Graduate Research Symposium - 8th of June
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Summer Graduate Research Symposium
The summer Graduate Research Symposium has a great programme ranging from two perspectives on the body and soul from early modern period to twentieth century and performing politics at the level of the state and the community.
We very much hope you will come along to hear the latest exciting research by students in the department. Refreshments are of course provided.
Please download the abstracts for the presentations here.
A twenty-minute slot for questions and discussion follows each panel
2.00-2.15 Tea/coffee, Introduction
Panel 1 (2.15-3.15) Body and soul: from early modern period to twentieth century
Chair: Adam Shapiro
2.15-2.35 Apparitions of the dead, visions, monstrous births and other 'extraordinary and miraculous' phenomena: an early modern argument for an immortal and incorporeal soul
Clare Fitzpatrick
2.35-2.55 Fatigue and the productive body: industrial physiology in Britain, c. 1900-1918
Steffan Blayney
2.55-3.15 Questions and discussion
Tea Break 3.15-3.30
Panel 2 (3.30-4.30) Performing politics in different spaces: state and community
Chair: Julia Lovell
3.30-3.50 Destruction and reconstruction: the Austrian state after the First World War
Barbara Warnock
3.50-4.10 From neighbourhood committees to social centres: anarchism in post-1968 southern Italy
Luca Lapolla
4.10-4.30 Questions and discussion
4.30-4.40 Closing remarks