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Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War

Date: 
21 March 2010 - 22 March 2010

The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton is organizing a research project which will explore the responses of the anti-Hitler Allies to the Jewish plight during the Second World War.

URL: 
http://www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/news/conf-10-exile_symposium.shtml
Conference organiser(s): 
The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
Location: 
Southampton, UK

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

This interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield aims to bring together the different scholarly ways of approaching the Victorian period and to examine their points of crossover and divergence.

URL: 
https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Conference organiser(s): 
Tim Baycroft, Ingrid Hanson, Erin Snyder, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr
Location: 
Sheffiled, United Kingdom

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

URL: 
https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Conference organiser(s): 
Ingrid Hanson, Erin Snyder, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr
Location: 
Sheffield

Neighbourly Denunciation

Date: 
26 March 2010

Neighbourly Denunciation 

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

2:00pm Session 1

URL: 
http://www.sas.ac.uk/710.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
Location: 
London, 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

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

URL: 
http://tiny.cc/IrNaJ
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy: the wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940

Date: 
8 April 2010 - 10 April 2010

Conference organiser(s): 
John Gilmour, Hon Fellow, Scandinavian Studies (on behalf of Professor Jill Stephenson)
Location: 
Old College, University of Edinburgh

The 1641 depositons: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 10 April 2010

The 1641 depositions: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

URL: 
https://www.tcd.ie/history/1641/index.php
Conference organiser(s): 
Eamon Darcy, Edda Frankot, Annaleigh Margey, Elaine Murphy
Location: 
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

National Worship in International perspective: state prayers, fasts and thanksgivings since the sixteenth century

Date: 
12 April 2010 - 14 April 2010

Many early modern and modern governments ordered occasions of special worship in periods of great crisis or unexpected prosperity, or to mark calamities or victories.   As a growing number of studies has indicated, these occasions offer great insights into government and ecclesiastical policies, the communication of official religious interpretations, conceptions of identity and popul

URL: 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/history/research/research_projects/british_state_prayers/
Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Philip Williamson (Durham), Professor Stephan Taylor (Reading) & Dr Natalie Mears (Durham)
Location: 
Durham, UK

Twentieth Anniversary ASEN Conference ‘Nation and Charisma’

Date: 
13 April 2010 - 15 April 2010

From the Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

URL: 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ConfRegOnline2010.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Margit Wunsch and Dr Vivian Ibrahim
Location: 
London, London School of Economics and Political Science