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University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
1w ago
Apeike Umolu au276 Fri, 15/03/2024 - 10:31
Apeike is a historian of political thought of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her research focuses of exploring theories of nation, state, and citizenship in the pan-African world.
Apeike is a PhD candidate. She is currently both an Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholar in the Faculty of History and an Alexander Crummell PhD Scholar at Queens’ College. Her thesis is on the intellectual history of patriotism in the nineteenth-century pan-African world.
Prior to her PhD, she completed an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellect ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
2w ago
Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Dr Federica Gigante discovers medieval astrolabe linking Islamic and Jewish science
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Dr Federica Gigante’s discovery of a medieval astrolabe held in a museum in Verona, Italy, has attracted considerable international attention, with articles in TheTimes, The Guardian, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, El Pais, Le Monde, and The New York Times, among others.
Dr Gigante, research associate at the Faculty of History, has recently published an article in Nuncius which shows how the eleventh-century astronomical instrument ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
3w ago
Thursday, 7 March 2024
Dr Helen Pfeifer wins 2024 Pilkington Prize
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Helen Pfeifer, University Associate Professor in Early Ottoman History, has won the 2024 Pilkington Prize, which is awarded annually to members of staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching excellence. The awards were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington who believed that the quality of teaching was crucial to the University’s success. Dr Pfeifer is an outstanding teacher of History, whose courses are always oversubscribed. She made a key contribution to the reform of Part I of the Historical ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
3w ago
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Professor Rublack to deliver Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lecture series at CEU
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The Departments of History and Medieval Studies at CEU are delighted to announce the program for the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024. The lectures will be given by Professor Ulinka Rublack from the University of Cambridge, on the subject of Dürer’s Dress: Subject and Object in the Renaissance. For full details, please visit our website, and read an interview about the upcoming lecture series and Ulinka Rublack’s work on Albrecht Dürer and the si ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
3w ago
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Professor Rublack to deliver CEU lecture series in Vienna
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The Departments of History and Medieval Studies at CEU are delighted to announce the program for the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024. The lectures will be given by Professor Ulinka Rublack from the University of Cambridge, on the subject of Dürer’s Dress: Subject and Object in the Renaissance. For full details, please visit our website, and read an interview about the upcoming lecture series and Ulinka Rublack’s work on Albrecht Dürer and the significance of clothing ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
3w ago
300th anniversary of the Regius Professorship jar35 Mon, 26/02/2024 - 12:05
The Monarch's History Men: What has changed over three centuries?
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham)
The event will be chaired by the current Regius Professor, Professor Christopher Clark
Tue, 14/05/2024 - 17:00 - Tue, 14/05/2024 - 18:30
Buckingham House
Murray Edwards College
Cambridge
CB3 0DF
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University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
1M ago
Daniel Gilman dg630 Tue, 27/02/2024 - 07:14
I am a second-year PhD candidate at St John's College, in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. I study public speaking in history, exploring both elites speakers and marginalised voices. My dissertation specifically explores public speaking in the campaign to end the British transatlantic slave trade. This research includes methodological best practices for historians researching the non-verbal elements of speech.
My research found a woman-orator who contemporaries celebrated by for her impact and eloquence against the slave trad ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
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Dr Federica Gigante mjw205 Thu, 22/02/2024 - 14:23
Gigante ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
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Madeleine Doutney mgcd2 Wed, 21/02/2024 - 15:52
I am a PhD candidate researching notions of fatherhood and masculinity in eastern Germany from 1980 to 2000. In particular, I explore the socialist father figure as a masculine type within and beyond the home in late socialism in the GDR, and ask how these ideas changed beyond reunification into the 1990s. I am supervised by Professor Celia Donert, and fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Newnham College. Prior to starting my PhD, I received a distinction in an MPhil in Modern European History at the University of C ..read more
University of Cambridge | Faculty of History
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James A Green jag248 Wed, 21/02/2024 - 15:51
I am a PhD student supervised by Professor Duncan Needham. My research looks at the economic history of the Cayman Islands. In particular, I provide technical insight into the complicated and often opaque world of investment fund structures and how these structures, alongside other financial innovations, created an intensive economy in the Cayman Islands seemingly overnight and out of thin air.
This research is a continuation of my MPhil dissertation completed at Cambridge in Economic and Social History (2023) and first began as the subject of my ..read more