'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

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?

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

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

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

Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:36:22 +0000

Date:

3 March 2012

09.30 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.00)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

In 1936 Alfred H. Barr Jr’s history-making-and-shaping survey Cubism and Abstract Art put Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson together as the older and younger leaders of ‘geometrical abstraction’ in the Western World. It also announced that ‘geometrical abstraction’ was in decline, a judgement Mondrian immediately dismissed. For him, writing to Nicholson, ‘geom. abstr.’ was always in the ascendant.

Organiser(s):

Chris Green, Barnaby Wright (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Lee Beard (editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Nicholson)

Meet the Historian: Mary Beard

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:27:17 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

'Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline generally, and about their latest work. There will be the chance to ask questions and enter into discussion, and to join the speaker for drinks after the talk.

Organiser(s):

Sally Osborn

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

Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:44:40 +0000

Date:

24 March 2012

10.15 – 17.00 (with registration from 09.45)

Gothic ivory sculpture, surviving in large numbers in collections around the world, has thus far not received all the attention it deserves. The Gothic Ivories Project, launched on the web in December 2010 (www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk), seeks to promote research in the field by providing an online catalogue of surviving pieces carved in Western Europe from c. 1200 to the early 16th century.

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)

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

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

The Oxford Movement & its Legacy

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:04:14 +0000

Date:

14 April 2012

A Kent Archaeological Society study day looking at the Oxford Movement and its legacy, especially in Kent, through a combination of lectures (in the morning) and workshops (in the afternoon). Among the speakers will be Dean Michael Chandler, an expert on the Movement. Using Holy Trinity Church in Folkestone, two of the three workshops will focus on the church and its documents to allow participants to explore how the Movement's ideas were deployed at the level of the parish.

Organiser(s):

Jackie Davidson

Consuming the country house: from acquisition to presentation

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:32:57 +0000

Date:

18 April 2012 - 19 April 2012

The country house can be seen as a palimpsest: generations of owners adding their own material objects and layers of meaning. This presents challenges to both historians and curators – how to understand the relationship between new and old goods; how to assess the meaning of goods in different contexts, and how to present a coherent narrative of the house and its contents to the visitor today.

Organiser(s):

University of Northampton / English Heritage

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

Cradled in Caricature - a multidisciplinary event

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:38:19 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Call for Contributions

This one-day event will approach the notion of ‘caricature’ in its broadest sense, using it as a jumping-off point for discussions on exaggeration, stereotyping, representation, and characterisation. The multi-disciplinary event therefore intends to explore the following problems:

Organiser(s):

The School of History, University of Kent, and the Department of History of Art, University College London.

History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the 'New Science'

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:44:45 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

The day conference 'History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the "New Science"' will be held on Friday, 27 April 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Royal Society, London.

Organiser(s):

Anna Marie Roos

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012 - 29 April 2012

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 act of sealing and the recording of this act as well as questions relating to how, why and by whom seals were employed. A further important theme will be the manner in which seals relate to other sources: visual, material and documentary.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Phillipp R. Schofield; Dr Elizabeth New; Dr John McEwan

The First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium: 'Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650'

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:40:37 +0000

Date:

28 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Emily Gray and Harriette Peel (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Spaces of Work 1770-1830

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:24:38 +0000

Date:

28 April 2012

Spaces of Work 1770-1830 will address the relationships between workers and spaces in Britain. We aim to showcase current research and are particularly interested in interrogating under-analyzed types of work and space. For example, we hope to develop the theorization of types of work that critics have not conventionally understood as ‘work’ (the performance of music as practical activity, for instance). We also aim to bring attention to under-analysed spaces.

Organiser(s):

Joseph Morrissey & Kate Scarth

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

Performing Art History II: Conveying Research, Communicating Collaboration

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:14:45 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012

A conference organised by the Performing Art History Special Interest Group to be held on Friday 18 May 2012

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2

Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:06:23 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

‘Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are’ (José Ortega y Gasset).

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Nowhere is the only unattainable elsewhere; people are always already somewhere. This conference – the first of three inter-continental meetings between 2012 and 2014 – is concerned with any and all ‘somewheres’ that might be thought of as landscapes.

Organiser(s):

Carina Venter (Oxford), Michael Uy (Harvard), Jonathan Hicks (Oxford)

Probing the Interior 1800-2012

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:46:07 +0000

Date:

25 May 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Lucetta Johnson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (King’s College London)

The making of a monarchy for the modern world

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:13:34 +0000

Date:

6 June 2012 - 8 June 2012

A conference at Kensington Palace

‘THERE will soon be only five kings left - the Kings of Diamonds, Heart, Spades and Clubs, and the King of England’. King Farouk of Egypt

Our big theme is monarchy and its relationship to the modern world. Monarchs were originally supposed to be men, and gods, and have undisputedly royal blood. Since 1688, though, this clearly hasn’t been the case in Britain.

Organiser(s):

Historic Royal Palaces (Lucy Worsley, Joanna Marschner, David Cannadine, Holger Hoock, Hannah Greig)

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

Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies in the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:56:33 +0000

Date:

14 June 2012 - 16 June 2012

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 public finance, politics and literature during Britain's 'financial revolution'. The term 'Britain' is used loosely to refer to all constituent parts of the United Kingdom and also to Ireland and the colonies. The term 'literature' is broadly defined to include newspapers, pamphlets, treatises, novels, plays and illustrations.

Organiser(s):

Chris Fauske, Communications Department, Salem State College; Rick Kleer, Department of Economics, University of Regina; Ivar McGrath, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin

European Painted Cloths C14th-C21st: Pageantry, Ceremony, Theatre and the Domestic Interior

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:03:43 +0000

Date:

15 June 2012 - 16 June 2012

This two day conference will explore the use of painted cloths in religious ceremony, pageantry, domestic interiors and scenic art. It will focus on their change of context and significance from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century exploring their different function, materials, and method of creation.

Organiser(s):

Christina Young (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Nicola Costaras (Victoria & Albert Museum)

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