QMCECS offers a programme of early evening seminars with speakers from a range of disciplines. We have six seminars a year, and recent speakers have included Sophie Gee (Princeton), Chloe Wigston-Smith (York), Karen Harvey (Birmingham), and Suvir Kaul (Penn). For a list of speakers in the last five years see the seminar archive.
All seminars Wednesday 17:15–19:00 unless otherwise stated.
Location: QMUL Mile End Campus, Graduate Centre GC222
31 January: Emma Griffin (QMUL), 'European exploration, empires, and the making of the modern world'
28 February: Judith Hawley (RHUL), 'From the Gin Craze to Gin Palaces'.
20 March: Dan Sperrin (Cambridge), 'Swift and the Secret World'.
7 May 2024,: A panel discussion of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) by Catherine Hall.
Co-organised with the London Group of Historical Geographers (LGHG)[In person at 17:30 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London (Room: Wolfson NB01) and online via Zoom]Chair: Margot Finn (UCL)Panel: Herman Bennett (CUNY)Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary University of London)Kennetta Hammond Perry (Northwestern University)Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary University of London)
Response by: Catherine Hall (UCL)
To register for the event please follow this link:
https://www.history.ac.uk/events/a-panel-discussion-lucky-valley-edward-long-and-history-racial-capitalism-2024-catherine
22 May: Suvir Kaul and Will Bowers (QMUL), 'Fifty Fathoms Deep — Reading the Eighteenth-Century Shipwreck'. This will be a in-person 'reading group' style event, with texts circulated in advance.
