Swansea University Postgraduate History Society Summer Symposium

The Swansea University Postgraduate History Society is issuing a call for papers for its inaugural interdisciplinary Summer Symposium on the broad theme of 'Dissent and Authority', to be held at Swansea University on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 June 2010.

The programme organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers from postgraduate historians, classicists and literary scholars at any stage of their research. Topics might include, but are not limited to: the exploration of literary and visual constructions of authority and/or dissent; representations of personal authority; representations of authority and/or dissent in the context of politics or industry; notions of authority and/or dissent in familial or domestic spheres; the ideology of dissenting bodies/individuals; the outbreak of discord within state bodies. 

Please send an abstract of 200-250 words to authority_2010@yahoo.co.uk in order to be considered for a paper of 20 minutes. Please also include your name, level of study, institution and research area. Proposals should be sent by no later than FRIDAY 26 MARCH at 12 noon. Proposals received after this will not be considered for inclusion except in special circumstances.

Further details can be obtained from the conference organisers.