Home › News & Events › Conferences ›

World Conferences

Politics, Faith, and Reason: Third Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Date: 
15 March 2010 - 16 March 2010

Conference organiser(s): 
Jocelyn Betts, Samuel James, Anna Plassart, Sebastian Robins, Sophie Smith, Lauri Tähtinen
Location: 
Cambridge, UK

CHORD workshop: The Retailing and Distribution of Books and Printed Material: Historical Perspectives

Date: 
17 March 2010

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of the retailing and distribution of books and all other printed material, from the inception of the printing press to the present.

URL: 
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/books.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura Ugolini
Location: 
Wolverhampton, UK

Urban History Group Annual Conference - Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place

Date: 
25 March 2010 - 26 March 2010

This conference explores the relationships between practices of resistance and transgression and the exercise of authority in urban spaces.

URL: 
http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/uhg/index.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr David Green and Dr Shane Ewen
Location: 
Durham, UK

The Hudson Trust Conference in Naval History - Navies in War and Peace, 1754-1989

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

Recent years have seen a new expansion of naval history. With new aspects of the subject being researched and current perspectives being expanded, the attraction of the subject to new scholars has grown, and in response fresh and innovative questions are being addressed.

URL: 
http://www.navalhistory.jp/hudsontrustconf/
Conference organiser(s): 
Jeremiah Dancy (University of Oxford), Gabriela Frei (University of Oxford), Hiraku Yabuki (King's College London)
Location: 
Oxford, UK

Charity Begins at Home: Approaches to the History of Domestic Space and Voluntary Action

Date: 
27 March 2010

Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to propose papers for this one day workshop. We welcome papers that discuss the speaker’s experience addressing  issues in their own research on charity and the home.Voluntarism in the domestic sphere presents particular methodological and evidential challenges. The aim of the event is to encourage an open and

Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Soanes, Voluntary Action History Society Postgraduate Sub-Committee
Location: 
Coventry, UK

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

URL: 
http://tiny.cc/IrNaJ
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Twentieth Anniversary ASEN Conference ‘Nation and Charisma’

Date: 
13 April 2010 - 15 April 2010

From the Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

URL: 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ConfRegOnline2010.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Margit Wunsch and Dr Vivian Ibrahim
Location: 
London, London School of Economics and Political Science

CHORD workshop: 'Commerce and Illegality, 1500-2000'

Date: 
21 April 2010

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 any geographical location.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

URL: 
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/illegcom.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura Ugolini
Location: 
Wolverhampton, UK

The Royal Society and Science in the Twentieth Century

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 23 April 2010

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.

Conference organiser(s): 
Felicity Henderson
Location: 
London, UK

"Femininities" The University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

Tenth York Cultural History Conference – FEMININITIES

Department of History, University of York, 22-24 April 2010

URL: 
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/research/conf/femininities/
Conference organiser(s): 
Henrice Altink, Jeremy Goldberg, Hannah Greig, Joanna de Groot.
Location: 
York, UK