Historical Perspectives is an established history society based at the University of Glasgow which acts as a network for postgraduate researchers throughout the United Kingdom. Our monthly seminar series provides a comfortable environment for postgraduate students to present their research, receive vital feedback, and generate discussion and explore ideas with their peers. Seminars are free… Continue reading
Monday 3rd April – Tues 4th April 2017 University of Glasgow The Wellcome Trust-funded Conference ‘Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures’ brings contemporary Western expertise into dialogue with psychotherapeutic approaches from ‘other’ spatially, historically or otherwise ‘distant’ cultures. The Conference Committee invites abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute presentations, to be… Continue reading
Monday 3rd April – Tues 4th April 2017 University of Glasgow The Wellcome Trust-funded Conference ‘Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures’ brings contemporary Western expertise into dialogue with psychotherapeutic approaches from ‘other’ spatially, historically or otherwise ‘distant’ cultures. The Conference Committee invites abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute presentations, to be… Continue reading
By Jessi Parrot (@messijessijumps) In the public imagination, it would seem, disability and Shakespeare are not the most obvious pairing – that is, if the recent adaptation of the London tube map to feature all of Shakespeare’s characters in place of station names is anything to go by. Indeed, according to the image, commissioned by the… Continue reading
Date: Monday, June 27, 2016 from 12.30pm to 2pm (lecture starts at 12.45pm) Location: Wolfson Medical Building, Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Glasgow, G11 6PB (View Map) Register: via our Eventbrite page Prof. Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University) will be presenting a guest lecture on ‘Disability and the Destruction of Jerusalem: Gender, Sex, and Flesh in Early Jewish Narrative’ on Monday 27th June 2016 at… Continue reading
Date: Monday 4th July 2016, 9am to 6pm Location: Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8SU (View Map) Organizing Committee: Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane Keynote Speakers: Dr Luna Dolezal, University of Durham & Trinity College Dublin Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London Professor Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading The Wellcome Trust-funded Science Fiction… Continue reading
Location: Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th September 2016 Deadline for proposals: Friday 3rd June 2016 Keynote speakers: Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University NY Andrew Kötting, artist and filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts This Wellcome-funded interdisciplinary conference aims to support and foster collaborative… Continue reading
Location: University of Glasgow Salary: £41,255 – £47,801 (grade 8) Contract: Permanent, full time Closes: 14th June 2016 The School of Critical Studies seeks to appoint a Lecturer in English Literature. The successful applicant will have demonstrably outstanding expertise in eighteenth-century literature in relation to the material culture of the period. The post is a strategic… Continue reading
Workshop: Imagineering the Future Date: 9am-5pm, Friday 10th June 2016 Location: Room 526, James Watt Building, University of Glasgow Programme: Available here The objective of the workshop is to identify key questions for the future from a range of perspectives across the physical and life sciences, engineering, arts and social sciences. Themes to be considered include: Visions… Continue reading
Three Year PhD Studentship, Glasgow Project Title: “Testing the limits of the ‘hard man’ in film: masculinity and male health behaviour in Scotland’s public health films 1934-2000” Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, the Centre for the Social History of Health and Health Care at the University of Strathclyde and the National… Continue reading
