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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

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

URL: 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/basas2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Clare Anderson, David Arnold, Hazel Rice
Location: 
Coventry, UK

Chinese Influences in European Art (International Conference)

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 11 April 2010

The Opole Confucius Institute (Poland) is pleased to announce an international conference entitled ‘Chinese Influences in European Art’, which is to take place on 9 – 11 April 2010 in an ancient spa town of Glucholazy (olim Ziegenhals).

URL: 
http://instytutkonfucjusza.po.opole.pl
Conference organiser(s): 
Opole Confucius Institute
Location: 
Glucholazy

Historical Perspectives on the Family

Date: 
23 April 2010

This one-day conference will examine historical perspectives on the family in Britain, from individual roles and identities within the family to the wider significance of the family to the nation. The family is a crucial institution to individuals and to nations and societies as a whole, and is central to the work of many historians and social scientists.

URL: 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/research/conferences/family.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura King
Location: 
Sheffield, UK

Postgraduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

Date: 
3 May 2010 - 4 May 2010

A new postgraduate forum in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought based in London would like to invite proposals for papers for our first postgraduate conference, to be held in in early May 2010.

URL: 
www.historyofpoliticalthought.net
Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Dean, Elliott Karstadt, Robin Mills
Location: 
London, UK

3rd Mediterranean Maritime History Network Conference

Date: 
5 May 2010 - 7 May 2010
Proposals are invited for papers/short communications informing on current research being undertaken on Mediterranean maritime history since the thirteenth century CE on the use of the sea as a resource, for transport, power projection, scientific purposes, leisure activities, and as an inspiration in culture and ideology.
URL: 
http://itf.ieu.edu.tr/conference/index.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Mediterranean Maritime History Network
Location: 
Izmir, Turkey

Histfest 2010

Date: 
14 May 2010 - 16 May 2010

Now in its fifteenth year, Histfest provides an ideal forum for presenting postgraduate research at any stage of progress to a supportive and constructive audience. The conference welcomes papers from any field of historical research and related disciplines. This year we are also inviting submissions of poster displays.

URL: 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/histfest
Conference organiser(s): 
James Bowen, William Cook, George Lincoln, Emily Mead, Alexander Wilkinson, Oliver Wilkinson
Location: 
Lancaster, UK

The Mediterranean in Late Antiquity 300-700

Date: 
15 May 2010

An international conference at Wolfson College, Oxford Saturday 15th May 2010, 9.30am - 5 pm.  Participants will include: Peregrine Horden, Peter Heather, Chris Kelly, Robert Hoyland, Nicola Clarke, Philip Wood, Averil Cameron, Eileen Rubery, Peter Bell with Michael Maas and Bryan Ward-Perkins.

URL: 
www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/med
Conference organiser(s): 
Peter Bell
Location: 
Oxford, UK

Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes - Second Annual Histories of Home SSN Conference

Date: 
21 May 2010

The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network (SSN) invites papers for its second annual conference, to be held in London at the British Library on Friday 21 May 2010.

URL: 
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/find_a_network/subject_specialists/Histories_of_the_Home
Conference organiser(s): 
Krisztina Lackoi
Location: 
London, UK

University of Huddersfield History Postgraduate Conference 2010

Date: 
26 May 2010

The University of Huddersfield History Postgraduate Conference, to be held at the University's main Huddersfield (Queensgate) Campus on Wednesday 26th May 2010, is designed to bring together postgraduates in history and related disciplines to share their research in a friendly, informal environment with the wider postgraduate and history communities.

Conference organiser(s): 
Tosh Warwick
Location: 
Huddersfield, UK