Past events

• Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire'

  12:00 - 13:30 28 October 2026

  Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire' History Research Seminar, hosted by Europe and the World Research Group Sam Alex A 201

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• Prof Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine), China in Five Bookshops: A Quintet of Travel Tales

  15:00 - 17:00 21 October 2026

  China in Five Bookshops: A Quintet of Travel Tales Prof Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine) Wednesday, Oct 21, 4pm Sam Alex A112 This talk will use the speaker’s visits to unusual bookshops in five different cities at five different periods to explore ways that the People’s Republic of China has changed...

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• Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin), Interactive Cartography: Saving the World one Map at a Time

  11:00 - 12:30 14 October 2026

  Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin), Interactive Cartography: Saving the World one Map at a Time co-hosted by the History Research Seminar and the Japanese Studies Sam Alex A 201

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• Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

  16:00 - 18:00 10 December 2025

  Department of History Guest Seminar

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• Prof. Anja Laukötter (University of Jena), Colonial Botanies and Glocal Legacies: Carl Haussknecht and the 19th-Century Construction of “the Orient” in German History

  13:00 - 15:00 3 December 2025

  Department of History Guest Seminar

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• Prof. Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), Coercion and Markets: Reconciling Economic and Social Explanations of Slavery in Precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900

  13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2025

  Department of History Guest Seminar

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