Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:57:43 +0000

Date:

9 January 2012 - 27 April 2012

This exhibition at the UCL Art Museum features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Among the items on show are first editions of Rousseau’s works, including On the Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762), frontispieces, and printed images.

Organiser(s):

UCL Centre for Transnational History

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012

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 flux. The resultant instability usually forces those affected to react to the disturbance and reassert a sense of equilibrium. By unravelling the operation of social and political mechanisms that are normally taken for granted, crises give rise to a number of questions: Were crises preceded by a generally accepted order? How did individuals confronted with a crisis react to the new state of affairs?

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

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

"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

Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:18 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012

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 discipline and essential for a proper understanding of much broader topics such as population distribution, patterns of consumption and material culture, and the rise and fall of empires, governments and mass political and social movements.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alysa Levene

The Royal Body

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 4 April 2012

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 interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Whitelock

Developing teaching skills for teaching assistants and new lecturers in history

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:07:14 +0000

Date:

20 April 2012

The convenors and guest speakers from both of the Manchester universities will lead sessions about: designing learning; structuring lectures; planning and running seminars; issues in assessment; team teaching, managing relationships and supervision; working smart; and career building.

Other speakers include:

Dr Max Jones (University of Manchester)
Dr Catherine Armstrong (MMU)
Dr Jamie Wood (University of Manchester)

This workshop will take place between 10.00 and 3.00.

Organiser(s):

Dr Jamie Wood, Manchester University, Dr Catherine Armstrong, MMU & Dr Max Jones, Manchester University.

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:39:46 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Statuary has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and ideas, and the formation of sexual knowledge. From prehistoric phallic stones, mythological representations of statues and sculptors, e.g. Medusa or Pygmalion, to the Romantic aesthetics and erotics of statuary and the recurrent references to sculpture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century sexology and other new debates on sexuality, the discourse of the statue intersects with constructions of gender, sex and sexuality in multiple ways.

Organiser(s):

Jana Funke, Jennifer Grove

Conflict in Memory: Interpersonal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:02:10 +0000

Date:

10 May 2012 - 12 May 2012

War, conflicts and transitions have always played a significant role in defining communal identity, often with reference to events that happened centuries ago. The role of passing on collective memories of these types of events has become even more complex in a globalizing world, where new configurations of cosmopolitan memories challenge more locally and nationally based memories. The many aspects of societies’ remembering and forgetting call for interdisciplinary cooperation.

Organiser(s):

Michael Böss, professor, Aarhus University

The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

Event Announcement

Centre for Transnational History

University of St Andrews

Organiser(s):

Marie Ventura, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

Date:

13 June 2012 - 14 June 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 Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

Organiser(s):

historylab2012@gmail.com

E. A. Freeman: The Life and Times of a Victorian Intellectual

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:48:01 +0000

Date:

21 June 2012 - 23 June 2012

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

Organiser(s):

Dr Alex Bremner (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton)

Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World)

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:25:29 +0000

Date:

21 June 2012 - 23 June 2012

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 marks the first time that the conference will take place away from Austin, Texas, and the British Scholar Society is pleased to announce that it will be hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Organiser(s):

The British Scholar Society

LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:30:43 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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 Transformations?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Phillip Drummond

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

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:44:27 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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 Britain - A United Kingdom?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Academic Conferences London Ltd

The Battle for Books

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:40:39 +0000

Date:

26 June 2012 - 29 June 2012

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 June 2012.

The theme of the conference will be 'The Battle for Books'. The conference will begin on the afternoon of Tuesday 26 June 2012 and end on Friday 29 June 2012.

Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:20:32 +0000

Date:

1 July 2012 - 3 July 2012

France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History

Organiser(s):

Stuart Carroll, Alan Forrest, Geoff Cubitt, Guy Halsall and Katherine Wilson and the Society for the Study of French History

Contested histories and the parameters of resistance

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:15:47 +0000

Date:

3 July 2012

Confirmed Keynote: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire)

Organiser(s):

Isabelle Hesse, Jessica Moody, Nicola Robinson

Call for papers: The Politics of Critique: 2nd Critical Studies Research Group Postgraduate Conference

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:37 +0000

Date:

18 July 2012 - 19 July 2012

What is the meaning of critique today?

Second Call for Papers: Riot, Revolt, Revolution

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:07:25 +0000

Date:

5 September 2012 - 7 September 2012

Organiser(s):

Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics

God and the Enlightenment

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:01 +0000

Date:

4 October 2012 - 6 October 2012

The 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 religion and the Enlightenment. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (4–6 October 2012) and is co-organized by William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram.

Organiser(s):

William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram