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Jan 2012
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09 - 27	Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State 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...	London, United Kingdom

Feb 2012
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13	'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill 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...	London , United Kingdom
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
18	Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe 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...	Alton, 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
25	Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage 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...	York, United Kingdom
29	Bentham Seminar series 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...	London, United Kingdom

Mar 2012
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06	Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution' 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,...	Oxford, United Kingdom
07	Bentham Seminar series 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...	London, United Kingdom
08 - 10	New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012	Sarasota, United States
14	Dissenting Studies Seminar Series 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...	London, United Kingdom
14	Bentham Seminar series 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...	London, United Kingdom
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
19 - 20	"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History 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...	Cambridge, United Kingdom
21	Bentham Seminar series 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...	London, United Kingdom
25 - 27	Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest 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...	Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
30 - 31	Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective What inspires activists to embrace causes that do not directly affect them? What drives professions of solidarity for an individual, community or nation? This conference will explore the ways in...	Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Apr 2012
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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
13 - 14	Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century 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...	Canterbury, United Kingdom
14	The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on Christopher Hill’s classic work, The World Turned Upside Down, was published in 1972. The book, though much criticised, remains one of the most popular books on the...	Sheffield, United Kingdom
14	The Oxford Movement & its Legacy 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)....	Folkestone, United Kingdom
16 - 17	W. T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary William Stead died on the Titanic in 1912, the most famous Englishman on board. One of the inventors of the modern tabloid, his exposé of child prostitution raised the age of consent to 16, yet...	London, United Kingdom
21	The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075 A one-day colloquium looking at clerical life in Latin Europe during the ‘very long tenth century’, between the Carolingians and eleventh-century papal reform. We want to explore this period in...	Oxford, United Kingdom
27	Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-90 In what ways – and to what extent – did academic life change in Western Europe and the United States during the Cold War era? Why did it change the way it did? These are the leading questions of a...	Bonn, Germany
27	Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History 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...	Exeter, 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
27	History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the 'New Science' 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, United Kingdom

May 2012
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09	Dissenting Studies Seminar Series 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...	London, United Kingdom
11 - 12	Academic Culture and International Relations – A Transatlantic Perspective More often than not national interests and political ideologies have compromised the integrity of the idealized ‘republic of letters’, still, academic culture continues to be perceived as an...	Munich, Germany
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