Research Network Event: Michaelmas 2024
On Zoom
Free event, for members of our Research Network only.
Speakers
Professor Peter Ackers
Dr Paola Zichi
Event Description:
Peter Ackers is Emeritus Professor in the History of Industrial Relations (IR), Loughborough University. His research bridges contemporary social science & historical approaches to employment, including the history of post-war British IR, as both a practical public arena and an academic social science field. The development of pluralist & social democratic ideas is explored in Ackers & Reid (eds), Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave, 2016. His PhD was a Biographical study of great Grandad, WT Miller, a coalmining trade union leader and Nonconformist Christian. Peter was OCLW Visiting Scholar 2016/17 and has written entries on IR academics and union leaders for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of Labour Biography. He will talk about, Trade Unions & the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg, Routledge, June 2024 & the experience of researching and writing this over the past 20 years. You can read the first couple of chapters using the PREVIEW BOOK on this link.
Dr Paola Zichi, ‘Feminist Microhistories and International Law: The Lives of Coralie Cahen and Costanza Rignano Sullam between Humanitarianism, Children and Women’s Welfare (1870-1910)’
Paola Zichi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warwick Law School working on a research project on Jewish Feminist Lawyering and International Law: Women Jurists in European Legal History (1899-1949). Previously, she worked at QMUL History, as postdoctoral researcher on an AHRC-funded project on sex work and migration in Jewish history between 1875-1940 in Europe. In April 2020, she completed her PhD at SOAS on feminisms, gender law reform and the League of Nations in Mandate Palestine. Her research interests and expertise fall within the broader field of feminist approaches to the history of international law, women’s legal history and Jewish history, Israel/Palestine, and broadly speaking history of women’s international law and global governance in the twentieth century.
On Zoom
Free event, for members of our Research Network only.
Speakers
Professor Peter Ackers
Dr Paola Zichi
Event Description:
Peter Ackers is Emeritus Professor in the History of Industrial Relations (IR), Loughborough University. His research bridges contemporary social science & historical approaches to employment, including the history of post-war British IR, as both a practical public arena and an academic social science field. The development of pluralist & social democratic ideas is explored in Ackers & Reid (eds), Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave, 2016. His PhD was a Biographical study of great Grandad, WT Miller, a coalmining trade union leader and Nonconformist Christian. Peter was OCLW Visiting Scholar 2016/17 and has written entries on IR academics and union leaders for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of Labour Biography. He will talk about, Trade Unions & the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg, Routledge, June 2024 & the experience of researching and writing this over the past 20 years. You can read the first couple of chapters using the PREVIEW BOOK on this link.
Dr Paola Zichi, ‘Feminist Microhistories and International Law: The Lives of Coralie Cahen and Costanza Rignano Sullam between Humanitarianism, Children and Women’s Welfare (1870-1910)’
Paola Zichi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warwick Law School working on a research project on Jewish Feminist Lawyering and International Law: Women Jurists in European Legal History (1899-1949). Previously, she worked at QMUL History, as postdoctoral researcher on an AHRC-funded project on sex work and migration in Jewish history between 1875-1940 in Europe. In April 2020, she completed her PhD at SOAS on feminisms, gender law reform and the League of Nations in Mandate Palestine. Her research interests and expertise fall within the broader field of feminist approaches to the history of international law, women’s legal history and Jewish history, Israel/Palestine, and broadly speaking history of women’s international law and global governance in the twentieth century.
On Zoom
Free event, for members of our Research Network only.
Speakers
Professor Peter Ackers
Dr Paola Zichi
Event Description:
Peter Ackers is Emeritus Professor in the History of Industrial Relations (IR), Loughborough University. His research bridges contemporary social science & historical approaches to employment, including the history of post-war British IR, as both a practical public arena and an academic social science field. The development of pluralist & social democratic ideas is explored in Ackers & Reid (eds), Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave, 2016. His PhD was a Biographical study of great Grandad, WT Miller, a coalmining trade union leader and Nonconformist Christian. Peter was OCLW Visiting Scholar 2016/17 and has written entries on IR academics and union leaders for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of Labour Biography. He will talk about, Trade Unions & the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg, Routledge, June 2024 & the experience of researching and writing this over the past 20 years. You can read the first couple of chapters using the PREVIEW BOOK on this link.
Dr Paola Zichi, ‘Feminist Microhistories and International Law: The Lives of Coralie Cahen and Costanza Rignano Sullam between Humanitarianism, Children and Women’s Welfare (1870-1910)’
Paola Zichi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warwick Law School working on a research project on Jewish Feminist Lawyering and International Law: Women Jurists in European Legal History (1899-1949). Previously, she worked at QMUL History, as postdoctoral researcher on an AHRC-funded project on sex work and migration in Jewish history between 1875-1940 in Europe. In April 2020, she completed her PhD at SOAS on feminisms, gender law reform and the League of Nations in Mandate Palestine. Her research interests and expertise fall within the broader field of feminist approaches to the history of international law, women’s legal history and Jewish history, Israel/Palestine, and broadly speaking history of women’s international law and global governance in the twentieth century.