Wed, 2 Nov 2011 - 6 pm (Registration from 5.30) - Boardroom
Newport Professorial Lecture Series 2011
‘Welsh Antiquity’
Prof. Ray Howell, Director SWCHIR
For more information and registration contact Research and Graduate Studies at Newport on 01633 435326, Email rgs@newport.ac.uk
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Thurs, 24 Nov 2011 - 5.00 – 6.30 pm - Main Building: Conference Centre
‘Channel 4’s “Strike: When Britain Went to War”. Myth, Celebrity and The Miners Strike’
Eamonn Kelly, Newport
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Thurs, 1 Dec 2011 - 5.00 – 6.30 pm. - Main Building: Conference Centre
‘"Dying to Look Good": Lead in Romano-British society’
Steve Gray, M. Phil student, Newport
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Thurs, 19 Jan 2012 - 5.00 – 6.30 pm - Boardroom
‘Women and Television Comedy’
Rosie White
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Wed, 1 Feb 2012 - 6.15 – 7.30 pm - A24, Main Building
‘Foreign feet in alien houses: Vikings, Dwellings and social identity in early medieval Ireland’
Dr Iestyn Jones, Visiting Lecturer, Newport
in conjunction with the MA in Regional History
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Wed, 8 Feb 2012 - 6.15-7.30 pm - Boardroom, Caerleon Campus
‘Scandalous lies and slanders’. The Society of Friends, Caribbean slavery and the Barbados Declaration of 1671
Dr Richard C. Allen, Reader, Newport
in conjunction with the MA in Regional History
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 - 6.15-7.30 pm - Boardroom, Caerleon Campus
‘“Gardening with God”: Edmund Jones and eighteenth century herbalism’
Adam Coward, Ph.D. student, Newport
in conjunction with the MA in Regional History
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Thurs, 15 Mar 2012 - 5.00 – 6.30 pm - Boardroom
‘Mafia, camorra, 'ndrangheta: a parallel history of Italy's major criminal organizations’
Prof. John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies, University College, London
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(Postponed - New Date TBC) - Seminar Room, Newport Graduate Centre, 'C' Floor, Library Building, Caerleon Campus
‘Women, peace and protest: responses to war from Quaker relief to Greenham Common’.
Dr Fiona Reid, Deputy Head of Humanities, University of Glamorgan
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Lectures are open to the public. Tea/coffee will be available afterwards.
It will help with numbers if you book your place – email keri.james@newport.ac.uk
For updates and last-minute changes visit our web site at http://www.newport.ac.uk/swchir
For more information contact Ray Howell, Director of SWCHIR - ray.howell@newport.ac.uk