The History Department website has recently been reorganised - Conferences and Events now appear along with the Departmental Research Seminars.
Previous Research Seminars
Scandalous Histories - 13-14 September 2013 An international conference for Postgraduates and Early Career Historians
Lost Mansions and Country Estates - 13 July 2013 An international conference hosted by the Department of History and the Marks Hall Estate
Holocaust Memorial Week - 21-27 January 2013 Since 2007, the University of Essex has marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a series of events in the week that leads up to or includes 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops. The main theme of this year's programme is the Arts and the Holocaust.
The Rude Body An international conference for Postgraduates and Early Career Historians held in September 2012, with keynote addresses by PROFESSOR VIC GATRELL (Life Fellow Caius College, Cambridge) and DR LAURA GOWING (King’s College London).
Atrocity in Question An international conference hosted by the Department of History, University of Essex, Colchester, 4-5 July 2012 Participants include Gilbert Achcar Vic Gatrell, Norman Geras, Ludmilla Jordanova, Jon Lunn, Marina Warner, Peter Wilson
Creating the ‘Other’ A Postgraduate Conference at the University of Essex, Department of History, 20 September 2011
Cuba in the Nineteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Symposium organised by Matthias Röhrig Assunção (History) and Peter Hulme (LiFTS) held at the University of Essex, May 2011 (programme pdf)
Worlds of Violence, September 9-10, 2010 International Postgraduate Conference, Department of History, University of Essex, with keynote speaker Joanna Bourke.
Beyond the Cold War: New Directions in Soviet, Central and Eastern European Cinema Studies: an international symposium organised by the Centre for Film Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. Featuring a range of distinguished speakers, the symposium aims to offer both a survey and a critical, reflective assessment of selected new and emerging approaches to the study of cinema under the conditions of State Socialism in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe (more info; programme (pdfs))
Maroons in Latin America: From Resistance against Slavery to Contemporary Struggles for Land: An interdisciplinary symposium organised by Matthias Röhrig Assunção (History) and Peter Hulme (LiFTS) held on 13 May 2010 at the University of Essex.
The Dudley White Local History Lecture for 2010: Henry French, Professor of Social History at the University of Exeter: Naboth and Jezebel: Lordship, Authority and Disobedience in Earls Colne, 1580-1640.
Essex University Local History Day: Saturday 24 April 2010 The Law Courts and the People in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Essex, by Professor Peter King, The Open University; The Defence of Essex in World War II, by Fred Nash, Historic Environment Unit, Essex County Council
‘My Hero’ Defining and Constructing Non-Military Heroism, June 2009. Joint Postgraduate History Conference, Department of History, King’s College London.
Capoeira - from ‘Regional’ to Global. A postgraduate conference hosted by the History Department, University of Essex, June 2009
The Dudley White Local History Lecture for 2009: The Shrine of the Holy Rood of Dovercourt: The Rediscovery of a Medieval Essex Pilgrimage Centre by Dr John Ashdown-Hill, author of Medieval Colchester’s Lost Landmarks
Essex University Local History Day, May 2009. Understanding Timber-Framed Buildings in Essex, by David Stenning The Defence of Essex in the First World War, by Dr Paul Rusiecki
"Woodie Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travelin’", sung and spoken by Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire Hard Times and Hard Travelin’” is a live musical programme that sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of the American 1930s – the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself.
Chattel & Wage Slavery since 1500. Postgraduate History Conference (University of Essex), October 2008
The Dudley White Local History Lecture for 2008: Dr Shani D’Cruze, Honorary Reader at the University of Keele and author of A Pleasing Prospect: Social Change and Urban Culture in Eighteenth-Century Colchester (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008): ‘“You an artist, Jim?”, or: How polite was eighteenth-century Colchester?’
Panel discussion: Representing the unrepresentable: Putting the Holocaust into Public Museums Suzanne Bardgett, Project Director of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London and Wilfried Wiedemann, Project Director of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Foundation. who led the development of the new memorial, were joined by Professor Peter Vergo, Head of the Department of Art History and Theory, to explore the representation of the Holocaust in public museums in a discussion chaired by Dr Rainer Schulze, Head of the Department of History.
Department of History and the Centre for Social and Cultural History Round Table: Slavery and Abolition. Professor Gad Heuman (Warwick); Professor Robin Blackburn (Essex); Discussants Jeremy Krikler and Matthias Röhrig Assunção
The Dudley White Local History Lecture for 2007: Dr James Bettley, architectural historian and author of the new Essex volume of Pevsner, (published April 2007), "A difficult county to deal with": Nikolaus Pevsner and Essex, 1954 and 2007'.
Witchcraft and Masculinities in the Early Modern World, April 2006 An international conference hosted by the Department of History, University of Essex.
'Superstition' in Historical and Comparative Perspective, May 2005 Past and Present Conference in collaboration with the Department of History, University of Essex.
Postgraduate History Conference (University of Essex), September 2004 "Critical Perspectives on Empire and Imperialism: past and present"