University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Date:

19 January 2012 - 19 April 2012

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Organiser(s):

Dr Steve Boardman Steve.Boardman@ed.ac.uk

Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:40 +0000

Date:

1 February 2012 - 7 March 2012

The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film

How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen? Is it possible to be historically accurate without pandering to market forces? These are just two of the questions posed by this inaugural season that will showcase genres ranging from classical theatre to opera, documentary and modern cinema. These four films will be introduced and discussed by historians from the Department of History.

Organiser(s):

Dr Emma Vickers

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?

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:43:20 +0000

Date:

18 February 2012

This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent research. While the 'wisdom' of folly in the early modern period has become a familiar concept, it has lacked significant cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural investigation. This symposium will include papers on Erasmus's character of Folly; the fools of Tudor interludes, French 'soties' and Shakespeare; king's fools and court jesters; carnivals and festive folly; and the representation of folly in art.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alice Hunt

Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:13:26 +0000

Date:

24 February 2012 - 25 February 2012

Organiser(s):

Hannah Walters

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

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:43 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

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 is: "Junctions and Crossroads". The Colloquium this year will take place on the 25th of February, 2012.

We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on ‘The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney’.

Organiser(s):

CCASNC Committee 2012, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

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 College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

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

Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:50:59 +0000

Date:

10 March 2012

The aim of this day is to bring together current and interested researchers in herbal history to report on progress in current projects and share ideas and problems. Our theme for the day will be about communicating herbal knowledge in the past. The cost is £10 and kept deliberately low to enable research students to participate although others are most welcome. As this cost is low, please bring your own sandwich lunch! We will arrange for hot water, tea or coffee to be made available.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anne Stobart

"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

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:19:51 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’. It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered. Instead, it is structured around key themes: health, family life, the law and work. The papers presented will consider seemingly very different groups, in the context of early modern Britain, Europe and the Atlantic World. The hope is that over the course of the two days we will be able to identify similarities in perception and treatment between these groups. There are two basic questions which all

Organiser(s):

Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw

Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:44:40 +0000

Date:

24 March 2012

10.15 – 17.00 (with registration from 09.45)

Gothic ivory sculpture, surviving in large numbers in collections around the world, has thus far not received all the attention it deserves. The Gothic Ivories Project, launched on the web in December 2010 (www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk), seeks to promote research in the field by providing an online catalogue of surviving pieces carved in Western Europe from c. 1200 to the early 16th century.

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:43:20 +0000

Date:

25 March 2012 - 27 March 2012

This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds, it runs from Sunday 25 March 2012, to Tuesday 27 March. Those interested in reserving a place should contact Dr Tom Licence (of UEA), at t.licence@uea.ac.uk.

Organiser(s):

Dr Tom Licence (UEA)

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

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

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:22:07 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012

Registration: Free. Furthermore, travel bursaries are available subject to certain criteria

Organiser(s):

Dr Catherine Casson (Universities of Birmingham and Oxford) and Mr Will Liddle (Queen's University Belfast)

The Royal Body

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 4 April 2012

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Whitelock

European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:34:26 +0000

Date:

11 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

The ESSHC 2012 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Information about the European Social Science and History Conference can be found at: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/

The conference

Organiser(s):

Harm Nijboer & Karin Dannehl

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:59 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 15 April 2012

This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students to present work in progress, and includes a number of guest speakers attached to Aberystwyth University, who in the past have shared their knowledge and experience of such things as interdisciplinary work, collaborations between universities and other research institutions, successful applications and interview techniques for academic posts, and guidance on how to get your work published.

Organiser(s):

Lowri Jones & Kris Lovell

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

Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:15:08 +0000

Date:

19 April 2012 - 20 April 2012

The institution of Monarchy was absolutely central to the political developments and events of the medieval and Early Modern world. This conference aims to celebrate monarchy in all of its various aspects, from examining the institution itself to assessing the impact of particular monarchs in their own realms and beyond. Historic Corsham Court, located just outside of Bath, is a beautiful and appropriate setting for this conference, with its origins as a summer palace for the Kings of Wessex.

Organiser(s):

Elena (Ellie) Woodacre, Sean McGlynn and Erica O'Brien

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:42 +0000

Date:

21 April 2012

A one-day colloquium looking at clerical life in Latin Europe during the ‘very long tenth century’, between the Carolingians and eleventh-century papal reform. We want to explore this period in its own terms, rather than in relation to what came before and after. We’re interested in all areas of clerical life (social, political, religious, intellectual), and in all regions of Latin Europe, looking beyond the Franco-German ‘core’.

Organiser(s):

Bernard Gowers (KCL), Kathrin Korn (Oxford), Conrad Leyser (Oxford), Hannah Williams

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

Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:55:08 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Arie van Steensel

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012 - 29 April 2012

This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the act of sealing and the recording of this act as well as questions relating to how, why and by whom seals were employed. A further important theme will be the manner in which seals relate to other sources: visual, material and documentary.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Phillipp R. Schofield; Dr Elizabeth New; Dr John McEwan

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

The First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium: 'Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650'

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:40:37 +0000

Date:

28 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Emily Gray and Harriette Peel (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region

"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

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

The Royal Body

European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

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

Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiast​ical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

The First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium: 'Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650'

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075