The University of Nottingham
Department of History
Research Seminars
Autumn Semester 2011
Venue: Department of History, Lenton Grove, A18/19
Convenors: Dr Mathilde von Bülow & Dr Spencer Mawby
5 October (4:15pm) - Dr Spencer Mawby, University of Nottingham, ‘Mr Smith Goes to Vienna: British Colonial Policy and the Cold War in the Caribbean 1952-1954’
12 October (5:00pm) - Ms Emily Buchnea, University of Nottingham, 'The Culture of Quality: Assuring Taste and Preference in the Liverpool-New York Trading Network.'
19 October (4:15pm) - Dr Helen Parr, University of Keele, 'Britain between Europe and America: The Politics of Anglo-French nuclear co-operation, 1970-3'
26 October (4:15pm) - Professor Johanna Gehmacher, University of Vienna, ‘Self-Invention and Female Activism: Käthe Schirmacher (1865-1930) and the Public Image of a German Women’s Rights Campaigner’
2 November (4:15pm) - Ms Gemma Evans, University of Nottingham, ‘African American Churches in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: An examination of denominational identity, networks and internal conflict’
9 November (5pm) - Dr Stephanie Lewthwaite, University of Nottingham, 'Cross-Cultural Encounters in New Mexico: The Photography of John Candelario'
16 November - Reading Week, no seminar
23 November (4:15pm)- Ms Susanne Sklepek-Hatton, University of Nottingham, ‘Discourses of Womanhood in the Czech Normalization Period 1970-1989
30 November (4:15pm)- Mr Robert Cooper, University of Nottingham, ‘Harold Macmillan and the Middle East 1955-1956’ (Cancelled)
7 December (4:15pm) - Professor Peter Jackson, University of Strathclyde, 'The Clemenceau Government and National Security at the Paris Peace Conference' (Cancelled)
14 December (5:00pm) - Dr John Fisher, University of West of England, ‘The Diplomat with a Difference: James Garnett and British Diplomacy c. 1902-1920’
All Welcome!