Events Seminar Series Seminars 2012/13 | Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories

Waiting for Danny. Love, emotion and the ordinary diary 1940-1945

Sepia tinted three quarter length portrait of young woman in smart casual dress circa 1940s and tied back hair seated on a desk

20th Mar 2013 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Dr Alison Twells, Sheffield Hallam University. Research Seminar Series 2012/13. This paper focuses on the wartime diaries of Norah Hodgkinson who, as a fifteen year old working-class scholarship girl, knitted socks for the war… Continue Reading →

19 March, 2013 0

Seminar: Landscaping Jerusalem: World Heritage and Borders

Low view point photograph looking up past barbed wire fence and trees to blue sky with earth moving machinery on horizon

23rd Jan 2013 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Dr Britt Baillie, University of Cambridge The battle for land(scape) and territorial control is a key element in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the ‘struggle for Jerusalem’. In this paper, I trace how the construction… Continue Reading →

19 January, 2013 0

Seminar: Resisting Demolition in the Occupied Territories

Image of massive bulldozer dwarfing a figure in Middle-Eastern dress

5th Dec 2012 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Resisting Demolition in the Occupied Territories Terry Meade, University of Brighton. Research Seminar Series 1012/13. Room G4, Grand Parade. Israel’s 45 years of occupation has seen more than 27,000 Palestinian structures demolished in… Continue Reading →

19 December, 2012 0

Seminar: Decolonising the Smithsonian: American Foreign Policy and Colonial Collections,1945-1970

Sepia toned print from early newspaper title reads Model Natives. Shows man in bowler hat, his hands in his trouser pockets, alongside an exhibition stand of dark skinned people in scant clothing and exotic headwater including belts with skulls attached. One carrying bow and arrow.

7th Nov 2012 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade The United States has had a complex relationship with the end of European colonialism. Despite vocal support for self-determination and anti-imperialism, American complicity with languishing European empires and an aggressive Cold War policy… Continue Reading →

19 November, 2012 0

Seminar: Interviewing Lawbreakers

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17th Oct 2012 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Sam Carroll (University of Sussex) Interviewing Lawbreakers: Discretion and Disclosure in the Committee of 100 The Committee of 100 (C100) campaigned for nuclear disarmament using non-violent direct action in Britain from 1961 to 1968…. Continue Reading →

19 October, 2012 0