Browse events by 'Legal History'

Feb 2012
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15 - 17 Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

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...

London, United Kingdom
25 Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

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...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mar 2012
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08 - 10 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 Sarasota, United States
17 - 18 PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

On March 17-18, 2012, the School of History at the University of Nottingham is hosting a postgraduate colloquium, initiated and organised by its own doctoral students, on the theme of cultural...

Nottingham, United Kingdom
23 - 24 Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

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

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National...

Galway, Ireland
31 Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both...

Limerick, Ireland
Apr 2012
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02 - 03 Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations Bangor, United Kingdom
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
27 - 29 Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

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...

Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
May 2012
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04 Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe

Disputes, discord and reconciliation are part of the fabric of communal living. Early modern Europe was no exception. Indeed, in a time when enmity could be, in John Bossy’s words, 'a force', '...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
15 The 1898 Law on Workplace Accidents and the Pricing of Bodies in Europe

In recent years, scholarly studies on risks and occupational health diseases have reactivated a field of research that emerged in France between 1975 and 1985. At a moment when environmental...

Paris, France
17 - 18 The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600

Bath Spa University, 17-18 May 2012

Many historians of the early modern neighbourhood have argued that religious reform and the emergence of the state ousted caritas from the...

Bath, 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
Jun 2012
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06 - 09 Policy History Conference

Since the first Policy History Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, the primary goal behind the conference has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of policy history, American...

Richmond, Virginia, United States
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
15 - 17 Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)

From the publication of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill (1748) to D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), literature has imaginatively exploited the relationship between...

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
18 For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th – 19th c.

If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the industrial revolution, and if environmental history has been immediately written on a...

Oxford, 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 - 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
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
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
03 - 05 RGS-IBG Annual Conference: call for papers in a planned session Edinburgh, United Kingdom
04 - 09 CFP - Perception, Reception: The history of the media in society

Call for Papers for a conference to be held between 4th and 6th July 2012 at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

The 4th Media History conference will focus on...

Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
05 - 07 Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium

The theme for the 2012 conference is 'Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles'. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool),...

Oxford, United Kingdom
06 - 07 Liberal Wars: Call for Papers

Liberalism is not pacifism. Loosely-speaking liberal states - states that attach importance, at least internally, to individual autonomy - have frequently been willing to use military force; they...

Reading, United Kingdom
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