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Urban History Group Annual Conference - Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place

Date: 
25 March 2010 - 26 March 2010

This conference explores the relationships between practices of resistance and transgression and the exercise of authority in urban spaces.

URL: 
http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/uhg/index.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr David Green and Dr Shane Ewen
Location: 
Durham, UK

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

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

URL: 
http://tiny.cc/IrNaJ
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 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.

URL: 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Trish Stewart, University of St. Andrews and Diane Heath, University of Kent
Location: 
St. Andrews, Scotland

"Femininities" The University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

Tenth York Cultural History Conference – FEMININITIES

Department of History, University of York, 22-24 April 2010

URL: 
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/research/conf/femininities/
Conference organiser(s): 
Henrice Altink, Jeremy Goldberg, Hannah Greig, Joanna de Groot.
Location: 
York, 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.

URL: 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/index.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Kate Hammond, Matt McHaffie, Jamie Page, Laura Tompkins
Location: 
St Andrews, Fife, UK

The politics and culture of anti-slavery movements in global perspective

Date: 
30 April 2010 - 1 May 2010

This conference will examine the politics and culture of abolitionism and anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century in a global perspective. While anti-slavery groups were rooted in specific national and social contexts, they also built networks and exchanged ideas, which transcended powerful boundaries, such as nation, religion, or class.

Conference organiser(s): 
William Mulligan
Location: 
Dublin, Ireland

Postgraduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

Date: 
3 May 2010 - 4 May 2010

A new postgraduate forum in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought based in London would like to invite proposals for papers for our first postgraduate conference, to be held in in early May 2010.

URL: 
www.historyofpoliticalthought.net
Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Dean, Elliott Karstadt, Robin Mills
Location: 
London, UK

3rd Mediterranean Maritime History Network Conference

Date: 
5 May 2010 - 7 May 2010
Proposals are invited for papers/short communications informing on current research being undertaken on Mediterranean maritime history since the thirteenth century CE on the use of the sea as a resource, for transport, power projection, scientific purposes, leisure activities, and as an inspiration in culture and ideology.
URL: 
http://itf.ieu.edu.tr/conference/index.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Mediterranean Maritime History Network
Location: 
Izmir, Turkey

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.

URL: 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/histfest
Conference organiser(s): 
James Bowen, William Cook, George Lincoln, Emily Mead, Alexander Wilkinson, Oliver Wilkinson
Location: 
Lancaster, UK