Browse events by 'Asia'

Feb 2012
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10 - 11 Nationalism and the City

Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in...

Cambridge, 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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01 New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications

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...

Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
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
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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02 - 04 The Royal Body

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...

Egham, Surrey, 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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06 - 08 The making of a monarchy for the modern world

A conference at Kensington Palace

‘THERE will soon be only five kings left - the Kings of Diamonds, Heart, Spades and Clubs, and the King of England’.  King Farouk...

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 Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History Shanghai, China
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
09 - 13 World Economic History Congress 2012 - Session: "Where is Central Asia in Long-Run Histories of Economic Development?"

A session addressing this question has been scheduled by the International Economic History Association as part of the XVIth World Economic History History Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa,...

Stellenbosch, South Africa
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
08 - 09 4th International Researching FEPOW History Conference

70 Years On: Far East Captivity Explored. A unique opportunity to meet and listen to leading international and UK-based experts in the field of Far East Prisoners of War history research.

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Staffordshire, 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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