Browse events by 'Science and Technology'

Feb 2012
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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
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
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
08 - 10 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 Sarasota, United States
09 - 10 New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

The British Commission for Maritime History's (BCMH) New Researchers in Maritime History conference is an established forum for those that have recently become engaged in research in maritime...

Glasgow, , United Kingdom
22 Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

How can we engage students with economic history? The subject has become increasingly marginalised from many university history curricula in recent years, but it remains a fundamental part of the...

Oxford, United Kingdom
23 - 24 Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National...

Galway, Ireland
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
Apr 2012
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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 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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15 The 1898 Law on Workplace Accidents and the Pricing of Bodies in Europe

In recent years, scholarly studies on risks and occupational health diseases have reactivated a field of research that emerged in France between 1975 and 1985. At a moment when environmental...

Paris, France
16 - 17 Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium

The Ministry of Defence and The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory announce the 2012 Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium Dstl Portsdown West, Portsmouth, UK Wednesday...

Fareham, United Kingdom
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
21 - 23 Between Autonomy and Engagement. Performances of Scientific Expertise, 1860-1960.

In Science Studies, problems of scientific expertise have drawn tremendous attention in recent years. The emergence of expert authority within ever more fields of human activity has often been...

Leuven, Belgium
Jun 2012
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13 - 14 AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 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...

London, United Kingdom
18 For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th – 19th c.

If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the industrial revolution, and if environmental history has been immediately written on a...

Oxford, United Kingdom
20 The Great War: Localities and Regional Identities

As the centenary of the Great War approaches and it slips from first-hand experience, shelves on military history in high-street bookshops testify to the misty-eyed mythical appeal it continues to...

Manchester, United Kingdom
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 Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History Shanghai, China
22 - 24 2012 Annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference

The 2012 annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society conference will be held in The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, from 22-24 June 2012. Confirmed plenary speakers include Christine Casey (...

Dublin, Ireland
22 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 - 24 LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the great world city of London in the context of Olympic and Jubilee Year. The title for the 2012 event is 'London - City of...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference - 'The End of Representation?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the screen-based traditions of film, TV and digital media. The title for the 2012 event is 'The End of Representation?'...

London, United Kingdom
22 Health and Welfare in the Archives

The Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) University of Ulster and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) are co-hosting a one day symposium on 'Health and Welfare in the...

Belfast, 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
Jul 2012
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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
09 - 11 Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Biennial Conference, Manchester (UK), July 2012

The 5th Biennial conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies will be held at the University of Manchester.

Accompanying events are being planned in the Whitworth Gallery, Chetham's...

Manchester, United Kingdom
09 - 13 World Economic History Congress 2012 - Session: "Where is Central Asia in Long-Run Histories of Economic Development?"

A session addressing this question has been scheduled by the International Economic History Association as part of the XVIth World Economic History History Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa,...

Stellenbosch, South Africa
11 - 14 Race, Nation and Empire on the Victorian Popular Stage

This conference will be the third in a series of three organised as part of our AHRC-funded project on the ‘Cultural History of English Pantomime, 1837-1902’. 

A number of studies,...

Lancaster, United Kingdom
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