Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:57:43 +0000

Date:

9 January 2012 - 27 April 2012

This exhibition at the UCL Art Museum features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Among the items on show are first editions of Rousseau’s works, including On the Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762), frontispieces, and printed images.

Organiser(s):

UCL Centre for Transnational History

University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Date:

19 January 2012 - 19 April 2012

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Organiser(s):

Dr Steve Boardman Steve.Boardman@ed.ac.uk

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

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

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:03:39 +0000

Date:

13 February 2012

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 with London’s famous road, the Strand.

On Monday 13th February, Dr Rosemary Hill, author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, will be speaking about:

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’

Organiser(s):

Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London

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?

CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:22 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 30 April 2012

The Political History Network provides an informal forum for modern political historians to present papers, discuss ideas and network. We particularly welcome postgraduate and post-doctorate students working in 19th and 20th century political history, but anyone with an interest in political history is very welcome to take part in our events. Our regular events consist of termly symposiums which feature three or four papers from postgraduate or post-doctorate students working in political history on a variety of themes.

Organiser(s):

Political History Network

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:43:20 +0000

Date:

18 February 2012

This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent research. While the 'wisdom' of folly in the early modern period has become a familiar concept, it has lacked significant cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural investigation. This symposium will include papers on Erasmus's character of Folly; the fools of Tudor interludes, French 'soties' and Shakespeare; king's fools and court jesters; carnivals and festive folly; and the representation of folly in art.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alice Hunt

Meet the Historian: Sally Alexander

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:24:08 +0000

Date:

22 February 2012

'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 generally, and about their latest work. There will be the chance to ask questions and enter into discussion, and to join the speaker for drinks after the talk.

Organiser(s):

Sally Osborn

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

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:43 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which is: "Junctions and Crossroads". The Colloquium this year will take place on the 25th of February, 2012.

We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on ‘The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney’.

Organiser(s):

CCASNC Committee 2012, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

Teaching with Images and Material Culture: innovations and best practice to improve student learning (with a focus on teaching north American history).

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:59:17 +0000

Date:

2 March 2012

Guest speakers from MMU, UEA and Glasgow will lead sessions about: art; visual images and public history engagement; ethical and practical issues when using lynching photographs; the use of documentary and feature films; materials culture and the use of museums and memorials. Though the sessions will use a large number of north American sources, the approaches will be important across the discipline.

Other speakers include:

Organiser(s):

Dr Catherine Armstrong, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:46 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Webster is well known for his magisterial study of the Baconian tradition in seventeenth-century science, The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975).

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford; chaired by Professor Pietro Corsi, Professor, History of Science, University of Oxford

Meet the Historian: Mary Beard

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:27:17 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Sally Osborn

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

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

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

Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:28 +0000

Date:

11 January 2012

Date:

8 February 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

9 May 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

Date:

11 July 2012

The seminar will meet monthly on Wednesdays from January to July (excepting April) from 5.15 to 6.45 pm in the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are welcome. Those with an interest in Dr Williams’s Library and its collections and in the history of Protestant dissent are especially invited to attend.

1. 11 January 'An Anatomy of Religious Dissent in London, 1700-1830'

Dr John Seed (Roehampton)

Organiser(s):

Professor Isabel Rivers, Dr David Wykes

NMRN Research Seminar. Those they left behind: Naval families during the Napoleonic wars

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:45:19 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter, will give a seminar paper on naval families during the Napoleonic period as part of the ongoing National Museum of the Royal Navy's Research Seminar series.

Organiser(s):

Dr Duncan Redford

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

PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

Mon, 02 May 2011 01:42:04 +0000

Date:

17 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

On March 17-18, 2012, the School of History at the University of Nottingham is hosting a postgraduate colloquium, initiated and organised by its own doctoral students, on the theme of cultural construction in the Soviet Union and states of the former Soviet bloc. The aim will be to explore the origins and nature of cultural discourses and practices in government, academia, the intellectual sphere and everyday life with a view to assessing their influence on the political and social development of these countries.

Organiser(s):

Susanne Sklepek, Olga Bertelsen, Andru Chiorean, Filip Boicu

Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:36:40 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National University of Ireland, Galway

Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Organiser(s):

Dr Laura Kelly

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:43:20 +0000

Date:

25 March 2012 - 27 March 2012

This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds, it runs from Sunday 25 March 2012, to Tuesday 27 March. Those interested in reserving a place should contact Dr Tom Licence (of UEA), at t.licence@uea.ac.uk.

Organiser(s):

Dr Tom Licence (UEA)

UCL Neale Colloquium 2012: Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:44:10 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

The colloquium aims to present the findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project and engage with current work exploring the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833.

Organiser(s):

Legacies of British Slave-ownership, Department of History, UCL

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

Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:20 +0000

Date:

31 March 2012

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both individually and collectively. The voice of the ‘deviant’ is often absent from surviving sources and by extension from the historiography. In other instances, the voice of the ‘deviant’ is mediated through official records or constructed by those in positions of power.

Organiser(s):

Dr. Elaine Farrell and Dr. Conor Reidy

The Royal Body

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 4 April 2012

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Whitelock

Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:14:38 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 3 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Bangor University

Social History Society Annual Conference

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:29:45 +0000

Date:

3 April 2012 - 5 April 2012

The Annual Conference of the Social HIstory Society is pleased to announce the call for Papers for its 2012 Annual Conference which will be held at the University of Brighton, UK, 3-5 April 2012. Proposals for individual papers and panels from post graduates and established researchers are warmly invited. The closing date for abstracts is 26 October 2011. For further details of conference strands, and to submit an abstract, please see our website.

Organiser(s):

Social HIstory Society

Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Spectacles and Spectators in 20th century Britain

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:19:13 +0000

Date:

3 April 2012

The 2012 Recording Leisure Lives conference explores themes of consumption, active and passive practices, representation, identity and physical culture in leisure in inter-war Britain with a special though not exclusive emphasis on sport and entertainment. The conference also addresses themes of professionalism and amateurism in leisure and includes a more general thematic strand of hobbies, games and amusements.

Organiser(s):

Dr. Bob Snape, University of Bolton

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