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

New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Date:

16 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

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 annual postgraduate workshop on New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century. This new venture aims to bring together postgraduate students from the North West and across the UK, giving a platform for the next generation of eighteenth-century scholars to share their research and ideas.

Organiser(s):

Eighteenth-Century Worlds, University of Liverpool

"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:02:02 +0000

Date:

19 March 2012 - 20 March 2012

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 the 2012 conference will be “Oikonomia, Economy and War”, and papers dealing with any period and tradition in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present will be considered. Papers which bring an historical perspective to bear on problems of contemporary political theory are welcome.

Organiser(s):

Jared Holley, Dom O'Mahony, Paul Sagar, Tara-Jane Westover, Waseem Yaqoob

Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:59:39 +0000

Date:

30 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

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 which activists have embraced the causes of groups of which their knowledge and experience was often limited. In recent years, online media have allowed activists involved in protests instant access to an international audience – at the same time raising questions about the utility and depth of this potential support base.

Organiser(s):

Dr Daniel Laqua, Dr. Charlotte Alston

The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:19 +0000

Date:

12 April 2012

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 Many Headed Hydra (2000) the papers will explore the book’s central themes in the light of new research, as well as taking it into new areas. The role of seas and ships, armies and navies, and commercial interests in creating and regulating a mobile, multi-ethnic workforce will be explored.

Organiser(s):

William Farrell (Birkbeck) & Stephen Duane Dean Jnr (KCL)

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:39:46 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

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 statues and sculptors, e.g. Medusa or Pygmalion, to the Romantic aesthetics and erotics of statuary and the recurrent references to sculpture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century sexology and other new debates on sexuality, the discourse of the statue intersects with constructions of gender, sex and sexuality in multiple ways.

Organiser(s):

Jana Funke, Jennifer Grove

Conflict in Memory: Interpersonal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:02:10 +0000

Date:

10 May 2012 - 12 May 2012

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 memories of these types of events has become even more complex in a globalizing world, where new configurations of cosmopolitan memories challenge more locally and nationally based memories. The many aspects of societies’ remembering and forgetting call for interdisciplinary cooperation.

Organiser(s):

Michael Böss, professor, Aarhus University

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

Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:24:32 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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 have made the case for distinctively late medieval/early modern instantiations of social and economic life, for example as “competence and competition,” a “competitive household economy,” or a “baroque economy”. But what is next?

There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:36:20 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012

The Oxford Medieval Geographies Research Group invites papers for a conference to be held at the University of Oxford on June 22, 2012. This is a one-day event investigating the role of geography in medieval literature and the wider cultural milieu.

Organiser(s):

Oxford Medieval Geographies Research Group

Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:07:22 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012

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 physical environment pervades modern reconstructions of past places, peoples and events. Thus, just as rural and urban landscapes are active in the construction of memory and ideas in the lived environment, historical landscapes play a crucial role in shaping present-day conceptions of the past.

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.

Renaissance Old Worlds: English Encounters from the Levant to the Far East

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:07:07 +0000

Date:

29 June 2012 - 1 July 2012

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 power on the global stage were influenced largely by its experiences in other distant but familiar nations. This conference will investigate English interactions with the ‘old worlds’ of the Middle East, South Asia and the Far East.

Organiser(s):

The University of Liverpool and the British Library

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

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

Contested histories and the parameters of resistance

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:15:47 +0000

Date:

3 July 2012

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

Organiser(s):

Isabelle Hesse, Jessica Moody, Nicola Robinson

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.

Religious Men in the Middle Ages

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:22:52 +0000

Date:

6 July 2012 - 8 July 2012

This conference seeks to explore and re-evaluate medieval men’s relationship with religion, both professed religious men and laymen of any faith. Despite their centrality to ‘traditional’ histories of the Middle Ages, many aspects of the lives and representation of medieval men remain relatively unexplored. Only recently have scholars begun to consider what religion, belief and devotion meant to men as men and how these informed and intersected with other aspects of their identity (social status, gender, occupation, ethnicity, age, location, etc).

Organiser(s):

Dr Pat Cullum and Dr Katherine Lewis

Liberal Wars: Call for Papers

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:34:52 +0000

Date:

6 July 2012 - 7 July 2012

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 have also, on occasion, fought aggressive wars of choice. But liberal ideology and practice are not at ease with military adventures: war of its very nature involves attacks on life; it usually requires some kind of trade-off between security and liberty; and it encourages a warrior ethos that draws upon non-liberal motivations.

Organiser(s):

a.d.t.cromartie@rdg.ac.uk

World Economic History Congress 2012 - Session: "Where is Central Asia in Long-Run Histories of Economic Development?"

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:28 +0000

Date:

9 July 2012 - 13 July 2012

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, 9-13 July 2012.

Organiser(s):

Jagjeet Lally

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

4th Annual European Summer School on Cold War History

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:26:30 +0000

Date:

5 September 2012 - 8 September 2012

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