Modern Britain Group
2012-2013

*6:00pm • Wednesdays • Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
*unless otherwise noted

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November 7 (*6:30 pm, Room 203)
Christopher Breward, Principal, Edinburgh College of Art
“Reviewing British Design 1948-2012:
Reflections on the Curation of a V&A Exhibition”


December 5
*** This talk has been cancelled ***
Guy Ortolano, Associate Professor of History, New York University
“Britain’s Post-War New Towns”
*** This talk has been cancelled ***

March 6
Deborah Cohen, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and
Professor of History, Northwestern University
On her new OUP book:
“Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain”

*March 28 (*Thursday)
Erika Rappaport, Associate Professor History, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Tea Parties: Britishness, Imperial Legacies, and
Global Consumer Cultures”

April 10, 2013
Jordanna Bailkin, Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor,
Modern European History, University of Washington
"Unsettled: Refugee Camps in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s"

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Please join us for these talks!

For questions or more information, please contact katherine.peisker@yale.edu.
Sponsored by the European Studies Council, with a USDE Title VI grant with
support from the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the MacMillan Center,
and the Department of the History of Art.

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