Goldsmiths History Seminar

Programme 2011/12 and related events

All events are free and open to public. No registration required. For additional information, please contact the seminar convener Dr Dejan Djokić (d.djokic@gold.ac.uk).

Please see the Centre for the Study of the Balkans seminar programme for this year at the Centre web page.

Autumn term

Thursday, 13 October, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, RHB Small Hall Cinema
David Rosenberg (London), 'The Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s'
Jointly hosted by Goldsmiths Students’ Union and Department of History

Wednesday, 19 October, 5:30 - 7:00pm, 143, Richard Hoggart Building
Conversations about Djilas: A panel discussion commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Milovan Djilas (1911-1995), Yugoslav revolutionary, dissident, and writer
Centre for the Study of the Balkans event

Speakers:
Pat Loughrey (Warden, Goldsmiths), Welcome & Introduction
Sumantra Bose (LSE), 'The Wider Significance of Djilas' Critique of Authoritarianism'
Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), 'Djilas as a Historian and as a Source'
Jasna Dragović-Soso (Goldsmiths), 'What Dissidence Meant in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Case of Milovan Djilas'
Vesna Goldsworthy (Kingston), 'Djilas as Will and Representation'
Stevan K. Pavlowitch (Southampton), 'Remembering Djilas'

Wednesday, 23 November, 7:00 - 9:00pm, TW1.U8, Tower One, Clement's Inn, LSE
'The Long Road Through Balkan History' (2010)
Documentary film screening and Q&A with the film makers (chaired by Dr Dejan Djokic)
Co-organised by Research on South Eastern Europe (LSE), London School of Economics, and Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths, University of London.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis.
For help finding your way around the LSE Campus: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx

Wednesday, 14 December, from 5:30pm, Room 274, Richard Hoggart Building
Richard Grayson (Goldsmiths), 'With the 16th (Irish) Division: The Letters of J.H.M. “Max” Staniforth, 1914-18'

Spring term

Thursday, 26 January, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 142, Richard Hoggart Building
Simon Mc Veigh (Goldsmiths), 'The Business of Culture: London Concert Life around 1900'

Wednesday, 1 February, 5:30 - 7:00pm,  Room 274, Richard Hoggart Building
Anastasia Stouraiti (Goldsmiths), 'Marvels of the Levant: Wonder and Empire in Early Modern Venice'

Wednesday, 22 February, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building
Dusan Bjelic (University of Southern Maine), 'Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: The Case of the Balkans' 
Discussant: Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay (Goldsmiths)
Chair: Dejan Djokic (Goldsmiths)

Wednesday, 7 March, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building
Miles Taylor (Institute of Historical Research), 'Queen Victoria and India'

Wednesday, 14 March, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building
Mark Cornwall (Southampton) & Hannes Grandits (Humboldt University, Berlin), 'Shifting Allegiances Among the Nationalities in the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires'
Jointly sponsored by the IHR ‘Rethinking Modern Europe’ seminar and Goldsmiths Centre for the Study of the Balkans