Wolfson College Zoom webinar


2021-01-26 18:00: Commemorating war dead in ancient Athens from Homer to Thucydides (Dr Cezary Kucewicz (Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk & Wolfson College))

2021-01-28 18:00: Can Fashion be Sustainable? (Ms. Svetlana Dourassoff (Head of Advanced Concepts at PANGAIA))

2021-02-02 18:00: Toward a Black Ecomusicology, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with Solomon Northup (Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge & Queens' College Cambridge))

2021-02-08 14:00: Religion and the Politics of Race in 1960s London: Transnational Liberation Networks and Theologies of Resistance (Dr Hannah Elias (Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-02-09 18:00: A Very British History: British-Bangladeshis (Dr. Aminul Hoque MBE (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-02-16 18:00: Dreams of Paradise (Dr Jane McLarty (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College))

2021-02-23 18:00: “A Mild Despotism, Tempered by Sugar”: the Rise of the Overseer State in Britain’s Post-Slavery Empire (Dr. Sascha Auerbach (Lecturer in Modern British and Colonial History, Department of History, University of Nottingham))

2021-02-25 18:00: The Ice is Melting: The Impact of Global Warming on the Arctic and Beyond (Ms Marie-Anne Coninsx Former EU Ambassador at Large for the Arctic (2017-2019))

2021-03-09 18:00: The Fascist Welfare State: Cleavages, Rupture, and Mediation ( Ilaria Pavan (Associate Professor of Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore))

2021-03-10 18:00: From Mississippi to Cambridge: Marie Battle Singer,  Britain's first Black psychoanalyst (Professor Jane Rhodes (Department of Black Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago); Professor Lynn Hudson (Department of History, University of Illinois-Chicago))

2021-03-11 18:00: Community Scale Engagement: Collective Action on Carbon (Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown (Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Director of Cambridge Science and Policy Consulting; Director of the Community Carbon Reduction Project))

2021-03-18 17:00: Wolfson Arts - Representation as a Matter of Fact (Professor Phillip Lindley in conversation with Amikam Toren) (Amikam Toren)

2021-04-29 18:00: Engaging with architectural heritage in a changing climate: Views from academia and practice (Prof Henrik Schoenefeldt (University of Kent School of Architecture and Planning))

2021-05-04 18:00: The World of the Village Watchman in Colonial Eastern India (Dr. Partha Pratim Shil (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge))

2021-05-05 18:00: The Rules of Racial Standing: Race and Racism in the Era of the Public Lynching of George Floyd (Dr Nicola Rollock (Senior advisor to the Vice-chancellor))

2021-05-06 18:00: ‘Quelle émotion, quelle sensation!’: Listening for the Past in Eastern Paris, 1931 (Dr Stephen Wilford (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College Cambridge))

2021-05-11 18:00: "Objects, Bodies, and Emotions: How the Gas Mask Can Help Us Tell the History of Total War" (Professor Susan Grayzel (Department of History, Utah State University))

2021-05-13 18:00: How to use the power of social media for good? (Adeel Khan (Sail4Kashmir))

2021-05-25 18:00: A Global Maghreb: Crossroads, Borderlands, and Frontiers (Professor Paul A. Silverstein (Reed College))

2021-06-01 18:00: Christian Social Responsibility: Theology, Charity, and Development in Nigeria (Christopher Wadibia (PhD Candidate, Selwyn College / Ax:son Johnson Research Assistant in Applied History, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge))

2021-06-08 18:00: Rachel Auerbach, Cultural Genocide and a New Conception of Victims’ Testimonies (Professor Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University))

2021-10-19 18:00: Putin’s Use of Russian History (Professor Orlando Figes)

2021-11-09 18:00: A History of the World in One Cathedral  (Professor Astrid Swenson (Professor of History, Bath Spa University))

2021-11-23 18:00: The Final Frontier: Everyday Life in Colonial Chile (Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera (Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College))

2022-01-25 18:00: The Anti-Nazi: Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978) and the Twentieth Century (Professor Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University))

2022-02-01 18:00: CANCELLED - Writing a about democracy in the age of Modi and Trump (Professor Eugenio Biagini (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge))

2022-02-15 18:00: Science as a Cultural Human Right (Professor Helle Porsdam (Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights, University of Copenhagen, Denmark))

2022-03-01 18:00: Cacao: An example for the movement of plants and food cultures across the early modern Pacific (Professor Angela Schottenhammer (KU Leuven))

2022-03-08 18:00: Opium’s Empire in the Nineteenth Century (Dr Devyani Gupta (Jindal Global University/ University of Leeds))