Research and innovation events archive | School of History

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Research Seminar: Curative Eschatology: Disability in Time and the Hope of Perfection

The School of History and the Centre for Disability Studies are delighted to host this joint event and welcome Professor Joshua St Pierre to the University of Leeds.

Thackray Musuem of Medicine on a sunny springtime day.

Thackray Museum of Medicine Insights Lecture Series: Dr Katherine Rawling

Join Dr Katherine Rawling from the School of History as she presents 'Left for Dead' at the Thackray Museum of Medicine together with Dr Richard Bellis and Cat Irving.

Research Seminar: In the Library or the Street?: Comparing Jesuit Language Learning Methodologies in Spain and Peru (Indigenous History, 16th and 17th Centuries)

Dr Erica Feild-Marchello presents a paper for the Empires and Aftermath research group in the School of History.

A painted roof from the Alhambra in Spain. Figures sit conversing. They wear medieval ARabic clothes. The background is golden.

Research Seminar: Chaucer, Ibn Khaldun and the Worthiness of Pedro I of Castile

Dr Shazia Jagot presents a paper for the Institute for Medieval Studies and White Rose Universities research seminar series.

Handwritten eighteenth-century record showing name, geographical origin, age and years of service for soldiers.

Workshop: AI Transcription of Archival Data

The workshop hopes to establish a process for combining AI tools and citizen science approaches to unlock data rich archival records.

A postcard advertising the IMC 2025. Medieval images in frames against a textured brown background

Conference: International Medieval Congress 2025

IMC 2025 will take place 07-10 July 2025 on the University of Leeds campus.