All seminars take place at 2.30pm in Seminar Room, 3-5 Salisbury Road, unless otherwise stated

For further information please contact Dr Toby Lincoln.

Semester 1

14 October 2011

Chris Hess (Warwick)
Global Dalian: Re-Framing the Colonial Past in a Post-Socialist Metropolis

28 October 2011

Prashant Kidambi (Leicester)
Nationalism and the City in Colonial India: Bombay, c. 1890-1940

11 November 2011

Julia Laite (Birkbeck)
The Flickering Red Light: The Geography of Commercial Sex in Twentieth Century London

25 November 2011

Robert Bickers, Isabella Jackson and Jon Howlett (Bristol)
Symposium: Treaty Ports in China (Individual paper titles to be confirmed)

09 December 2011

Peter Larkham (Central England)
Memory, Memorials and the Aftermath of the Second World War: Bombed Churches in British Cities

Semester 2

20 January 2012

Patrick Wallis (LSE)
The City and the Apprentice: Urban Institutions and Training in Early Modern London

10 February 2012

Julie-Marie Strange (Manchester)
What's so Funny about Men? Laughter and Fatherhood in Working-Class Families

17 February 2012
Georg Stöger  (Salzburg)
Urban Environments During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

24 February 2012

Steve Poole (West of England)
The Murder of William Claypole: Foreign Sailors and Knife Crime in Nineteenth-Century Bristol

09 March 2012

Astrid Swenson (Brunel)
Paradoxes of Restoration: International Agreements and European Restorers in Syria and Palestine during the Mandate

23 March 2012

Stephen Legg (Nottingham)
Anti-Colonial Nationalism: Urban Repertoires in Interwar Delhi