Dr Emily West (Reading) Enslaved Wetnurses in the Southern States of the USA
Dominic Lieven (Cambridge): 1914 and All That. Russian Perspectives on the Collapse of the European Order
4pm (refreshments) for 4.30pm
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
Dr Lisa Smith (University of Essex): Fragments from an Eighteenth-Century Family Scandal
Dr Stacey Hunter (New Metropolitan Magazine, IASH Fellow): What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification: Crafting an Effective Agenda for Public Officials
Contrasting long-run changes since the advent of devolution with recent changes in voting behaviour and political attitudes will provide deep insights into the reasons underlying the outcome of the vote. It will also offer insights into Scotland’s political landscape as it prepares for Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2016.
James Harris (Leeds): Stalin’s Terror – the Great Fear
Free event. but please register at EVENTBRITE.
Dr Stefan Ecks (Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh): Psychiatric innovation in the post-Prozac era
German studies research seminar:
Dr Clare Bielby (Hull): The New Women's Movement and the productive power of (counter)violence
Dr Fionnuala Dillane (UCD): '"Pineapple for the Million': Periodical Genres and the Politics of Affect'