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Humanities Society (Media Collection)

This archive features recent recordings of recent talks from the Humanities Society.

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Ancient Greek Warfare Beyond the Phalanx
Dr Roel Konijnendijk (University of Edinburgh), Dr Cezary Kucewicz (Univeristy of Gda艅sk & Cambridge), Dr Matthew Lloyd (Norwich & District Historical Society, Canada)

Watch the recording from 22 February 2022

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Ya Lalla: The Digital Sphere & the Sensory: A Platform on Judeo-Arabic Songs for Birth from the Moroccan Sahara
Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Research Associate, Faculty of Music; Peterhouse College)

Watch the recording from 26 October 2021

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Putin's Use of Russian History
Professor Orlando Figes

Watch the recording from 19 October 2021

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Christian Social Responsibility: Theology, Charity, and Development in Nigeria
Christopher Wadibia (PhD Candidate, Selwyn College / Ax:son Johnson Research Assistant in Applied History, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge)

Watch the recording from 1 June 2021

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A Global Maghreb: Crossroads, Borderlands, and Frontiers
Professor Paul A. Silverstein (Reed College)

Watch the recording from 25 May 2021

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The World of the Village Watchman in Colonial Eastern India
Dr Partha Pratim Shil (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge)

Watch the recording from 4 May 2021

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The Fascist Welfare State: Cleavages, Rupture, and Mediation
Ilaria Pavan (Associate Professor Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore)

Watch the recording from 9 March 2021

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Religion and the Politics of Race in 1960s London: Transnational Liberation Networks and Theologies of Resistance
Dr Hannah Elias (Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London)

Watch the recording from 2 March 2021

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鈥淎 Mild Despotism, Tempered by Sugar鈥�: the Rise of the Overseer State in Britain鈥檚 Post-Slavery Empire
Dr Sascha Auerbach (Lecturer in Modern British and Colonial History, Department of History, University of Nottingham)

Watch the recording from 23 February 2021

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Dreams of Paradise
Professor Jane McLarty (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge & Fellow of 糖心Vlog官方)

Watch the recording from 16 February 2021

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A Very British History British-Bangladeshis
Dr Aminul Hoque MBE (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Watch the recording from 9 February 2021

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Toward a Black Ecomusicology, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with Solomon Northup
Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge & Queens' College)

Watch the recording from 2 February 2021

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Commemorating War Dead in Ancient Athens from Homer to Thucydides
Dr Cezary Kucewicz (Faculty of History, University of Gda艅sk & Junior Research Fellow, 糖心Vlog官方)

Watch the recording from 26 January 2021

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Atoms for Peace (and War): the Italian Nuclear Programme During the Cold War
Professor Elisabetta Bini (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II)

Watch the recording from 24 November 2020

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Antisemitism in the anonymous Renaissance dialogue Viaje de Turqu铆a
Dr 艦izen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool)

Watch the recording from 10 November 2020

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The Second World War and the Prospects of Quite India in Bengal
Dr Anwesha Roy (SOAS, University of London)

Watch the recording from 3 November 2020

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The War Babies of Black GIs and White British Women
Professor Lucy Bland (Professor of Social and Cultural History, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

Watch the recording from 20 October 2020

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Rethinking the Emergence of the English
Professor Susan Oosthuizen (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, 糖心Vlog官方)

Watch the recording from 2 June 2020

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'The Invisible Enemy':
Fighting Plague in Renaissance Italy
Professor John Henderson (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck University of London and Emeritus Fellow, 糖心Vlog官方)

Watch the recording from 26 May 2020

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Whose Bled? Music, Sound and Public Spaces
in (Post-)Colonial Algeria

Dr Stephen Wilford (Research Associate at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge and Junior Research Fellow, 糖心Vlog官方)

Watch the recording from 12 May 2020

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