Cambridge History of Memory and Emotions Workshop

We're excited to share our termcard for Lent 2025, and to kick things off tomorrow, Tuesday 18th, 1-3pm, with an online session featuring two excellent speakers from the Other Place! A link to the meeting has been shared to our mailing list--if you're not on the list yet, just contact the convenors.

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
If you work on Holocaust studies, have a look at the poster and contact Beatrice Leeming rl699@cam.ac.uk and Evie Robinson evierobinson910@gmail.com

One of the most important dates for Memory Studies in the UK is Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, Cambridge University marks the occasion with a week of extraordinary events organised by the indomitable Beatrice Leeming. Have a look at the poster and mark your calendars!

Just a quick reminder that our deadline for the Lent 2025 Cycle is in one week on 8 January! Roll up for a friendly, big-tent workshop with a 300 word abstract and 100 word bio note!

We pleased to announce that the History of Memory and Emotions is now accepting presentation proposals for the Lent 2025 Cycle! Have a look at our poster and send in your proposals by 8 January!
Email you proposals: camhistmememo@gmail.com

We're pleased to announce our final session for the brilliant Michaelmas Cycle 2024! We'll meet in the Yusuf Hameid Seminar Room 1, Christ's College at 1pm on Tuesday. All are welcome, either in-person or online!

‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791 On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...

My first journal article is published! My research for @camhistory.bsky.social tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against the slave trade hours before Wilberforce’s 1st speech. Secret spy reports reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Doing History in Public’s Advent Calendar is upon us! Today’s treat is a taste of the Victoriana, fit for vegetarians of all ages! Thanks to DHP’s own editor/contributor Fabia Buescher!

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