The Art of Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Approaches to History

The aim of the conference is to examine interdisciplinary approaches to history and to identify how collaborative work between ancillary disciplines can improve and redefine historical writing. This might include drawing upon the theories of the social sciences or psychoanalysis, or by applying geographical or Marxist frameworks to history, all of which offer interesting and rewarding approaches; as Loewenberg said: ‘Each historian and each age redefines categories of evidence in the light of its needs, sensibilities, and perceptions.’ It is in this spirit that the conference welcomes proposals from postgraduate students wishing to submit a 15-20 minute paper on any aspect of collaborative history.

The conference also offers postgraduates the chance to hone their skills and build confidence in conference participation as well as the opportunity to talk about working methods and to meet colleagues working on a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to history.

While the conference is based in the school of history, proposals from all disciplines within the arts and humanities, as well as the social sciences are encouraged to apply.