University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Date:

19 January 2012 - 19 April 2012

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Organiser(s):

Dr Steve Boardman Steve.Boardman@ed.ac.uk

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012

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 flux. The resultant instability usually forces those affected to react to the disturbance and reassert a sense of equilibrium. By unravelling the operation of social and political mechanisms that are normally taken for granted, crises give rise to a number of questions: Were crises preceded by a generally accepted order? How did individuals confronted with a crisis react to the new state of affairs?

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:43 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

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 is: "Junctions and Crossroads". The Colloquium this year will take place on the 25th of February, 2012.

We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on ‘The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney’.

Organiser(s):

CCASNC Committee 2012, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:36 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

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 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in the digital humanities who focus on different aspects of heritage. We are interested in paper presentations, posters and workshop proposals. The topics may include, but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Mariana Lopez, Oliver Jones and Gavin Kearney

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012

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 implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.

Organiser(s):

Tosh Warwick and Eve Colpus

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:45 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012 - 10 March 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 history or related disciplines to meet other new and established scholars and to present a paper in a supportive environment. The BCMH is the British branch of the International Commission for Maritime History, which was founded in 1965 as a constituent of the International Congress of Historical Sciences.

Organiser(s):

British Commission for Maritime History

History of Women in the Americas

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:53:17 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

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 Brunel University, west London.

Organiser(s):

Rachel Ritchie

"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:02:02 +0000

Date:

19 March 2012 - 20 March 2012

Paper proposals are invited for the fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held on 19-20 March 2012 at the University of Cambridge. The theme of the 2012 conference will be “Oikonomia, Economy and War”, and papers dealing with any period and tradition in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present will be considered. Papers which bring an historical perspective to bear on problems of contemporary political theory are welcome.

Organiser(s):

Jared Holley, Dom O'Mahony, Paul Sagar, Tara-Jane Westover, Waseem Yaqoob

Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:18 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012

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 discipline and essential for a proper understanding of much broader topics such as population distribution, patterns of consumption and material culture, and the rise and fall of empires, governments and mass political and social movements.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alysa Levene

Neale Lecture 2012: Prof Robin Blackburn, Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:20:35 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012

We are pleased to announce that Professor Robin Blackburn (Essex) will give this year's UCL Neale Lecture in British History, on 'Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade'.

This a free, public lecture, and will start at 5.30pm.

Organiser(s):

Legacies of British Slave-ownership, History Dept, UCL

UCL Neale Colloquium 2012: Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:44:10 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

The colloquium aims to present the findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project and engage with current work exploring the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833.

Organiser(s):

Legacies of British Slave-ownership, Department of History, UCL

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

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:22:07 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012

Registration: Free. Furthermore, travel bursaries are available subject to certain criteria

Organiser(s):

Dr Catherine Casson (Universities of Birmingham and Oxford) and Mr Will Liddle (Queen's University Belfast)

Economic History Society Annual Conference 2012

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:09:47 +0000

Date:

30 March 2012 - 1 April 2012

Annual Conference of the Economic History Society

Organiser(s):

Maureen Galbraith

Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:59:39 +0000

Date:

30 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

What inspires activists to embrace causes that do not directly affect them? What drives professions of solidarity for an individual, community or nation? This conference will explore the ways in which activists have embraced the causes of groups of which their knowledge and experience was often limited. In recent years, online media have allowed activists involved in protests instant access to an international audience – at the same time raising questions about the utility and depth of this potential support base.

Organiser(s):

Dr Daniel Laqua, Dr. Charlotte Alston

Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:14:38 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 3 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Bangor University

European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:34:26 +0000

Date:

11 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

The ESSHC 2012 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Information about the European Social Science and History Conference can be found at: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/

The conference

Organiser(s):

Harm Nijboer & Karin Dannehl

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:59 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 15 April 2012

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 to present work in progress, and includes a number of guest speakers attached to Aberystwyth University, who in the past have shared their knowledge and experience of such things as interdisciplinary work, collaborations between universities and other research institutions, successful applications and interview techniques for academic posts, and guidance on how to get your work published.

Organiser(s):

Lowri Jones & Kris Lovell

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012 - 29 April 2012

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 act of sealing and the recording of this act as well as questions relating to how, why and by whom seals were employed. A further important theme will be the manner in which seals relate to other sources: visual, material and documentary.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Phillipp R. Schofield; Dr Elizabeth New; Dr John McEwan

Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:55:08 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Arie van Steensel

Spaces of Work 1770-1830

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:24:38 +0000

Date:

28 April 2012

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 under-analyzed types of work and space. For example, we hope to develop the theorization of types of work that critics have not conventionally understood as ‘work’ (the performance of music as practical activity, for instance). We also aim to bring attention to under-analysed spaces.

Organiser(s):

Joseph Morrissey & Kate Scarth

'Retailing and Distribution in Hard Times'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:08 +0000

Date:

2 May 2012

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 hard times, in Britain and beyond. Papers focusing on all historical periods and based on any methodological perspective are welcome as are papers that focus not only on the impact of poverty, but also on impoverishment and declining living standards.
Themes of interest include – but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Laura Ugolini

The 1898 Law on Workplace Accidents and the Pricing of Bodies in Europe

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:38:38 +0000

Date:

15 May 2012

In recent years, scholarly studies on risks and occupational health diseases have reactivated a field of research that emerged in France between 1975 and 1985. At a moment when environmental health issues are attracting more and more historical interest, it seems important to return to the problems related to workspaces by including them in this more recent problematic.

Organiser(s):

Thomas Le Roux, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:56:06 +0000

Date:

17 May 2012 - 18 May 2012

Bath Spa University, 17-18 May 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Bronach Kane (Bath Spa University)

The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

Event Announcement

Centre for Transnational History

University of St Andrews

Organiser(s):

Marie Ventura, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews

Between Autonomy and Engagement. Performances of Scientific Expertise, 1860-1960.

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:04:46 +0000

Date:

21 May 2012 - 23 May 2012

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 associated with the emergence of a new type of expert knowledge that evolved in the late nineteenth century. This knowledge, it is argued, related to the growing scientification of the economy, of society and even of politics.

Organiser(s):

Leuven Interdisciplinary Platform for the Studies of the Sciences (LIPSS) and the Research Unit Cultural History since 1750 (University of Leuven)

Economics for Ancient and Mediaeval Historians: a Workshop for recent Ph.D.s and Graduate Students

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:49:53 +0000

Date:

21 May 2012 - 8 June 2012

The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University is hosting a residential workshop, May 21st to June 8th, 2012, to help young ancient and mediaeval historians (specializing in any field from the Ancient Near East to approximately 1400 AD) to learn more about the methods of economic historians from two distinguished economists.

Organiser(s):

William Harris

Policy History Conference

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:19:27 +0000

Date:

6 June 2012 - 9 June 2012

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 political development, and comparative historical analysis. Conferences bring together scholars from the disciplines of History, Political Science, Law, Sociology and other social sciences.

Organiser(s):

Institute for Political History, Journal of Policy History, Miller Center for Public Affairs

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

Date:

13 June 2012 - 14 June 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 Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

Organiser(s):

historylab2012@gmail.com