North America Conferences

Making the British Empire, 1660-1800

Date: 
19 March 2010 - 20 March 2010

This conference will bring together a number of leading scholars of imperial history, in order to offer new perspectives on the early phase in the development of the British empire.

Conference organiser(s): 
UCL History Department
Location: 
London, UK

Urban History Group Annual Conference - Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place

Date: 
25 March 2010 - 26 March 2010

This conference explores the relationships between practices of resistance and transgression and the exercise of authority in urban spaces.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr David Green and Dr Shane Ewen
Location: 
Durham, UK

Charity Begins at Home: Approaches to the History of Domestic Space and Voluntary Action

Date: 
27 March 2010

Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to propose papers for this one day workshop. We welcome papers that discuss the speaker’s experience addressing  issues in their own research on charity and the home.Voluntarism in the domestic sphere presents particular methodological and evidential challenges. The aim of the event is to encourage an open and

Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Soanes, Voluntary Action History Society Postgraduate Sub-Committee
Location: 
Coventry, UK

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

National Worship in International perspective: state prayers, fasts and thanksgivings since the sixteenth century

Date: 
12 April 2010 - 14 April 2010

Many early modern and modern governments ordered occasions of special worship in periods of great crisis or unexpected prosperity, or to mark calamities or victories.   As a growing number of studies has indicated, these occasions offer great insights into government and ecclesiastical policies, the communication of official religious interpretations, conceptions of identity and popul

Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Philip Williamson (Durham), Professor Stephan Taylor (Reading) & Dr Natalie Mears (Durham)
Location: 
Durham, UK

"Femininities" The University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

Tenth York Cultural History Conference – FEMININITIES

Department of History, University of York, 22-24 April 2010

Conference organiser(s): 
Henrice Altink, Jeremy Goldberg, Hannah Greig, Joanna de Groot.
Location: 
York, UK

Making Democracy: Violence, Politics, and the American Founding

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 23 April 2010

The newly opened 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 violence, politics, and the American founding. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (April 22–23, 2010).

Conference organiser(s): 
Robert G. Ingram, Brian D. Schoen
Location: 
Athens, Ohio, USA

The politics and culture of anti-slavery movements in global perspective

Date: 
30 April 2010 - 1 May 2010

This conference will examine the politics and culture of abolitionism and anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century in a global perspective. While anti-slavery groups were rooted in specific national and social contexts, they also built networks and exchanged ideas, which transcended powerful boundaries, such as nation, religion, or class.

Conference organiser(s): 
William Mulligan
Location: 
Dublin, Ireland

Postgraduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

Date: 
3 May 2010 - 4 May 2010

A new postgraduate forum in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought based in London would like to invite proposals for papers for our first postgraduate conference, to be held in in early May 2010.

Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Dean, Elliott Karstadt, Robin Mills
Location: 
London, UK

Histfest 2010

Date: 
14 May 2010 - 16 May 2010

Now in its fifteenth year, Histfest provides an ideal forum for presenting postgraduate research at any stage of progress to a supportive and constructive audience. The conference welcomes papers from any field of historical research and related disciplines. This year we are also inviting submissions of poster displays.

Conference organiser(s): 
James Bowen, William Cook, George Lincoln, Emily Mead, Alexander Wilkinson, Oliver Wilkinson
Location: 
Lancaster, UK