HuSS, SoGAER and SALL Research Seminar Series 2008-09

Wednesday 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Tremough Campus, Peter Lanyon Lecture 4

October

15 Harriet Hawkins and David Harvey (University of Exeter)
Creating the Region – Networking the Region

22 Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota)
Darwin and Antiracist Science

29 Jonathon Green (independent lexicographer)
Slang and the City

November

5 William Tupman (University of Exeter)
Ten Myths of Terrorist Financing

12 Natalya Vince (University of Portsmouth)
Monuments, Cakes and Saintly Grandmothers: Retelling Women's Participation in the War of Independence in Contemporary Algeria

19 Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia)
Romantic Niagara: Environmental Aesthetics, Indigenous Culture, and Transatlantic Tourism, 1776-1850

26 Sam Alberti (University of Manchester)
A Parliament of Monsters: Locating Medical Museums in the Nineteenth Century

December

3 Alasdair Ross (University of Stirling)
The Management and Usage of Timber in the Eastern Highlands of Scotland, c.1580-1610.

10 Jeremy Harte (Bourne Hall Museum)
Wild at Heart: The Centrality of the Common Waste in English Folk Landscapes

January

21 Mike Heffernan (University of Nottingham)
Globalising the Map: The International Map of the World, 1890-1945

28 Helena Hammond (affiliation?)
TBA

February

4 Timothy Morton (University of California, Davis)
The Ecological Thought

11 Catherine Nash (Queen Mary, University of London)
TBA

18 Sheila Rowbotham (University of Manchester)
Edward Carpenter: A Pioneering Environmentalist from the Late 19th Century

25 Nick Roe (University of St Andrews)
English Romantic Writers and the West Country

March

4 Nigel Clark (Open University)
TBA

11 Michael Northcott (University of Edinburgh)
The Ecological Crisis of Reason: Ethical Sense and Ecological Sensibility

18 Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania)
TBA

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