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Centre for Cultural History Seminar

2008-9

• 7 October 2008
  Dr Richard Perren, (University of Aberdeen)
  'Public and private impediments to slaughterhouse reform in Victorian Britain' Room MR266 Chair: David Smith
• 14 October 2008
  Dr David Cram, (University of Oxford)
  '17th-century philosophical languages and the tradition of the trivium and quadrivium' Room MR266
  Chair: Karin Friedrich David's handout can be downloaded here. To go to his web page click here.
• 21 October 2008
  Dr Karen Bek-Pedersen, (University of Aberdeen)
  'Ravens to Swans – The Wizard Michael Scot and the Valkyries’ Room MR909 Chair: Ralph O'Connor
• 28 October2008
  Prof Roger Smith, (Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham University)
  'Late Victorian thought on the relations of the humanities, especially history, to science'. Room MR266 Chair: Nick Fisher

  (Roger is Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham University, Oct-Dec 2008, Reader Emeritus, Lancaster University, associate of the Institutes of Psychology, and History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and author of Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature, Manchester University Press, 2007: see http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1170)

  (This meeting will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

• 4 November 2008
  Dr Ian Russell, (University of Aberdeen)
  'New Songs for the Bothy: Re-Creating Realities for a Fictive World' Room MR266
• 11 November: 2008
  Dr Christoph Witzenrath, (University of Aberdeen)
  'Literacy and Orality in the Eurasian Frontier. Imperial Culture and Space in Seventeenth Century Siberia and Russia' Room MR909 at 4pm – Please note change of time Chair: Paul Dukes
• 18 November 2008
  Ms Fiona Jane Brown, (University of Aberdeen)
  ‘The Fishermen Hung the Monkey-O’, a Comic Ballad: Its Implications for Cultural Identity in Two British Fishing Communities’ . Room MR909 Chair: Thomas Mckean
• 25 November: 2008
  Dr Karin Friedrich, (University of Aberdeen)
  'The Power of Culture: the Prussian Coronation of 1701 in Context' Room MR909
• 2 December: 2008
  Dr Alastair Bain, (University of Aberdeen)
  ' 'Silence in early modern England: The silences (and sounds) of death and the afterlife.'  Room EWBF61 Chair Ben Marsden For an abstract click here
• 9 December: 2008
  Dr Martyn Gorman, (University of Aberdeen)
  'Echoes of the Resurrection Men' Room MR310
• 16 December: 2008
  Ms Jessica Bilhartz, (University of Aberdeen)
  ‘The Miseducation of Henrietta Maria’. Room MR310 Chair: Peter Davidson
  FOLLOWED BY CULTURAL HISTORY CHRISTMAS PARTY

Second Half Session

• 3 February: MR903: Ben Marsden, 'A handful of dust and a cyclone in the living room: John Aitken, FRS, and gentlemanly meteorology’ (This meeting will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine). The meeting will be followed, at 5.00 pm, by a book launch for Alex Sutherland, The Brahan Seer: The Making of a Legend, Peter Lang, International Studies in Folklore and Ethnology vol 1, 2009. Meet the author, socialise, and enjoy some refreshments. For a copy of flyer, click here.
• 10 February: F61: Barbara Mortimer, founding member, UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery: 'Race, racism and gender in British nursing 1950-2000: an exploration via oral history', (This meeting will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine). Chair: David Smith
• 17 February: MR903: Alison Brown, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, 'Christina Massan’s Beadwork: Material Culture and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History' Chair: Marjory Harper
• 24 February: F61: Tyler Griffith, University of Aberdeen, 'The Mirage: Scientific Observation, Cultural Exchange, and Epistemological Validity in the Nineteenth Century'. Chair: Ben Marsden. For an abstract click here
• 3 March: MR903: Sandeep Sinha, Serampore College, India: 'Public Health Policy in British India: Bengal, A Case Study, 1835-1920' (This meeting will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) For an abstract click here
• 10 March: MR903 : Sandeep Sinha, Serampore College, India: 'Man, Malaria and An Imperial Government: A Review of the Epidemic in Eastern India, 1850-1920' (This meeting will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) Cahir: Cairns Smith. For an abstract click here
• 17 March: F61: Stuart Anderson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 'Empire and the Pharmacy Workforce: The Migration of British Pharmacists to India 1811 to 1947'. For an abstract click here
• 18 March: Robert Gordon University, School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Schoolhill site, Room MA7 (NB this is a change from the previously advertised venue), 4-5 pm: Stuart Anderson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: 'Licensed to kill? Community Pharmacists and Tobacco: An Historical Perspective 1600 to 2000 ' For an abstract click here

  (The last two meetings will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, and are organised in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy of Robert Gordon University)

• 24 March: Powis Gate Board Room: Sandeep Sinha, Serampore College, India: 'Touch to Heal: A Glimpse of the Medical Missions in India, c.1870-1947' (This meeting will be held jointly with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) For an abstract click here Chair: Dr Nicola Mills
• 21 April: F61: Dominic Janes, Birkbeck College, London: 'Hindus in Sheffield!: Cultural outrage and Comparative Religion in Victorian Britain'. For an abstract click here. Chair: Robert Segal
• 28 April: MR909 Greg Smithers, 'Slavery and American Memory: An African-American Perspective' Chair: Andrew Dilley
• 5 May: MR909 Elizabeth Curtis, University of Aberdeen,'Circles, Cists and Crania, archaeology as science in 19th century Scotland'. Chair: Hazel Hutchison
• 12 May: MR909: Walter Stephen, University of Edinburgh, 'Patrick Geddes (1854-1932): A Vigorous Institution'. Chair: Anne-Michelle Slater
• 18 May: Slavery workshop : click here for details
• 2 June: Special Seminar for student papers, 3.00, F61
• Peter Smythe (History) 'Voices of The Scottish Co-operative party, A History of the Scottish Co-operative Party 1990-2008, and its effect on Scotland'. Chair: Elizabeth MacKnight
• Lorna Gunn (History): 'The impact of nursing during the First World War upon traditional notions of femininity: Amelia Laws, nurse-masseuse'' Chair: Greg Smithers
• Ruth Morris (Language and Literature): 'Cuvier and Darwin and their impact on literary narratives'. Chair: David Smith
• Vanessa Sherriffs (History): 'The impact of the First World War on women's employment in Britian.' Chair: Greg Smithers

  Followed by the Centre for Cultural History BBQ 2009, Crombie Annexe Garden

• Friday 19 June, Edward Wright Building, F61: 3.00-4.30: Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at Haifa University and Visiting Scholar, Centre for Cultural History, ‘Responses to anti-Semitism in the conceptual history of social science’. Chair: Tom Weber
• Monday 6 July, Edward Wright Building, F61: 3.30-5.00: practice session for colleagues giving papers at the International Society fo Cultural History conference in Brisbane.

  Alex Sutherland, 'Witchcraft Trials in Restoration Scotland: Rational Reluctance and Corrupt Exploitation'. For the powerpoint which goes with this paper click here

  David Smith , 'War and nutrition cultures: scientific and popular'. For the powerpoint which goes with this paper click here

  Darrin Russell, 'Savage Missionaries: the inversion of kinship in seventeenth century New France'

Sutherland, Smith and Russell on the way to the pub via ferry in Brisbane