In January 2024, Michael Bresalier (Department of History, Heritage, and Classics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social History) joins a six-year, £2.8million Wellcome Trust-funded project on ‘Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare’ (EPIC). Lead by Havi Carel (Bristol), EPIC is a partnership between philosophers, psychologists, social scientists and historians at Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham, and the universities of…Continue Reading Negotiating Immunisation: Epistemic (in)justice in tuberculosis vaccination programmes
New Book on Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933
Tomás Irish has just published a new book called Feeding the Mind: Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933. It explores how European intellectual life was rebuilt after the cataclysm of the First World War. Learned communities were left in ruins by the conflict and its consequences; cultural and educational sites were destroyed, writers and…Continue Reading New Book on Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919-1933
The Crusades and Apocalyptic Thought in the Middle Ages
Simon John – In the first semester of 2022/3, I was on research leave from Swansea, which enabled me to take up a visiting fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The aim of the Käte Hamburger Centres – a number of universities…Continue Reading The Crusades and Apocalyptic Thought in the Middle Ages
Researching the History and Heritage of Wales’s Small-Scale Fishing Industry
Katherine Watson – Wales has a long history of fishing. In South Wales this is clearer than anywhere else. Tenby was among the earliest and most noteworthy Welsh fishing ports in the 18th century. By the 19th century, Milford Haven, Swansea, and Cardiff were emerging as the largest trawling ports in Wales, with Milford becoming…Continue Reading Researching the History and Heritage of Wales’s Small-Scale Fishing Industry
Monumental Medievalism: Public Monuments and the (Mis)Use of the Medieval Past
Online Workshop, 5-6 October 2022 ALL TIMES ARE IN BRITISH SUMMER TIME (UTC +1hr) Register at our Eventbrite page Contact: monumentalmedievalism@gmail.com Wednesday 5 October (Join sessions via Zoom: HERE) 12:45-13:00 Welcome Euan McCartney Robson and Simon John 13:00-14:45 Session 1: Monumental Medievalism in Modern Japan Chair: Simon John (Swansea University, UK) Sven Saaler…Continue Reading Monumental Medievalism: Public Monuments and the (Mis)Use of the Medieval Past
History Online Research Seminars Winter 2022
Unless stated otherwise, all seminars take place on Wednesdays from 1.15 to 2.30 pm. Everyone is welcome! 26 October 2022: Ian Sanders (Host and Producer, Cold War Conversations Podcast), ‘Cold War Conversations Podcast’, CRAM-sponsored 2 November 2022: Ciarán Wallace (Trinity College Dublin), ‘The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: Resourceful Commemoration?’, joint CRAM-, CHART-, MEMO-sponsored event 30…Continue Reading History Online Research Seminars Winter 2022
Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies
Gynhadledd Astudiaethau Cymreig Canolfan Richard Burton Centre Dydd Mercher 25 Mai 2022 Wednesday 25 May 2022 Y Studio, Creu Taliesin, Campws Parc, Prifysgol Abertawe The Studio Taliesin Create, Park campus, Swansea University 2.00 Guinevere Clark – The Psychogeography of The Mumbles in Swansea through 3 Poems 2.30 Daniel Jones – Caliban’s Cultural Wounds: Language…Continue Reading Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies
Queer Data
12 October Queer Data Event Invitation – GENCAS Wednesday 12 October 2022, 2-3pm: Kevin Guyan joins us on Zoom to discuss his recent book, Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury). Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But…Continue Reading Queer Data
Exploring Connections and Collaborations in Gender Teaching and Research
GENCAS (Swansea University, Wales, UK) and IGIUMA (University of Málaga, Spain): exploring connections and collaborations in gender teaching and research. As we seek to move forward after the disruption and pain of Covid, scholars across the world are exploring new avenues of inspiration, connection and innovation. This zoom meeting brings together scholars working on and around the…Continue Reading Exploring Connections and Collaborations in Gender Teaching and Research
“We’ll All Be Museum Miners”. Oral Histories and the Heritage of Coal Mining in the Ruhr
Department of History, Heritage and Classics History Research Seminar 16 March 2022 1pm-2.30pm “We’ll all be museum miners”. Oral histories and the heritage of coal mining in the Ruhr Talk by Stefan Moitra and Katarzyna Noguiera (Bochum, Germany) In December 2018, the closure of the last remaining German hard coal mine, the Prosper-Haniel colliery in…Continue Reading “We’ll All Be Museum Miners”. Oral Histories and the Heritage of Coal Mining in the Ruhr