The PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series is designed for early-career researchers and PhD candidates to present their research for feedback from other researchers, PhD candidates, and faculty. We are particularly interested in welcoming MA, doctoral students, and faculty to attend the seminars to share their views and perspectives.
To get involved and to present your research, please contact Dr Christine Schmidt.
For the 2023/24 academic year we are pleased to announce a new seminar series ‘Humanitarianism, Refugees, and the Holocaust’. Keep an eye on this page for further details.
Upcoming Events for 2023/24
Christina Wirth is a Ph.D. student at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1482 “Studies in Human Differentiation” Mainz, Germany, academic staff at the Leibniz Institute for European History, and is currently the USC Shoah Foundation’s first Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Antisemitism Studies.
1 May, 4 – 5pm
Dr Peter Morgan studied history at the University of Leeds before working as a history teacher in secondary schools for 21 years. Since 2010 he became increasingly involved in Holocaust education. He left the teaching profession in 2015 to research and write a doctoral thesis on British Representations of the Armenian Genocide 1915-23 at the University of Brighton.
23 May, 3 – 4pm
Past events
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2024
Meghan Riley is an advanced doctoral candidate at Indiana University. She is an historian of the Holocaust, Europe, and France, and is especially interested in the intersection of humanitarianism and the Holocaust, which her dissertation explores.
22 February, 4 – 5pm
Hanna Matt is a PhD candidate at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester
27 March, 3 – 4pmGdalit Neuman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto, where she completed both her BFA and MA in dance, and where she was on faculty for five years
16 April, 3 – 4pm -
2023
Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Petitions to Slovak President Josef Tiso about the “Jewish Question”
Madeline Vadkerty is a Samuel P. Mandell Fellow at Gratz College (Philadelphia, USA) in its Holocaust and Genocide studies doctoral program
Monday 1 March, 4:00 – 5:00pmFranziska Lamp is currently working as a project researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna (Austria)
Tuesday 14 March, 4:30 – 5:30pmMatteo D’Avanzo is a PhD candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and INALCO, Paris
Tuesday 16 May 4:00 – 5:00pmCharlie Knight is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton
Monday 12 June 4:00 – 5:00pmPhD and a Cup of Tea: Beyond Europe: The history and memory of Jewish Refugees in Japan
Niamh Hanrahan is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, based in the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute
2 November, 3 – 4pm
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2022
‘”What I have written is true—so witness me God”: Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust in a Christian Army Chaplain’s Account of the LiberatioThe occupied Ruhr 1923 and the Munich Agreement 1938: two episodes from the career of the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955)
Mark Frankel, PhD candidate, Centre for Research in Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham
Thursday 10 February, 4-5pm‘Red Friday: The Wehrmacht, the Order Police, and the first wartime massacre of Białystok’s Jews’
Jake Holliday, PhD Military History Student with the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham
Tuesday 22 February, 4-5pm‘Holocaust Refugees in British India: Perspectives from Two “Others”’
Pragya Kaul, Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan
Tuesday 8 March, 4-5pm‘The Reorientation of the Buchenwald Memorial Site, 1989-1999’
Maëlle Lepitre, Doctoral Candidate in History, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena
Monday 25 April, 4-5pm‘Does Holocaust Education Influence Gen Z’s Likelihood to Act Against Hate?’
Dr Alexis Lerner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, United States Naval Academy
Wednesday 7 September, 3-4pm‘Ustaša Killing Specialists: the Personnel of the Jasenovac Concentration and Death Camp‘
Emile Kjerte, Doctoral Candidate, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University Massachusetts
Wednesday 28 September, 4-5pm‘Talking with Images’: Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums
Alice Tofts, collaborative Doctoral Programme student with Imperial War Museums and the University of Nottingham
Thursday 13 October, 4-5pmThe Deportation and Persecution of Romanian Roma ando’Bugo (at the Bug River)
Cristina Teodora Stoica, PhD candidate at Western University, Canada
Wednesday 26 October, 4-5pmPavel Brunssen, PhD candidate at the University of Michigan
Monday 5 December, 3:00-4:00pm -
2021
‘”What I have written is true—so witness me God”: Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust in a Christian Army Chaplain’s Account of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen’
Robert Thompson, Wolfson Foundation PhD Scholar, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
Wednesday, 12 May, 3-4pm‘Overt-covert recounting: deconstructing women’s personal memory narratives of sexual violence during the Holocaust’
Lauren Cantillon, Doctoral candidate, Kings College London
Wednesday 19 May, 3-4pm“Benno Gantner’s Clandestine Death March Images”
Emily-Rose Baker, PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield
Thursday 17 June, 3-4pm“Jewish refugee ‘rescue’ at the interstices of Philippine independence, 1938-1941”
Dr Ria Sunga, University of Manchester
Monday 28 June, 3.30-4.30pm“Souvenirs of suffering: Visitors taking items from the Auschwitz site”
Dr Imogen Dalziel, Programme Co-ordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership
Wednesday 14 July, 3.30-4.30pm“Contested Spaces: The National Holocaust Monument in Amsterdam”
Dr Jazmine Contreras, Goucher College
Tuesday 14 September, 3-4pm, Virtual‘A Man who Did Everything Twice’: Jewish Refugee Industrialists in Britain’s Special Areas, 1936-1940.
Tiffany Beebe, PhD candidate, Modern European and British History, University of Colorado Boulder
Monday 20 September, 3-4pm, Virtual“The Nazis speak for themselves: analysing perpetrator’s narratives in The Nuremberg Trial”
Maria Visconti, PhD Student in History, The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Co-ordinator of The Brazilian Center for Nazism and Holocaust Studies (NEPAT)
Tuesday 5 October, 3-4pm, Virtual“In the archive with Lotte Eisner: how she solved the problem of ‘Maria’ (the robot)”
Julia Eisner, PhD researcher, King’s College, London
Thursday 18 November, 3-4pm, Virtual“Textbook portrayals of Britain and the Holocaust”
Daniel Adamson, PhD Student, Durham University
Tuesday 23 November, 4-5pm“Jean Améry and Suicide: At Existentialism’s Limits”
John Spiers, PhD candidate in Theology & Religious Studies, University of Glasgow
Tuesday 7 December, 3-4pm“A ‘New Europe’ without Jews. Antisemitism and Fascism in Latvia 1932-1945”
Paula Oppermann, PhD candidate, University of Glasgow
Tuesday 18 January, 3-4pm
