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Australasia and Pacific Conferences

Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper

Date: 
15 January 2010

This one-day conference/symposium will address the significance of transitory, elusive texts in Britain, Europe and America, including textual artifacts that have eluded traditional categories of print, or have been dismissed as short-lived, disposable, or valueless.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Harry Cocks and Dr Matthew Rubery
Location: 
Nottingham, UK

From Augustine to Anglicanism: Anglicans in Australia and Beyond

Date: 
12 February 2010 – 14 February 2010

A scholarly conference, open to those in postgraduate study and beyond, exploring the historical and theological expressions of the Anglican Communion, with special reference to the 150th celebrations of the Diocese of Queensland but open to scholars researching any aspect of the Anglican Church in Australia and abroad.

URL: 
www.anglicans-in-australia-and-beyond.org
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Lindsay Henderson (USQ), Dr Gillian Colclough (USQ), Marcus Harmes (UQ), Dr Catherine Dewhirst (USQ)
Location: 
Milton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Politics, Faith, and Reason: Third Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Date: 
15 March 2010 – 16 March 2010

Conference organiser(s): 
Jocelyn Betts, Samuel James, Anna Plassart, Sebastian Robins, Sophie Smith, Lauri Tähtinen
Location: 
Cambridge, UK

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

National Worship in International perspective: state prayers, fasts and thanksgivings since the sixteenth century

Date: 
12 April 2010 – 14 April 2010

Many early modern and modern governments ordered occasions of special worship in periods of great crisis or unexpected prosperity, or to mark calamities or victories.

URL: 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/history/research/research_projects/british_state_prayers/
Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Philip Williamson (Durham), Professor Stephan Taylor (Reading) & Dr Natalie Mears (Durham)
Location: 
Durham, UK

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

Writing the empire: scribblings from below

Date: 
24 June 2010 – 26 June 2010

The study of texts has increasingly occupied centre-stage within the study of empires. Large numbers of scholars have explored the representations of peoples and places in travel writing, novels and many other textual forms. The written word has thus been acknowledged as a key technology of power.

URL: 
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/news/2009/12.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Kirsty Reid (Bristol University) & Dr Fiona Paisley (Griffith University, Queensland)
Location: 
Bristol, UK

Scholarly Networks in the British Empire: Transnational & Imperial connections after 1850

Date: 
5 July 2010 – 6 July 2010

This two-day conference to be held at the University of Oxford in July 2010, will examine the nature and extent of scholarly networks connecting academics and universities in the British Empire after 1850. 

URL: 
http://sites.google.com/site/scholarlynetworks
Conference organiser(s): 
Tamson Pietsch & Janet Wilson
Location: 
Oxford, UK

Thinking the human in the era of Enlightenment

Date: 
7 July 2010 – 9 July 2010

Keynote speakers: Associate Professor Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago; Associate Professor Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan

Confirmed speakers include: Professor Peter Cryle (University of Queensland), Professor Iain McCalman (University of Sydney), Professor Gillian Russell (ANU)

URL: 
http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2010/THEE/index.php
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Ned Curthoys, Dr Alex Cook and Dr Shino Konishi
Location: 
Canberra, Australia

Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in the Anglo-Phone World

Date: 
8 July 2010 – 10 July 2010

Although English emigration became one of Europe’s most significant population movements, there is virtual silence on the English Diaspora. This conference seeks to locate this hidden diaspora and the English in the Anglo-Phone World.

URL: 
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/seminars_conferences/hiddendiaspora/?view=Standard
Location: 
Newcastle upon Tyne