Postgraduate Research Day - Friday 4 May 2012

Postgraduate Research Day

Friday 4 May 2012

Danford Room, 224 Arts

Panel 1



9.30-10.00 Claire Morelon, Food shortages, social unrest and Empire collapse: the street in Prague around 1918



10.00-10.30 Patrick Longson, Germanophobia, press antagonism and a German panic? 1902-1904



10.30-11.00 Marco Tiozzo Fasiolo, Consensus for Mussolini? Popular opinion in the Province of Venice under the regime (1926- 1943).





TEA/COFFEE



Panel 2



11.30-12.00 Peter Hewitt, Material culture in Shakespeare’s England (title tbc)



12.00-12.30 Roger Bruton, "Noble patrons or men of science”: enlightened activity in the Severn Valley.



12.30-1.00 Andrew Limm, Strategic importance of the Low Countries to Britain, 1793-1814





LUNCH



Panel 3



2.00-2.30 Andrew Jones, Humanitarian NGOs and news production:

famine in Ethiopia and the British media, 1983-5



2.30-3.00 Allen Kiconco, The socio-economic reintegration of ‘child

mothers’ in post-conflict situations in Uganda



3.00-3.30 Isabel Cofie, Adolescent apprenticeship in Ghana



TEA







Panel 4



4.00- 4.30 Roger Deeks, Social class, officer commissions and the British army: the practice of commissioning from the ranks, 1903-1914



4.30-5.00 Simon Justice, A measure of dislocation: the effect of British infantry reorganisation on the Western Front in early 1918

5.00-5.30 Matthew Powell, Army Co-operation Command and Artillery Co-operation