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

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:03:39 +0000

Date:

13 February 2012

The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated with London’s famous road, the Strand.

On Monday 13th February, Dr Rosemary Hill, author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, will be speaking about:

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’

Organiser(s):

Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the Bodleian’s modern political manuscript collections. The subjects are Clement Attlee; Roy Jenkins; Douglas Jay; and 60 years of political interviews by David Butler.

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

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

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:21:50 +0000

Date:

23 February 2012

The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History warmly invite you to:

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

By Carole O'Reilly, University of Salford

Organiser(s):

Manchester Centre for Regional History, Manchester Metropolitan University

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

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

This year's Bentham Seminar series, organised by UCL's Bentham Project, have been confirmed. All of the seminars will be held between 11am and 1pm in the Committee Room in the School of Public Policy at UCL (Rubin Building, 29/30 Tavistock Square). For further information, please contact Phil Baker (philip.baker@ucl.ac.uk). All are welcome!

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:46 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Webster is well known for his magisterial study of the Baconian tradition in seventeenth-century science, The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975).

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford; chaired by Professor Pietro Corsi, Professor, History of Science, University of Oxford

Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:09:52 +0000

Date:

15 January 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Goldsmiths History Seminar programme (and related events), 2011/12

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm (unless otherwise stated)

Venue: Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building (unless otherwise stated)

All events are free and open to public. No registration required. For additional information, please contact the seminar convener Dr Dejan Djokic (d.djokic@gold.ac.uk).

Spring term

15 January
Anastasia Stouraiti (Goldsmiths), 'Marvels of the Levant: Wonder and Empire in Early Modern Venice'

7 March

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

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

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

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

The seminar will meet monthly on Wednesdays from January to July (excepting April) from 5.15 to 6.45 pm in the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are welcome. Those with an interest in Dr Williams’s Library and its collections and in the history of Protestant dissent are especially invited to attend.

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:09:52 +0000

Date:

15 January 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

NMRN Research Seminar. Those they left behind: Naval families during the Napoleonic wars

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:45:19 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter, will give a seminar paper on naval families during the Napoleonic period as part of the ongoing National Museum of the Royal Navy's Research Seminar series.

Organiser(s):

Dr Duncan Redford

New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Date:

16 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

The University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre, in conjunction with the History Lab North West postgraduate network, is pleased to announce the first annual postgraduate workshop on New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century. This new venture aims to bring together postgraduate students from the North West and across the UK, giving a platform for the next generation of eighteenth-century scholars to share their research and ideas.

Organiser(s):

Eighteenth-Century Worlds, University of Liverpool

"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

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

Irish agrarian radicals, c. 1850-1930

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:57:55 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012 - 23 March 2012

Agrarian issues and the land question have always seemed to dominate discourse in Ireland and the Land movement of the 1870s onwards saw the land and national questions becoming inextricably linked. While there has been an outpouring of works regarding these themes, scant attention has been paid to the role of individuals that made substantive contributions to agrarian radicalism in Ireland.

Organiser(s):

Brian Casey

Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:36:40 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National University of Ireland, Galway

Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Organiser(s):

Dr Laura Kelly

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

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)

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)

Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:02:34 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012 - 30 March 2012

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Organiser(s):

Organisers: Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), Angela Davis (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick) and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)