QMCECS offers a programme of early evening seminars with speakers from a range of disciplines. We have six seminars a year, and recent speakers have included Sophie Gee (Princeton), Chloe Wigston-Smith (York), Karen Harvey (Birmingham), and Suvir Kaul (Penn). For a list of speakers in the last five years see the seminar archive.
All seminars Wednesday 17:15–19:00 unless otherwise stated.
Location: QMUL Mile End Campus, Graduate Centre GC222
31 January: Emma Griffin (QMUL), 'European exploration, empires, and the making of the modern world'
28 February: Judith Hawley (RHUL), 'From the Gin Craze to Gin Palaces'.
20 March: Dan Sperrin (Cambridge), 'Swift and the Secret World'.
7 May 2024,: A panel discussion of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) by Catherine Hall.
Co-organised with the London Group of Historical Geographers (LGHG)
22 May: Suvir Kaul and Will Bowers (QMUL), 'Fifty Fathoms Deep — Reading the Eighteenth-Century Shipwreck'.
This will be a in-person 'reading group' style event, with texts circulated in advance. If you would like to participate please e-mail w.bowers@qmul.ac.uk to have the relevant texts sent to you.
