Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:40 +0000

Date:

1 February 2012 - 7 March 2012

The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film

How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen? Is it possible to be historically accurate without pandering to market forces? These are just two of the questions posed by this inaugural season that will showcase genres ranging from classical theatre to opera, documentary and modern cinema. These four films will be introduced and discussed by historians from the Department of History.

Organiser(s):

Dr Emma Vickers

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of flux. The resultant instability usually forces those affected to react to the disturbance and reassert a sense of equilibrium. By unravelling the operation of social and political mechanisms that are normally taken for granted, crises give rise to a number of questions: Were crises preceded by a generally accepted order? How did individuals confronted with a crisis react to the new state of affairs?

25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000

Date:

22 February 2012

How do we remember the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1989, and how does history relate to today’s state of affairs in that country?

Organiser(s):

LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme

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

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012. These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3) of Swansea University. These seminars offer a friendly and informal atmosphere in which postgraduates can present and share their research.

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012

From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.

Organiser(s):

Tosh Warwick and Eve Colpus

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:45 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

The British Commission for Maritime History's (BCMH) New Researchers in Maritime History conference is an established forum for those that have recently become engaged in research in maritime history or related disciplines to meet other new and established scholars and to present a paper in a supportive environment. The BCMH is the British branch of the International Commission for Maritime History, which was founded in 1965 as a constituent of the International Congress of Historical Sciences.

Organiser(s):

British Commission for Maritime History

Women and the Media 2012: Representations Past and Present

danny.millum — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:55:20 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

History of Women in the Americas

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:53:17 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at Brunel University, west London.

Organiser(s):

Rachel Ritchie

"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

Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:18 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012

How can we engage students with economic history? The subject has become increasingly marginalised from many university history curricula in recent years, but it remains a fundamental part of the discipline and essential for a proper understanding of much broader topics such as population distribution, patterns of consumption and material culture, and the rise and fall of empires, governments and mass political and social movements.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alysa Levene

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:02:34 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012 - 30 March 2012

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Organiser(s):

Organisers: Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), Angela Davis (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick) and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:34:26 +0000

Date:

11 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

The ESSHC 2012 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Information about the European Social Science and History Conference can be found at: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/

The conference

Organiser(s):

Harm Nijboer & Karin Dannehl

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:59 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 15 April 2012

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 to present work in progress, and includes a number of guest speakers attached to Aberystwyth University, who in the past have shared their knowledge and experience of such things as interdisciplinary work, collaborations between universities and other research institutions, successful applications and interview techniques for academic posts, and guidance on how to get your work published.

Organiser(s):

Lowri Jones & Kris Lovell

Postgraduate Forum for the History of Medicine: 3rd Annual Summit

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:35:56 +0000

Date:

18 April 2012 - 19 April 2012

Swansea University is hosting the third annual summit for postgraduate students and early-career researchers working in the History of Medicine. Following on from the success of two previous events in Warwick and London, the summit is an opportunity for people with similar research interests to meet, present their work and discuss their ideas.

Organiser(s):

http://www.pgfhom.org/blog/summit-2012-swansea

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

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

'Retailing and Distribution in Hard Times'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:08 +0000

Date:

2 May 2012

CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites proposals for papers that explore retailing and distribution cultures and practices during economic downturns, busts and hard times, in Britain and beyond. Papers focusing on all historical periods and based on any methodological perspective are welcome as are papers that focus not only on the impact of poverty, but also on impoverishment and declining living standards.
Themes of interest include – but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Laura Ugolini

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

Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:24 +0000

Date:

16 May 2012 - 17 May 2012

The Ministry of Defence and The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory announce the 2012 Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium Dstl Portsdown West, Portsmouth, UK Wednesday 16th – Thursday 17th May 2012 Initial Call for Papers and Participation For almost 30 years, the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory have used analysis of historical campaigns and developments in academic understanding of conflict to provide a ‘reality-check’ to UK defence policy.

Organiser(s):

Deborah Cheverton (dacheverton@dstl.gov.uk)

Performing Art History II: Conveying Research, Communicating Collaboration

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:14:45 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012

A conference organised by the Performing Art History Special Interest Group to be held on Friday 18 May 2012

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2

Unofficial Histories: Examining how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:30:15 +0000

Date:

19 May 2012

A free public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

Call for Papers

Organiser(s):

Fiona Cosson, University of Northampton, & Ian Gwinn, University of Liverpool

Probing the Interior 1800-2012

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:46:07 +0000

Date:

25 May 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Lucetta Johnson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (King’s College London)

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

Policy History Conference

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:19:27 +0000

Date:

6 June 2012 - 9 June 2012

Since the first Policy History Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, the primary goal behind the conference has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of policy history, American political development, and comparative historical analysis. Conferences bring together scholars from the disciplines of History, Political Science, Law, Sociology and other social sciences.

Organiser(s):

Institute for Political History, Journal of Policy History, Miller Center for Public Affairs

Space and Social Relations in Historical Perspective

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000

Date:

7 June 2012

The relationship between space and social relations is a prominent topic in current affairs. This innovative one-day workshop will address how space is defined and organised. It will focus especially on how historical perspectives can inform our understandings of how people use and experience space. Papers will be pre-circulated and the workshop will emphasize discussion and relaxed debate, offering presenters and participants an opportunity to consider how we can more effectively define and think about space in historic contexts.

Configuration(s)

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:36:50 +0000

Date:

8 June 2012 - 9 June 2012

R.A.O (Recherche Assistée par Ordinateur/Computer-Assisted Research) International Conference, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 8-9 June 2012.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Clotilde Prunier (RAO)

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

Date:

13 June 2012 - 14 June 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 Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

Organiser(s):

historylab2012@gmail.com

European Painted Cloths C14th-C21st: Pageantry, Ceremony, Theatre and the Domestic Interior

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:03:43 +0000

Date:

15 June 2012 - 16 June 2012

This two day conference will explore the use of painted cloths in religious ceremony, pageantry, domestic interiors and scenic art. It will focus on their change of context and significance from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century exploring their different function, materials, and method of creation.

Organiser(s):

Christina Young (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Nicola Costaras (Victoria & Albert Museum)