Events

PDF programme available here 09.30 Welcome (with tea and coffee)10.00 Panel OneMarie Molloy – ‘Addressing Race and Racism’: Diversifying History Curricula in School and Colleges via University-led Outreach and Widening Participation ActivitiesHaseeb Khan – Roots in Manchester and Louisville: Muhammad Ali visits Phil Magbotiwan in Manchester, 197111.00 Break11.15 Panel TwoMark Fenemore – The ‘wrong sort’ […]

The Histories of RGSI (Race, Gender, Sexuality and Identity) research group will host a talk with Dr Annastiina Kallius (University of Helsinki, Institute for Advanced Study) on the rise of the far right in Hungary as well as across the globe. She will discuss how the concept of 'decolonisation' has been used to further anti-immigration […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]