Category Archives: Seminars

Zoom workshop, 30th June 2022, 4.30-6.00pm BST Dr Michael Riley, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society Local history has the power to reinforce a sense of identity and belonging that all young people need to feel. Michael’s session will … Continue reading →

Zoom seminar. 28th June 2022, 5-6.30pm UK / 6-7.30pm CET Prof. Dr. Marko Demantowsky, Dr. Barbara Pavlek Löbl and Carina Siegl, M.A., Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna In the past, there has been case-by-case … Continue reading →

21st April, 6-7.30pm BST, Via Zoom Dr Lindsay Gibson, University of Brtish Columbia, and Dr James Miles, Teachers’ College, Columbia University. Since the early 2000s, use of the term presentism has rapidly increased in both the historical discipline and public … Continue reading →

How do 17-18 year-old students engage with differing historical accounts? A case-study from Cyprus 29th March 2022, 5-6.30pm GMT, via Zoom Dr Maria K. Georgiou, SYNTHESIS Centre for Research & Education There has been increasing international research on history education … Continue reading →

7th March 2022, 6-7.30pm GMT, via Zoom Professor Ethan Kleinbern, Wesleyan University This talk, is meant to challenge some assumptions about the ways we think about the past and “do” history. In particular, I challenge the idea of a stable … Continue reading →

27th January 2022, 16:30 – 18:00 BST Dr Catharine McCrory, UCL Institute of Education This UCL History Teaching Workshop led by Dr Catherine McCrory is the second exploring teaching decisions on the micro level of individual lessons and lesson segments. … Continue reading →

CL History Special Interest Group Research Seminar and Workshop, Wednesday 19th January, 6-7.30pm, GMT. Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, University of South Australia Ever wondered what size the histories we teach should be? Should we explore the biggest, or the smallest stories … Continue reading →

UCL History Teaching Workshop, Thursday 25th November 2021, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM GMT This workshops explore practical ways to respond to the climate crisis through the lens of history in schools The climate crisis may be the single most … Continue reading →

1st July 2021, 16:30 – 18:00 BST Dr Catharine McCrory, UCL Institute of Education Recent workshops in this series have engaged with current BIG PICTURE thinking about what history curricula in our community of schools look like and why. But … Continue reading →

30th June 2021, 5-7pm British Summer Time (6-8pm CET) Dr Tom Haward, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, University College London The idea that our emerging global society is also the age of the ‘pictorial turn’ is one in which the … Continue reading →