Home › News & Events › Conferences ›

History Conferences for April 2010

« Prev  

April 2010

  Next »
Date Location
01 - 02 FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad
FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010 Interdisciplinary and trans-national perspectives on British travel experience and its impact from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century... 		Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
01 - 02 The fighter along the history: identity, perception and representation.
The Faculty of Arts and Science are inviting abstracts and expressions of interest for a conference to be held at the University of Cantabria, Spain, 01-02 April 2010. This symposium aims to be a forum for presentation and discussion of studies... 		Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
08 - 10 Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy: the wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940
On Thursday 8th, at 5.15pm there will be a Public Lecture by Professor Richard Overy on ‘Scandinavia and the Second World War’.On Friday 9th, there will be a full-day Conference, open to the public, on ‘Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy'.... 		Old College, University of Edinburgh
09 - 11 Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages
This is an AHRC funded three day postgraduate conference organized under the Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives Project. The content of the sessions is flexible to allow the presentations to be as innovative and exciting as possible. We may... 		St. Andrews, Scotland
09 - 11 Chinese Influences in European Art (International Conference)
The Opole Confucius Institute (Poland) is pleased to announce an international conference entitled ‘Chinese Influences in European Art’, which is to take place on 9 – 11 April 2010 in an ancient spa town of Glucholazy (olim Ziegenhals).The working... 		Glucholazy
09 - 10 The 1641 depositons: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
The 1641 depositions: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three KingdomsThe 1641 depositions, a collection of nearly 4,000 witness statements, reveal a wealth of information about the various cultural, political and social nuances of seventeenth-... 		Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
12 - 14 National Worship in International perspective: state prayers, fasts and thanksgivings since the sixteenth century
Many early modern and modern governments ordered occasions of special worship in periods of great crisis or unexpected prosperity, or to mark calamities or victories.   As a growing number of studies has indicated, these occasions offer... 		Durham, UK
13 - 15 Twentieth Anniversary ASEN Conference ‘Nation and Charisma’
From the Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Registration and for the Twentieth Anniversary ASEN Conference ‘Nation and Charisma’ The Twentieth Anniversary ASEN conference ‘Nation and Charisma’ will be held at the... 		London, London School of Economics and Political Science
15 - 16 Women Readers/Educational Texts 1500-1800
The recent upsurge in interest in the history of reading has opened numerous new interpretative avenues for scholars. Women’s reading has attracted particular attention, in specific regions and time periods. Much of this critical interest has... 		Liverpool, UK
15 - 16 Sixth History of European Integration Research Society (HEIRS) colloquium: European Integration and the Cold War, 1945-1989
The complete devastation of the European continent following six years of total war precipitated the early cooperation efforts of the immediate post-1945 period. The foundations of European integration and the development of the Cold War... 		Reading, UK
15 - 16 Call for Papers: Unarmed on the Battlefield: Non-Combatants and the Experience of Combat in Modern War
University of Glamorgan, 15th-16th April 2010Keynote Speaker: Professor Keith Jeffery (Queen's University Belfast)The historiography of warfare in the modern age focuses overwhelmingly on the experiences of the armed protagonists who play a direct,... 		Pontypridd, UK
16 - 17 From Space to Place: The spatial Dimension in the History of Western Europe
This conference will explore the so-called ‘spatial turn in history’ discussed among historians for the last decade or so and inspired by earlier anthropological ideas and the interdisciplinary approach by sociologists, especially geographers. It... 		London, UK
16 - 18 The Battlefields Trust Annual Conference at York 2010 - Battlefields of Yorkshire
York 2010The Battlefields Trust - - Yorkshire Battlefields - History and HeritageFriday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April 2010 Venue:  The Great Western Monkbar Hotel with a short walk from The Shambles and Minster.The historic city of... 		York, United Kingdom
16 - 17 Postcolonialism & Islam
The Northern Association for Postcolonial Studies (NAPS) and The Sunderland-Nizwa Centre for Anglo-Arab and Muslim Writing are inviting abstracts and expressions of interest for a conference to be held at the University of Sunderland, UK, 16-17... 		Sunderland, UK
16 - 17 'She said she was in the family way': pregnancy and infancy in the Irish past
The 2010 conference of the Women’s History Association of Ireland will focus on the theme of pregnancy and infancy in the Irish past. 		Belfast, UK
17 Pepys and Chips: Dockyards, Naval Administration and Warfare in the Seventeenth Century (The Naval Dockyards Society Conference, 2010)
The seventeenth century saw the development of the royal dockyards into larger, more sophisticated and permanent entities. New dry docks, storehouses and other facilities were built, shipbuilding took place more often and on a larger scale, and the... 		London, UK
21 CHORD workshop: 'Commerce and Illegality, 1500-2000'
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of illicit and illegal commercial practices, from 1500 to the present.Proposals are invited covering any form of dodgy dealing and... 		Wolverhampton, UK
22 - 24 "Femininities" The University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference
Tenth York Cultural History Conference – FEMININITIESDepartment of History, University of York, 22-24 April 2010 This three-day international conference, organised by the Department of History, marks the ten year anniversary of the department’s... 		York, UK
22 - 23 The Royal Society and 20th Century Science
This two-day conference will bring together leading scientists and historians of science to examine the development of the Royal Society during the 20th century and the Society's impact on science in the UK and beyond.... 		London SW1Y 5AG
22 - 23 The Royal Society and Science in the Twentieth Century
As part of our 350th anniversary celebrations, the Royal Society will hold an international conference on the history of science in the twentieth century. We are therefore issuing a call for papers on topics in twentieth century science. Broad areas... 		London, UK
22 - 23 Making Democracy: Violence, Politics, and the American Founding
The newly opened George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions, which has its home at Ohio University, invites paper proposals for a conference and subsequent edited volume on violence, politics, and the American founding.... 		Athens, Ohio, USA
23 Historical Perspectives on the Family
This one-day conference will examine historical perspectives on the family in Britain, from individual roles and identities within the family to the wider significance of the family to the nation. The family is a crucial institution to individuals... 		Sheffield, UK
23 - 24 Gender and Transgression in Middle Ages: Third Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
We are pleased to announce a call for papers to Gender and Transgression 2010, a two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Now in its third year, the conference aims to create a lively... 		St Andrews, Fife, UK
24 The voyage of Brendan
A one-day conference at Norwich Cathedral on one of the most popular works of medieval literature, with particular reference to religious aspects of the narrative. Speakers include: Dr Jonathan Wooding (Senior Lecturer and Director, Centre for the... 		Norwich, UK
24 More than a Spa Resort? The Urban Experience in Bath since the Reformation
Bath is a city in need of historical reappraisal. Much historiography focuses on the city as a spa resort and the personalities involved in its development, but little has been written on the residential population and links between them and the... 		Bath, UK
30 - 01 The politics and culture of anti-slavery movements in global perspective
This conference will examine the politics and culture of abolitionism and anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century in a global perspective. While anti-slavery groups were rooted in specific national and social contexts, they also built... 		Dublin, Ireland
« Prev  

April 2010

  Next »