About this Event
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Wednesday 22nd May, 10am-4pm
Boots Library, Rooms 327 and 329, NTU City Campus, 50 Shakespeare St, Goldsmith St, Nottingham NG1 5LS
About this event
We are pleased to announce that Nottingham Trent University’s History Postgraduate Conference will be held on the 22nd May 2024 at NTU City Campus.
Postgraduate students and academics working in History and related disciplines at NTU and at other universities are welcome to attend, as are unaffiliated members of the public.
This year’s theme is ‘Social Justice in History’. Social justice incorporates numerous issues - conflict resolution, peace-making, legal justice, policymaking, human rights, inequalities – which are as unresolved in the modern world as they were in the distant past. We ask – how were social justice issues approached, achieved, prevented, and developed throughout human history? How are historical social justice issues viewed today? And how does this affect approaches to social justice in the modern world? Research themes explored at the conference include:
· Conflict resolution and post-conflict justice
· Law, policy and ethics
· (In)justice in Gender, LGBT, BAME and Disability histories
· Religious and cultural approaches to justice
· Environmental justice
· Families, exclusions and emotions
· Colonization and injustice
· Social justice in a global world
· Writing social justice history
Schedule
10-10:30- Registration
10:30-12:00: International Social Justice
Chair- Charlotte Middleton
Reuben Hutchinson-Wong, University of Birmingham, ‘“Ka korero mai ki au i whea ahau”: a biography of Katerina Nikorima, Ngāti Pou.’
Alex Riggs, University of Nottingham, ‘Using the ‘Rainbow Coalition’ to (re)think about Social Justice in Late Twentieth Century America’
Ian Jenkins, University of Birmingham, ‘Fingernails and tears – US state-sponsored terrorism in El Salvador 1979-1981.’
Arthur Wong, University of Cambridge
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30: Social Justice in Europe, Romans to the French Revolution
Chair- Emma Fearon
Imogen Clarke, University of Nottingham, ‘Sick Bodies and Feverish Scams: Legacy Hunting and The Fever in Martial Epigrams 2’
Jen Pearce, Nottingham Trent University, ‘The crusades, popular medievalism, and the modern world’
Leticia Pala, Nottingham Trent University, ‘Medieval Hostageship and Conflict Resolution’
Mollie Smith, Nottingham Trent University, ‘The misogyny of early modern revolutionary ideology: explaining the interregnum survival of Henrietta Maria.’
2:30-2:45: Tea
2:45-3:45: Elites and Institutions in Social Justice
Chair: Mollie Smith
Cat Gower, Nottingham Trent University, ‘The Justice of Kings: depicting the just king in fifteenth-century royal genealogical chronicles’
Emma Fearon, Nottingham Trent University, ‘The Empathetic Visitor: Using theories of queer time to unearth hidden histories at castle sites’
Charlotte Middleton, Nottingham Trent University, ‘Tolerating or True Harmony: The relationship between Uppingham and its public school’
3:45-4:00: Closing Remarks
Adjustments
Please let us know if you require any adjustments or additional support in order to present and/or attend: we will be very happy to accommodate you. Please also let us know if you have any dietary requirements or preferences.
We look forward to welcoming you on the 22nd!
Event Venue
Boots Library, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom
