Forthcoming Events
The Raphael Samuel History Centre
Click on the titles below for further details of these forthcoming events:
Psychoanalysis and History Seminar October 2008-June 2009
The Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2008
Bad Kids? The Politics of Childhood, Past and Present
Feminism and History: Rethinking women's movements since 1800
Venues: Institute for Historical Research / Bishopsgate Institute
Previous events have included Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future: History and the Making of Public Policy:
The Security State. For details of this, including a recording of the panel speeches, click here.
Venue: Institute Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, WC1
Convenors: Sally Alexander, History department, Goldsmiths; Barbara Taylor, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, UEL
Wednesday evenings 5.30
Everyone Welcome
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22 October 2008 |
Lee Scrivner (Birkbeck) |
Lacking the Will to Sleep: Insomnia in Neruasthenia and Psychasthenia, 1869-1909 |
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26 November 2008 |
Megan Vaughn (Oxford) |
Suicide in Africa |
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10 December 2008 |
Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway) |
Brother Animal’s Long Tail: Freud, Tausk and the Research Assessment Exercise |
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28 January 2009 |
Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin (Tavistock) |
Revisiting Melanie Klein |
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25 February 2009 |
Daniel Pick (Birkbeck) |
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11 March 2009 |
Lyndsey Stonebridge (UEA) |
'What does death represent to the individual?’ Psychoanalysis and Wartime |
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14 May 2009 |
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11 June 2009 |
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The Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2008
Raphael Samuel (1934-1996)
Friday 7 November 2008
6.30 pm in the Great Hall at Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH (just across from Liverpool Street Station)
Jerry White
Pain and Degradation in Georgian London: Life in the Marshalsea Prison
For full details of the lecture, click here
The lecture will be followed by a celebration of the re-launch of the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
Click here for details of the re-launch.
Feminism and History: Rethinking women's movements since 1800
15 November 2008, Bishopsgate Institute, London.
A one-day conference exploring the relationship between writing feminist history and the history of feminism.
For full details, click here.
Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future: History and the Making of Public Policy
Bad Kids? The Politics of Childhood, Past and Present
Wednesday 26 November 2008 . 4.30 – 8.30 pm
Free: advance booking recommended.
Refreshments provided.
Great Hall at Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH (just across from Liverpool Street Station)
What is wrong with kids today? Gang culture, knife crime, casual sex, alcohol, drugs – press and television are full of these. Modern childhood, it seems, is a bad business. But are the lives of children today so very different from in the past? This event brings together historians of childhood with politicians, educational and legal experts, psychotherapists, teachers and school students to talk about British childhood, past and present. Speakers include Abigail Wills (historian, Oxford), Adam Phillips (psychotherapist), Kate Bradley (historian, University of Kent), Christina Enright (Kids Company), Deborah Thom (historian, Cambridge), Pamela Ormerod (Magistrates’ Association Youth Courts Committee), Gus John (Institute of Education), and Nicola Sheldon (historian, Oxford).
This event is organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre (University of East London/Birkbeck College/Bishopsgate Institute), in partnership with History and Policy (Cambridge/Institute of Historical Research/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
For previous events organised by the Centre click here