Browse events by 'North America'
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Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading) The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen? Is it possible to be historically accurate without... |
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
| 10 - 11 |
Nationalism and the City Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in... |
Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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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 |
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Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region The aim of this day is to bring together current and interested researchers in herbal history to report on progress in current projects and share ideas and problems. Our theme for the day will be... |
Bradford-on-Avon, United Kingdom |
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History of Women in the Americas The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 16 - 18 |
New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop The University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre, in conjunction with the History Lab North West postgraduate network, is pleased to announce the first... |
Hawarden, 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 |
| 23 - 24 |
On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800 This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’. It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered. Instead, it is... |
Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 29 - 30 |
Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900 A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Around 1900, few pregnant women in Europe or North America had any contact with a... |
Cambridge, 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 |
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The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820 This conference explores the role of plebeians in the colonial and commercial expansion across the world from c.1660-1820. Inspired by the themes of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s The... |
London, United Kingdom |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 10 - 12 |
Conflict in Memory: Interpersonal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition 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... |
Aarhus, Denmark |
| 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 |
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1662 Revisited The eighth annual one-day conference of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, a collaboration between the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams'... |
London, United Kingdom |
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| 06 - 08 |
The making of a monarchy for the modern world 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... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 14 - 16 |
Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies in the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776 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... |
Halifax, Canada |
| 21 - 23 |
Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World) 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... |
Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 22 - 24 |
Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850. This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850. Scholars... |
Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| 22 - 23 |
Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 The Maritime and Oceanic History Workshop and The Centre of African Studies Graduate Conference 2012 Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 22-23 June 2012 -... |
Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal Landscape features prominently in perceptions and interpretations of the past. Whether depicting a specific location in its own right, or providing a backdrop for historical action, the... |
Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| 22 - 23 |
Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production, Consumption
In November 2011, Woman’s Weekly celebrated its 100 year birthday by including a reproduction of the first issue inside the centenary edition. A month later,... |
London, United Kingdom |
| 26 - 29 |
The Battle for Books 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... |
Dublin, United Kingdom |
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| 01 - 03 |
Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History The conference theme is prompted by the challenge of globalization and the notion that Europe can no longer... |
York , United Kingdom |
| 02 - 05 |
The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society Proposals are now invited for ‘The British World Conference’, to be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, in conjunction with the Public Memory Research Centre and the Anglican... |
Toowoomba, Australia |
| 03 - 05 |
Mainstreaming Co-operation: An Alternative for the 21st Century? The United Nations has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Co-operatives. In celebration, this major international forum will discuss how co-operatives in every sphere of social,... |
Manchester, United Kingdom |
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Contested histories and the parameters of resistance Confirmed Keynote: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire) Representing the past is a contested and dissonant process. The promotion of particular voices and stories within history... |
York, United Kingdom |
| 04 - 09 |
CFP - Perception, Reception: The history of the media in society Call for Papers for a conference to be held between 4th and 6th July 2012 at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. The 4th Media History conference will focus on... |
Aberystwyth, United Kingdom |
