Roehampton University
Open Spaces. Open Minds.
Centre for Research in History and Theory (CHAT)
CHAT Seminars
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR, 2009-10
21 October, 1.00-2.00pm in Howard 103
Andrew Wareham
‘The social geography of Restoration London’s suburbs: Greenwich, Putney and Roehampton compared’
18 November, 1.00-2.00pm in Howard 103
Sara Pennell
‘For a crack or flaw despis’d’? Thinking about material durability in eighteenth century England’
All welcome
Previous Seminars
Spring 2009
Wed, 4th March at 5pm, Ho103
Prof Trevor Dean (Roehampton)
‘How Historians Begin: Openings in Historical Discourse’
Wed, 25th March at 5pm, Ho002
Carlos Espí Forcén (University of Murcia, Spain)
‘From Legend to Reality: Image Desecration by Jews in the Late Middle Ages’
Wed, 29th April at 5pm, Ho001
Dr Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Library, London)
‘Interwar British Women Pushing at the Boundaries: or, beyond the Me Tarzan, You Jane, Let's Make Babies Paradigm’
For information please contact Dr Krisztina Robert at K.Robert@roehampton.ac.uk
Spring 2008
Wednesday 4 March 2009 at 5pm, Ho103
Prof Trevor Dean
How historians begin
Wednesday 29 April 2009 at 5pm, Ho001
Dr Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Library, London)
Interwar British Women Pushing at the Boundaries: or, beyond the Me Tarzan, You Jane, Let's Make Babies Paradigm
Autumn 2008
All meetings start at 5.00 pm in Howard 002 (Terrace Room 2).
Wed 15 Oct. Dr Aislinn Loconte (Roehampton University).
Jerusalem for the Virtual Traveller: Art, Performance and Spiritual Pilgrimage in a Neapolitan Convent.
Wed 29 Oct. John Price (King’s College, London).
“Miss Harrison's Intrepid Example”: The Public Commemoration of Civilian Heroism 1880-1914
Wed 5 Nov. Dr Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan).
Leaky Men: The Trouble with 'Male Menstruation' in the Eighteenth Century
Wed 19 Nov. Christine Boyden/Spillane (Roehampton University).
Visualising Virgil’s Aeneid in the Early Modern Period
Wed 3 Dec Dr Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton University).
Cicero’s Rhetoric and Athenian Political Culture.
The Reality of Dickens’s Jacob Island.
For information please contact Dr Krisztina Robert at Krisz87129@aol.com