The European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) Advanced Seminar

Date: Wednesday 17th – Saturday 20th September 2008

Venue: Swansea University

Programme

Wednesday 17th September:

Wallace Lecture Theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University

1800: ‘Ernest Zobole: A Life in Art’.

A plenary lecture by Dr Ceri Thomas (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan)

Thursday 18th September:

Humanities Conference Room, James Callaghan Building

0900-1045: Art and Industry

[Discussant, Professor Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan]

Sarah Morse (Swansea University), ‘ “But Aberfan was different”: Flame and Slag as a response to the 1966 Aberfan disaster’

Leentje Mostert (Maastricht University), ‘Hub. Leufkens, an enterprising artist’

1115-1300: Miners and the Labour Market

[Discussant, Dr Ben Gales, University of Gröningen]

Bart Delbroek (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘The day-to-day operation of the labour market for coalminers in Belgian Limburg (1900-1966)’

Leen Roels (Maastricht University), ‘The labour market for miners in the Liège region, Belgium, during the twentieth century’

1345-1530: Industry and society in the twentieth century

[Discussant, Dr Leighton James, Swansea University]

Joeri Januarius (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘Black smoke: material culture and the everyday life of Belgian Limburg miners, 1900-1960’

Darren Minister (Swansea University), ‘Trade unionism in the Mond Nickel Works, 1902-1926’

Friday 19th September:

Humanities Conference Room, James Callaghan Building

0900-1045: Politics and Industry in Late Victorian Britain

[Discussant: Professor Nina Fishman, Swansea University]

Gerard Charmley (Swansea University), ‘Working class solidarity? The miners and the Merthyr Boroughs by-elections of 1888’

Daniel Budden (Swansea University), ‘ “Humpty-Dumpty” socialism: how to overcome the methodological problems encountered when outlining the Christian Socialist response to industrial life in late Victorian Britain’

1115-1300: [Discussant, Dr Norman LaPorte, University of Glamorgan]

Jan Ludwig (University of Bonn), ‘Ore mining in the Sauerland, especially its development in the preparation and during industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’

Stefan Moitra (University College, London), ‘Between Class Culture and Mass Culture: South Wales Miners' Institutes and the Cinema after 1945’

1345-1530: Wales and industry since 1945

[Discussant, Dr Martin Johnes, Swansea University]

Leah Jones (Swansea University), ‘Stage-sets and spectacles: post-war South Wales and the enchantment of industry’

Sian Rees (Swansea University), ‘The representation of authentic corporate image in the new media age’

For further information or to register for this Seminar, please follow this link or contact Professor Christopher M Williams at Christopher.m.williams@swansea.ac.uk