Browse events by 'Africa'

Feb 2012
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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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16 - 18 New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop

The University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre, in conjunction with the History Lab North West postgraduate network, is pleased to announce the first...

Hawarden, United Kingdom
19 - 20 "Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Paper proposals are invited for the fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held on 19-20 March 2012 at the University of Cambridge. The theme of...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
29 - 31 UCL Neale Colloquium 2012: Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world

The colloquium aims to present the findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project...

London, United Kingdom
29 Neale Lecture 2012: Prof Robin Blackburn, Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade

We are pleased to announce that Professor Robin Blackburn (Essex) will give this year's UCL Neale Lecture in British History, on 'Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade'...

London, United Kingdom
30 - 31 Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

What inspires activists to embrace causes that do not directly affect them? What drives professions of solidarity for an individual, community or nation? This conference will explore the ways in...

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Apr 2012
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12 The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

This conference explores the role of plebeians in the colonial and commercial expansion across the world from c.1660-1820. Inspired by the themes of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s The...

London, United Kingdom
27 Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

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...

Exeter, United Kingdom
May 2012
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10 - 12 Conflict in Memory: Interpersonal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition

War, conflicts and transitions have always played a significant role in defining communal identity, often with reference to events that happened centuries ago. The role of passing on collective...

Aarhus, Denmark
Jun 2012
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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 Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.

This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850.  Scholars...

Sheffield, United Kingdom
22 - 23 Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850

The Maritime and Oceanic History Workshop and The Centre of African Studies Graduate Conference 2012

Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850

22-23 June 2012 -...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
22 Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal

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...

Liverpool, 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
29 - 01 Renaissance Old Worlds: English Encounters from the Levant to the Far East

The early modern period saw England establishing its first colonies in the New World, but its ideas and expectations about foreign nations, travel and its identity as a political and economic...

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
03 Contested histories and the parameters of resistance

Confirmed Keynote: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire)

Representing the past is a contested and dissonant process. The promotion of particular voices and stories within history...

York, 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
06 - 07 Liberal Wars: Call for Papers

Liberalism is not pacifism. Loosely-speaking liberal states - states that attach importance, at least internally, to individual autonomy - have frequently been willing to use military force; they...

Reading, United Kingdom
11 - 14 Race, Nation and Empire on the Victorian Popular Stage

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’. 

A number of studies,...

Lancaster, 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
05 - 08 4th Annual European Summer School on Cold War History Trento, Italy
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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