Category Seminars 2017/18
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 →
