Our next Historical Research Seminar will take place this coming Tuesday (13th), as usual in room 3.16 of the Arts II building. The papers will start at 5.30pm, tea/coffee/snacks/sandwiches/wine from 5pm. This time we will find a bottle opener come what may!
Our two presenters are both PhD candidates here at Queen Mary:
Matthew Champion
Something Old, Something New: Time in Fifteenth Century Louvain
Responding to the
foundation of a new university in the 1420s, drawing on a rich theological vocabulary,
and marked by radical changes in the city’s fabric, a new Louvain emerged from
the old over the course of the fifteenth century. In this paper, I examine how
vocabularies and iconographies of the old and the new were put to use in
Louvain, and their implications for a history of time in the fifteenth century.
Adrian Garvey
James Mason and British Masculinity in the 1940s
James Mason was the most popular British
film star of the 1940s. However his persona as the ‘fascinating brute’ of
Gainsborough melodramas such as The Man
in Grey and The Wicked Lady sits
at
odds with Sonya Rose’s notion of 'temperate masculinity’ in Second
World War Britain, the more pervasive gender ideal exemplified by his
screen contemporary
John Mills. In this paper I will consider this aberrant, even perverse,
hypermasculine image in relation to issues of gender, class and national
identity
in the period.
Hope to see some of you there!
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