Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Past events

Blackwells Book Launch

Event date: Thu, Dec 13, 2012

CSL Annual Lecture: Julian Wolfreys (University of Loughborough) Quiet: toward a phenomenology of urban perception in Dickens or, Modernity, the Self, the City

Event date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012

Samantha Page (University of Portsmouth PhD student) Sexual Cultural Practices and Narratives of Blame. HIV and AIDS in Malawi

Event date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012

What Will The World Look Like If America No Longer Dominates Global Development?

Event date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012

CEISR Annual Lecture: Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University) Sexualities in Global Perspective

Event date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012

Chris Reid (Queen Mary University London) Vindicating Lord Clive: performance and print in 18C parliamentary oratory (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012

Francophone Africa Symposium: Emerging Themes in the Study of Francophone Africa

Event date: Wed, Nov 14, 2012

Laura Hyman (University of Portsmouth) Happy and you know it? A cultural exploration of people's experiences and perceptions of happiness

Event date: Tue, Nov 13, 2012

Hilary Footitt (University of Reading) Imagining the communicative space: languages and intervention in crisis zones

Event date: Tue, Nov 6, 2012

Mark Frost (University of Portsmouth) ‘My dear Graham’: Ruskin and the Lost Companions of the Guild of St George (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, Oct 30, 2012

Catherine Hall (University College London) Displaced histories; memories of the slave trade and slavery

Event date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Local Democracy Week: Debate on hidden violence

Event date: Tue, Oct 16, 2012

Simon Barker (University of Lincoln) Lost Property: John Galsworthy and the search for ‘that stuffed shirt’ (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012

Lee Sartain (University of Portsmouth) “The highest mark among those who failed”: The desegregation of Baltimore Schools, Maryland, 1954

Event date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012

Portsmouth Gender Research Network – Seminar Series Launch Event

Event date: Wed, Sep 26, 2012

Kevin McSorley (University of Portsmouth) Helmetcams, militarized sensation and 'somatic war'

Event date: Tue, Sep 25, 2012

Southern England Local Partners 2012 annual European congress

Event date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012

The Experience of Cohabited Space. Representations of Contested Areas in Text, Cinema and Sound, 1920-50

Event date: Sat, Jul 14, 2012

European Studies Conference: Toward a European Society?

Event date: Thu, Jun 28, 2012

The Role and Impacts of Experts and Expertise in Policy Making Workshop

Event date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012

Grassroots globalisation: squaring the circle of Roma inclusion (Symposium)

Event date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012

Taking Stock and Moving Forward: The Launch of a New Era of Women and Gender Studies at Portsmouth

Event date: Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Presentation on the French Presidential Elections

Event date: Wed, May 9, 2012

Jessica Dyson: The 'antic disposition': madness and justice in Shakespeare, Webster and Brome (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, May 8, 2012

Doing research on and in Algeria: methodologies, research agendas, practical issues postgraduate workshop

Event date: Wed, May 2, 2012

Shaira Kadir: The EU and India: a partnership for development

Event date: Tue, May 1, 2012

Emma Reilly:'I was somewhat clumsy I think in a bodily way': The Transformation from Civilian to Soldier in the Second World War

Event date: Tue, May 1, 2012

Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth: Who's the harki now? Language of opposition in contemporary Algeria

Event date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012

Howard Booth: John Addington Symonds, Venice and the connective look (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012

Paul Flenley: The Politics of History: the Historiography of the 1917 "Proletarian Revolution" as a Political Struggle

Event date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012

Yohai Hakak: Treating forbidden love: religion and the psych - professions in Israel

Event date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012

Algerian and Arab Revolutions: An International and Comparative Perspective

Event date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012

Robert Frith: Catching the the boomerang with closed eyes? Reflexive security and international relations

Event date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012

Patrick Parrinder: Wells's 'The Time Machine' and Kafka's 'Metamorphosis': variations on the bug-eyed monster (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012

Translation and the Law: Building Bridges between Translators and Legal Professionals

Event date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012

Ann Matear: Educating for human rights and democracy in the Southern Cone

Event date: Tue, Feb 28, 2012

Emmanuel Godin: New research directions in extreme right studies

Event date: Tue, Feb 21, 2012

Translation and the Law: Building Bridges between Translators and Legal Professionals

Event date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012

Lyn Innes: William Trevor and postcolonial London (CSL Seminar)

Event date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012

CEISR book launch - Algeria: France's Undeclared War

Event date: Tue, Feb 7, 2012

The sea captain, the actress and the lost treasure

Event date: Tue, Dec 13, 2011

NATO's Comprehensive Approach to Counter 21st Century Threats - Mapping the New Frontier of Global Risk and Crisis Management

Event date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011

CSL Annual Lecture

Event date: Tue, Nov 29, 2011

CEISR Annual Lecture

Event date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011

Infidel Conversions: Counter Conversion in the Lives of Freethinking Feminists, England 1830-1889

Event date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011

The mainstream right in Europe and the populist temptation

Event date: Wed, Nov 9, 2011

Affective critical regionalism in DJ Waldie's Suburban West

Event date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011

Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference

Event date: Sat, Nov 5, 2011

Theoretical-methodological challenges in corpus approaches to discourse studies

Event date: Sat, Nov 5, 2011

The EU as a global actor: past its peak?

Event date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011

Safety first! Individuals, voluntary organisations and the British state in twentieth-century accident prevention

Event date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011

Desh-Bidesh: Bangladeshi diasporic writing and the 1971 war

Event date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011

Addressing deficits in NGO accountability

Event date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011

Noble Resistance and Revolt in Elizabethan England

Event date: Tue, Oct 4, 2011

Sir Henry Lee and the Elizabethan Accession Day Tournaments [cancelled]

Event date: Tue, Oct 4, 2011

Worlds within worlds: community, companionship and autonomy in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World

Event date: Tue, Sep 27, 2011

Oscar Wilde and the Fenians (CSL)

Event date: Tue, Apr 12, 2011

Too weak to wage war, or 'too fat to fight'? Dietary concerns and the fitness of the male body for war (CEISR)

Event date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011

The 1926 lockout: meanings of community in the Durham coalfield (CEISR History)

Event date: Tue, Mar 29, 2011

The Byronic hero in nineteenth-century fiction and screen adaptation (CSL)

Event date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011

ASMCF Postgraduate Study Day

Event date: Sat, Mar 19, 2011

Approaches to language and newcomer integration (CEISR)

Event date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011

Between Region and Nation: Locating German-Jewish Identities in Imperial Germany (CEISR)

Event date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011

Shakespeare's sonnets, alchemy and the creative imagination (CSL)

Event date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011

Heritage lottery fund management (CEISR History)

Event date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011

Promoting Russian Art in Europe: Léon Bakst, the Oriental Other, and the Ballets Russes reception in Britain and France (CEISR)

Event date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011

'The play of the gift': economies of exploitation in Henry James' late fiction (CSL)

Event date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011

Cuts, culture and sociology (CEISR)

Event date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011

Research Seminars, Semester 1, 2010/11

Event date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010

1960: the 'Year of Africa' and French decolonisation re-visited. A 'French solution' for sub-Saharan Africa?

Event date: Mon, Sep 6, 2010

The French Revolution in 2010: the Bicentenary comes of age?

Event date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010

War and the Body - Interdisciplinary one day conference

Event date: Fri, Jun 11, 2010

Professor Malcolm Coulthard Seminar

Event date: Thu, May 20, 2010

CEISR Seminar - His Excellency Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, Republic of Turkey

Event date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010

CEISR Annual Lecture

Event date: Tue, Mar 16, 2010

Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, 30th Annual Conference

Event date: Thu, Sep 3, 2009

National Workshop on Bukovina Studies followed by round table discussion (in German)

Event date: Wed, May 6, 2009

France, North Africa and the Middle East: Interdisciplinary and Multimedia Perspectives

Event date: Wed, Mar 18, 2009

Russian Jewish Artists and Book Design, 1919-28. Berlin as a Showcase for the Old and the New Russia

Event date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009

Conference: 'Between Metropolis and Diaspora'

Event date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009

The Battle about Memory in the Berlin Republic : Changes and Consistencies

Event date: Wed, Jan 14, 2009

French EU Presidency : Study Half Day

Event date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008

CEISR Annual Lecture 2008

Event date: Mon, Dec 1, 2008

Selling Presents, Pasts, and Futures : Berlin and its Anniversaries

Event date: Wed, Nov 19, 2008

Daily Life, War and Occupation : France, Belgium and Britain 1940-1944

Event date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008

Visual Mythologies: Photography and (Divided) Memory in Contemporary War Writing

Event date: Wed, Oct 22, 2008

Learning and Training to be European Today

Event date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008

Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Literature, Media and Film

Event date: Mon, Jul 14, 2008

1970s British Culture

Event date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008

Centre for European and International Studies Research Seminars and Lectures Semesters One and Two 2007/8

Event date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007

Beyond the France/Algeria binarism

Event date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008

Memory Cultures Seminar Series

Event date: Tue, Dec 11, 2007

CEISR Annual Lecture

Event date: Tue, Dec 4, 2007

Forgotten Soldiers. African troops and the Liberation of France in the Second World War

Event date: Wed, Nov 7, 2007

Émigré Journalism as a Sponsor of the Bolshevik Cause? Art Patronage in Russian Berlin, 1921-25

Event date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007

UACES Annual Conference: Exchanging Ideas on Europe

Event date: Mon, Sep 3, 2007

The Conscience of a Citizen: Jan Addams and World War I

Event date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011