University of London
Selected interdisciplinary, cultural studies events in the Institutes of the School of Advanced Study, including transcultural memory, Italian studies and visual arts.
A one day conference in collaboration with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and the Department of History, University of Calgary and the History of Warfare Research Group, King's College London
The History of Libraries seminar at the Institute of Historical Research
More than a billion people live in improvised dwellings or shanty towns in the early twenty-first century. Whether in inner cities or on the outskirts of a metropolis, these settlements have been dubbed “Shadow Cities” by Robert Neuwirth. Neuwirth ...
Conversations and Disputations
Socialist History seminars at the Institute of Historical Research
Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala and The United Nations Association Westminster Branch held a one-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s death.
As a growing metropolis, London is in the middle of a severe housing crisis, widely evidenced in the press and featuring in political debates.
The problem of creating adequate homes for a growing demand is not new. The Centre for Metropolitan History ...
The Military History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research
Modern British History seminar series
Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study. Through a focus on the processes involved in work on specific projects, this seminar series encourages the exchange of perspectives and ideas between different areas within the discipline.
The NZ-UK Link Foundation was set up originally as the Waitangi Foundation in 1990 after the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Kotuku – the white heron, a beautiful example of one of New Zealand’s most endangered bird ...
Podcasts from academics from Goldsmiths, University of London relating to the BA English degree available for study by distance learning.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study. Conference dealing with Indigenous Rights & Truth Commissions
The Centre for Postcolonial Studies (CPS) was founded in 2014 under the direction of Professor Andrew Hussey. Its aim is twofold: to provide a national hub which will promote and advance research into the postcolonial world; and to facilitate dialogue ...
Our DART podcast covers topics such as digital preservation and archiving, research repositories, research data management, open access and much more...
The aim of Black British History at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies is to foster a creative dialogue between researchers, educationalists (mainstream and supplementary), archivists and curators, and policy makers.
It will seek to identify and ...
Latin American History seminars at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Welcome to Birkbeck Voices – the monthly podcast about the latest news and research from Birkbeck, University of London. From the Arts and Science to Business, Law and the Social Sciences, find out what our academics are saying about important and in...
Hosted by: The Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical REsearch, The National Archives and the University of Leicester
Theme: The Global Archive
The relationship between academic history and historical fiction is a subject of great interest to historians. Major academic conferences, for example the American Historical Association gathering last January and the Leeds Medieval Congress this July,...
Public History seminars at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Imperial and World History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research
DeNOTE's principal aim is to encourage a creative mixture of practical and intellectual approaches to the musical realisation of eighteenth-century repertoires and to spotlight practice-based research topics that move beyond notation itself into the pe...
Christian Missions in Global History at the Institute of Historical Research
International History seminar series
A series of events on topics of historical interest.
For centuries congestion has constituted a significant part of the travelling experience of peoples within and between cities, regions and nations. Meanwhile, for governments and planners, congestion has emerged as both a technical and cultural constru...
As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History organised a major conference that explored the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affec...
The aim of Black British History at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies is to foster a creative dialogue between researchers, educationalists (mainstream and supplementary), archivists and curators, and policy makers.
It will seek to identify and ...
For more than forty years Jim Bolton has been based at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is currently Professorial Research Fellow, directing the Boromei Bank Research Project. His published work includes important and influential contribution...
Institute for the Study of the Americas (School of Advanced Study) seminar series on Brazil.
From famine to feast, from grain riots to TV cookery programmes, dieting to domesticity, food features in almost every aspect of human societies since prehistoric times. At its annual summer conference in 2013 the Institute of Historical Research aims ...
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar at the Institute of Historical Research
The Douglas Johnson memorial lecture looks into French and Anglo-French relations in memorial of Douglas Johnson (1925-2005). The lecture series is hosted jointly between the Institute of Historical Research and the Society for the Study of French His...
Established by bequest as a memorial to the historian Mandell Creighton and commencing in 1907, the Creighton Lecture is delivered each year at the University of London by a leading historian.
The Institutes of the School of Advanced Study organise an annual University Trust Fund programme of prestigious public lectures, recitals and readings.
School of Advanced Study, IGRS-MHRA Conference 2011, This conference seeks to address what aspects of Modern Languages and Cultures can and should realistically be taught and researched at British universities.
Institute of Historical Research
Cities have been intimately connected with nationalisms of many kinds. The architecture and spatial design of cities have commonly been intended to bolster national pride. So have the nationalist ceremonies that citi...
Events in the field of human rights. Image: Maurice Harron 'Reconciliation' Carlisle Square, Derry (1991)
Keynotes from ULCC's 2010 Future of Technology in Education conference covering themes like mobile learning, games in education and augmented reality.
A series of seminars at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, detailing the experiences of members of the Colonial Service.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. A series of oral history lectures regarding the Commonwealth.
Following the success of our previous events in London, Liverpool, and Bristol, we would like to invite you to the fifth of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Black British History Workshops (WHBBH5) at Senate House, London, on Thursday 27 Octobe...
School of Advanced Study. This Mellon Foundation-funded seminar series explores the causes and consequences of neighbourly atrocities across history, cultures, and continents – from republican Rome to Kenya’s Rift Valley.
History libraries & research open day
An opportunity to meet and learn about libraries and archives.
A one-day programme ideal for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
This project promotes and facilitates research into US and gender politics by creating and sustaining an online repository of interview data relating to the multidimensional relationship between US foreign policy (USFP) and women. With the questions be...
