Research Seminars Series
Division of History and Politics, University of Stirling
The History and Politics Research Seminar Series is part of the division’s rich intellectual life and offers the opportunity for a first-hand discussion of the newest lines of enquiry. The meetings take place roughly one afternoon every month during semester dates (4-5.30pm) and are attended by teaching staff, researchers and postgraduate students. The sessions are well known for its animated discussions, which the participants usually prolong in a local pub.
Seminar Officers:
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Research Seminars, 2017/2018 Academic Year |
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Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Room |
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13 Sep 2017 |
5.30pm - 7.00pm |
Dr Thomas Pickles (University of Chester) |
Medieval Church and Landscapes |
Pathfoot D3 |
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11 Oct 2017 |
4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Prof Myra Armstead (Bard College, USA) |
Public History/Heritage as Cultural Reform in Progressive America |
Pathfoot C1/C2 |
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8 Nov 2017 |
4.00pm - 5.30 pm |
Prof Kurt Mills (University of Dundee, UK) |
The International Criminal Court’s Difficult Relationship with Africa |
Pathfoot C1/C2 |
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15 Nov 2017 |
4.00pm - 5.30pm |
(Techinical University of Darmstadt, Germany) |
The Social Democratic Roots of Global Governance |
Pathfoot Room D1 |
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24 Jan 2018 |
4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dr John Thompson (Center for Security Studies, Switzerland) |
Superpower in Retreat? Why Support in the U.S. for the Liberal World Order is Under Threat and What to Do about It |
Pathfoot Room C1/C2 |
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14 Mar 2018 |
4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dr Gareth Atkins (Queens' college, University of Cambridge, UK)
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Who is Your Favourite Character from History?” Charles Kingsley's Bible
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Pathfoot Room C1/C2 |
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4 Apr 2018 |
4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dr Ruth Colton (University of Manchester, UK) |
Childhood, Empire and Public Parks in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain |
Pathfoot Room C1/C2 |
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Research Seminars, 2016/2017 Academic Year | ||||
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| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Room |
| 14 Sep 2016 | 5.30pm - 7.00pm |
Prof Markus Lederer (University of Münster, Germany) |
The Promise of Prometheus and the Opening Up of Pandora’s Box: Geopolitical Perspectives on Renewable Energy |
Pathfoot C1/C2 |
| 5 Oct 2016 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Prof Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh) |
Scottish Universities in their European Context: Some Nineteenth-Century Perspectives |
Pathfoot D1 |
| 2 Nov 2016 | 4.00pm - 5.30 pm |
Prof Paul Bowles and Dr Fiona MacPhail (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) |
The Town that Said No to the Enbridge Oil Pipeline: The 2014 Kitimat Plebiscite in British Columbia |
Pathfoot C1/C2 |
| 16 Nov 2016 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dr. Lucie Kyrova (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) |
‘American Indian Internationalist Thought and Activism during the Cold War’ |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 18 Jan 2017 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University, Denmark) |
Material Memory and Commemorative Events: Reconfiguring Public Understandings of the Past?’ |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 8 Feb 2017 | 5.00pm - 6.30pm |
Dr Susan Stanfield (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) |
‘Print Culture and Civic Domesticity: Free Women of Color during the Era of Abolition’ |
Pathfoot Room C1/C2 |
| 8 Feb 2017 | 2.00pm - 3.30pm |
Dr. Philip Voight (Gustavus Adolphus College) |
FOR POLITICS STUDENTS: Political Advertising in the U.S. Presidential Election |
Pathfoot Room C1/C2 |
| 15 Mar 2017 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Dr James Caudle (Yale University, USA) |
Boswell's Regency Crisis, 1788–1790 |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 23 Mar 2017 | 6.00pm - 7.30pm | Prof Ray Stokes (University of Glasgow) |
'The Political Economy of Corporate Misbehaviour in Post-war West Germany: |
Pathfoot Room D3 |
| 29 Mar 2017 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm | Simon Quinn (University of York) |
'British Military Encounters with Levantine Antiquity, 1798-1801' |
Pathfoot Room D3 |
| 5 Apr 2017 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm | Dr Chiara Ruffa
(Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden) |
‘Imagining War and Keeping Peace: Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Peace Operations’ |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
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Past Seminars, 2015/2016 Academic Year |
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| Date | Speaker | Title | Room |
| 30 Sep 2015 |
Prof Jane Dawson (University of Edinburgh) |
John Knox: Man and Myth |
Pathfoot LTA96 |
| 07 Oct 2015 |
Dr David Toke (University of Aberdeen) |
Analysing Energy Politics Using Cultural Theory: The Example of Low-carbon Energy Supplies |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 21 Oct 2015 |
Dr Mark Lawrence (University of Kent) |
The First Carlist War (1833-1839) in Comparative Perspective |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 18 Nov 2015 |
Prof Derrais Carter (Portland State University, U.S.) |
Begin Where the Archive Ends: Narrative Possibilities of Black History | Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 3 Dec 2015 |
Prof Robert Geyer (Lancaster University) |
‘What are the Tools of Complexity?’ (Part of workshop [lasting until 4:30pm] co-hosted by ProPEL and Division of History & Politics: Working with Complexity in Professional Practice and Public Policy) | Pathfoot C21 |
| 20 Jan 2016 |
Dr Andrea Mammone (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
‘Transnationalism and the French and Italian Far Right’ | Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 2 Mar 2016 |
Prof Dr Jale Tosun (University of Heidelberg, Germany) |
'Party Framing Toward Renewable Energy: A Comparative Study of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States’ |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 16 Mar 2016 |
Dr Elizabeth Monaghan (University of Hull) |
‘A Good Start? The European Citizens’ Initiative and Participatory Democracy in the EU’ |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
| 23 Mar 2016 |
Prof Richard Hingley (Durham University) |
‘Roman Frontiers and British Identities: The Afterlife of Hadrian’s Wall’ |
Pathfoot Room C1 |
Conference on Modern Religious History
Professor David Bebbington will be hosting a Conference on Modern Religious History on Tuesday 14th - Wednesday 15th June. The event will highlight research in the field and all are welcome to attend. For further information or to book a place please contact .
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Past Seminars, 2014/2015 Academic Year |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Room |
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01 Oct 2014 |
Prof. John Field |
Work camps in interwar Britain: manual labour, community, class and gender |
Pathfoot C2 |
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19 Nov 2014 |
Dr. Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University) |
The 'Russian World' and Ukraine: Competing Identities in the Post-Soviet Space |
Pathfoot C1 |
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03 Dec 2014 |
Dr. Anders Widfeldt |
Extreme Right Parties in Scandinavia |
Pathfoot C1 |
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14 Jan 2015 |
Dr. Ben Marsh (University of Kent) |
Empires and Worms: Understanding Failure in Atlantic Sericulture, 1501-1676 |
Pathfoot C1 |
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4 Feb 2015 |
Dr. Gregorio Alonso (University of Leeds) |
‘Until they are all gone!’ Religion, politics and violence in Modern Spain |
Pathfoot C1 |
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17 Feb 2015 |
Prof. Maiken Umbach and |
Picturing Nature: The Role of Images in Political Mobilisation and Ideological Decontestation |
Pathfoot C2 |
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4 Mar 2015 |
Prof. Thomas S. Kidd |
George Whitefield: American Patriot? |
Pathfoot C1 |
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11 March 2015 |
Dr Thomas Lundberg (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Raymond Miller (University of Auckland) |
Letting the Voters Decide: The Scottish Independence Referendum and the Management of Risk |
Pathfoot C1 |