University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Date:

19 January 2012 - 19 April 2012

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Organiser(s):

Dr Steve Boardman Steve.Boardman@ed.ac.uk

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?

Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:38:14 +0000

Date:

24 February 2012

Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory invite research student members—or prospective members—of the EHS to join us for the 2012 Postgraduate Colloquium, to be held in the historic setting of The University of Manchester, John Rylands Library, Deansgate on Friday, 24 February 2012.

This has traditionally been an informal opportunity for students to get to know one another and to learn about each other’s work, and the papers are at least as interesting as those at the main conference!

Organiser(s):

Ecclesiastical History Society

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

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:43 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which is: "Junctions and Crossroads". The Colloquium this year will take place on the 25th of February, 2012.

We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on ‘The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney’.

Organiser(s):

CCASNC Committee 2012, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:37:43 +0000

Date:

1 March 2012

A talk by Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Scripts, Languages and Cultures at the British Museum
Thursday, 1 March - 7.30 for 8.00 pm at Wimbledon & Dstrict Synagogue.

Organiser(s):

Adult education Wimbledon Reform Synagogue

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

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012

From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.

Organiser(s):

Tosh Warwick and Eve Colpus

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

The seminar will meet monthly on Wednesdays from January to July (excepting April) from 5.15 to 6.45 pm in the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are welcome. Those with an interest in Dr Williams’s Library and its collections and in the history of Protestant dissent are especially invited to attend.

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

Call for Papers - Scottish Religion at Home and in the Diaspora

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:32:03 +0000

Date:

15 March 2012

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

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:19:51 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

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 structured around key themes: health, family life, the law and work. The papers presented will consider seemingly very different groups, in the context of early modern Britain, Europe and the Atlantic World. The hope is that over the course of the two days we will be able to identify similarities in perception and treatment between these groups. There are two basic questions which all

Organiser(s):

Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:43:20 +0000

Date:

25 March 2012 - 27 March 2012

This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds, it runs from Sunday 25 March 2012, to Tuesday 27 March. Those interested in reserving a place should contact Dr Tom Licence (of UEA), at t.licence@uea.ac.uk.

Organiser(s):

Dr Tom Licence (UEA)

Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:20 +0000

Date:

31 March 2012

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both individually and collectively. The voice of the ‘deviant’ is often absent from surviving sources and by extension from the historiography. In other instances, the voice of the ‘deviant’ is mediated through official records or constructed by those in positions of power.

Organiser(s):

Dr. Elaine Farrell and Dr. Conor Reidy

The Royal Body

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 4 April 2012

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Whitelock

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:59 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 15 April 2012

This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students to present work in progress, and includes a number of guest speakers attached to Aberystwyth University, who in the past have shared their knowledge and experience of such things as interdisciplinary work, collaborations between universities and other research institutions, successful applications and interview techniques for academic posts, and guidance on how to get your work published.

Organiser(s):

Lowri Jones & Kris Lovell

The Oxford Movement & its Legacy

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:04:14 +0000

Date:

14 April 2012

A Kent Archaeological Society study day looking at the Oxford Movement and its legacy, especially in Kent, through a combination of lectures (in the morning) and workshops (in the afternoon). Among the speakers will be Dean Michael Chandler, an expert on the Movement. Using Holy Trinity Church in Folkestone, two of the three workshops will focus on the church and its documents to allow participants to explore how the Movement's ideas were deployed at the level of the parish.

Organiser(s):

Jackie Davidson

The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:28 +0000

Date:

14 April 2012

Christopher Hill’s classic work, The World Turned Upside Down, was published in 1972. The book, though much criticised, remains one of the most popular books on the history of the English Revolution, offering an enduringly attractive and accessible introduction to the period. In order to mark the 40th anniversary of its publication this conference will bring together experts on popular politics, radical religion, political ideas and the literature of the 1640s, to offer critical appreciations of the book and its influence.

Organiser(s):

Mike Braddick and Marcus Nevitt

Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:15:08 +0000

Date:

19 April 2012 - 20 April 2012

The institution of Monarchy was absolutely central to the political developments and events of the medieval and Early Modern world. This conference aims to celebrate monarchy in all of its various aspects, from examining the institution itself to assessing the impact of particular monarchs in their own realms and beyond. Historic Corsham Court, located just outside of Bath, is a beautiful and appropriate setting for this conference, with its origins as a summer palace for the Kings of Wessex.

Organiser(s):

Elena (Ellie) Woodacre, Sean McGlynn and Erica O'Brien

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:42 +0000

Date:

21 April 2012

A one-day colloquium looking at clerical life in Latin Europe during the ‘very long tenth century’, between the Carolingians and eleventh-century papal reform. We want to explore this period in its own terms, rather than in relation to what came before and after. We’re interested in all areas of clerical life (social, political, religious, intellectual), and in all regions of Latin Europe, looking beyond the Franco-German ‘core’.

Organiser(s):

Bernard Gowers (KCL), Kathrin Korn (Oxford), Conrad Leyser (Oxford), Hannah Williams

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012 - 29 April 2012

This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the act of sealing and the recording of this act as well as questions relating to how, why and by whom seals were employed. A further important theme will be the manner in which seals relate to other sources: visual, material and documentary.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Phillipp R. Schofield; Dr Elizabeth New; Dr John McEwan

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:56:06 +0000

Date:

17 May 2012 - 18 May 2012

Bath Spa University, 17-18 May 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Bronach Kane (Bath Spa University)

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

New Histories of Love and Romance, c.1880-1960 - Extended Call for Papers: Due 24 February 2012

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:40:59 +0000

Date:

25 May 2012 - 26 May 2012

Unlike the broader histories of emotions and of sexuality, scholarship on the history of love is still at a nascent stage. Evolutionary and psychoanalytic models frequently posit romantic love as universal and transhistorical. And yet there is an acknowledgment within most histories of the ‘long twentieth century’ that the institutions often associated with love (such as marriage and family life) as well as sexual mores and social and cultural manifestations have profoundly shifted during the period.

1662 Revisited

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:30:40 +0000

Date:

26 May 2012

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's Library

To mark the 350th anniversary of the Restoration Settlement of Religion, the conference will explore its implications in four panels:

Politics:

Mark Goldie (Cambridge), 'The Power of the Civil Magistrate in the Settlement of Religion'

Paul Seaward (History of Parliament), 'Clarendon and the Politics of Uniformity, 1660-62'

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

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

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

University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Ecclesiast​​ical History Society Postgradua​​te Colloquium

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Call for Papers - Scottish Religion at Home and in the Diaspora

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

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

The Royal Body

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

The Oxford Movement & its Legacy

The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on

Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiast​ical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600

The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives

New Histories of Love and Romance, c.1880-1960 - Extended Call for Papers: Due 24 February 2012

1662 Revisited

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

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

Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium

The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900- c. 1075