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

'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

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 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 Policy at UCL (Rubin Building, 29/30 Tavistock Square). For further information, please contact Phil Baker (philip.baker@ucl.ac.uk). All are welcome!

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:46 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

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, University of Oxford. Webster is well known for his magisterial study of the Baconian tradition in seventeenth-century science, The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975).

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford; chaired by Professor Pietro Corsi, Professor, History of Science, University of Oxford

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

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

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

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 welcome. Those with an interest in Dr Williams’s Library and its collections and in the history of Protestant dissent are especially invited to attend.

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

Mon, 02 May 2011 01:42:04 +0000

Date:

17 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

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 construction in the Soviet Union and states of the former Soviet bloc. The aim will be to explore the origins and nature of cultural discourses and practices in government, academia, the intellectual sphere and everyday life with a view to assessing their influence on the political and social development of these countries.

Organiser(s):

Susanne Sklepek, Olga Bertelsen, Andru Chiorean, Filip Boicu

"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

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

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)

Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:59:39 +0000

Date:

30 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

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 which activists have embraced the causes of groups of which their knowledge and experience was often limited. In recent years, online media have allowed activists involved in protests instant access to an international audience – at the same time raising questions about the utility and depth of this potential support base.

Organiser(s):

Dr Daniel Laqua, Dr. Charlotte Alston

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

The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:28 +0000

Date:

14 April 2012

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 history of the English Revolution, offering an enduringly attractive and accessible introduction to the period. In order to mark the 40th anniversary of its publication this conference will bring together experts on popular politics, radical religion, political ideas and the literature of the 1640s, to offer critical appreciations of the book and its influence.

Organiser(s):

Mike Braddick and Marcus Nevitt

W. T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary

jane.winters — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:44:34 +0000

Date:

16 April 2012 - 17 April 2012

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 got him thrown in jail. This conference examines Stead’s influence on the last century of journalism, and looks ahead at how digital technology will shape the next.

45 speakers, including: Laurel Brake. Roy Greenslade, Tristram Hunt MP, John Durham Peters, Geoffrey Robertson QC.

Organiser(s):

British Library & Birkbeck, University of London

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:42 +0000

Date:

21 April 2012

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 its own terms, rather than in relation to what came before and after. We’re interested in all areas of clerical life (social, political, religious, intellectual), and in all regions of Latin Europe, looking beyond the Franco-German ‘core’.

Organiser(s):

Bernard Gowers (KCL), Kathrin Korn (Oxford), Conrad Leyser (Oxford), Hannah Williams

Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-90

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:42:41 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

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 workshop that will examine the evolution of scholarly life within the context of far-reaching transformations of public spheres and political cultures.

Organiser(s):

Riccardo Bavaj (University of St Andrews / Saint Louis University), Dominik Geppert (University of Bonn), Mark Edward Ruff (Saint Louis 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

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

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

Academic Culture and International Relations – A Transatlantic Perspective

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:56:46 +0000

Date:

11 May 2012 - 12 May 2012

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 international, even transnational sphere. It, therefore, presents a unique space for the study of international relations at the intersection of culture, politics and diplomacy. The conference poses two guiding questions: In what ways has academic culture provided a framework for international politics and/or how and when did universities or scholars become themselves diplomatic agents?

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

Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

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

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Bentham Seminar series 2012

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Bentham Seminar series 2012

PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

The Royal Body

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

The Oxford Movement & its Legacy

The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on

W. T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiast​ical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-90

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

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

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Academic Culture and International Relations – A Transatlantic Perspective

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

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075