The British history seminar In Search of Britain is back for its 5th season, with the opening paper by Bénédicte Miyamoto (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) on 29 September. The title is ‘Collecting studies and the Modern London Art Market’.
To attend online, please register here and you will receive the link: https://u-picardie-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeuvrD4tE92VIFvZ5NFNKyGm-BeArcs1
The full programme and abstracts are available on the seminar’s website: https://searchofbritain.wordpress.com
Please contact the organizers to get the zoom links for the forthcoming sessions: Marie Ruiz marie.jose.ruiz@u-picardie.fr and Mélanie Torrent melanie.torrent@u-picardie.fr
Here is the annual programme. All sessions start at 5pm (Paris time):
29 September 2021: Bénédicte Miyamoto (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) ‘Collecting studies and the Modern London Art Market’
20 October 2021: David Haigron (Université Rennes 2) ‘The gendered gaze in popular culture: manifestation, implication, and how to teach it?’
24 November 202: Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) ‘From Prosecutorial Obligation to Victims’ ‘Rights’: Victims in the English Criminal Courts, 1674 to the Present’
8 December 202: Jamie Gaskarth (The Open University), ‘Agile, Ad Hoc or Alone? British foreign policy after Brexit’
2 February 2022: James Lowry (City University of New York- CUNY) ‘Disputed Archival Heritage: What New Archival Thinking Can Tell Us About the Migrated Archives’. With the participation of Divine Fuh, visiting professor, University of Cape Town
16 March 2022: Stefanie Shackleton (University of Texas at Austin) ‘Nothing if Not Resourceful: Working-Class Autonomy Through Middle-Class Learning Initiatives’
23 March 2022: Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) ‘History, Institutional Memory and Policy-Making in the UK’
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