Global History and Culture Centre
1.00 pm in H023 on Wednesday, 11th January 2012
Minutes
Present: Anne Gerritsen, Maxine Berg, Dan Branch, Stephen McDowall,
Rosa Salzberg, Bronwen Everill, Margot Finn, Hanna Hodacs,
Felicia Gottmann, Chris Nierstrasz, Kate Smith, Anna Boneham,
Amy Evans
Apologies: Giorgio Riello, Bishnupriya Gupta, Ann Caesar, Gurminder Bhambra
1. Welcome to Anna Boneham, who joins the Centre as the administrator for the
‘Europe’s Asian Centuries’ Project, who has been very busy organising
activities since last December.
2. The minutes of the last meeting, of 19 Oct 2011, have been circulated and
were accepted.
3. GHCC fund and budget matters
Anne reports that having had a meeting with Robert, the budget looks less
promising than we anticipated. We are looking into the details to make sure
we understand exactly what happened. We might need to rethink and give
priority to support the Centre’s events and the activities of its members. Other
funding resources, such as the Warwick China Partnership Fund and the
Humanities Research Centre should be considered to help fund events.
The Global Research Fund has received a good first round of applications
and a total sum of £1250 has been awarded to a number of colleagues to
support their research events.
4. Centre ‘logo’
Having had a number of meetings with the Warwick Print design team and
following on from exchanges with the Communication Office, we are now told
that we are not allowed any graphics in the ‘logo’, only letters. Anne and Amy
are to liaise with the designer for further ideas.
5. Upcoming events
The provisional Spring Programme was presented and a few changes and
new events were added. Amy is to distribute it.
6. Date of next meeting
24 May is set for the 5th AGM of the Centre.
7. AOB
A suggestion is made that the postdocs might like to meet periodically to
exchange ideas, proposals of potential speakers for future events. Time and
dates are to be set between Kate, Hannah, Felicia, Chris and Stephen.