READING HISTORY

Events

  • The Gulag Unbound: Remembering Soviet forced labour

    29 June 2012, Cambridge University The Gulag Unbound: conference document Organizers: Alexander Etkind, Cambridge University and Dan Healey, Reading University The history of the Gulag is conventionally understood as a story of enormous injustice and heroic endurance. This story is ‘bound’… Continue reading

  • Liberal Wars conference

    Liberal wars: strategy, history, ideology 6-7 July, 2012, University of Reading Liberalism is not pacifism. The major ‘liberal’- states that attach importance, at least internally, to individual autonomy – have frequently been willing to use military force; they have also,… Continue reading

  • Reading Early Modern Studies Conference

    12-14 July 2012, University of Reading Conference programme Call for papers Booking form For more information about about this conference please follow this link If you would like to have a Word version of the form please contact Jan Cox… Continue reading

  • The Department of History’s Film Season 2012

    Attend our inaugural retrospective film season. In collaboration with Reading Film Theatre, the heart of independent cinema in Reading, we are showcasing four thought-provoking cinematic releases that have been specially chosen by historians in the Department of History. Our aim is… Continue reading

  • The Stenton Lecture 2011 ‘On the Limits of Democratic Art’

    John Howard, Professor of American Studies, King’s College London, 17 November 2011  The annual Stenton lecture explored what is meant by democratic art and examined how art has been used as a weapon by elites to maintain the prevailing social… Continue reading