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Questioning 'Credible Commitment': Re-thinking the Glorious Revolution and the Rise of Financial Capitalism

Date: 
20 March 2010 - 23 March 2010

In 1989, North and Weingast argued that the establishment of parliamentary supremacy over public finance created an environment in which investors could rely upon the state to meet its financial promises.

URL: 
http://www.newnham.cam.ac.uk/credcom2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr D'Maris Coffman and Dr Anne Murphy
Location: 
Cambridge, 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

CHORD workshop: 'Commerce and Illegality, 1500-2000'

Date: 
21 April 2010

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of illicit and illegal commercial practices, from 1500 to the present.Proposals are invited covering any form of dodgy dealing and any geographical location.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

URL: 
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/illegcom.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura Ugolini
Location: 
Wolverhampton, UK

Making Democracy: Violence, Politics, and the American Founding

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 23 April 2010

The newly opened George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions, which has its home at Ohio University, invites paper proposals for a conference and subsequent edited volume on violence, politics, and the American founding. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (April 22–23, 2010).

URL: 
www.ohio.edu/washingtonforum
Conference organiser(s): 
Robert G. Ingram, Brian D. Schoen
Location: 
Athens, Ohio, USA

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

Postgraduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

Date: 
3 May 2010 - 4 May 2010

A new postgraduate forum in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought based in London would like to invite proposals for papers for our first postgraduate conference, to be held in in early May 2010.

URL: 
www.historyofpoliticalthought.net
Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Dean, Elliott Karstadt, Robin Mills
Location: 
London, UK

'New Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scotland', ESHSS Annual Conference,

Date: 
7 May 2010 - 8 May 2010

In recent years, the historiography in seventeenth and eighteenth century Scotland has flourished, especially amongst new scholars, bringing insight and nuance into many areas of Scottish life that have long been ignored.

URL: 
www.eshss.co.uk
Conference organiser(s): 
Economic and Social History Society of Scotland
Location: 
Dundee, Scotland.

Histfest 2010

Date: 
14 May 2010 - 16 May 2010

Now in its fifteenth year, Histfest provides an ideal forum for presenting postgraduate research at any stage of progress to a supportive and constructive audience. The conference welcomes papers from any field of historical research and related disciplines. This year we are also inviting submissions of poster displays.

URL: 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/histfest
Conference organiser(s): 
James Bowen, William Cook, George Lincoln, Emily Mead, Alexander Wilkinson, Oliver Wilkinson
Location: 
Lancaster, UK

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads:Translation, Print and Culture in Britain 1473-1640

Date: 
20 May 2010 - 21 May 2010

On 20-21 May 2010, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick will host an international conference on translation, print and culture in Renaissance Britain.

URL: 
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/rccconference
Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Brenda Hosington, Dr Sara Barker and Ms Susanna De Schepper
Location: 
University of Warwick, Coventry

Historical Perspectives Postgraduate Conference

Date: 
21 May 2010 - 22 May 2010

Historical Perspectives is a history society established and run by postgraduates for postgraduates.

Conference organiser(s): 
Historical Perspectives
Location: 
Dundee