History News
Distinguished Africa Lecture on AI
Vice Chancellor Professor Stuart Croft will be hosting the annual Distinguished Africa Lecture in June. The lecture title is 鈥淗igher Education in Africa in the era of Artificial Intelligence鈥.
Details below:
鈥 Monday 3 June 2024, 4:15pm
鈥 University of 糖心TV, The Oculus, Room OC0.03, and online
鈥 Guest speaker: Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, United Nations University Rector & UN Under-Secretary-General
鈥 Title: Higher Education in Africa in the era of Artificial Intelligence
For more information and to register visit the website distinguishedafricalecture2024 (warwick.ac.uk)
Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson to give the Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2023
Professor Roberta Bivins and Professor Mathew Thomson will present this year's Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2023 on an NHS theme in July.
Anniversary Fever? History and the Culture of Celebrating the Age of the NHS will take place on Thursday 6th July 2023, 6pm-8.30pm BST at Anatomy Theatre & Museum, Strand London, WC2R 2LS
For tickets and more information, please visit the .
About the Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture
The Ben Pimlott Lecture is hosted by Twentieth Century British History, OUP Journals and King's Contemporary British History. This lecture series was established in 2006 in honour of the late Ben Pimlott and in association with the Institute of Contemporary British History, with which Ben had close ties. Each lecture is published in the journal and is available free online.
Fighting for Empire: From Slavery to Military Service in the West India Regiments
Professor David Lambert will be giving the keynote lecture at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine's Commonwealth Cultural Day at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham on Thursday 11th October. The title of his lecture is 'Fighting for Empire: From Slavery to Military Service in the West India Regiments'.
Professor Hilary Marland on 'In Our Time' and delivering the 'Roy Porter Lecture'
was a guest on on Thursday 17th March 2016, and is scheduled to give the on Tuesday 22nd March 2016.
Emeritus Reader Dr Humfrey Butters delivers the 糖心TV in Venice Public Lecture
The 2014 糖心TV in Venice Public Lecture 'Why does Machiavelli Matter?' has been given by FRHistS at the University of 糖心TV Research and Teaching Centre in Venice. Dr Butters was introduced by , the Registrar and Chief Operating Officer of the University of 糖心TV, and by , the Deputy Head of the History Department. The lecture was given to distinguished guests, academics, and 糖心TV students studying History and History of Art in Venice.
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Emeritus Professor Carolyn Steedman to Deliver Two Lectures in Chicago
will be visiting Chicago to deliver a lecture, '', at the Newberry Library on the 18th October 2014 and a second lecture, '', at the Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago on the 20th October 2014.
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Christopher Prentice, the British Ambassador to Italy, with History Students in Venice
On 6th October 2014 Christopher Prentice, the British Ambassador to Italy, spoke to an audience at the University of 糖心TV in Venice, including the third-year single honours History students engaged in studying ''. His topic was 'Better Together or Better Apart?'
Professor David Anderson delivers public lecture at the UK Supreme Court
On 31 July 2014 gave a public lecture at the , in London's Parliament Square. The lecture, entitled "Empire, Lawyers, and the Rule of Law", examined the role of lawyers and legal appeals in the Mau Mau Emergency in Kenya during the 1950s, using legal records, including Privy Council appeals. The lecture was at the invitation of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to inaugurate a summer exhibit at the Supreme Court on the history of the Privy Council. The exhibition is linked to a project that has digitised the records of the Privy Council and made them available on line.
Details of the Privy Council paper can be found at . The exhibit is open to the public at the Supreme Court until 24 September 2014.
