Our events showcase the latest research and thinking in a variety of subjects – from psychology to history, literature to politics, linguistics to law. Events organised by the British International Research Institutes are also listed.
9 Mar 2021
This year Britain looks beyond Europe in the wake of Brexit and explores its relationship with the rest of the world. Join Michaela Benson to discuss what this might mean for Britain’s overseas citizens.
18 Mar 2021
What implications did the economic growth in the Victorian period have for women? In this event, Emma Griffin discusses work and family life in 19th-century Britain, the inequality of opportunity women faced and why the gender pay gap is still an issue today.
25 - 26 Mar 2021
This international conference explores the organic relationship between lived experience and academic/religious thought, beginning from the position that intellectual activity and social experience were closely intertwined in the medieval period.
30 - 31 Mar 2021
This conference explores plaster as a material in its own right and addresses the contentious question of its use in life-casting.
28 - 30 Apr 2021
On 29 December 1170, four knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket inside Canterbury Cathedral and he became one of the most famous martyrs in medieval Europe. At this conference, scholars will commemorate and re-examine Becket's extraordinary legacy.
6 - 8 May 2021
Andrew Marvell has come to be recognised as both the most important seventeenth-century poet after John Milton. This conference looks to the future of Marvell studies and the future of interdisciplinary early modern research more broadly.
