Everyone is welcome to the seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography at
the University of Cambridge. I give them as an attachment and embedded in
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Seminars in Historical and Cultural Geography
May 17. Alice Reid and Eilidh Garrett, University of Cambridge, 'Infant
life chances in nineteenth-century urban and rural Scottish communities'
Together with Kevin Schurer and Simon Szreter, Alice and Eilidh wrote
Changing Family Size in England and Wales: Place, Class and Demography,
1891-1911 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Together with Ros
Davies, Alice and Eilidh are working on ESRC funded project, 'Determining
the Demography of Victorian Scotland through Record Linkage.' This project
aims to extend knowledge of late nineteenth century Scottish, and hence
British, demography. Four parallel longitudinal data sets will be produced
by linking individuals in the decennial censuses of 1861-1901 with the
births, deaths and marriages from civil registers for the lowland town of
Kilmarnock, the Hebridean Island of Skye, and the rural parishes of
Torthorwald and Rothiemay, places with contrasting economic and social
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24 May. Patrick Joyce, University of Manchester, 'The soul of Leviathan:
making the British technostate' Patrick Joyce is the author of many books:
Work, society and politics: the culture of the factory in later
nineteenth-century England (Hassocks: Harvester, 1980); The historical
meanings of work (Cambridge University Press 1987); Visions of the people:
industrial England and the question of class, 1840-1914 (Cambridge
University Press 1991); Democratic subjects: the self and the social in
nineteenth-century England (Cambridge University Press 1994); The rule of
freedom: the city and modern liberalism (London: Verso, 2003). He works on
Social History and on the uses of social theory in History. His recent work
has been particularly influenced by Foucault's work on governmentality.
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Seminars will be at 4.15 p.m. in Room 101, Hardy Building, Geography
Department, Downing Site. Everybody is welcome and there are details on how
to find us at http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/contacts/directions/.
Gerry Kearns, 2 May 2006
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