Professional Activities
Birkbeck College Orator, 2012-
Boards
European University Institute Research Board (Florence)
Max Planck Institute for Human Development Scientific Advisory Board (Berlin)
Government of Ireland Research Board
Wellcome Trust Selection Panel
The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Brighton
External Assessor for Chairs
I have been the external assessor for chairs /professorships at various colleges of the University of London, University of York, Australian National University, Victoria University (New Zealand), the European University Institute, and McMaster University.
I also act frequently as an invited and independent assessor for tenure, readerships, and full professorship applications in European, American, New Zealand, and Australian universities. I am regularly consulted by Search Committees for major chairs in the USA and Europe.
External Examiner
Current: Durham University
Current: University of Leicester
Former: University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University
Prize Committees:
Wellcome Trust Book Prize, 2012
Editorial Boards:
International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity
Series editor
Palgrave Macmillan’s “Genders and Sexualities in History”
(see our webpage at http://www.palgrave.com/products/series.aspx?s=GSX)
Continuum’s “War, Society, and Culture”
Conference Organising (since 2000)
Pain and History, The Wellcome Trust, 8-9 December 2012 (forthcoming)
Pain and Old Age, Birkbeck College, 27 October 2012
Pain as Emotion, Birkbeck College, 26 October 2012
History of Pain Without Lesion, Birkbeck College, 19 May 2012
“Rhetorics of Pain: Historical Reflections”, Birkbeck College, 21 May 2011
“Pain: A Global History”, Birkbeck College, 16 January 2010
“Manifestos For History”, Birkbeck College, January 2008
“War, Violence, Gender”, International Social Studies Conference, Melbourne, 2005
“Cultures of Killing”, Birkbeck College, June 2000
Academic Lectures Since 2008 (Followed by Public Talks)
45. “What It Means to be Human”, University of Utrecht, 4 October 2012
44. “Sexual Violence” Masterclass, University of Utrecht, 3 October 2012
43. “Pain”, Masterclass, University of Utrecht, 2 October 2012
42. “What Is Pain?”, Society for the Social History of Medicine London, keynote, 10 September 2012
41. “Pain: A History of Sensation”, Prothero Lecture, London, 4 July 2012
40. “Sexual Violence: History and Theory. Part 2”, University of Utrecht, 6 June 2011
39. “Pain: A History”, University of Utrecht, 21 May 2011
38. “Humanimals and Others: Philosophical and Historical Reflections”, University of Utrecht, 14 April 2011
37. “’The Battle of the Somme’ (1916) and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ (1930)”, University of Utrecht, 12 April 2011
36. “Sexual Violence: History and Theory. Part 1”, University of Utrecht, 12 April 2011
35. “Perpetration: Sexual Violence in War”, University of Brunel, 16 March 2011
34. “Pain and the Politics of Sympathy”, University of Edinburgh, 2 March 2011
33. “Fear-Narratives and the History of Gendered Bodies”, University of Utrecht, 27 January 2011
32. “Celluloid Slaughter: The First World War in Film”, University of Utrecht, 26 January 2011
31. “A Phenomenology of Bodily Pain: Memorializing Pain in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Warfare”, keynote, University of Newcastle (Australia), 24 November 2010
30. “Are Women Animals?: Historical Reflections on What It Means to be Human”, University of Cambridge, 10 November 2010
29. “Are Women Animals? Women, Sentience, and Rights from the C18 to the Present”, University College Dublin, 21 October 2010
28. “Pain: A History”, Birkbeck College, London, 8 October 2010
27. “The Beast Within”: Female Incivility and Scientific Discourses in C19 and Early C20 Britain”, The German Historical Institute and the Max-Planck-Institut für Bidungsfurschung, London, keynote, 6 October 2010
26. “Fear and (Re)Constructing the Human”, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics, University of Brighton, keynote, 15 September 2010
25. “Shooting War: Violence”, University of Essex, keynote, 10 September 2010
24. “The Perpetration of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: Sources of Explanation”, Hamburg, 25 June 2010
23. “Atrocities and the Writing of History”, University of Reading, keynote, 20 March 2010
22. “Are Women Animals? Women, Sentience, and Rights”, Imperial College London, 11 February 2010
21. “Gendering Fear: A History of the Traumatic Languages of Sexual Violence”, University of Exeter, keynote, 4 November 2009
20. “Feminism and the Question of Rape”, University of Salford, 16 September 2009
19. “Atrocity and Historical Research”, University of Queensland (Brisbane), keynote, 20 July 2009
18. “Collective Emotions”, Berlin (Max Planck), keynote, 26 June 2009
17. “The Holocaust and Sexual Violence”, Monash University (Melbourne), keynote, 27 March 2009
16. “Violence and Masculinity”, Trinity College (Melbourne), 25 March 2009
15. “A History of Trauma and Anglo-American Languages of Suffering”, Queen Mary, London, 16 March 2009
14. “The Trauma of History”, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin, 23 February
13. “Sexual Violence”, University of Newcastle, 3 December 2008
12. “Trauma Theory and Sexual Violence”, University of Sheffield, 2 December 2008
11. “Trauma in Historical Perspective”, The Amher Lecture, University of York, 13 November 2008
10. “Traces of the Past”, University of Bristol, keynote, 6 November 2008
9. “Trauma and its Discontents”, Madrid, 23 October 2008
8. “Trauma Theory”, Utrecht University, 9 October 2008
7. “Writing the History of Emotions”, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 13 June 2008
6. “Fear: Theory”, Berlin (Max Planck), 27 May 2008
5. “Writing Trauma Theory”, University of Cambridge, 7 February 2008
4. “Reflections on the History of Sexual Violence”, University of Bath, 6 February 2008
3. Manifestos conference, with Joan Scott and Dipesh Chakraparty, at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, 26 January 2008
2. “Sexual Violation and Trauma in Historical Perspective”, Polyphonic History: In Honour of Peter Burke, Madrid, 22 January 2008
1. “Sexual Violence and the Political Economy of Fear in History”, Davis Center, Princeton, 6 December 2007
Public Talks Since 2008 (REF Period)
35. “What It Means to Be Human”, Edinburgh Festival, 16 August 2012
34. “Amnesty Writers Series”, Edinburgh Festival, 15 August 2012
33. “Pain, Suffering, and the Politics of Empathy”, City of Utrecht, 8 June 2011
32. “Intellectuals and the Media”, City of Utrecht, 8 June 2011
31. “The Experience of Combat: Terror and Trauma”, Festival of Genova, 15 April 2011
30. “Sexual Violence and the Threshold of the Human”, City of Utrecht, 11 April 2011
29. “Public Intellectuals”, City of Utrecht, 11 April 2011
28. “Pain and the Politics of Sympathy”, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2 March 2011
27. “Sexual Violence in War”, City of Utrecht, 25 January 2011
26. “The Politics of Atrocity”, City of Utrecht, 24 January 2011
25. “Why Humanities? A Humanities of Resistance”, Birkbeck College, London, 5 November 2010
24. “Sexual Violence, the Female Body, and Consent in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century”, Irish Women’s History Society and Irish Labour History Society, 22 October 2010
23. “Confronting Perceptions and Myths: Supporting Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence”, 7th Annual Conference, “Victims and Witnesses” [Government], London, 20 October 2010
22. “Atrocities, War, and Photography”, Prado Festival (Italy), 15 June 2010
21. “Does the Enemy Have a Face? Combat Narratives, Speech Acts and Faciality, 1914-1975”, Imperial War Museum, 28 May 2010
20. “Pain and the Politics of Sympathy, 1789 to the Present”, Birkbeck College, Public Lecture, 18 May 2010
19. “Histories of Hate”, ICA (London), 16 May 2010
18. “Pain: Writing a Global History”, Birkbeck College, Public Lecture, 16 January 2010
17. “Terror”, Amnesty International, 26 November 2009
16. “Manchester Peace Lecture”, 11 November 2009
15. “War and the Atrocious”, University of Uppsala, Public Lecture, 22 October 2009
14. “The Future of the Past”, Cheltenham Literary Festival, 16 October 2009
13. “Feminism and the Question of Rape”, University of Salford and Manchester Feminist Theory Network, 16 September 2009
12. Fear: A Politics”, public lecture, 8 May, Udine Festival (Italy), 8 May 2009
11. “A History of Humanity/Animality”, Birkbeck Lunchtime Lecture Series, 29 April 2009
10. “Atrocities”, public lecture, State Library of Victoria, 7 April 2009
9. “Atrocity in War: From Terror to Trauma”, Wiener Library and Birkbeck College, public lecture, 19 February 2009
8. “Art and Combat”, public lecture, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 10 February 2009
7. “Trauma Narratives and the Violence of History”, public lecture, Birkbeck College, University of London, 11 December 2008
6. “The End of War”, public lecture, Denmark, 11 November 2008
5. “Fear in the Past and Future”, public lecture, CENSIS (Rome), 25 September 2008
4. “The History of Violence”, public lecture, Edinburgh Festival, 23 August 2008
3. “Academic Leadership”, Goodenough College Special Lecture, 24 April 2008
2. “Is Feminism Dead?”, public lecture, Bath Festival, 1 March 2008
1. “On Killing”, City of London School, 21 February 2008
