23rd Jan 2019 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 The evidence of afterlives: descendant histories of the Great War Professor Michael Roper (University of Essex) All welcome from inside and outside the university, no need to book. Drinks at 5pm for… Continue Reading →
5th Dec 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4. Dr Kylie Thomas (Visiting Fellow, University of Brighton) Image: Poster drawing attention to the detention, poisoning and disappearance of Siphiwo Mtimkulu: Student Leader Detained. Poisoned. Missing, 1982 Drinks from 5pm, starts at 5:30…. Continue Reading →
14th Nov 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Anniversary Fever and Anniversary Fatigue: Cultural Violence or Familiar Silence? Dr Natalie L. Jones (University of Warwick) What does it mean to have ‘anniversary fever’, and how critical is this contemporary malady? Does… Continue Reading →
17th Oct 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, Room G4 Dr Tania McIntosh (University of Brighton) Nearly everyone born in the UK has had contact with a midwife at some point in their lives. Midwives are present at all births,… Continue Reading →
6th Jul 2018 9:30am-5:00pm M2 Boardroom, Grand Parade An interdisciplinary, one-day conference at the University of Brighton Research on the complex inter–relations between past, present and future in the time after political violence often leads us to question and push… Continue Reading →
26th Jun 2018 9:30am-5:45pm M2 Grand Parade A day of presentations and discussion featuring researchers from The Uses of the Past Research Group at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton…. Continue Reading →
13th Jun 2018 9:00am-5:30pm G4, Grand Parade Rationale and themes History making comes out of a social context and then feeds back into it. The Critical Histories symposium invites History practitioners to reflect on this often overlooked two-way relationship, on… Continue Reading →
1st Jun 2018 9:00am-5:00pm Grand Parade, M2 Keynote: Prof Robbie Shilliam (Queen Mary, University of London) Ethiopianism and Reparation Time. Registration: Free (please email to register for attendance) The work of Black Studies is constitutively concerned with the… Continue Reading →
30th May 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 The Militant Antifascism in Rome during the Seventies: constructing oral sources on the narrative of political violence Jessica Matteo (University of Brighton) This contribution aims to focus on three methodological issues of oral… Continue Reading →
14th Mar 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Professor Julie Doyle (University of Brighton) Existing research indicates that many young people have negative feelings about dealing with global climate change, and that this pessimism and helplessness increases with age (Hicks… Continue Reading →
7th Feb 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Dr Hester Barron(University of Sussex) This paper is based on work that Claire Langhamer (Sussex) and I have done on 269 essays written in 1937 by Middlesbrough schoolboys aged 12-16 on the topic… Continue Reading →
17th Jan 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Professor Iwan Rhys Morus ( Aberystwyth University) In a short story published in the Century Magazine in 1898 Mark Twain entertained his readers with a glimpse of the near future. “From the London… Continue Reading →
6th Dec 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Dr Sarah May (University College London) What do nuclear waste disposal, built heritage conservation, endangered language preservation, museum collecting and the curation of family heirlooms have in common? How is the desire to… Continue Reading →
22nd Nov 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco (University of Brighton) Focusing on a friendship book from a female concentration camp in Ravensbrück, belonging to Slovenian prisoner Viktorija, this paper conceptualises the friendship book as an… Continue Reading →
25th Oct 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street, 102 Dr Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University) Unsettling Scientific Stories (Expertise, Narrative and Future Histories) is an AHRC-funded project exploring how people have envisioned their futures over the long technological twentieth-century. It foregrounds the… Continue Reading →
16th Jun 2017 9:30am-5:00pm Hosted at the University of Sussex The 9th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate conference is co-organised by the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research (CLHLWR, University of Sussex) and the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative… Continue Reading →
8th Jun 2017 9:00am – 9th Jun 2017 5:00pm Grand Parade University of Brighton Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence Research Cluster’s project on‘Contesting Britain at War’* Workshop 8-9 June, 2016 Britain has been almost continually at war… Continue Reading →
21st Jun 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Memory, identity and literacy. Violence and education in Mexico. Professor César Correa (University of Guadalajara) Rural normal schools established in Mexico between 1922 and 1945, have their origin in the revolutionary education policies and… Continue Reading →
29th Jun 2017 10:00am-5:00pm M2, Grand Parade Afterlives of Violence: Contested Geographies of Past, Present and Future. A one-day, interdisciplinary conference at the University of Brighton, 29th June 2017 10-5 in M2 Boardroom, Grand Parade – registration from 9 Organised… Continue Reading →
3rd May 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm G4, Grand Parade Place, body and story in the divided city: Ordinary agency in the everyday. Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Visiting Scholar at Vesalius College, Brussels). This paper investigates ‘ordinary agency’… Continue Reading →
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