Manchester Graduate Fair

The Armitage Centre, Fallowfield. Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 June 2012, 10.30am - 4.00pm.

Organised by the University of Manchester's Careers Service, this is the biggest Graduate Jobs Fair in the UK. Over 160 exhibitors attend the fair from a wide range of sectors, providing something of interest for students of all degree disciplines.

It is suitable for those looking for a full-time graduate position or a postgraduate course starting summer or autumn 2012, and registration is now open.

Attendance is free, but requires pre-registration:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/graduatefair

Press Barons and Tory Politics

Our last Research Seminar will take place tomorrow (note - WEDNESDAY at 5pm).

The Wicked Uncles in Conservative Party Politics:
Press Barons and the "Culture of Property" after 1918 in Germany and Great Britain
Ute Daniel
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor
German Historical Institute and LSE

Wednesday 16th May, 5pm.
Samuel Alexander, A113.

Francisco Bethencourt The History of Racism - 10th May, 4pm

History Research Seminars & the Inequality, Social Science and History Research Network present:

The History of Racism: the Iberian and Iberian-American cases

Francisco Bethencourt

Boxer Professor of History,

King’s College London

Thursday 10th May, 4pm.

Samuel Alexander, A113.

 

Francisco Bethencourt is Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London. His books include The Inquisition. A Global History (1478-1834) (Cambridge, 2009), which has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian and Serbian. He co-edited Portuguese Overseas Expansion, 1400-1800 (Cambridge 2007), Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700 (Cambridge, 2007), L’empire portugais face aux autres empires (Paris, 2007), História da Expansão Portuguesa, 5 vols. (Lisbon, 1998-1999).  He was director of the National Library of Portugal (1996-1998) and director of the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris (1999-2004). He is preparing a new book on the History of Racism.

This seminar is sponsored by the Inequality, Social Science and History Research Network, a collaboration between the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, and the Centre for History & Economics at Cambridge. For more information, see: www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/inequality/index.html or email inequality@manchester.ac.uk

Reminder: Eleanor Newbigin Seminar, Thu, 26th April, 4pm

The next History Research Seminar will take place on Thursday, 26th April 2012, 4pm A113, Samuel Alexander Building.

Wives and property or wives as property? Income tax and the making of a female Indian subject, 1916-1937

Dr. Eleanor Newbigin,
Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, SOAS

Eleanor Newbigin’s work explores ideas and practices of citizenship in India, especially during the subcontinent’s transition to independence, including its partition. She has published several articles that explore the way in which discussions about religious family (or personal) law in India during the interwar years impacted on the formation of patriarchal structures and state secularism in post-colonial India. She edited a special edition of the Indian Economic and Social History Review (2009) on 'Personal law, identity politics and civil society in colonial South Asia'. This paper is taken from her current book project on the Hindu family and the origins of Indian democracy.

Economic History Society: Grants & Prizes

Information on the Grants and Awards schemes operated by the Economic History Society can be found by following the links at: http://www.ehs.org.uk/ehs/grantsawardsprizes/default.asp

We would like to draw your attention, in particular, to the following:


1. A new Small Research Grants scheme (with awards of up to £5,000) has been launched. Deadlines: 1 May and 1 November each year. Information and an online application form can be found here.

2. EHS Internships at the Ashmolean Museum; deadline: 1 May 2012. Further information can be found here.

3. EHS Bursary Scheme for PhD Students. Deadline: 1 July 2012. Information and an online application form can be found here.

4. EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduates in Economic and/or Social History; deadline: 8 August 2012. Further information and an online application form can be found here.

Relli Shechter: 'From Arab Spring to Sustainable Consumption? A Historical Perspective'

A Sustainable Consumption Institute Public Lecture

Wednesday 18^th April 2012 in the South Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, South Wing, 12-1pm
Coffee and registration from 11.30am.

Relli Shechter is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East Studies in Ben-Gurion University, Israel. (Currently a Visiting Professor at Trinity College, University of Oxford). He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research interests include histories of consumption and enterprises during past and present eras of globalisation in the Middle East. His current research project compares the emergence of mass consumer societies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the first oil boom (c. 1974-1984). For further details see his personal website at http://www.relli-shechter.com.

I hope you can attend this exciting event. To book your place online please visit: http://sci18april.eventbrite.co.uk/.

Spaces available for this event are limited; therefore, you are encouraged to register online at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions, please contact Susan Cooper via email at susan.cooper@manchester.ac.uk.

Women in History Group

The first Women in History Group meeting will be Wednesday 21st March
at 1 - 2, in the Poetry Centre, Samuel Alexander building (room A4).

This is a group for women who work in history. We hope that the group will inspire and empower women through the positive and productive sharing of information about the past and present, national and international female experience of academia, and will be made available to, and thus made effective by, both postgraduate taught students, research students and female academics within the SAHC. We hope that you are interested in becoming part of this group, and if that's the case, then please come to the meeting where we can discuss what we would all like from the group, and how we hope to see it operate and develop. We will be in the Poetry Centre from 12 on Wednesday, so if you would like to pop in with any questions, or if you cannot make the meeting but would like to give us your comments or suggestions, then please come in and see us and we will ensure that they are fed back.

Alternatively, please feel free to email your ideas/comments/suggestions to Kelly or Sacha at

kelly.waterhouse@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
or sacha.hepburn@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Thank you so much for your support, and we look forward to seeing you next week!

All best wishes,
Kelly and Sacha