Browse events by 'Environmental History'

Feb 2012
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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
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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
Apr 2012
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27 History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the 'New Science'

The day conference 'History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the "New Science"' will be held on Friday, 27 April 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Royal Society,...

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

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...

Paris, France
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).

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Nowhere is the only unattainable elsewhere; people are always already...

Oxford, 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
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
18 For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th – 19th c.

If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the industrial revolution, and if environmental history has been immediately written on a...

Oxford, United Kingdom
21 - 23 Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World)

This serves as a call for papers for the fifth annual British Scholar Conference. The conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from Thursday, 21 June through Saturday, 23 June, 2012. This...

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
22 - 24 Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History Shanghai, China
22 There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World
The Oxford Medieval Geographies Research Group invites papers for a conference to be held at the University of Oxford on June 22, 2012. This is a one-day event investigating the role of geography in...
Oxford, United Kingdom
22 Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal

Landscape features prominently in perceptions and interpretations of the past.  Whether depicting a specific location in its own right, or providing a backdrop for historical action, the...

Liverpool, United Kingdom
22 - 24 LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the great world city of London in the context of Olympic and Jubilee Year. The title for the 2012 event is 'London - City of...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great...

London, United Kingdom
Jul 2012
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01 - 03 Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference

France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History 

The conference theme is prompted by the challenge of globalization and the notion that Europe can no longer...

York , United Kingdom
02 - 05 The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society

Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference’, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican...

Toowoomba, Australia
03 - 05 RGS-IBG Annual Conference: call for papers in a planned session Edinburgh, United Kingdom
04 - 09 CFP - Perception, Reception: The history of the media in society

Call for Papers for a conference to be held between 4th and 6th July 2012 at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

The 4th Media History conference will focus on...

Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
11 - 14 Race, Nation and Empire on the Victorian Popular Stage

This conference will be the third in a series of three organised as part of our AHRC-funded project on the ‘Cultural History of English Pantomime, 1837-1902’. 

A number of studies,...

Lancaster, United Kingdom
18 - 19 Call for papers: The Politics of Critique: 2nd Critical Studies Research Group Postgraduate Conference

What is the meaning of critique today?

Riot, revolt, protest, occupation: the current historical conjuncture is marked by the confluence of multiple crises and the (re)emergence of...

Brighton, United Kingdom
Sep 2012
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03 - 05 Making Connections: 2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Call for Session Organisers

We live in interesting times. The Arab Spring, Occupy X and anti-austerity protests are only the latest and most visible examples in a long...

Loughborough, United Kingdom
05 - 08 4th Annual European Summer School on Cold War History Trento, Italy
07 - 08 British Society of Sports History Annual Conference Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct 2012
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27 Branching Out: Botany and the Sculptural Object Leeds, United Kingdom
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