Centre for Cultural History Seminar
2006-7
First half session
- Tuesday 26 September: Ben Marsden, ‘Ranking Rankine: W. J. M. Rankine and the making of engineering science’ 3.30-5.00 pm, Board Room, Powis Gate
- Tuesday 10 October: Clare Downham, Celtic, ‘The Irish Sea as cultural cross roads: The Life of St Bega’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Board Room, Powis Gate
- Monday 23 October: Trevor Stack, Hispanic Studies, ‘The Past of History in Mexican Towns’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Board Room, Powis Gate
- Monday 6 November: Casper Anderson, University of Leeds and University of Aarhus, ‘ “The Civilisers” – Self-representations of British Railway Engineers in Africa 1885-1920’, 4.00-5.30, Humanity Manse, HM1
- Tuesday 21 November: Hazel Hutchison, English, ‘US poetry of WWI’ (provisional title), 3.30–5.00, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 28 November: Joint Seminar with the Centre for Early Modern Studies: Syrithe Pugh, English, ‘Richard Fanshawe’s “Ode on the Proclamation”: A Cavalier Condemns the Personal Rule’, Humanity Manse. 3.30–5.00
- Tuesday 5 December: Brian Brock, Divinity and Religious Studies: ‘Foucault on Technology Or: Pondering the Uses and Abuses of Cultural History’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 12 December: Lisa Fraser, independent scholar, ‘Viking Fools’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Wednesday 13 December: Joint Seminar with the Centre for Early Modern Studies: Yuri Basilov, St Petersburg, ‘Iconoclasm in early modern Russia’, 4–5.30 pm, Humanity Manse, HM1
- Tuesday 30 January: Frederik Pedersen, University of Aberdeen: ‘Kings, Clerics and Crusaders: some thoughts on Scandinavia in Europe c980-c1120’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 6 February: Clémence O’Connor, University of St Andrews, ‘Seeing Wales through French: Heather Dohollau and a poet’s choice of a foreign language’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 13 February: Alex Sutherland, University of Aberdeen: ‘The Legend of the Brahan Seer: a Historical Resource’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 20 February: Susan Burch, University of Aberdeen: ‘Unspeakable: Deafness, Race, and Cultural Identity in the Jim Crow South’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 27 February: Erik Kulavig, University of Southern Denmark: ‘Soviet mass culture’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 6 March: Elizabeth Macknight, University of Aberdeen: ‘Dinners and soirees in le Beau Monde, Paris 1880-1914’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 13 March: Simon Ward, University of Aberdeen:, ‘Off the Rails? On the cultural history of the railways in Germany in the 20th century’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 20 March: Michael Brown, University of Aberdeen: ‘A chapter in the Irish Enlightenment’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 17 April: Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen: ‘Changing relationships between myth and science in modern times’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 24 April Louise Carter, University of Aberdeen: ‘Separate Spheres and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 1 May: Tuesday 1 May: Aideen O’Leary, University of Aberdeen, ‘First Apostle of Scotland? Some Celtic Transformations of St Andrew’, 3.30-5.00 pm, Powis Gate Board Room
- Tuesday 8 May: Darrin Russell, University of Aberdeen: ‘The Jesuit Relations: how to win friends and influence people’
