The Swansea History Department is home to a lively research culture. Staff and students participate in a range of research seminars and lectures by invited speakers. As well as the regular Departmental Seminar, which is held on Thursdays in termtime, members of the department participate in the Welsh Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Video-Linked Seminars. The Ernest Hughes Memorial Lecture and a lecture in the history of art co-sponsored by the Friends of the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery are held annually.

The Swansea History Department has also hosted, or been involved in organising, a number of additional conferences, seminars, symposia and workshops. A selection of the most recent of these is listed below.

2009

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Wales and Copper: History, Economy and Landscape, Swansea, 10-11 September 2009
A symposium supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, the British Academy, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Swansea University
Organised by Professor Chris Williams

Regenerating the Coalfields: History and Education in South Wales & Japan, Swansea, 4-5 September 2009
The Swansea School of Humanities in collaboration with the German Historical Institute, London
Convened by Professor Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute London and Dr. Regina Pörtner

Communities in Conflict: Civil Wars and their Legacies, Swansea, 3-5 July 2009
A Postgraduate Conference organised by Helen Steele (Swansea) and Isabel Schropper (IGRS)

Robert Owen and His Legacy, Swansea, 10 June 2009
The 2nd Annual Early Modern Workshop, organised by Anna Dunthorne, Robin Lewis, John Polsom-Jenkins, Claire Vivian and Alun Withey (Swansea)

Industrial History, Industrial Culture: Representations – Past, Present, and Future, Swansea, 29 May 2009
The 3rd Annual 'Symposium by the Sea', a Social and political transformations in Germany and Austria pre- and post-1945 event in memory of Early Modern Summer Workshop: Margins organised by Professor Daniel Power and Dr Deborah Youngs

2008

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The Welsh Marches in History and Literature 1050-1550. An ESTER (European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research) Advanced Seminar, Swansea University, 17-20 September 2008
Organised by Professor Chris Williams

MEMO, Swansea University, 4 September
A one-day workshop to explore the impact of copper on the economy, trade, landscape and history of Wales, and to mark the 200th anniversary of the connection between the Vivian family and the Hafod Works in Swansea

Ifor Rowlands, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, 14-16 August
Organised by Professor Chris Williams for the Centre for the History of Wales and its Borderlands and the School of Humanities

Medieval Prophecy: The 2nd Annual Symposium by the Sea, Swansea, 23 May
Organised by Professor Dan Power on behalf of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research

Queering Central and Eastern Europe: National Features of Sexual Identities, University College London, 11 April
A day-conference co-organised by Dr Dan Healey

2007

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Portuguese Asia after the golden age of the Estado da Índia, Paris, 26-28 September 2007
A panel organised by Dr Stefan Halikowski Smith at the third congress of the Réseau Asie (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

History and the Public, Swansea, 12-14 April
An international conference organized by the History Department in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, London and the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea

Dyfodol Hanes Cymru: Cynhadledd Ôl-raddedig / The Future of Welsh History: A Postgraduate Conference, Gregynog, 8-9 March
Organised by the Centre for the History of Wales and its Borderlands

2006

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International Conference on Welsh Studies 2006, Swansea, 13-15 July
Hosted by the Centre for the History of Wales and its Borderlands, co-organised with the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH) and with professor M. Wynn Thomas of the English Department

2005

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The Fifteenth Century Conference 2005: 'The Peoples of the British Isles', Swansea, 8-10 September
Local organiser Dr Deborah Youngs

Mercenaries and Paid Men. The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages, Swansea, 7-10 July
A conference sponsored by the Callaghan Centre for Conflict Studies, School of Humanities, History Department, and De Re Militari, The Society for Medieval Military History

The Science, Culture & Practice of Soviet Medicine, Gregynog, 26-29 May
A symposium on the history of medicine in the Soviet union organised by Dr Dan Healey

Rethinking Social Democracy. The Political Economy of Social Democracy, Past, Present & Future, Swansea, 31 March-2 April
The second in a series of interdisciplinary and comparative conferences organised by a Steering Committee including Professor Noel Thompson