Browse events by 'Education'

Jan 2012
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09 - 27 Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

This exhibition at the UCL Art Museum features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the...

London, United Kingdom
Feb 2012
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01 - 07 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
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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09 Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

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...

Huddersfield, United Kingdom
17 - 18 PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

On March 17-18, 2012, the School of History at the University of Nottingham is hosting a postgraduate colloquium, initiated and organised by its own doctoral students, on the theme of cultural...

Nottingham, 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
31 Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

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...

Limerick, Ireland
Apr 2012
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27 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
May 2012
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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
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
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 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
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
30 History, the Nation and the Schools.

Is there a crisis in the teaching of History in British schools? Some people, inside and outside government, believe that there is, and propose to revise the curriculum to deal with it....

London, 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
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
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
04 - 06 Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference

Confirmed Speakers:

James Hinton (Warwick)
Nick Hubble (Brunel)
Laura Marcus (Oxford)
Dorothy Sheridan (Sussex)

Call for Papers:...

Brighton, United Kingdom
18 - 19 Call for papers: The Politics of Critique: 2nd Critical Studies Research Group Postgraduate Conference

What is the meaning of critique today?

Riot, revolt, protest, occupation: the current historical conjuncture is marked by the confluence of multiple crises and the (re)emergence of...

Brighton, United Kingdom
Sep 2012
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03 - 05 Making Connections: 2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Call for Session Organisers

We live in interesting times. The Arab Spring, Occupy X and anti-austerity protests are only the latest and most visible examples in a long...

Loughborough, United Kingdom
07 - 08 British Society of Sports History Annual Conference Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jul 2014
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23 - 26 Education, War and Peace: International Standing Conference in the History of Education 36

To coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War a conference on the theme of 'Education, war and peace’ is being organised for London in summer 2014. The conference will...

London, United Kingdom
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