Wednesday, 14 April 2010

History Lab North West - Postgraduate Workshop, Weds 2 June 2010

We're really pleased to announce that History Lab North West will be holding a one day postgrad workshop on Weds 2 June 2010 at Manchester Metropolitan University.  To whet your appetite, here's the provisional programme: 

11.00am: Registration
 
11:20am: Welcome

11.30am Session 1: Female Experiences
 
Jenny Hillman (University of York) ‘Penitent Magdalenes’: Conversion and the Cabinet in seventeenth-century Paris.

Andrea Livesey (University of Liverpool) 'Sexual Interference by the Antebellum Southern Slave owner as told by Ex-Slaves in the 1930s.'
 
12:30pm: Lunch (please provide your own lunch)
 
1:30pm Session 2: Representation
 
Becky Williams (University of Liverpool) “Saints Alive!” Graffiti and Devotion in late medieval Europe.
 
Rebecca Conway (University of Manchester)‘Modern England is Rapidly BlackpoolingItself’: J.B. Priestley, Blackpooland Englishness.

Simon Williams (University of Liverpool) The Reception of a Medieval Text: Interpreting the Manuscripts of Liudprandof Cremona’s Antapodosis.
 
3pm: Coffee

3:30pm Session 3: Policy and Reform

Mark Seddon (University of Sheffield) State-Private Networks and the Origin of British Cold War Policy, 1941-1948.
 
Nick Foggo (University of Liverpool) Why was social reform in Liverpool so long in the coming?
 
4:30pm Simon Lambe (History Lab Chair) The Postgraduate Experience
 
5pm:End
 
All welcome!  For more information, please contact Carly Deering or Christina Brindley at historylab.northwest@hotmail.com or join our facebook group.
 
History Lab North West is a regional affiliate of History Lab, the network for postgraduate and early career historians, and is supported by the Institute of Historical Research.

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