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Seminars run by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are open to all our postgraduate students and academic staff, and some are also open to members of the public and other institutions.
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- School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature
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School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link and/or location |
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| 7 February 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | SASSHPL Research Seminar: Dickinson and her British Contemporaries: the Invention of Victorian Poetry. | Dr. Paraic Finnerty | All welcome | Milldam Building LE0.04 |
| 8 February 2024 | 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Joint SASSHPL / CEISR Research Seminar: Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim West Africa - Contemporary Ramifications | Dr. Jennifer Lofkrantz, Associate Professor of History, Gulf University for Science and Technology | All welcome | Milldam Building LE1.01 |
| 6 March 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | SASSHPL Research Seminar: An opportunity to get to know our two new colleagues and hear about their research. Colonial practices of knowledge production: Western academia in explaining the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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Dr. Pedro Salgado and Dr. Ostap Kushnir | All welcome | Milldam Building LE1.04 |
| 10 April 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | SASSHPL Research Workshop: Everything you need to know about funding and your funding journey. | Helen Walker (FHSS RIO) | All welcome | Milldam Building LE0.06 |
| 1 May 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | Joint SASSHPL-CEISR Research Seminar: Writing about refugees in modern world history. | Peter Gatrell, Professor of Refugee Studies at the University of Manchester | All welcome | Milldam Building LE1.04 |
| 5 June 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | FHSS Research Workshop: How to Review funding Applications | Helen Walker (FHSS RIO) | All welcome | Milldam Building LE1.01 |
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link and/or location |
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| 31 January 2024 | 3.00pm - 4.00pm | Elephant in the Sales room: The fight to save Elephants: The Ivory Act, 2018 | Dr Caroline Cox | PGR students and staff |
St George's Building 0.22 and online. Students and staff: follow this link |
| 2 February 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | UK's Counter-Terrorism and its impact on people | Dr. Layla Aitlhadj | PGR students and staff | Burnaby Building 4.05 |
| 5 February 2024 | 9.45am - 4.30pm | Annual Terrorism and Extremism Colloquium hosted by the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism (WG-Extreme) and the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime (CCEC) - University of Portsmouth | Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime | PGR students and staff |
Students and staff: book your place here |
| 28 February 2024 | 4.00pm - 5.00pm | Freshwater aquatic taphonomy; the impact of temperature and novel fly species observations | Dr Helen McGonigal and Dr Kat Brown | PGR students and staff |
St George's Building 0.22 and online. Students and staff: follow this link |
| 13 March 2024 | 4.00pm - 5.00pm | The Great Escape Iceland Style: how do escapes from prison change prisons? | Prof. Francis Pakes | PGR students and staff |
St George's Building 0.22 and online. Students and staff: follow this link |
| 20 March 2024 | 4.00pm - 5.00pm | Seeing the light; An exploration of forensic photography as an evidence gathering tool and some of its challenges. | Nicholas Marsh Consultant Forensic Practitioner Science Imaging MO4 Forensic Services Metropolitan Police | PGR students and staff |
St George's Building 1.08 and online. Students and staff: follow this link |
| 27 March 2024 | 2.00pm - 4.00pm | The Challenges of Extending Electronic Monitoring to Include Juvenile Offenders in South Korea | Dr Aaron Pycroft | PGR students and staff |
St George's Building 0.22 and online. Students and staff: follow this link |
| 29 April 2024 | 4.00pm - 5.00pm | China’s Securitization Practices toward its Muslim Minority Groups: The Disappearance of the “Model Muslim Minority | Ms.Hacer Z Gonul, PhD | PGR students and staff |
St George's Building 5.12 and online. Students and staff: follow this link |
School of Education, Languages and Linguistics
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link and/or location |
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| 14 February 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | Joint Research Webinar (Uop/Ternopil University) (2) | Short talks by colleagues from Ternopil University (Ukraine) & from UoP | PGR students and staff |
Students and staff: follow this link |
| 28 February 2024 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | Language education and de-coloniality: a Panel discussion | Ruanni Tupas (UCL) and Khawla Badwan (Manchester Metropolitan University) | PGR students and staff | Park Building Learning Resources Centre |
| 13 March 2024 | Event postponed | Restorying: the creative act of re-telling | Dr Jeremy Scott, University of Kent | PGR students and staff | Event postponed |
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