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'.
In-person at QMUL Mile End Campus Graduate Centre GC222and Online via zoom, register at https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlcemoqTgqHNNuLVkuBj1KCyZsjOizV4Rw
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.