Seminars

Founded
2004
Seminar Number
701

The seminar in Modern British History brings together historians from New York area institutions, together with literary scholars, political scientists, philosophers and others working historically, to hear research papers by visiting scholars, to discuss recent books in the field of modern British history (from the late seventeenth century to the present), or to comment on work in progress by members of the group.

Co-Chairs
Professor Susan Pedersen
sp2216@columbia.edu

Professor James Stafford
jms2533@columbia.edu

Rapporteur
Julia Porter Burke
jpb2219@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

09/22/2022	Heyman Center, East Campus, Columbia University 5:00 PM	Talk on book manuscript: “Brotherhood of Barristers: Gender, Space and the Culture of the Bar, 1840-1940” Ren Pepitone, NYU Seth Koven, Rutgers University

10/20/2022	Fayerweather 411, Columbia University 5:00 PM	“St Clair Drake and the Transatlantic Ecologies of Race Relations” Kieran Connell, Queen’s University, Belfast James Cantres, Hunter College, CUNY

11/17/2022	Fayerweather 411, Columbia University 5:00 PM	Educating an Empire: Imperial Trusteeship and Education Reform in Interwar Britain, 1922-1932 Lynton Lees, Columbia University

12/08/2022	Fayerweather 411, Columbia University 5:00 PM	“Ménage à Quâtre: Balfour wives rethink marriage in the 1890s” Susan Pedersen, Columbia University Camille Robcis, Columbia University

01/19/2023	Fayerweather 411, Columbia University 5:00 PM	Book talk: Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, Routledge, 2022 Tim Alborn, Lehman College, CUNY Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY

02/23/2023	Fayerweather 411, Columbia University 5:00 PM	Book talk: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire Erik Linstrum, University of Virginia Karuna Mantena, Columbia University

03/23/2023	Fayerweather 411, Columbia University 5:00 PM	“The Political Economy of the Soup Kitchen and Nineteenth Century Liberalism” Peter Hession, University College Dublin/NYU Alexander Zevin, College of Staten Island

04/06/2023	Heyman Center, East Campus, Columbia University 5:00 PM	British History Seminar: Roundtable with the authors on Carl Wennerlind and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Scarcity: Economy and Nature in the Age of Capitalism, + Deborah Valenze, The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History Alyssa Battistoni, Barnard College James Stafford, Columbia University