Granger (Newcastle University), \u201cNightmares and Miracles: Franco’s Madrid, 1939 – 1975<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 10th February <\/strong>– Clare Tonks (University of Edinburgh), \u201cMaterial Culture of Battlefield Tourism at Waterloo<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 17th February <\/strong>– Henry Brown (University of Oxford), \u201cAnarchists in Uniform: The Militarisation of Anarchist Culture during the Spanish Civil War (1936 \u2013 1939)\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 24th February <\/strong>– Claire Heseltine (University of Oxford), \u201c\u2018And her loveliness\u2019: the wounding and death of Penthesilea in Roman art\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 3rd March <\/strong>– Oded Haim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), \u201cFrom Defeat to Victory: Why did Rome Win the Second Punic War?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 10th March <\/strong>– Jamie Gemmell (University of Edinburgh), \u201cProjects of Racialisation: Oroonoko and African Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 17th March <\/strong>– Indigo Reeve (University of Edinburgh), \u201cA Stressful Life: Childhood Health in South-East Scotland\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 24th March <\/strong>– Meena Menon (University of Leeds), \u201cSocial Movements and Local Sovereignty in the Age of Transnational Capital and Ecological Devastation in Postcolonial India<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 5th May <\/strong>– Cathy Bishop (Swansea University), \u201cPracticalities of incense in New Kingdom Egypt<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 12th May<\/strong> – Yolanda Panou (University of Edinburgh), \u201cBecoming a victim of <\/em><\/strong>\u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03af\u03b1: <\/em><\/strong>Representations of child killing on the Athenian stage<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 2nd June <\/strong>– Kathryn Watts (University of Edinburgh), TBC<\/strong> \u00b7 9th June <\/strong>– Mihai Hotea (University of Nottingham), \u201cShould democratic leaders engage in bilateral summits with dictators? A case-study of the US, UK and communist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Everyone is welcome – email Leanne at l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk for Zoom details. \u00b7 3rd February – Rob Granger (Newcastle University), \u201cNightmares and Miracles: Franco’s Madrid, 1939 – 1975\u201d \u00b7 10th February – Clare Tonks (University of Edinburgh), \u201cMaterial Culture of Battlefield Tourism at Waterloo\u201d \u00b7 17th February – Henry Brown (University of Oxford), \u201cAnarchists in Uniform: The Militarisation of … Continue reading PGF Semester 2 Seminars 2021 – Wednesdays 1-2pm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgf","category-seminar-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}