History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London

Information Across Borders: International and Global Histories

Friday 16 December 2022, 9.30 – 5

Birkbeck Central, BCB 209, Birkbeck, University of London

From the League of Nations to UNESCO, Freedom House to Amnesty International, information has been hotly contested on the international stage. Interwar debates about ‘moral disarmament’ and ‘false news’, Cold War discussions of press freedom, and heated arguments about a post-colonial New World Information and Communication Order are testament to the centrality of information as a tool for peace, a weapon for nation-building, and as a counterpart to military and economic diplomacy. The increasing global reach of broadcast, satellite and internet media have created new possibilities for cross-border transfers of information, allowing for the creation of new transnational publics, but also presenting a challenge to national sovereignty. This workshop, which brings together scholars from across Europe, will examine the international and global dimensions of information in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the role of international organizations in debating and exchanging information, the transnational infrastructures and agencies through which information travelled, and the consequences – national and transnational – of the globalization of information.
The workshop is open to all but space is limited. Please contact Simon Huxtable to register.

Organiser: Simon Huxtable ([email protected])

Thinking of applying for a postgraduate programme?

Join Dr Julia Laite on Tuesday 29 November to hear more about our January-start MA programmes in History and Gender & S*xuality.

Book your place here:
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=34170

Are you ready to make radical anti-violence art? The S*xual Harms + Medical Encounters Research Hub is excited to welcome you to an in-person zine workshop aimed at uncovering the historical uses of zines within anti-violence movements and providing a supportive space to create your own radical art in zine form.

Zines have long been used by survivors of sexual violence to communicate their experiences, build community, and enact resistance. Join SHaME's Allison McKibban for a brief history of zines in anti-violence movements, before creating, alongside Illustrator Erin Aniker, your own zine to take home.

Sign-up here for a FREE, in-person workshop at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022 at 3pm:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crafting-anti-rape-activism-a-diy-zine-making-workshop-in-person-tickets-468474388507

Join us with Keith Beauchamp, filmmaker , for a Sunday Screening and Discussion of 'The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till' as part of Black History Month.
Sunday 16 October, 3.00-5.00pm, at Birkbeck, University of London, Room B34, main entrance on Torrington Square, London WC1E 7 HX
It's a free event so book your place here bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/the-untold-story-of-emmett-louis-till/

How have we historically understood & managed TB?

Tuberculosis: A Cultural History

Tuberculosis (and especially drug resistant strains) is a major global health problem, with over nine million people developing the disease annually and 1.5 million dying from it. The history of TB reveals the complex and often contradictory meanings assigned to this disease.

The terms used to talk about TB – phthisis, consumption, the “white plague”, and the “wasting disease”, for example – reveal a great deal about popular perceptions relating to contagion and individual social responsibility.

Thurs 6 Oct 2022

6-7pm

Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

Sign Up gres.hm/tb-history (Watch later & past lectures on website) Royal Historical Society

It's the first weekend of term and we've extended our opening hours! Now open on Saturdays between 10-5pm and until 8pm from Monday to Thursday.

Believe in Me CIC and the Raphael Samuel History Centre are delighted to be collaborating for the History of Indian Women & War Project. Our first session is:
Histories of Indian Women and War: S*x
Part of the History of Indian Women and War Project, this event will explore the history of Indian women’s labour and sexuality during the Second World War.
Thursday 20th October 2022, 6.00pm to 9.00pm, in person
Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, London, WC1E 7JL
Registration is essential. Please contact [email protected] by Tuesday 18th October

Please note: this event deals with themes of sexual violence

Birkbeck students joined the excavation team, led by Yannos Kourayos and Ilia Daifa, on the island of Despotiko, off Antiparos, in the Cyclades region of Greece.

Despotiko is a small, currently uninhabited, island, located to the west of Antiparos in the Cyclades, Greece. The island housed an important sanctuary in the archaic and classical periods.

If you are interested in joining the excavation next season (June 2023), you may do that by taking the module The Archaeology of a Greek sanctuary, or contact Christy Consstantakopoulou.

From today the Library is in vacation hours! We will be open daily throughout the summer:
Monday-Friday 10am-10.45pm
Saturday-Sunday 10am-6pm

Join us on July 13 for a discussion of Charlie Jeffries' timely book on adolescent sexualities and the US culture wars

In-person & online, free entry - booking required:
https://shame.bbk.ac.uk/events/book-launch-teenage-dreams/

Book Launch: Teenage Dreams: Girlhood S*xualities in the US Culture Wars – S*xual Harms and Medical Encounters (SHaME) SHaME is thrilled to host the official launch of Charlie Jeffries's new book, Teenage Dreams: Girlhood S*xualities in the US Culture Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2022). Jeffries will be joined by SHaME's Prof Joanna Bourke for a short reading from the book and a Q+A discussion.

✍️ Have you read our latest by ?

Ben writes about his experience of being an and the different avenues available to people who are interested in a career in .

Find out more here 👉 https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/letter-to-a-young-archaeologist-june-2022.html

We would like to wish a happy to all our LGBTQ+ students and alumni members! 🌈🌈🌈

A spring success: Graduations return to Senate House Staff and students from across Birkbeck came together to celebrate the academic achievements of over 1,000 students during the College’s Spring Graduations.

Home — Birkbeck, University of London We are London's evening study specialists and a leading research and teaching university. Our flexible degrees are awarded by the University of London.

JOB ALERT

Are you an experienced archaeologist, eager to share your fieldwork skills?

Join our training team as Fieldwork Trainer and help shape a new generation of archaeologists!

Salary: 14,889 - £15,839 (dependent on location)
Location: Northampton or London
Closing date: 19 June 2022
Part-time, fixed-term contract (with the possibility of extension)

Find out more and apply HERE: http://ow.ly/Vjhr50JaX27

Have you read our latest by ?

✍️ Have you read our latest by ?

💬 “I am a community archaeologist, but I prefer my full job title which is “Chief Memory Maker and Storyteller”. Because stories are what make archaeology so exciting, fascinating, so personal, so world-wide.”

You can read the full letter by following this link https://www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/letter-to-a-young-archaeologist-may-2022.html

Birkbeck Hca Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust

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Letter to a Young Archaeologist, May 2022 Dr Penelope Foreman

There are still some places left on our free Taster session on 25 May on the Climate Crisis, modern consumers and Mennonites farmers.

Here are Kat Hill and Frank Trentmann to introduce the session and the topics they will be discussing.

https://birkbeck.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b372d3a2-6237-4334-b0ca-ae9100cde902

Climate Change

We're so proud to announce that Birkbeck has been reconfirmed as one of the UK's leading research-intensive universities, with 83% of research confirmed as world-leading and internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework 🎉 Read more: https://bit.ly/3yAShjR

New to studying in the Library and not quite sure how it all works? We're running tours this week so you can familiarise yourself with the library space and all it offers.

Join us and find your perfect spot to prepare for exams! At 5pm (Tuesday-Thursday) & 12pm (Friday). No need to book!
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/library/news-and-updates

📣Wild Analysis Today
🗓️12 May
⏰6-7.30pm
💻Online
👉Speakers: Shaul Bar-Haim, Elizabeth Sarah Coles, Matt ffytche, Daniel Pick, Jacqueline Rose, Helen Tyson

Join Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) to celebrate the publication of Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (Routledge, 2022).

What is the history of humans' relationship with the natural world? How does it affect the present?

The Our Earths podcast with HCA's Kat Hill explores these questions.

The first series of episodes looks at humans' relationship with cattle:
https://ourearthspodcast.com/

Our Earths Podcast OUR EARTHS PODCASTA podcast that tells stories about human relationships with the natural world and environment About the podcast Human relationships with the non-human world - it’s a topic that has never been more important as humanity confronts the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and environm...

Join us throughout May for films on hidden persuasion featured in the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image programme:

http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/bimi/portfolio-item/current-programme/

Current Programme – Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image