Public History Conference
Public History Conference: Liberty, Equality and Emancipation
As part of their degree second year history students take part in a public conference, where they present a series of papers based around a central theme. Previous themes have included Religion, Monarchy, Empire, and Discovery
Where: B301, Kedleston Road
When: Wednesday 8 May 2013.
Book a place by contacting Dr Ian Whitehead: E:i.whitehead@derby.ac.uk
2013 marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Gettysburg address, the centenary of the birth of Rosa Parks, and fifty years since Martin Luther King delivered his famous 'I have a dream'. This year's Public History conference will explore the theme of Liberty, Equality and Emancipation, and will include papers that highlight the history of campaigns for freedom, political and social movements, and cultural reposes to repression. We invite you to attend the conference, and explore the rich global history of the movements for, and against, equal rights.
List of papers and the schedule for the day:
8.15am: Coffee/Tea
8.45am: Welcome and Opening Address
Professor John Coyne, Vice Chancellor, University of Derby
9.00am: Remembering Gettysburg:
'the world will little note nor long remember what we say here'
Carla Baker, Rebecca Frawley, Daisy Giuliano, Jessica Hall, Charles Soar
9.30am: The Rosa Parks Myth: Not Just A Passenger
Jordan Colley, Chantal Cooke, Ashley Tennant, James Williams
10.00am: The Women's KKK: Tradition and Morality in the American South
Emily Holmes, Sinead Shean, James Storer, Greg Thompson
10.30am: Coffee/Tea
10.50am: Russian Peasant Women and the Experience of Emancipation
Joshua Beardmore, Hannah Berry, Ben Luland, Dion Parry, Rebecca Warnes
11.20am: Manifest Destiny: Reversing the Language of Liberty
Raven Allen, Savanna Bowman, Liam Carr, Jacqueline Pearce, David Rebeiro
11.50am: Break
12.05pm: The Riot in the Closet: Stonewall and Gay Liberation in America
Jade Doherty, Robert Lacey, Rebekah Leggett, Sam Moulds, Jade Smith
12.35pm:
Dethroning the Beauty Queens: Women's Liberation or the Oppression of Free Will?
Stephen Johnson, Eleanor Mason, Chelsea Smith, Michael Tunnicliffe
1.05pm: Buffet Lunch
1.45pm: Tom Paine: An English Revolutionary and American Liberty
Matthew Hills, Matthew Lovelock, Timothy Olenick, Michael Tran, Tanya Zahedi
2.15pm: Napoleon: The Great Emancipator of the Jews?
Jake Cross-Bancroft, Kieran Durkan, Natalie Harris, Natasha Knowles, Cameron Trail
2.45pm: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: French Revolutionary Ideas and the Creation of Haiti
Saddaf Hayat, Paul Hibbitt, Charlotte Lever, Samual Shipton, Gregory Townsend
3.15pm: Coffee/Tea
3.35pm: The Long Road to Freedom: The Exaggerated Role of Nelson Mandela
William Fenelon, Olivia Howship, Emily Poulter, Jack Webster
4.05pm: From Educator to Oppressor: Life in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Tom Allen, Matthew Banks, James Treweek, Dominic Whiting, Michael Yallup
4.35pm: Break
4.45pm: Rwanda: The UN's Humanitarian Laboratory
Matthew Cannell, Samantha Farrell, Katherine Jones, Cameron Sandilands, Daniel Upton
5.15pm: The Roma People and the Construction of a Common European
Homeland
Stephanie Carter, Toni-Anne Gisbourne, Callum Helman, Christopher Kinloch, Elissa Rowe
5.45pm: Concluding Address.
For tickets please contact Dr Ian Whitehead. E: i.whitehead@derby.ac.uk T: 01332 591852
