Posts tagged with ‘Department of History’
The Byron 200 Lecture
Join us for a lively panel discussion, chaired by Associate Professor Richard Gaunt from the Department of History at University of Nottingham.
Tags: Byron 200, Department of History, Lord Byron, Richard Gaunt
Professor Dick Geary, 1945-2021
Following the sad news of the passing of Professor Dick Geary on Sunday 21 February, Professor […]
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ISOS Panel Discussion: Experiences of Black Academics in the UK’s HE Sector
A panel of five Black academics from a range of scholarly disciplines who will discuss their personal experiences of learning and working at universities across the UK.
Tags: Department of History, Institute for the Study of Slavery, ISOS
Graphic satire and the UK in the long 19th century
A one-day symposium organised by the Department of History and the Department of History of Art with keynote speaker, Professor Brian Maidment (Liverpool John Moores University) and eight other speakers.
Tags: Department of History, department of history of art, graphic satire, symposium
Histories of Religion and Sexuality, c. 1500 to the present
A conference for scholars working on the intersection of religion, gender, and sexuality.
Tags: Department of History, gender, histories of religion and sexuality, Religion, sexuality
A guided walk with John Beckett
Join Professor John Beckett (Department of History) for a guided walk through Highfields Estate and the creation of University Park.
Tags: Department of History, Friends of University Park, garden, Highfields Park, Professor John Beckett, University Park
Trump, Sanders and the US primaries: a dialogue on American populism
Join the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies and the Department of American and Canadian Studies for this talk on Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and the rise of American populism.
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Department of History, Donald Trump, politics
Jesse Boot, the Highfields Estate & the creation of University Park
In this Friends of University Park event, Professor John Beckett (Department of History) looks at how the Nottingham entrepreneur Jesse Boot facilitated the move to a new campus and a new college building in the 1920’s.
Tags: community, Department of History, Friends of University Park, garden, Highfields Park, Jesse Boot, John Beckett, park, University Park
The power of American conservatism
Jefferson Cowie, Andrew J. Nathanson Professor of Labor History and Chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, & History, Cornell University, will speak on the influence of Conservatism on contemporary American society.
Tags: America, Cornell University, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Department of History, Jefferson Cowie, politics
Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners – with David Olusoga
Join David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and Katie Donington, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, as they discusses ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’ following the BBC Two documentary broadcast earlier this year. Expect a look at the scale of the slave trade, and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their ‘loss of property’.
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, David Olusoga, Department of History, history, Institute for the Study of Slavery, Katie Donington, slavery