Past Events
Past events organised by the Centre since 2006 include:
History and Policy
Conversations and Disputations: discussions among historians
History of Feminism Seminars
Love in History Week
Memorial Lectures
Memory Studies
Migration and Refugee Studies seminars
Psychoanalysis and History Seminars
Birkbeck Urban Studies Group Seminar Series
Others have included:
What is memory studies? A day of reflection and discussion
Feminism and History: Rethinking women's movements since 1800
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People's London
2 December 2006
A day-long public event in commemoration of Raphael Samuel, organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London.
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What about the workers?
19 May 2007
This study day organized by the Museum in Docklands in collaboration with the Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London explored some of the complex issues relating to labour relations in the Port of London during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Book launch for The Lost World of British Communism, by Raphael Samuel
1 December 2006
Raphael Samuel, one of postwar Britain's most notable historians, posthumously evokes the world of British communism in the 1940s and 50s. A discussion of the book was followed by a reception. This event was co-hosted by the Bishopsgate Institute and Verso Books.
In New Left Review in the mid-80s Raphael Samuel published three essays on the world of British communism in which he had grown up in the 1940s and 50s. Verso has now reprinted these in book form to mark the tenth anniversary of his death. A tour de force of historical writing, the essays draw on novels, memoirs, interviews, Party literature and archives, as well as Samuel's own childhood recollections, in order to conjure up an era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power.
A launch party and roundtable discussion of The Lost World of British Communism took place at the Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate (opposite Liverpool St Station) on Friday December 1st. Speakers included Eric Hobsbawm, Jean McCrindle, Kevin Morgan and Geoff Andrews.
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Book launch for London: City of Disappearances, ed. Iain Sinclair
31 October 2006
A collection of essays by leading writers including JG Ballard, Will Self and Marina Warner, reveal the capital in unfamiliar guises. Three contributors - Rachel Lichtenstein, Patrick Wright and Sukhdev Sandhu - joined Iain Sinclair in conversation.
This event was co-hosted by the Bishopsgate Institute and Penguin Books.
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Asylum Histories
20 October 2006
The final symposium in the series, 'Movement of Peoples, 17th-21st century', co-sponsored by the RSHC and the Institute of Historical Research.
Speakers: Liza Schuster (Compass, Oxford); Anita F¨¢bos (Refugee Studies, University of East London); Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck College); Stephen Castles (Refugees Study Centre, Oxford).