2009-10 - Centre for Modern Studies, University of York

This three-day international conference, organised by the Department of History, marks the ten year anniversary of the department's annual Cultural History Conference.

The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship

Thursday 25 March 2010

A one-day conference hosted by the Film and Literature Programme of the Department of English in association with the Centre for Modern Studies.

Modernism's Translation (Modern school research seminar)

Monday 15 March 2010

Dr Rebecca Beasley (Oxford University)

Commemorating “Heroes of a Special Kind”: Deserter Monuments in Germany

Thursday 11 March 2010

Steven R. Welch (University of Melbourne)

My Happiness, Right or Wrong

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Honorary Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips on D. W. Winnicott.

Action, Right, and Morality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

The Capacity To Be Alone

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Honorary Visiting Professor, Adam Phillips

"On Dignity"

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Professor Michael Rosen (Harvard University)

Shooting Hemingway

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Professor Oliver Harris (Keele University)

Affective citizenship and the management of unease

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Anne-Marie Fortier, Lancaster University

Does the state value diversity in contemporary Iran? The case of minorities' education (Politics research seminar)

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Hossein Godazagar (Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of York)

British Sculpture, c1757-1947: Global Contexts

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Kirsty Breedon (University of York), Sarah Burnage (York City Art Gallery), Jason Edwards (University of York), David J Getsy (Art Institute of Chicago), Sarah Monks (University of East Anglia), Sarah Turner (University of York)

On not making boys: David Smith, Frank O‟Hara, and Gender Assignment

Monday 1 March 2010

David Getsy (Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Chair in Art History and Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

’Because of my sex and any other reason for which I am not responsible’: the freedom of labour in post-emancipation Jamaica

Thursday 18 February 2010

Henrice Altink (University of York)

On the Idea of Public Philosophy (Politics research seminar)

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Tim Stanton (University of York)

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of Africa

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Professor David Attwell (University of York)

Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (joint politics-PEP seminar)

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Guy Standing (University of Bath)

William Beveridge, Social Biology, and British Social Science

Thursday 4 February 2010

Chris Renwick (University of York)

Philosophy Colloquium - ‘Direct Realism and the Properties of Experience’

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg)

A Prophet without Honour? - Ervin Bossanyi and Stained Glass in the 20th Century

Monday 1 February 2010

Sarah Brown (Director of the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management, University of York)

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture ‘Vats, Sets, and Tits’

Friday 29 January 2010

A.W. Moore (Oxford)

Of Sweetness and Light and Other Utilities

Thursday 28 January 2010

Dr Helen Small (Oxford University)

Water famished Hong Kong: water shortages and colonial state building in Hong Kong, 1948-64

Thursday 28 January 2010

David Clayton (University of York)

Ai Weiwei: a transcultural iconoclast?

Monday 25 January 2010

Dario Gamboni (Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University of Geneva)

Philosophy Colloquium - Introspection, What?

Thursday 21 January 2010

A Philosophy Colloquium by Eric Schwitzgebel from the University of California).

Losing the North: curating Latin American art in a global context

Monday 14 December 2009

Cuauhtémoc Medina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Cultural Imperialism and the "Tribal Drum": Public Broadcasting and the British World, c. 1922-1970

Thursday 10 December 2009

Simon Potter, NUI, Galway

The sexuality of abstraction: finding lesbian meaning in Agnes Martin's grids

Monday 7 December 2009

Jonathan D Katz, University of Buffalo, Terra Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute and Guest Curator, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Beyond empiricism: Is there an ethical way of judging "Good" and "Bad" History?

Thursday 3 December 2009

Guy Halsall, University of York

"To Make You See": Modernism's Visual Turn

Tuesday 1 December 2009

Jacques Berthold Lecture with Laura Marcus, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh University

How the West Was Sung

Monday 30 November 2009

An illustrated musical history of the Western given by expert film pianist and film music historian Neil Brand

Michel Serres, The Hard and the Soft

Thursday 26 November 2009

Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London

The environmental movement in contemporary Britain

Thursday 26 November 2009

James McKay, University of Birmingham

Inaugral Lectures - History of Art at York: from the medieval to the modern

Monday 23 November 2009

Professor Christopher Norton, Professor Helen Hills, Professor Mark Hallett and Professor David Peters Corbett, Department of History of Art

A reading of his poems

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Peter Robinson

War and Peace: Harry Bates's Lord Roberts Memorial in London, Glasgow and Kolkata

Monday 16 November 2009

Jason Edwards, Unviersity of York, UK

'The Thing in the Coffin' and the Coffin as Thing: The Body and Burial in Dracula

Thursday 12 November 2009

David McAllister, University of York

Business, Development and Decolonization: The Case of Zambia

Thursday 12 November 2009

Larry Butler, University of East Anglia

H G Robley and the ethnological macabre

Monday 26 October 2009

Roger Blackley, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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