Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:57:43 +0000

Date:

9 January 2012 - 27 April 2012

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 history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Among the items on show are first editions of Rousseau’s works, including On the Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762), frontispieces, and printed images.

Organiser(s):

UCL Centre for Transnational History

Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:40 +0000

Date:

1 February 2012 - 7 March 2012

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 pandering to market forces? These are just two of the questions posed by this inaugural season that will showcase genres ranging from classical theatre to opera, documentary and modern cinema. These four films will be introduced and discussed by historians from the Department of History.

Organiser(s):

Dr Emma Vickers

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

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

PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

Mon, 02 May 2011 01:42:04 +0000

Date:

17 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

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 construction in the Soviet Union and states of the former Soviet bloc. The aim will be to explore the origins and nature of cultural discourses and practices in government, academia, the intellectual sphere and everyday life with a view to assessing their influence on the political and social development of these countries.

Organiser(s):

Susanne Sklepek, Olga Bertelsen, Andru Chiorean, Filip Boicu

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

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

Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-90

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:42:41 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

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 workshop that will examine the evolution of scholarly life within the context of far-reaching transformations of public spheres and political cultures.

Organiser(s):

Riccardo Bavaj (University of St Andrews / Saint Louis University), Dominik Geppert (University of Bonn), Mark Edward Ruff (Saint Louis University)

Academic Culture and International Relations – A Transatlantic Perspective

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:56:46 +0000

Date:

11 May 2012 - 12 May 2012

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 international, even transnational sphere. It, therefore, presents a unique space for the study of international relations at the intersection of culture, politics and diplomacy. The conference poses two guiding questions: In what ways has academic culture provided a framework for international politics and/or how and when did universities or scholars become themselves diplomatic agents?

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

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

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

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

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.

History, the Nation and the Schools.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:02:37 +0000

Date:

30 June 2012

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. Others argue that the teaching of History remains strong but that its availability is narrowing, especially in schools with high numbers of students from low income families. New initiatives such as the English Baccalaureate have been introduced to help ensure that all students have an opportunity to study history at Key Stage 4, but will this work?

Organiser(s):

Raphael Samuel History Centre (Professor Barbara Taylor), the Royal Historical Society (Professor Peter Mandler), and the Historical Association (Melanie Jones).

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

The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:21:39 +0000

Date:

2 July 2012 - 5 July 2012

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 Historical Society of Australia. The conference seeks to increase scholarly understandings of the religious and cultural adjustments that accompanied British political change and expansion.

Organiser(s):

University of Southern Queensland

Mainstreaming Co-operation: An Alternative for the 21st Century?

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:31:51 +0000

Date:

3 July 2012 - 5 July 2012

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, economic, political and cultural life can emerge globally in the coming century as a participatory, democratic alternative to prevailing orthodoxies of competitive international capitalism driven solely by the maximisation of private profit.

Organiser(s):

The Co-operative College; Liverpool John Moores University; Manchester Metropolitan University; Edge Hill University; University of Liverpool and the University of Central Lancashire

Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:23:41 +0000

Date:

4 July 2012 - 6 July 2012

Confirmed Speakers:

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

Call for Papers:

Organiser(s):

Fiona Courage (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex), Jessica Scantlebury (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex), , Nick Hubble (Brunel)

CFP - Perception, Reception: The history of the media in society

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:26:06 +0000

Date:

4 July 2012 - 9 August 2012

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 the ways in which people have understood the social, cultural and political roles of the media from the 15th to the 20th century. The concept of ‘the media’ will be interpreted broadly, so as to include print culture (including the press and publishing), cinema, broadcasting, and other visual and electronic media.

Call for papers: The Politics of Critique: 2nd Critical Studies Research Group Postgraduate Conference

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:37 +0000

Date:

18 July 2012 - 19 July 2012

What is the meaning of critique today?

Making Connections: 2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:57:50 +0000

Date:

3 September 2012 - 5 September 2012

Call for Session Organisers

Organiser(s):

Matthew Adams, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Laurence Davis, Oisín Gilmore, Jamie Heckert, Petar Jandric, Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard, Chris Rossdale & Matt Wilson

British Society of Sports History Annual Conference

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:09:57 +0000

Date:

7 September 2012 - 8 September 2012

Organiser(s):

Fiona Skillen, Matt McDowell, Eilidh Macrae

Education, War and Peace: International Standing Conference in the History of Education 36

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:05:19 +0000

Date:

23 July 2014 - 26 July 2014

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 be the 36th International Standing Conference in the History of Education.

Organiser(s):

Local ISCHE committee, coordinated by Professor Gary McCulloch