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York 1190: Jews and Others in the wake of Massacre

Date: 
22 March 2010 - 24 March 2010

This conference will  use the events of 1189-90 as a lens through which to reassess society in England in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The York massacre was not just a local event but one of a series of violent attacks on local communities of Jews across England in 1189-90.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Sarah Rees Jones and Dr Sethina Watson
Location: 
York, 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

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

Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 11 April 2010

This is an AHRC funded three day postgraduate conference organized under the Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives Project. The content of the sessions is flexible to allow the presentations to be as innovative and exciting as possible. We may move sessions to early morning or night, or to locations outside the conference room.

URL: 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Trish Stewart, University of St. Andrews and Diane Heath, University of Kent
Location: 
St. Andrews, Scotland

The Battlefields Trust Annual Conference at York 2010 - Battlefields of Yorkshire

Date: 
16 April 2010 - 18 April 2010

York 2010

The Battlefields Trust - - Yorkshire Battlefields - History and Heritage

Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April 2010 Venue:  The Great Western Monkbar Hotel with a short walk from The Shambles and Minster.

URL: 
www.battlefieldstrust.com
Conference organiser(s): 
Mrs Sarah Baker Events Trustee
Location: 
York, United Kingdom

From Space to Place: The spatial Dimension in the History of Western Europe

Date: 
16 April 2010 - 17 April 2010

This conference will explore the so-called ‘spatial turn in history’ discussed among historians for the last decade or so and inspired by earlier anthropological ideas and the interdisciplinary approach by sociologists, especially geographers. It challenges the idea of place or space in history as an unreflected essentialist category linked to tradition and immutability.

URL: 
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/chat/conferences/index.html
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

Gender and Transgression in Middle Ages: Third Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

Date: 
23 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

We are pleased to announce a call for papers to Gender and Transgression 2010, a two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

URL: 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/index.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Kate Hammond, Matt McHaffie, Jamie Page, Laura Tompkins
Location: 
St Andrews, Fife, UK

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