Long Nineteenth Century Seminar - Oxford Talks

Long Nineteenth Century Seminar

The theme for Trinity Term 2025 is Writing Histories/Histories of Writing

Wednesdays at 11:10 in the Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street), except where otherwise stated, and online via Microsoft Teams.

To find out more, join the email list at web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar, or follow us on Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social‬.

For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance, or email mailto:christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.

All are welcome – and to join us for an inexpensive lunch in the Cohen Quad café afterwards.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Christina de Bellaigue , Catherine Sloan
Timing: Wednesdays at 11:10-12:30
Organising department: Faculty of History

Monday 12 October 2015

11:10 - Law and the Making of Community in the Long English Eighteenth Century
Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)

Monday 19 October 2015

11:10 - Socialist Workers into Ethnic Nationalists: Culture and Competition in Habsburg Austria
Jakub Beneŝ (University College, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 October 2015

11:10 - New Perspectives on Anarchism: Franco-Japanese transnational Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
Nadine Willems (Nissan Institute, Oxford )

Monday 2 November 2015

11:10 - Electric News: Telegraphs, Riots and Community Formation in Colonial Algeria
Arthur Asseraf (All Souls, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 November 2015

11:10 - Religious Communities and National Organisms: Resources, Race, and the Reconstruction of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Eliyahu Stern (Yale)

Monday 16 November 2015

11:10 - Communities of Progress: The Expectations and Realities of Telegraphy in Germany
Joan-Michel Johnston (Somerville, Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2015

11:10 - Defending the Urban Community: Fire and Disease in the Ghettos of Early Nineteenth-Century Italy
Myrna Martin (St Catherine's, Oxford)

Monday 30 November 2015

11:10 - Military Occupation, International Law, and the End of the 19th Century Conception of War
Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

Wednesday 4 May 2016

11:15 - Between Two Worlds: Marconi in Italy and in Britain, From World War I to Radio and Television
Giovanni Paoloni (Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, Bodleian Library / Sapienza University of Rome)

Wednesday 11 May 2016

11:15 - The Construction of National Identities at World Fairs, 1867-1940
Eric Storm (MEHRC/Leiden)

Wednesday 18 May 2016

11:15 - The People's Risorgimento: Italian National Discourses and Popular Culture in Rural Tuscany, c. 1846-60 AND Beyond the nation state: Catalan intellectuals and international influences 1880-1921
Joana Duyster-Borreda (Oxford), Ben Kehoe (Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2016

11:15 - Enchanting Nations: Commodity Market, Folklore and Nationalism in Scandinavian Literature 1830–1850
Anna Bohlin & Caroline Haux (Stockholm)

Wednesday 1 June 2016

11:15 - Nationalizing the Jewish minority: the Nineteenth Century German discourse of emancipation
Doron Avraham (MEHRC/Bar-Ilan University)

Wednesday 8 June 2016

11:15 - The Dispersal and New Acquisition of Books in Switzerland during the First Half of the 19th Century
Angeline Rais (Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2016

11:15 - Middle-Class music making and the Russian bourgeoisie
Julia Mannherz (Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2016

11:15 - Welcome and work-in-progress session followed by lunch
Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 October 2016

11:15 - Housing, houses, homes: knowing and shaping the working class domestic world in nineteenth century France
Will Clement (St. John’s)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

11:15 - "Džán Kudla Sings!": Performing Ethnic Identity between Chicago in the Gilded Age and Fin-de-Siecle Prague
Michael Dean (Prague)

Wednesday 2 November 2016

11:15 - Liberal, Nationalist or Socialist? The (Jewish) dilemmas of Eduard Horn in Hungary and France
Michael Silber (Jerusalem)

Wednesday 9 November 2016

11:15 - How Ruling Algeria Shaped French Conceptions of Citizenship and the Republic, c. 1870-1940
Avner Ofrath (Balliol)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

11:15 - ‘Les Anglais apprendront à boire’: wine and the other, 1860-188”
Graham Harding (St Cross)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

11:15 - Ambivalent Encounters: Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire
Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)

Wednesday 30 November 2016

11:15 - "Work together to share the burden": family culture, family business and inter-generational transmission in the industrial bourgeoisie - France and England, 1830-1914”
Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter)

Wednesday 26 April 2017

11:10 - ‘Cycling in South America, 1870-1920: A Liberal and Modern Pursuit?’
Matthew Brown (Bristol)

Wednesday 3 May 2017

11:10 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017

11:10 - ‘Illiberal Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women”, 1880-1914’
Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

11:10 - ‘How to Break a State: The Habsburg Monarchy’s Internal War, 1914-1918’
Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

Wednesday 24 May 2017

11:10 - ‘Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism’
Sarah Badcock (Nottingham)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

11:10 - ‘Army and Revolution in the Age of Liberalism: The Case of the 1820s Revolution in Southern Europe’
Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

11:10 - ‘“Why Should Only Old Blokes Wield the Pen and Ink?”: Print and Manuscript Magazine Production in English Schools, 1850-1902.’
Catherine Sloane (Queen’s, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

11:10 - 'The importance of being George: Constitutionalism and Kingship in Greece of the 1860s'
Lycourgos Sophoulis (Wolfson College)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

11:10 - Honour and Class in the Post-Reform Imperial Russian Officer Corps (1861-1914)
Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

11:10 - The Possibility of Witchcraft: Reputation, Belief, and the Legacy of the Revolutionary Penal Reforms in France
Will Pooley (Bristol)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

11:10 - Writing Freedom Down: African American Handwriting in the Early Years of Freedom
Gretchen Long (Williams/Exeter College, Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2017

11:10 - Defending the patria. The Tuscan Civic Guard and the Politicisation of Artisanal Populations in Florence, 1847-1849
Ben Kehoe (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

11:10 - 1. Domestic Service and Mass Leisure in France and Britain, 1890-1930/ 2. While Seeking a Situation’: Cross-cultural Experiences of Out-of-work Foreign Domestics in London, c.1880–1930
Fanny Louvier (Balliol College, Oxford), Olivia Robinson (Kellogg College, Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

11:10 - A Zealous Anthropologist: Intersections of Political Activism and Scientific Objectivity in Maria Czaplicka’s (1884-1921) Career
Jaanika Vider (Saint Cross College, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017

11:10 - ‘John, the Soldier, Jack the Tar’: Military Manliness and Emotional Objects in Georgian and Victorian England
TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2017

11:10 - The Zouave Moment: Martial Fashion in the Age of Industrial War
Carol Harrison (South Carolina)

Wednesday 25 April 2018

11:15 - “Security guarantee or security harzard? Segregation in Hamburg and London at the end of the 19th century”
Christine Krüger (University of Giessen)

Wednesday 2 May 2018

11:15 - "Managing 'Treason' in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Era of Neo-Absolutism"
Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 9 May 2018

11:15 - “The Victorian search for a national musical standard: authority, liberalism, and the problem of pitch in nineteenth-century Britain”
Edward Gillin (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

11:15 - “By Women, For Women: A study of gender in guidebooks to Europe, 1900 – 1907” & The department store as lieu de sensibilité : femininity and sensory experience in early twentieth century Paris and St Petersburg
Jasmine Proteau (Oxford), Sasha Rasmussen (Oxford)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

11:15 - “Silences: Coping with infertility in 19th century Germany”
Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)

Wednesday 30 May 2018

11:15 - “Catalonia and the Spanish Nation Building Project: Particularism , Regionalism and Catalan Nationalism, 1780-1898”
Angel Smith (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 6 June 2018

11:15 - “The Humiliation of John Falcon: Franco-British Competitive Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean"
Julie Kalman (Monash University)

Wednesday 10 October 2018

11:10 - Shared Suffering? Emily Hobhouse and the translation of Tant’ Alie of the Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902
Rebecca Gill (Huddersfield), Helen Dampier (Leeds Beckett)

Wednesday 17 October 2018

11:10 - Materials of the Mind: A Global History of Phrenology, 1815-1920
James Poskett (Warwick)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

11:10 - Entangled History: the Hispanic-Anglosphere Project (Concepts, Methods and Public Engagement)
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (Winchester)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

11:10 - Roundtable on Patrick Boucheron et al, Histoire mondiale de la France (Le Seuil, 2017)
Arthur Asseraf (Trinity College, Cambridge), Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter College, Oxford), Robert Gildea (Worcester College, Oxford)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

11:10 - Building Homes: The East India Company and the British Country House
Kate Smith (Birmingham)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

11:10 - ‘Marginalised Pasts: Jews and Muslims in the History of Europe’
Abigail Green

Wednesday 21 November 2018

11:10 - The Linguistic Politics of Emancipation: Early Jewish Nationalism between German, Yiddish, and Hebrew
Marc Volovici (Birkbeck)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

11:10 - CANCELLED: The Global Life of Antonio Raimondi, Scientist
We're sorry to have to announce that the scheduled final seminar in this term's series, which was to be held next Wednesday with Lucy Riall (EUI), has had to be CANCELLED due to illness.
Lucy Riall (EUI, Florence)

Wednesday 1 May 2019

11:10 - ‘Nature in Black and White: Wood Engraving, Rural Landscapes and Natural History in the Long Nineteenth Century’
Clare Griffiths (Cardiff)

Wednesday 8 May 2019

11:10 - ‘Isle Maree: A Ritually Recycled Rural Landscape’
Ceri Houlbrook (Hertfordshire)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

11:10 - ‘Drinking Politics: Wine and Taxes in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France’
Noelle Plack (Newman)

Wednesday 22 May 2019

11:10 - ‘Land and Liberalism: Agrarian Radicalism and Political Thought during the Irish Land War’
Andrew Phemister (Oxford)

Wednesday 29 May 2019

11:10 - ‘The Singing Province: Rural Choirs in Early Twentieth-Century Russia’
Julia Mannherz (Oxford)

Wednesday 5 June 2019

11:10 - ‘Peasant Panics and the Long Shadow of Serfdom Memories in Post-Emancipation Poland’
Lucian George (Oxford)

Wednesday 12 June 2019

11:10 - ‘“A Class of Cultivated Women”: Gender, Nature and Power in the Rural Transvaal, 1902-1904’
Maia Silber (Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

11:10 - ‘“It will be really French”: Spaces of Law and Limits of Liberty in the French Atlantic’
James McDougall (Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2019

11:10 - Introduction and work-in-progress session
Silvia Davoli, Christina de Bellaigue, Abigail Green

Wednesday 23 October 2019

11:10 - Listening in Common: The Musical Lives of Female Conservatoire Students, Paris and Petersburg 1900-1913
Sasha Rasmussen (St Hilda's, Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2019

11:10 - "That Actor is Napoleon!": History, Performance, and Embodiment in the Nineteenth-Century French "Napoleon Play"
Laura O’Brien (Northumbria)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

11:10 - Reinventions of Tradition: The Oberammergau Passion Play and the Nineteenth-Century World
Robert Priest (Royal Holloway)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

11:10 - All Play and No Work: Children on the Stage in the United States, 1870s-1910s
Oenone Kubie (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

11:10 - Between Tradition and Modernity: Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Jewish Networks
Joint session with the Modern Jewish History Seminar
Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (Leiden)

Wednesday 27 November 2019

11:10 - Pushing at the Margins of Oriental Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: European Women Scholars and the Shaping of Knowledge Beyond Europe
Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

11:10 - Benjamin Disraeli, Isaac D'Israeli, and the Jew Bill debate
Martin Goodman (Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 May 2020

11:00 - Pregnancy and Midwifery in late eighteenth-century Prussia (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Marystella Ramirez-Guerra (Notre-Dame)

Wednesday 13 May 2020

11:00 - Pushing at the Margins of Oriental Studies in the long nineteenth Century: European Women Scholars and the Shaping of Knowledge Beyond Europe [re-scheduled from MT2019]
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Mishka Sinha (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 May 2020

14:00 - Joint Session with the Modern Jewish History Seminar and the Jewish Country Houses Project: The Rothschilds of Russia: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Political Economy of Intimacy in the Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest. Note this session is at 14:00
ChaeRan Freeze (Brandeis)

Wednesday 27 May 2020

11:00 - Sexuality in early twentieth-century Morocco (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Katy Phipps (Oxford)

Wednesday 3 June 2020

11:00 - Bodies, nationalities and temporalities in Worlds’ Fairs (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Shahmima Akhtar (Oxford)

Wednesday 10 June 2020

11:00 - Joint reading group session with the Centre for the History of Childhood Seminar. Details tbc
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
N/A

Wednesday 17 June 2020

11:00 - Bride Price and Bride Abduction in late nineteenth century Russia (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Wednesday 14 October 2020

11:00 - Weighty Matters: A Somatic History of the Industrial Revolution
Deb Oxley (Oxford)

Wednesday 21 October 2020

11:00 - “So Worthy an Example to Ireland”: The Subsistence and Industrial Crisis of 1845–1850 in Flanders
Eric Vanhaute (Ghent)

Wednesday 28 October 2020

11:00 - “Poor Starved Creatures Lying Unburied in the Streets”: Overseas Famine Aid for Finland, 1856-68
Andrew Newby (Helsinki)

Wednesday 4 November 2020

11:00 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 11 November 2020

11:00 - Juvenile Agency, Identity and Civic Engagement in Revolutionary France: Charles Nodier and the Children of Besançon, 1790–94
Antonia Perna (Durham)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

11:00 - “Men Lived as if They Dreaded Each Other”: Hugh Dorian (1834–1914) and the Grey Zone of Ireland’s Great Famine
Breandán Mac Suibhne (Galway)

Wednesday 25 November 2020

11:00 - Faim et politique dans le Paris du premier dix-neuvième siècle [in French with translation]
Vincent Robert (Paris-Sorbonne)

Wednesday 2 December 2020

11:00 - Hunger Re-Draws the Map, 1914-1923
Mary Cox (Oxford), Claire Morelon (Oxford)

Wednesday 28 April 2021

11:00 - Introductory session: Brief encounters with Oxford's nineteenth-century historians
Various Speakers

Wednesday 5 May 2021

11:00 - Historical Monuments and the Beginnings of Art Historiography in Late 19th Century Romania
Cosmin Minea (New Europe College, Bucharest)

Wednesday 12 May 2021

11:00 - Basque exceptionalism vis-a-vis war and conscription
Talitha Ilacqua (Deakin Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

11:00 - Transfer of status session: new research from first-year Oxford DPhil students
Various Speakers

Wednesday 26 May 2021

11:00 - Marginal histories? Reflections on subjects and places - Iceland in the long nineteenth century
Erla Hulda Halldorsdottir (University of Iceland)

Wednesday 2 June 2021

11:00 - Book launch and discussion: 'Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880
Jean-Michel Johnston (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 9 June 2021

11:00 - Manipulating the Body, Embodying Gender and Gender Passing in Nineteenth Century Britain
Billie-Gina Thomason (Liverpool John Moores University & University of Liverpool)

Wednesday 16 June 2021

17:00 - Middle Life in the British Civil Service: Treasury Promotions, Marriages, and Honours, c. 1847-1914
Please note this talk is at 17:00 (BST) followed by Long C19 social, online or outside
Luis Gabriel Galan-Guerrero (St Anne's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 13 October 2021

11:00 - Meet your fellow 19c historians
N/A

Wednesday 20 October 2021

11:00 - Digging her Grave with a Wineglass? Women and Wine in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Graham Harding (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 October 2021

11:00 - Extracting the Last Fish: North Atlantic Peripheries in French Visual Culture, c. 1900
Maura Coughlin (Bryant University)

Wednesday 3 November 2021

11:00 - The Collection of Folklore in Post-Unification Italy: Peripheral Perspectives from Sardinia
Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 10 November 2021

11:00 - Peripheries in a Periphery? Finnish Workhouses, 1860s–1920s
Johanna Annola (Tampere University)

Wednesday 17 November 2021

11:00 - Border Changes and Rural Conflict in Northern Greece in the Late Nineteenth Century
Fatma Öncel (Stanford University and Sabancı University)

Wednesday 24 November 2021

11:00 - T.G. Masaryk's Foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918: Universalististic Beginnings, Particularistic Legacies?
Martin Schulze-Wessel (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and MLU Munich)

Wednesday 1 December 2021

11:00 - Where Asia Meets Russia: Borderlands, Minorities, and Ideas of Colonization
Alyssa Park (University of Iowa)

Wednesday 27 April 2022

11:10 - Working-Class Libraries and Workers’ Reading History in Colonial India
Arun Kumar (Nottingham)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

11:10 - Hand-Written Student Society Newspapers
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (Helsinki)

Wednesday 11 May 2022

11:10 - The journal before the journal intime: Approaching Diaries from the Period of the French Revolution
Michaela Karcher (Oxford)

Wednesday 18 May 2022

11:10 - Roundtable: Writing and Reading Letters
Lucas Haasis (Oldenburg), Julia Mannherz (Oxford), Steven King (Nottingham Trent)

Wednesday 25 May 2022

11:10 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 1 June 2022

Wednesday 12 October 2022

11:05 - Welcomes and Introductions
Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 October 2022

11:05 - “Citizens of Unsung Duties˝: Housing Inspectors and Working-Class Homes in France, 1850-80
Will Clement (Brasenose)

Wednesday 26 October 2022

11:05 - Imperial Subjects, Citizens, and Loyalists in the First World War
Jonathan Krause (Oxford)

Wednesday 2 November 2022

11:05 - Distributing Jews away from the Metropole: Migration and Imperial Politics in Britain and America, 1890-1912
Cynthia Cheloff (Lincoln)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

11:05 - Joining (and remaining in) the Academy. Institutional Reform, Academic Careers, and the Idea of Scientific Progress in Revolutionary Paris
Konradin Eigler (Wolfson)

Thursday 17 November 2022

14:00 - Hunting with Dogs: A Jewish Pastime
Joint with the Modern British History Seminar
Abigail Green (Brasenose), Tom Stammers (Durham)

Wednesday 23 November 2022

11:05 - Russian Townspeople and Militia Mobilisations during the Napoleonic Wars: Duty and the Emergence of the Concept of Citizenship
Mikhail Belan (St Antony's)

Wednesday 30 November 2022

11:05 - Married Collaborators, Citizenship, and Popular Literary Cultures in the English-Speaking World, c. 1870-1914
Zoë Thomas (Birmingham)

Wednesday 26 April 2023

11:00 - “I was Always the First to Denounce My Own Friends”: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters ofFrench Revolutionary Politics in the Year II
Marisa Linton (Kingston)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

11:00 - The nineteenth-century local newspaper, a sense of place and a sense of the past
Andrew Hobbs (Central Lancashire)

Wednesday 10 May 2023

11:00 - The Old Regime of Hygiene in France: Is it mean to call peasants dirty?
Steve Zdatny (Vermont)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

11:00 - Irish Entanglements on the Eastern Front and in the Russian Civil Wars, 1915-21
Anna Lively (Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2023

Wednesday 31 May 2023

11:00 - Married Collaborators and Popular Literary Cultures in the English Speaking World, c. 1870-1914
Zoe Thomas (Birmingham)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

11:00 - Art as Political Message in the Russian Empire, from Catherine II to Putin (1762–2022)
Catherine Phillips (Independent Scholar, Norwich)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

17:00 - Making Kyiv/ijów/Kiev Russian: heritage and memorialization as techniques of imperial integration in the nineteenth century
Please note this seminar is at 17:00
Andreas Schonle (Bristol)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

11:10 - Towards a Deep History of Landscape Experience in Britain, 1870-1960
Jeremy Burchardt (Reading)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

11:10 - Picturing the Immaterial in the Age of Industry: Mary Somerville and Her Artistic Circles
Please note this seminar is in the Weston Library, in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library, and registration is required
Sarah Gould (Sorbonne)

Wednesday 25 October 2023

11:10 - The Organic Life and Immortal Nature of Bohemia’s Contested Industries: Time in Factories and Spas, 1848-1918
Jana Hunter (St Hugh's, Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

11:10 - Spaces of Speculation: Domesticating Investment in Nineteenth-century France
Alexia Yates (Manchester)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

11:10 - Animal Noses and the Evidence of Nature in the Chemocene
This session is in conjunction with the TORCH Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network
Will Tullett (York)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

11:10 - A Mirror of Old France? Singing about Politics in Eighteenth-Century Quebec
Aoife Miralles (Christ Church, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

11:10 - Rebuses in Late Imperial Russia: Social Game or Ideological Tool?
Ksenia Butuzova (Oriel, Oxford)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

11:10 - Lighting the Streets of Bucharest in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Please note this seminar is in the Ruskin Room, Cohen Quad
James Morris (UCL)

Wednesday 5 June 2024

11:00 - Long Nineteenth-Century Graduate Seminar
Baris Cayli Messina (University of Lincoln), Sappho Xenakis (Birkbeck)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

11:10 - “A bunch of rebels”: feminism and genocide in Turkey at the turn of the century
Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (Pembroke College, Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

11:10 - Abolitionism, Maternal Care, and the History of Yaws in the British Empire in the Early Nineteenth-Century
Katherine Paugh (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2024

11:10 - Women's Agency in the 19th-century Russian Empire: Collective Action vs. Imperial State
Masha Bratischeva (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

11:10 - Imperial Intimacies: Women, Gift-Giving, and the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1893
Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

11:10 - Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England
Catherine Sloan (Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

11:10 - Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

11:10 - Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Rebecca Gould (SOAS)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

11:10 - The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)

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