Raffaele Maddaluno (La Sapienza University of Rome)
Brian Cowan (Professor of History, McGill University)
“Religion and Renown in Post-Revolutionary England”
The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25
Homecoming lecture, delivered by Prof. Suzanne Morton
Please RSVP via this link: McGill Alumni - Event Details
Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer at The Guardian, will deliver the 2024 Cundill Lecture on her award winning book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution.
2024 Cundill Festival Schedule
Please see individual event listings for more information.
October 29
The Cundill Lecture in History • 5:30pm
This paper explores why radical mobilizational tactics failed to achieve social and political changes during the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement.
Juliette Françoise (University of Geneva)
Jennifer Purcell (Professor of History, St. Michael’s College, Vermont)
“Tales We Tell Ourselves: The Endurance of British Monarchy into the 21st Century"
Abstract: Despite their significance, popular experience of the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions and forced migrations in Gaelic-speaking Scotland from c1750-c1886, remain understudied in both history and archaeology.
Cian Dinan (PhD candidate in History, McGill University)
“‘The True Whiteman’s Coming’: Roger Casement’s Erotics of Civilization”
The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25
Jessica Keene (Lecturer in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“Henry VIII's Sexual Conservativism”
The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25
Anna Roberts (PhD candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University)
“’Takeing of Snuff is the Mode at Court’: The Articulation of a Libertine and Royalist Habit in Restoration England”