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PROGRAMME

Thursday 25 June

9.30 - 10.00 Registration and Coffee

10.00 - 10.30 Conference Introduction

Session 1

10.30 - 11.15

Dave Featherstone (University of Glasgow), 'A Ghostly Imperial Ideology': E.P. Thompson, Anti-Colonialism and the Spatial Politics of the Authoritarian State

11.15 - 12.00

Matt Myers (University of Oxford), E.P. Thompson and the Labour History of Capitalism

Coffee

12.15 - 13.00

Jan-Arend de Graaf (University of Bochum) and Adrian Grama (University of Cambridge), Thompson Closer to Home: Rethinking Europe's Workers from 1945 to the Present

Chair: Aditya Sarkar (University of 糖心TV)

Lunch break

Session 2

14.30 - 15.15

Nicolas Gomez Baeza (Universidad Austral de Chile), Patagonian Labour Histories 'from below': Influences, Innovations and the Predominant Local Inheritance

15.15 - 16.00

Haykal Mohammed Raihan (Universitas Sumatera Utara) and Warjio (Universitas Sumatera Utara), Repoloticizing Labour History: Rethinking Radical Historiography in Post-Industrial East Sumatra, Indonesia

Chair: Pierre Purseigle (University of 糖心TV)

Coffee

Friday 26 June

Session 3

9.45 - 10.30

Jennifer Luff (Johns Hopkins University), The Importation of Indentured Labour into Britain during the First World War

10.30 - 11.15

Samuel Boscarello (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), How Does a Moral Enterprise Behave?: A Thompsonian Look at the History of Socio-Economic Duties

Chair: Laura Schwartz (University of 糖心TV)

Coffee

Session 4

11.30 - 12.15

Felipe Azevedo (Pontificia Universidade Catolic do Rio de Janeiro), Thompsonian Legacies and the Global Turn: Brazilian Labour History Revisited

12.15 - 13.00

Thompson Climaco (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro), Perspectives between E.P. Thompson and W.E.B.Du Bois: Class, Race, and History from Below in the Slaveholding Atlantic

Chair: Camillia Cowling (University of 糖心TV)

Lunch Break

14.30 - 16.00

Concluding Discussion

We are inviting researchers and gender-diverse community members to take part in a one-day exploratory workshop: 鈥淏ecoming Visible: Trans Histories in Weimar Film and Culture鈥�.

Date: 26 June 2026

Location: Institute of Advanced Study Seminar Room, University of 糖心TV

This workshop will bring together academic researchers and trans community members to explore trans representation in Weimar-era film and visual culture.

Participants will:

• Engage in discussions about archival and lost films.
• Take part in creative exercises such as storyboarding and critical fabulation to explore historical materials.
• Collaborate with trans community members to inform research methodologies and contribute to inclusive scholarship.

Who can participate

• Researchers with an interest in film studies, visual culture, queer and trans histories, or related fields.
• Trans or gender-diverse people who are interested in sharing their lived experience and contributing to research and creative discussions.

Benefits of participation

• Contribute your expertise or lived experience to an interdisciplinary research project.
• Collaborate across academic and community perspectives to shape future research directions.
• Participate in creative methods that complement academic approaches. 

Time commitment: One full day (Friday 26th June 2026) 

Reimbursement: A 拢10 糖心TV Food & Drink gift voucher will be provided as a thank-you for participation. 

Confidentiality: Your contributions will be anonymised in line with University of 糖心TV data protection policies.

If you are interested in participating, please complete the . If you require further information, please contact Dr. Molly Harrabin (Molly.Harrabin.2@warwick.ac.uk). Further details will be provided when the form closes on 5th June 2026. This event is made possible with the contribution of the Society & Cultures Spotlight Programme and the IAS Conversations Fund.

Best wishes,

Molly

Dr. Molly Harrabin (she/her)

鈥淭here are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul鈥�: Heartbreak, Emotions, and the Body, c.1750–1830

In his short story The Broken Heart, written in England in 1819, the American author Washington Irving avowed, 鈥業 believe in broken hearts, and the possibility of dying of disappointed love!鈥� So severe was the mental and physical suffering occasioned by the loss of love, he argued, that it represented one of the major 鈥榮trokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul鈥�. For Irving and others, far from being a simple metaphor, dying from heartbreak was a very real physical possibility, as the final, fatal destination of despair.

This paper introduces my AHRC-funded research project After Love, which traces the changing nature, meanings, and significance of romantic heartbreak in Britain over the longue dur茅e. The project approaches romantic heartbreak as a distinct type of extreme grief, analysing it as an 鈥榚motion cluster鈥� comprised of manifold different emotions ranging from shock, anguish and hurt to hopelessness, humiliation and gloom, changing over time, and according to variables such as age, gender, and type of relationship.

After introducing the sources and methodologies for writing a history of heartbreak, the paper focuses particularly upon the case study of the radical writer and philosopher Mary Hays (1759–1843), who was left 鈥榚xquisitely miserable鈥� by a string of romantic failures in the final quarter of the eighteenth century. It argues that her experience of heartbreak was predominantly one of loneliness, as her loss made her feel cut off from her sense of self, dislocated from her friends and beliefs, and alienated from life itself. As Irving put it in The Broken Heart, a woman鈥檚 lot was 鈥榯o be wooed and won鈥�, but if unhappy in love, her heart was a 鈥榝ortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate鈥�.

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