Browse events by 'Imperial and Colonial'

Feb 2012
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25 Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

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...

York, United Kingdom
Mar 2012
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09 - 10 New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 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...

Glasgow, , United Kingdom
14 History of Women in the Americas

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at...

London, United Kingdom
22 Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

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...

Oxford, United Kingdom
29 - 31 UCL Neale Colloquium 2012: Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world

The colloquium aims to present the findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project...

London, United Kingdom
29 Neale Lecture 2012: Prof Robin Blackburn, Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade

We are pleased to announce that Professor Robin Blackburn (Essex) will give this year's UCL Neale Lecture in British History, on 'Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade'...

London, United Kingdom
30 - 31 Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

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...

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Apr 2012
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02 - 04 The Royal Body

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...

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
12 The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

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...

London, United Kingdom
May 2012
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10 - 11 The Making of Landscapes in Modernity

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...

St Andrews, United Kingdom
16 - 17 Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium

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...

Fareham, United Kingdom
18 - 19 Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology

‘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...

Oxford, United Kingdom
18 - 19 The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives

    Event Announcement

    Centre for Transnational History

    University of St Andrews

    Date of Event: 18/19 May, 2012

    The two-day interdisciplinary workshop THE CHANGING...

St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
19 Falklands Conflict Thirty Years On, 1 day conference, 19 May 2012: Call for Papers

This conference will provide new, early career and established scholars the opportunity to present new research and perspectives on the 1982 Falklands Conflict.  It will focus on the war at...

Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Jun 2012
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13 - 14 AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab...

London, United Kingdom
14 - 16 Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies in the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776

This colloquium, the fifth in a biennial series, offers an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplines to work together to enrich their mutual understanding of the intersections between...

Halifax, Canada
20 The Great War: Localities and Regional Identities

As the centenary of the Great War approaches and it slips from first-hand experience, shelves on military history in high-street bookshops testify to the misty-eyed mythical appeal it continues to...

Manchester, United Kingdom
21 - 23 E. A. Freeman: The Life and Times of a Victorian Intellectual

'History is past politics, politics is present history'.

Edward Augustus Freeman's activities as a scholar are widely acknowledged for having helped establish the study of medieval history...

Hawarden, United Kingdom
21 - 23 Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World)

This serves as a call for papers for the fifth annual British Scholar Conference. The conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from Thursday, 21 June through Saturday, 23 June, 2012. This...

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
22 - 24 Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.

This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850.  Scholars...

Sheffield, United Kingdom
22 - 24 Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History Shanghai, China
22 - 23 Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850

The Maritime and Oceanic History Workshop and The Centre of African Studies Graduate Conference 2012

Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850

22-23 June 2012 -...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
22 Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal

Landscape features prominently in perceptions and interpretations of the past.  Whether depicting a specific location in its own right, or providing a backdrop for historical action, the...

Liverpool, United Kingdom
22 - 24 LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the great world city of London in the context of Olympic and Jubilee Year. The title for the 2012 event is 'London - City of...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference - 'The End of Representation?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the screen-based traditions of film, TV and digital media. The title for the 2012 event is 'The End of Representation?'...

London, United Kingdom
26 - 29 The Battle for Books

The Trinity Long Room Hub is pleased to announce that it will host the 2012 conference of the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing (SHARP) at Trinity College Dublin in...

Dublin, United Kingdom
29 - 01 Renaissance Old Worlds: English Encounters from the Levant to the Far East

The early modern period saw England establishing its first colonies in the New World, but its ideas and expectations about foreign nations, travel and its identity as a political and economic...

London, United Kingdom
Jul 2012
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01 - 03 Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference

France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History 

The conference theme is prompted by the challenge of globalization and the notion that Europe can no longer...

York , United Kingdom
02 - 05 The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society

Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference’, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican...

Toowoomba, Australia
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