Medicine Conferences

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

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Conference organiser(s): 
Clare Anderson, David Arnold, Hazel Rice
Location: 
Coventry, UK

Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 11 April 2010

This is an AHRC funded three day postgraduate conference organized under the Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives Project. The content of the sessions is flexible to allow the presentations to be as innovative and exciting as possible. We may move sessions to early morning or night, or to locations outside the conference room.

Conference organiser(s): 
Trish Stewart, University of St. Andrews and Diane Heath, University of Kent
Location: 
St. Andrews, Scotland

Call for Papers: Unarmed on the Battlefield: Non-Combatants and the Experience of Combat in Modern War

Date: 
15 April 2010 - 16 April 2010

University of Glamorgan, 15th-16th April 2010

Keynote Speaker: Professor Keith Jeffery (Queen's University Belfast)

Conference organiser(s): 
University of Glamorgan / Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Location: 
Pontypridd, UK

The Royal Society and Science in the Twentieth Century

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 23 April 2010

As part of our 350th anniversary celebrations, the Royal Society will hold an international conference on the history of science in the twentieth century. We are therefore issuing a call for papers on topics in twentieth century science.

Conference organiser(s): 
Felicity Henderson
Location: 
London, UK

Gender and Transgression in Middle Ages: Third Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

Date: 
23 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

We are pleased to announce a call for papers to Gender and Transgression 2010, a two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

Conference organiser(s): 
Kate Hammond, Matt McHaffie, Jamie Page, Laura Tompkins
Location: 
St Andrews, Fife, UK

'New Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scotland', ESHSS Annual Conference,

Date: 
7 May 2010 - 8 May 2010

In recent years, the historiography in seventeenth and eighteenth century Scotland has flourished, especially amongst new scholars, bringing insight and nuance into many areas of Scottish life that have long been ignored.

Conference organiser(s): 
Economic and Social History Society of Scotland
Location: 
Dundee, Scotland.

Histfest 2010

Date: 
14 May 2010 - 16 May 2010

Now in its fifteenth year, Histfest provides an ideal forum for presenting postgraduate research at any stage of progress to a supportive and constructive audience. The conference welcomes papers from any field of historical research and related disciplines. This year we are also inviting submissions of poster displays.

Conference organiser(s): 
James Bowen, William Cook, George Lincoln, Emily Mead, Alexander Wilkinson, Oliver Wilkinson
Location: 
Lancaster, UK

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads:Translation, Print and Culture in Britain 1473-1640

Date: 
20 May 2010 - 21 May 2010

On 20-21 May 2010, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick will host an international conference on translation, print and culture in Renaissance Britain.

Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Brenda Hosington, Dr Sara Barker and Ms Susanna De Schepper
Location: 
University of Warwick, Coventry

University of Huddersfield History Postgraduate Conference 2010

Date: 
26 May 2010

The University of Huddersfield History Postgraduate Conference, to be held at the University's main Huddersfield (Queensgate) Campus on Wednesday 26th May 2010, is designed to bring together postgraduates in history and related disciplines to share their research in a friendly, informal environment with the wider postgraduate and history communities.

Conference organiser(s): 
Tosh Warwick
Location: 
Huddersfield, UK