Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:57:43 +0000

Date:

9 January 2012 - 27 April 2012

This exhibition at the UCL Art Museum features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Among the items on show are first editions of Rousseau’s works, including On the Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762), frontispieces, and printed images.

Organiser(s):

UCL Centre for Transnational History

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?

25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000

Date:

22 February 2012

How do we remember the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1989, and how does history relate to today’s state of affairs in that country?

Organiser(s):

LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme

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

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012. These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3) of Swansea University. These seminars offer a friendly and informal atmosphere in which postgraduates can present and share their research.

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

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

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 Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Date:

16 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

The University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre, in conjunction with the History Lab North West postgraduate network, is pleased to announce the first annual postgraduate workshop on New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century. This new venture aims to bring together postgraduate students from the North West and across the UK, giving a platform for the next generation of eighteenth-century scholars to share their research and ideas.

Organiser(s):

Eighteenth-Century Worlds, University of Liverpool

"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

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

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

Social History Society Annual Conference

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:29:45 +0000

Date:

3 April 2012 - 5 April 2012

The Annual Conference of the Social HIstory Society is pleased to announce the call for Papers for its 2012 Annual Conference which will be held at the University of Brighton, UK, 3-5 April 2012. Proposals for individual papers and panels from post graduates and established researchers are warmly invited. The closing date for abstracts is 26 October 2011. For further details of conference strands, and to submit an abstract, please see our website.

Organiser(s):

Social HIstory Society

The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:19 +0000

Date:

12 April 2012

This conference explores the role of plebeians in the colonial and commercial expansion across the world from c.1660-1820. Inspired by the themes of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s The Many Headed Hydra (2000) the papers will explore the book’s central themes in the light of new research, as well as taking it into new areas. The role of seas and ships, armies and navies, and commercial interests in creating and regulating a mobile, multi-ethnic workforce will be explored.

Organiser(s):

William Farrell (Birkbeck) & Stephen Duane Dean Jnr (KCL)

Postgraduate Forum for the History of Medicine: 3rd Annual Summit

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:35:56 +0000

Date:

18 April 2012 - 19 April 2012

Swansea University is hosting the third annual summit for postgraduate students and early-career researchers working in the History of Medicine. Following on from the success of two previous events in Warwick and London, the summit is an opportunity for people with similar research interests to meet, present their work and discuss their ideas.

Organiser(s):

http://www.pgfhom.org/blog/summit-2012-swansea

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

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

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:44:45 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

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.

Organiser(s):

Anna Marie Roos

Cradled in Caricature - a multidisciplinary event

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:38:19 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Call for Contributions

This one-day event will approach the notion of ‘caricature’ in its broadest sense, using it as a jumping-off point for discussions on exaggeration, stereotyping, representation, and characterisation. The multi-disciplinary event therefore intends to explore the following problems:

Organiser(s):

The School of History, University of Kent, and the Department of History of Art, University College London.

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:39:46 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Statuary has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and ideas, and the formation of sexual knowledge. From prehistoric phallic stones, mythological representations of statues and sculptors, e.g. Medusa or Pygmalion, to the Romantic aesthetics and erotics of statuary and the recurrent references to sculpture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century sexology and other new debates on sexuality, the discourse of the statue intersects with constructions of gender, sex and sexuality in multiple ways.

Organiser(s):

Jana Funke, Jennifer Grove

'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

Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:20:30 +0000

Date:

4 May 2012

Disputes, discord and reconciliation are part of the fabric of communal living. Early modern Europe was no exception. Indeed, in a time when enmity could be, in John Bossy’s words, 'a force', 'personal, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball . .

Organiser(s):

Laura Kounine and Stephen Cummins

The Making of Landscapes in Modernity

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:00:33 +0000

Date:

10 May 2012 - 11 May 2012

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 second. We aim to produce a special issue for a journal as a result of this this workshop.

Organiser(s):

James Koranyi, Bernhard Struck

Conflict in Memory: Interpersonal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:02:10 +0000

Date:

10 May 2012 - 12 May 2012

War, conflicts and transitions have always played a significant role in defining communal identity, often with reference to events that happened centuries ago. The role of passing on collective memories of these types of events has become even more complex in a globalizing world, where new configurations of cosmopolitan memories challenge more locally and nationally based memories. The many aspects of societies’ remembering and forgetting call for interdisciplinary cooperation.

Organiser(s):

Michael Böss, professor, Aarhus University

Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium (EMASS) 2012

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:16:55 +0000

Date:

14 May 2012 - 16 May 2012

The 6th annual Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium will be held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, London. The interactive forum is run for and by graduate research students who focus on the archaeology of the early medieval period, roughly the period between the 4th-12th centuries AD.EMASS aims to provide a constructive and interdisciplinary forum to facilitate discussion and debate between researchers from different institutions and specialities, in a constructive environment.

Organiser(s):

Martin Locker & Tom Williams

Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:24 +0000

Date:

16 May 2012 - 17 May 2012

The Ministry of Defence and The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory announce the 2012 Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium Dstl Portsdown West, Portsmouth, UK Wednesday 16th – Thursday 17th May 2012 Initial Call for Papers and Participation For almost 30 years, the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory have used analysis of historical campaigns and developments in academic understanding of conflict to provide a ‘reality-check’ to UK defence policy.

Organiser(s):

Deborah Cheverton (dacheverton@dstl.gov.uk)

Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:06:23 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

‘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 somewhere. This conference – the first of three inter-continental meetings between 2012 and 2014 – is concerned with any and all ‘somewheres’ that might be thought of as landscapes.

Organiser(s):

Carina Venter (Oxford), Michael Uy (Harvard), Jonathan Hicks (Oxford)

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

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

The making of a monarchy for the modern world

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:13:34 +0000

Date:

6 June 2012 - 8 June 2012

A conference at Kensington Palace

‘THERE will soon be only five kings left - the Kings of Diamonds, Heart, Spades and Clubs, and the King of England’. King Farouk of Egypt

Our big theme is monarchy and its relationship to the modern world. Monarchs were originally supposed to be men, and gods, and have undisputedly royal blood. Since 1688, though, this clearly hasn’t been the case in Britain.

Organiser(s):

Historic Royal Palaces (Lucy Worsley, Joanna Marschner, David Cannadine, Holger Hoock, Hannah Greig)

Violent Culture/Cultural Violence

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:30:19 +0000

Date:

9 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Violence and Conflict Graduate Workshop, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge