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?

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

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

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

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:45 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012 - 10 March 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 history or related disciplines to meet other new and established scholars and to present a paper in a supportive environment. The BCMH is the British branch of the International Commission for Maritime History, which was founded in 1965 as a constituent of the International Congress of Historical Sciences.

Organiser(s):

British Commission for Maritime History

Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:18 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012

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 discipline and essential for a proper understanding of much broader topics such as population distribution, patterns of consumption and material culture, and the rise and fall of empires, governments and mass political and social movements.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alysa Levene

Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:36:40 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

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

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National University of Ireland, Galway

Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Organiser(s):

Dr Laura Kelly

Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:02:34 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012 - 30 March 2012

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Organiser(s):

Organisers: Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), Angela Davis (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick) and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

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

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

The 1898 Law on Workplace Accidents and the Pricing of Bodies in Europe

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:38:38 +0000

Date:

15 May 2012

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 health issues are attracting more and more historical interest, it seems important to return to the problems related to workspaces by including them in this more recent problematic.

Organiser(s):

Thomas Le Roux, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:24 +0000

Date:

16 May 2012 - 17 May 2012

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 16th – Thursday 17th May 2012 Initial Call for Papers and Participation For almost 30 years, the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory have used analysis of historical campaigns and developments in academic understanding of conflict to provide a ‘reality-check’ to UK defence policy.

Organiser(s):

Deborah Cheverton (dacheverton@dstl.gov.uk)

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

Between Autonomy and Engagement. Performances of Scientific Expertise, 1860-1960.

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:04:46 +0000

Date:

21 May 2012 - 23 May 2012

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 associated with the emergence of a new type of expert knowledge that evolved in the late nineteenth century. This knowledge, it is argued, related to the growing scientification of the economy, of society and even of politics.

Organiser(s):

Leuven Interdisciplinary Platform for the Studies of the Sciences (LIPSS) and the Research Unit Cultural History since 1750 (University of Leuven)

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

Date:

13 June 2012 - 14 June 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 Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

Organiser(s):

historylab2012@gmail.com

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:44:52 +0000

Date:

18 June 2012

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 global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations. The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

Organiser(s):

Thomas Le Roux, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Great War: Localities and Regional Identities

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:52:05 +0000

Date:

20 June 2012

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 have for many. This conference forestalls the coming public history bonanza by concentrating on the under-researched responses to the crisis from the regions and localities of Britain. Was there a common national response to unprecedented events or did strong local and regional identities cause significant variations?

Organiser(s):

Craig Horner and Nick Mansfield

Call for Papers: 2012 British Scholar Conference (Britain and the World)

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:25:29 +0000

Date:

21 June 2012 - 23 June 2012

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 marks the first time that the conference will take place away from Austin, Texas, and the British Scholar Society is pleased to announce that it will be hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Organiser(s):

The British Scholar Society

Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:05:16 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Professor James Mills, Dr Yong-an Zhang, Dr. Joseph F. Spillane

Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:07:22 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012

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 physical environment pervades modern reconstructions of past places, peoples and events. Thus, just as rural and urban landscapes are active in the construction of memory and ideas in the lived environment, historical landscapes play a crucial role in shaping present-day conceptions of the past.

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

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:44:27 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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 Britain - A United Kingdom?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Academic Conferences London Ltd

FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference - 'The End of Representation?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:54:29 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Academic Conferences London Ltd

2012 Annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:46:05 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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 (Trinity College Dublin), James Chandler (University of Chicago), and Moyra Haslett (Queen's University Belfast).

Organiser(s):

Christina Morin

Health and Welfare in the Archives

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:48:16 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012

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 Archives’ on 22 June 2012 in PRONI, Belfast

Organiser(s):

Dr Leanne McCormick

LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:30:43 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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 Transformations?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Phillip Drummond

The Battle for Books

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:40:39 +0000

Date:

26 June 2012 - 29 June 2012

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 June 2012.

The theme of the conference will be 'The Battle for Books'. The conference will begin on the afternoon of Tuesday 26 June 2012 and end on Friday 29 June 2012.

Society for the Study of French History 26th Annual Conference

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:20:32 +0000

Date:

1 July 2012 - 3 July 2012

France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History

Organiser(s):

Stuart Carroll, Alan Forrest, Geoff Cubitt, Guy Halsall and Katherine Wilson and the Society for the Study of French History

World Economic History Congress 2012 - Session: "Where is Central Asia in Long-Run Histories of Economic Development?"

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:28 +0000

Date:

9 July 2012 - 13 July 2012

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, 9-13 July 2012.

Organiser(s):

Jagjeet Lally

Society for Renaissance Studies 5th Biennial Conference, Manchester (UK), July 2012

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:46:53 +0000

Date:

9 July 2012 - 11 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 Library, the John Rylands Library, the People's History Museum, the Royal Northern College of Music, and other cultural institutions in the city.

Plenary Speakers

Organiser(s):

Dr Jerome de Groot

Race, Nation and Empire on the Victorian Popular Stage

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:15:13 +0000

Date:

11 July 2012 - 14 July 2012

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’.

Organiser(s):

Peter Yeandle