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Feb 2012
	Title
13	'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated...	London , United Kingdom
15 - 17	Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of...	London, United Kingdom
23	Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940 The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History warmly invite you to: Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking...	Manchester, United Kingdom
25	Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which...	Cambridge, United Kingdom
25	Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event...	York, United Kingdom

Mar 2012
	Title
08 - 10	New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012	Sarasota, United States
09 - 10	New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012 The British Commission for Maritime History's (BCMH) New Researchers in Maritime History conference is an established forum for those that have recently become engaged in research in maritime...	Glasgow, , United Kingdom
09	Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically...	Huddersfield, United Kingdom
14	History of Women in the Americas The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at...	London, United Kingdom
22	Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History How can we engage students with economic history? The subject has become increasingly marginalised from many university history curricula in recent years, but it remains a fundamental part of the...	Oxford, United Kingdom
23 - 24	Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012 Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences National...	Galway, Ireland
23 - 24	On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800 This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’. It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered. Instead, it is...	Oxford, United Kingdom
29	Sowing the Seeds Network and the Centre for Economic History at the University of Reading: An Early-Career Workshop on Medieval Urban Community and Public Space Registration: Free. Furthermore, travel bursaries are available subject to certain criteria Duration: 10am-5pm (followed by an optional...	Reading, United Kingdom
31	Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both...	Limerick, Ireland

Apr 2012
	Title
02 - 03	Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations	Bangor, United Kingdom
13 - 15	Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’ This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students...	Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
27	Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600	Florence, Italy
27 - 29	Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the...	Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
28	Spaces of Work 1770-1830 Spaces of Work 1770-1830 will address the relationships between workers and spaces in Britain. We aim to showcase current research and are particularly interested in interrogating...	Coventry, United Kingdom

May 2012
	Title
02	'Retailing and Distribution in Hard Times' CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites proposals for papers that explore retailing and distribution cultures and practices during economic downturns, busts and...	Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
10 - 11	The Making of Landscapes in Modernity This is a call for papers for a workshop on the making of landscapes in modernity. We will have a keynote address on the first day followed by a day consisting of three to four panels on the...	St Andrews, United Kingdom
17 - 18	The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600 Bath Spa University, 17-18 May 2012 Many historians of the early modern neighbourhood have argued that religious reform and the emergence of the state ousted caritas from the...	Bath, United Kingdom
18 - 19	Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology ‘Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are’ (José Ortega y Gasset). *** Nowhere is the only unattainable elsewhere; people are always already...	Oxford, United Kingdom
18 - 19	The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives Event Announcement Centre for Transnational History University of St Andrews Date of Event: 18/19 May, 2012 The two-day interdisciplinary workshop THE CHANGING...	St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
21 - 23	Between Autonomy and Engagement. Performances of Scientific Expertise, 1860-1960. In Science Studies, problems of scientific expertise have drawn tremendous attention in recent years. The emergence of expert authority within ever more fields of human activity has often been...	Leuven, Belgium

Jun 2012
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06 - 09	Policy History Conference Since the first Policy History Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, the primary goal behind the conference has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of policy history, American...	Richmond, Virginia, United States
07	Space and Social Relations in Historical Perspective The relationship between space and social relations is a prominent topic in current affairs. This innovative one-day workshop will address how space is defined and organised. It will focus...	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
13 - 14	AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012 Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab...	London, United Kingdom
22 - 24	Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850. This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850. Scholars...	Sheffield, United Kingdom
22 - 24	Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History	Shanghai, China