Latest Past Events

Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context

Manchester Metropolitan University

Organised by Dr Rebecca Ball and Professor Rob Ellis Please see call for papers below; a PDF of the conference programme is available here. The aim of this conference is to explore mental ill health and learning disabilities in the contextof life and experiential histories. Early research in these areas focussed on biographies ofrelatively well-known […]

Everyday Communication in the Holocaust

See below the call for papers. The programme can be downloaded here. This workshop seeks to further our understanding of communication among persecuted groups in the Holocaust. We explore the diverse ways in which these groups used communication to create meaning, express identity, and maintain connections both during and after the Holocaust. By examining the […]

I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany

Dr Samuel Clowes Huneke (George Mason University) Thursday 5 March, 11am to 12.30pm Geoffrey Manton, room 229 Sam will discuss his soon to be published book I Will Not Abandon You. The book brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany, showing how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in the […]