Culture, Power and Identity - School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Research Conference

Registration is now open for the School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Conference. 

Join us for individual papers, roundtable sessions and research posters covering a broad range of themes, geographies and chronologies. 

Guest Session: Careers Network Workshop ‘Managing Postgraduate Research Effectively: Project Delivery Training for ShaC PGRs with the Civil Service’. 

• Holly Prescott (Careers Network) 
• Dr Ben Salisbury (DEFRA) 
• David Roddy (DEFRA) 

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Programme

09:00-09:05 Dr Mo Moulton (Birmingham) Opening Address

09:05-09:15 Dr Ben Jackson (Birmingham) Keynote

09:15-10:15 Heather Cowan/Elizabeth Wilkinson/Holly Bamford (Liverpool) Power and Control in Early Modern England: A Study of Infanticide, Ars Moriendi, and Witchcraft Accusations

09:15-10:15 Fermude Gülsevinç/Selman Oğuzcan Ünal/Virginia Sommella (Bilkent) The Periphery at the Center: Artistic Influences, architectural influences, architectural legacies, religious symbolism and selected practices of cultural appropriation in the Medieval Byzantine Mediterranean

10:30-10:40 Dr James Doherty (Birmingham) Keynote

10:40-11:40 Johanna Kreft/Danielle Andrea Krikorian (Birmingham)/Megan Palmer (Nottingham) Urban Spaces as Theatre for Collective Memory and Identities 

10:40-11:40 Graham Moore (Reading)/Nathan Jopling/Anna Dearden (Birmingham) Maritime Networks in the Early Modern Period, c. 1600-c.1800

11:45-13:00 Holly Prescott (Career’s Network)/Dr Ben Salisbury/David Roddy (DEFRA) Career’s Network Workshop – Managing Postgraduate Research Effectively: Project Delivery Training for SHaC PGRs with the Civil Service

14:00-14:10 Dr Richard Cole (Bristol) Keynote

14:10-15:10 Theodore Reeves/Panagiota Mantouvalou/Margaret Crowley (Birmingham) The Use of Space to Create Identity

14:10-15:10 Tomoki Yamada/Andrew Searle (Birmingham)/Naseem Ashiq (Jawaharlal Nehru) International Organisations, Rights Claims and Norms: New historiographical directions

15:10-15:50 Amy Stanning/Dabeoc Stanley (Lancaster) Tax Gathering and Illicit Funds: Transmission in Late Eighteenth-Century British Communities

15:10-15:50 Isabella Casciani Govan/Chloe Newman (Birmingham) Fascination and Imagination: Divinely Associated Figures in the Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages Room

16:10-17:00 Lluís Jerez Bertolin/Tyler Broome/Tim Elliott/Panagiota Mantouvalou (Birmingham) Identity and Ancient Historical Research

16:10-17:00 Mandy Barrie/Chloe Emmott/John Leonida/Sebastian Rose (Greenwich) Let’s Talk History – Convergent and diverse approaches to history from below

17:00-17:20 Dr Morenikeji Asaaju/Organising Committee (Birmingham) Closing Remarks

17:20-18:30 Poster Session