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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

Neighbourly Denunciation

Date: 
26 March 2010

Neighbourly Denunciation 

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

2:00pm Session 1

URL: 
http://www.sas.ac.uk/710.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
Location: 
London, 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

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

URL: 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/basas2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Clare Anderson, David Arnold, Hazel Rice
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

Chinese Influences in European Art (International Conference)

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 11 April 2010

The Opole Confucius Institute (Poland) is pleased to announce an international conference entitled ‘Chinese Influences in European Art’, which is to take place on 9 – 11 April 2010 in an ancient spa town of Glucholazy (olim Ziegenhals).

URL: 
http://instytutkonfucjusza.po.opole.pl
Conference organiser(s): 
Opole Confucius Institute
Location: 
Glucholazy

Twentieth Anniversary ASEN Conference ‘Nation and Charisma’

Date: 
13 April 2010 - 15 April 2010

From the Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

URL: 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ConfRegOnline2010.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Margit Wunsch and Dr Vivian Ibrahim
Location: 
London, London School of Economics and Political Science

CHORD workshop: 'Commerce and Illegality, 1500-2000'

Date: 
21 April 2010

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of illicit and illegal commercial practices, from 1500 to the present.Proposals are invited covering any form of dodgy dealing and any geographical location.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

URL: 
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/illegcom.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura Ugolini
Location: 
Wolverhampton, UK

"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

Historical Perspectives on the Family

Date: 
23 April 2010

This one-day conference will examine historical perspectives on the family in Britain, from individual roles and identities within the family to the wider significance of the family to the nation. The family is a crucial institution to individuals and to nations and societies as a whole, and is central to the work of many historians and social scientists.

URL: 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/research/conferences/family.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura King
Location: 
Sheffield, UK