Wolfson College Humanities Society


2020-10-27 18:00: Does the Rule of Law Matter in China? History, System and Context of Chinese Legal System (Professor Ge Chen (Assistant Professor of Chinese Law at Durham Law School))

2020-11-03 18:00: The Second World War and the Prospect of Quit India in Bengal: Perceptions, Rumours and Revolutionary Parties (Dr Anwesha Roy (SOAS, University of London))

2020-11-10 18:00: Antisemitism in the anonymous Renaissance dialogue Viaje de Turquía (Dr Şizen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool))

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))

2021-02-02 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))

2021-03-02 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))

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

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))

2021-05-11 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))

2021-05-25 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))

2021-10-12 18:00: Is music the most important thing we ever did? (Part II) (Professor Ian Cross (Director of the Centre for Music and Science; Fellow of Wolfson College))

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

2021-10-26 18:00: Ya Lalla: The Digital Sphere & the Sensory: A Platform on Judeo-Arabic Songs for Birth from the Moroccan Sahara (Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Research Associate, Faculty of Music; Peterhouse College))

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

2021-11-16 18:00: Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) and the Anglophile Revolution in German Literature (Dr Tom Zille (PhD candidate, Wolfson College; Faculty of English, University of Cambridge))

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))

2022-02-22 18:00: Ancient Greek warfare beyond the Phalanx (Dr Roel Konijnendijk (University of Edinburgh) & Dr Matthew Lloyd (Norwich & District Historical Society, Canada))

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))

2022-03-15 18:00: Circular Movements: Migratory Citizenships in Anticolonial Athens  (Dr Tom Western (University College London))

2022-05-03 18:00: Writing about democracy in the age of Modi and Trump (Professor Eugenio Biagni (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge))

2022-05-10 18:00: Fortifying the Bosphorus and Dardanelles: Ottoman Measures against the Russian Threat (Dr Hümeyra Bostan-Berber (Professor at Marmara University, Institute of Turkology Studies, and College Research Associate at Wolfson))