Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power and Empire

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The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire was established in 2002, and relaunched in 2009 with a broadened remit.  It is one of two flagship Research Centres of the College of Arts and Humanities. The Callaghan Centre regroups a large number of scholars and postgraduate students with research expertise in the areas of conflict, power and empire.

The Callaghan Centre produces world-class research, manages major Research Council funded projects, and promotes collaboration between scholars, policy-makers and cultural providers.

Director:  Dr Gerard Clarke, Department of Political and Cultural Studies.

‘A Real Economic Meltdown: The End of Roman Britain’

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The Callaghan Centre hosted a public lecture on 14 March, given by Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins of Trinity College, Oxford.  If you missed this lecture you can read more and view it here.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Gives Callaghan Centre Public Lecture

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On 9 May 2012, Professor Alan Taylor from the University of California at Davis gave a public lecture on 'The Civil War of 1812'.  Read more and see the video >>>