Browse events by 'Ancient History'

Feb 2012
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13 'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated...

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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06 Meet the Historian: Mary Beard

'Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline...

London, 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
Apr 2012
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13 - 15 Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students...

Aberystwyth, 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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21 - 08 Economics for Ancient and Mediaeval Historians: a Workshop for recent Ph.D.s and Graduate Students

The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University is hosting a residential workshop, May 21st to June 8th, 2012, to help young ancient and mediaeval historians (...

New York, United States
Jun 2012
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13 - 14 AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab...

London, United Kingdom
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
22 - 24 LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the great world city of London in the context of Olympic and Jubilee Year. The title for the 2012 event is 'London - City of...

London, United Kingdom
22 - 24 UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great...

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
05 - 06 Ancients and Moderns: the 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians

With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our own times, and how successive epochs of...

London, United Kingdom
05 - 07 Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium

The theme for the 2012 conference is 'Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles'. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool),...

Oxford, United Kingdom
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