Podcast now available! Raphael Samuel Memorial lecture 2019 Yasmin Khan, ‘Women on the Frontline of Empire: a feminist history of the Second World War’ (http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/women-on-frontline-of-empire/)

Jointly hosted by the IHR and the Raphael Samuel History Centre. Thursday 9th May 2019, 6.30 – 8.00pm Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7JL Reception to follow. Booking essential; book here (www.history.ac.uk/events/event/19545) Join Costa Book winner, Bart Van Es, and the feminist and historian, Sarah Knott, to discuss new approaches to writing history. Once characterized by its authorial distance and dispassion, history is open to ever-greater ...

Tuesday 30 April, Please note the slightly later start time of 5.30pm. We have two papers, by Anne Hanley (Birkbeck) and Siobhan Hearne (Durham), on efforts to tackle venereal disease in the UK and in the Soviet Union. Please find their abstracts below. We are meeting at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Rose Room - Room LG6 (basement), on the corner of Keppel Street and Malet Street - directions here. Sex, Health and the State: Britain’s VD Service, 1918–1948, Dr Anne Hanle...

Friday 3 May, starting at 5.30pm Kings Building K6.63, King's College London Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS For our penultimate session in the Decolonizing Europe Series, Kira Thurman (Michigan) and Anne-Marie Angelo (Sussex) will discuss their work on Black European history for the African-American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives series, and their conference on Black European history at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. The session will be introduced ...

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE  22 February 6.00pm Decolonizing Europe Series: Nationalism and the end of empire Dan Geary, Stuart Ward  

Thursday 7th March 2019, 6.00 – 7.30pm, wine reception to follow. Imperial soldiers played a significant and increasingly well acknowledged part in the Second World War, but what about the women of the British empire? What stories might global and feminist histories of the Second World War reveal? Along the thoroughfares of empire, from Aden to Calcutta and Hong Kong, women’s lives were transformed by the pressures of the global war. This lecture will consider some of the most marginal and forg...

Speakers: Daniel Gordon, AbdoolKarim Vakil January 25, 2019, 6.00pm - 8.00pm Venue: Room MAL 632, Birkbkeck main building, Malet St, (entrance on Torrington Square), Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX* *Please note change of venue to that previously advertised.

Date: Tuesday 22 January 6.00PM-8.00PM Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Room GOR 327, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD For information contact Guy Beckett  (gbecke01@mail.bbk.ac.uk) ACTIVISTS Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) is a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. IWOC struggles to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on the outside. On September 9, 2016 it was part of a coalition of inside and outside groups that launched the l...

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019  Wednesdays 5.30 – 7pm May 15, Venue to be announced. Panel discussion of Josh Cohen, Not Working (2019). Panellists: Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths), Molly Macdonald (QMUL), Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Barbara Taylor (QMUL)  

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019  Wednesdays 5.30 – 7pm Venue: room 320, Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS. No booking required, all welcome March 6, Akshi Singh (Queen Mary UL): '”The Call of the Mother”: Assassination and Psychoanalysis in Colonial India’