Contemporary History

The Contemporary History Workshop is a forum to discuss research on all areas of history since 1945. The workshop is open to all graduate students working across the field of contemporary history, regardless of geographical specialization. We also welcome papers that discuss the broader thematic, methodological and historiographical issues relevant to the period and which address the challenges that face historians writing about the recent past. Papers should by 20-30 minutes in length, followed by discussion over wine. The conveners welcome queries from anyone interested in presenting to the workshop at any time.

We meet on alternate Tuesdays at 5pm at Trinity Hall (Bridgetower Room)! Please come along!

Dates (for Easter Term):

1 May 2012

Stella Krepp (Hughes Hall, Cambridge) - 'The Malvinas were, are, and will be Argentine' − The Falklands war: a view from the south

15 May 2012

Thomas Ellis (Robinson College, Cambridge) - Cowboys, Communists and Consumerism: Image Making in the Space Age

29 May 2012

Max Archer (Robinson College, Cambridge) - Images, Memory, and Bloody Sunday, 1972-1998 [in Seminar Room 'P' this time only]

12 June 2012

Olivia Sohns (Clare College, Cambridge) - Lyndon Johnson and the First Offensive Arms Sales to Israel

Past Events:

1 November 2011

Jason Pack (St Catherine's College, Cambridge) - Retracing the 2011 Libyan Revolution and Uncovering Its Secret: the Dominance of the Periphery over the Centre

15 November 2011

Anna Cant (Clare College, Cambridge) - Land for Those Who Work It: A Visual Analysis of the Agrarian Reform Posters in Velasco's Peru

29 November 2011

Thomas Ellis (Robinson College, Cambridge) - Red Sky At Dawn: American Reactions to the Sputnik Crisis

31 January 2012

Martin Theaker (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) - 'Big Science on a Small Island': Britain and European Science projects, 1945-53.

14 February2012

Adrian Williamson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) - Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy

28 February 2012

Jamie Miller (Jesus College, Cambridge) - Creeping Engagement: Reassessing South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975

13 March 2012 - at 5.15pm

Berenice Guyot-Rechard (Trinity, Cambridge) - World War II and the metamorphosis of India’s north-eastern frontiers

Convenors:

Hannah Morgenstein Higgin, hnm24@cam.ac.uk

Asa McKercher, am941@cam.ac.uk

Mathias Haeussler, mhh29@cam.ac.uk

Stella Krepp, spk31@cam.ac.uk

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