Category: Blog
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PROGRAMME Minorities, Gender, and Contested Urban Spaces, 1750-1950
PROGRAMME Minorities, Gender, and Contested Urban Spaces, 1750-1950 Queen’s University Belfast and University of Gothenburg Online 22 April 2022, all times given in BST/GMT+1 9.00-11.00 Panel 1: Urban Representations Verena Hanna (University of Vienna) – Women and the Holy City in ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’: Between Personal and Historical Developments Borbála Klacsmann (University of Szeged)/Andrea…
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Building with Feeling: Spring 2022!
Thank you for your continued support of the Building with Feeling reading group – it’s been so exciting hearing how these discussions are feeding into colleagues’ work! We will be continuing with six more sessions. These sessions will last an hour and will take place online on Wednesdays – alternating between midday and 6pm (GMT).…
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Building with Feeling – the third edition!
Thank you for all the enthusiasm for more Building with Feeling sessions! Based on discussions with participants and among ourselves, we thought we might mix up the next round of Building with Feeling sessions to include a bit more work in progress and primary sources. As we’ve spent the last few months dipping our toes…
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CfP: Minorities, gender, and contested urban spaces, 1750-1950.
Minorities, gender, and contested urban spaces, 1750-1950. Online symposium, 22 April 2022 (please note revised date) The last decades have seen a growing number of studies proving that the modern metropolis did not function as a “melting pot”, encouraging assimilation and homogeneity among its disparate inhabitants. Instead, the city provided a spatial grid that revitalised…
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Building with Feeling reading group #2
Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the Building with Feeling reading group so far! We’ve been delighted with the response, and I know all of us organisers have got so much from the sessions. We plan to continue these sessions over the summer – so hopefully you can pop in and out…
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An update!
My contract at the University of Leicester has ended but other exciting things are afoot. I am now a Visiting Honorary Fellow with the Centre for Urban History at Leicester which (while unpaid) means I have continued access to the library which is really important to getting any research done! In the meantime, I’m delighted…