Goldsmiths History Seminar Archive

Programme 2010/11, and related events

End of term lecture

Wednesday 15 December 2010, 5:30pm
Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths): 'Kafka and Visual History'
Venue: RHB 274

Programme 2009/10, and related events

Autumn term

16 October
Book launch: Rebekah Lee, African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in South Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2009)
Friday, 6:00pm, Common Room, Institute of Historical Research

28 October
Lynda Agili (Research Office, Goldsmiths) REF update
Wednesday, 4:00pm, SCR, Goldsmiths (open to Goldsmiths History staff only)

11 November
Katherine Fleming (New York University) ‘Leaving Greece and Becoming Greek: Greek Jewish Identity in Auschwitz and Israel’
Wednesday, 2:00pm, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, room 256

19 November
Book launch: Talat Ahmed, Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Episode in South Asia, 1932-56 (Routledge, 2009)
Thursday, 6:30pm, Royal Asiatic Society

24 November
Maria Todorova (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ‘Historical Regions and Historical Legacies as Categories of Analysis: The Balkan Case’
Tuesday, 6:00pm, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, Cinema (Small Hall).
The event will formally inaugurate the Centre for the Study of the Balkans. Prof. Geoffrey Crossick, Warden of Goldsmiths, will speak on the occasion.
Reception: 7.30pm, Staff Dining Room, Goldsmiths

9 December
Anastasia Stouraiti (Goldsmiths) ‘War and the Media in early modern Venice: The Venetian-Ottoman war of the Morea (1684-99)’
Wednesday, 4:00pm, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, room 309

Spring term

27 January
Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck)
Prof. Bourke, chair of the History research committee and member of the REF Executive Committee at Birkbeck, will talk about research strategy at Birkbeck and School of History, Classics and Archaeology, consistently one of top-rated history departments in the UK.
Wednesday, 4:00pm, Staff Common room, Goldsmiths (open to Goldsmiths History staff only)

10 February
Stevan K. Pavlowitch (Southampton) 'The Three Eccentric Capitals of the Balkans'
Wednesday, 6:00pm, Richard Hoggart Building, room 143, Goldsmiths

17 March
Fred Anscombe (Birkbeck) ‘The Balkan Revolutionary Tradition, Revisited’
Wednesday, 2:00pm, Education Building, room 226, Goldsmiths