History Conferences for September 2010

September 2010

Date Location
01 - 04 Female religious on the British Isles: Interactions with the Continent
The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) and KADOC-KULeuven invite both individual and panel proposals on the history of women religious of Britain and Ireland. The overarching theme of the conference is Female religious on the...
Leuven, Belgium
02 - 03 British Crime Historians Symposium 2
BRITISH CRIME HISTORIANS SYMPOSIUM This is the 2nd symposium that seeks to bring together historians of crime criminologists engaged in historical research.  The key aim is to address interdisciplinary engagement between history and...
Sheffield, UK
04 The Clerical Cosmos: ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900 to c. 1075
This informal gathering will focus on clerical life in Latin Europe, from c.900 to c.1075.  Our aim is to explore the period on its own terms, rather than within more familiar narratives of a long sunset of the Carolingian world, or as a...
Oxford, UK
05 - 07 'The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism' (The 2010 British Association for Jewish Studies Conference)
Topics may cover any time period from antiquity to the contemporary, and any place or cultural context relevant for Jewish Studies. The ‘image’ may be interpreted broadly to include the non-visual (e.g. literary representations and conceptual images...
Southampton, Hampshire
06 - 07 European Reformation Research Group
The European Reformation Research Group’s annual conference is the United Kingdom’s principal forum for researchers working on all aspects of the Reformation in Europe, including the British Isles, and on related subjects. The conference...
St Andrews, Fife
07 - 09 Reformation Studies Colloquium
Reformation Studies Colloquium 2010, September 7th – 9th, University of St AndrewsThe Reformation Studies Colloquium is one of the leading conferences in Britain on Reformation Studies, for both younger scholars and established academics in the...
St Andrews, UK
08 - 09 Pasold Research Fund and CHORD Conference: 'Distribution Networks for Textiles and Dress, c. 1700-1945'
The Pasold Research Fund and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a conference exploring the retailing and marketing of textiles and dress between c.1700 and 1945. Proposals are invited for papers on...
Wolverhampton, UK
10 - 11 The Patriotism of the Expatriates
Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th centuryA common feature of several European national movements of the nineteenth century was their development outside the territorial space of the...
Nicosia and London
10 - 12 The Perils of Print Culture
The Perils of Print CultureA conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin, 10-12 September 2010 Organised by Dr Jason McElligott and Dr Eve Patten Over the past twenty years the study of print culture has become prominent in the disciplines...
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
10 - 11 Museums and the Market
Ever since the historian Frank Herrmann first directed attention to the important role that the market has played in the changing fashions forcollecting, in his The English as Collectors (1972) (recently republished, in 1999, by Oak Knoll Press), it...
Leeds
13 - 14 Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain, 1870-1950
In what ways did South Asians impact on Britain’s cultural and political life between 1870 and 1950? To what extent did South Asian intellectuals and activists interact and exchange ideas with their British counterparts? What are the legacies of...
London, UK
15 - 17 The End of Tradition? Aspects of Commons and Cultural Severance in the Landscape
The event is organised by the Geography, Tourism and Environmental Change Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University, in partnership with the Biodiversity and Landscape History Research Institute and South Yorkshire Biodiversity Research Group....
Sheffield, UK
15 - 17 The Forty Years' Crisis: Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959
When the United Nations launched the first ever 'World Refugee Year' in June 1959, it came at the end of a tumultuous half century of military and diplomatic conflict and a succession of refugee crises originating in Europe. The publicity and events...
London, UK
15 Journalism and History: Dialogues
Journalism and History: Dialogues 15 September 2010: Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield This interdisciplinary one-day conference, organized by the Department of Journalism Studies and the Department of History at the...
Sheffield, UK
16 - 18 ‘Teutonic Philosophy’: Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) in context, his life and the reception of his writings
The theosophical works of Jacob Boehme [or Jakob Böhme] (1575–1624), the ‘inspired cobbler’ of Görlitz, have influenced Western culture in complex and profound ways, from the radical sects of the English Civil Wars to twentieth-century Russian...
Oxford, United Kingdom
16 - 17 Construction of Identities and Imperialism During the 19th and 20th Centuries
Inside the X Congress of Contemporary History, that will take place at the University of Cantabria, Spain, on 16 and 17 September 2010, we invite you to participate at the panel 'Construction of Identities and Imperialism During the 19th and 20th...
Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
22 - 23 Restoration London
The Centre for Hearth Tax Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, and Birkbeck, University of London, will host an international conference on ‘Restoration London’ at the Institute of...
London, UK
24 Belfast: the urban experience 1613-1939
As Belfast approaches the 400th anniversary of the granting of corporate borough status in 1613, the Institute of Irish Studies and the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University, Belfast, in association with the School of Arts and...
Belfast

September 2010