History and Politics Research Seminar Series, 2016-17

Unless otherwise stated, all seminars take place in room 303 of the Geoffrey Manton Building.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are served from 4pm before every seminar, and please join us in a local pub afterwards to continue the discussion

TERM 2

Wednesday 11 January, 4.15pm

• Mike Tyldesley (Man Met)
• Castoriadis/Coleman: Adventures of the Imaginary

Wednesday 18 January, 4.15pm

• John Morgan (University of Manchester)
• ‘The people’s just freedom’: flooding, wetlands and popular participation in seventeenth-century England

Wednesday 8 February, 4.15pm

• Michael Gehler (University of Hildesheim / Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• The European Union: A new post-modern Empire?
• Organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
• NB: this seminar takes place in the GM LT5 (ground floor)

Wednesday 15 February, 5.30pm

• Claire Holleran (University of Exeter)
• Earning a Living: Work and Labour in Ancient Rome
• Organised in collaboration with the North-West Branch of the Classical Association, and the Roman Society
• NB: this seminar takes place in the MMU Business school, G33

Wednesday 22 February, 4.15pm

• Alistair Kefford (University of Manchester)
• Housing the Citizen-Consumer in Post-war Britain

Wednesday 15 March, 4.15pm

• Richard Johnson (University of Oxford)
• Racially Polarised Partisanship under the Obama Presidency

For further information, please contact Andrew Crome (History) at a.crome@mmu.ac.uk, Craig Griffiths (History) at c.griffiths@mmu.ac.uk, or Samantha Wolstencroft (Politics) at s.wolstencroft@mmu.ac.uk