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Religious History Conferences

Modern Records:challenges and opportunities

Date: 
22 March 2010

The Conference will examine the challenges and opportunities posed by modern records of religion.

URL: 
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/rag2/activities/conference/
Conference organiser(s): 
Religious Archives Group
Location: 
St Pancras, Euston Road, London NW1

York 1190: Jews and Others in the wake of Massacre

Date: 
22 March 2010 - 24 March 2010

This conference will  use the events of 1189-90 as a lens through which to reassess society in England in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The York massacre was not just a local event but one of a series of violent attacks on local communities of Jews across England in 1189-90.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Sarah Rees Jones and Dr Sethina Watson
Location: 
York, UK

Neighbourly Denunciation

Date: 
26 March 2010

Neighbourly Denunciation 

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

2:00pm Session 1

URL: 
http://www.sas.ac.uk/710.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
Location: 
London, 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

Religion and Modern British History Symposium

Date: 
27 March 2010

Following the success of similar day conferences in 2009, the Modern British History Network is planning an exciting new event for next year’s schedule.

URL: 
www.mbhn.org.uk
Conference organiser(s): 
Modern British History Network
Location: 
Edinburgh, UK

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

URL: 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/basas2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Clare Anderson, David Arnold, Hazel Rice
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

URL: 
http://tiny.cc/IrNaJ
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

The 1641 depositons: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 10 April 2010

The 1641 depositions: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

URL: 
https://www.tcd.ie/history/1641/index.php
Conference organiser(s): 
Eamon Darcy, Edda Frankot, Annaleigh Margey, Elaine Murphy
Location: 
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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

URL: 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/history/research/research_projects/british_state_prayers/
Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Philip Williamson (Durham), Professor Stephan Taylor (Reading) & Dr Natalie Mears (Durham)
Location: 
Durham, UK

Twentieth Anniversary ASEN Conference ‘Nation and Charisma’

Date: 
13 April 2010 - 15 April 2010

From the Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

URL: 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ConfRegOnline2010.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Margit Wunsch and Dr Vivian Ibrahim
Location: 
London, London School of Economics and Political Science