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?

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

Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:13:26 +0000

Date:

24 February 2012 - 25 February 2012

Organiser(s):

Hannah Walters

Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:38:14 +0000

Date:

24 February 2012

Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory invite research student members—or prospective members—of the EHS to join us for the 2012 Postgraduate Colloquium, to be held in the historic setting of The University of Manchester, John Rylands Library, Deansgate on Friday, 24 February 2012.

This has traditionally been an informal opportunity for students to get to know one another and to learn about each other’s work, and the papers are at least as interesting as those at the main conference!

Organiser(s):

Ecclesiastical History Society

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

Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:36:22 +0000

Date:

3 March 2012

09.30 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.00)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

In 1936 Alfred H. Barr Jr’s history-making-and-shaping survey Cubism and Abstract Art put Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson together as the older and younger leaders of ‘geometrical abstraction’ in the Western World. It also announced that ‘geometrical abstraction’ was in decline, a judgement Mondrian immediately dismissed. For him, writing to Nicholson, ‘geom. abstr.’ was always in the ascendant.

Organiser(s):

Chris Green, Barnaby Wright (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Lee Beard (editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Nicholson)

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

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

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

Women, Health and Welfare: Women’s History Network Southern Region Study Day

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:40:44 +0000

Date:

17 March 2012

Sessions, spanning the early modern, Victorian and modern eras, in Ireland, England and Italy, include women and mental health, women and reproductive health, women as health care practitioners, and women and welfare.

Our key speaker will be Lesley Hall from the Wellcome Library, who will lead a discussion on how archives can contribute to the debate, challenging the audience to be more imaginative and inquisitive in their use of these resources.

Organiser(s):

Centre for the Historical Record, Kingston University London

"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

Irish agrarian radicals, c. 1850-1930

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:57:55 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012 - 23 March 2012

Agrarian issues and the land question have always seemed to dominate discourse in Ireland and the Land movement of the 1870s onwards saw the land and national questions becoming inextricably linked. While there has been an outpouring of works regarding these themes, scant attention has been paid to the role of individuals that made substantive contributions to agrarian radicalism in Ireland.

Organiser(s):

Brian Casey

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

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:19:51 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’. It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered. Instead, it is structured around key themes: health, family life, the law and work. The papers presented will consider seemingly very different groups, in the context of early modern Britain, Europe and the Atlantic World. The hope is that over the course of the two days we will be able to identify similarities in perception and treatment between these groups. There are two basic questions which all

Organiser(s):

Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw

Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:44:40 +0000

Date:

24 March 2012

10.15 – 17.00 (with registration from 09.45)

Gothic ivory sculpture, surviving in large numbers in collections around the world, has thus far not received all the attention it deserves. The Gothic Ivories Project, launched on the web in December 2010 (www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk), seeks to promote research in the field by providing an online catalogue of surviving pieces carved in Western Europe from c. 1200 to the early 16th century.

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)

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:44:40 +0000

Date:

27 March 2012 - 29 March 2012

The Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is please to announce the call for papers for the 22nd ASEN Annual Conference:

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries

The conference will take place from the 27-29th March, 2012 at the London School of Economics.

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Rogers Brubaker, Miguel Centeno, Mary Fulbrook, Richard Jenkins, Michele Lamont and Wendy Pullan. There will also be workshops with Jon Fox and Michael Banton.

Organiser(s):

Association for the Study of Ethnicities and Nationalism (ASEN)

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

Economic History Society Annual Conference 2012

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:09:47 +0000

Date:

30 March 2012 - 1 April 2012

Annual Conference of the Economic History Society

Organiser(s):

Maureen Galbraith

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

The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:19 +0000

Date:

12 April 2012

This conference explores the role of plebeians in the colonial and commercial expansion across the world from c.1660-1820. Inspired by the themes of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s The Many Headed Hydra (2000) the papers will explore the book’s central themes in the light of new research, as well as taking it into new areas. The role of seas and ships, armies and navies, and commercial interests in creating and regulating a mobile, multi-ethnic workforce will be explored.

Organiser(s):

William Farrell (Birkbeck) & Stephen Duane Dean Jnr (KCL)

Burdens: Writing British History After 1945

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:28:24 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Radhika Natarajan and Tehila Sasson

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

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:29:45 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

A two-day international conference to be held at the University of Kent featuring keynotes by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Professor Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Dr A.V. Murray (Leeds). Please see the programme and registration form below for further details. The deadline for registration is 30 March 2012.

Organiser(s):

Liz Mylod (Leeds), Guy Perry (Leeds), Thomas Smith (RHUL), Jan Vandeburie (Kent).

The Third Home Rule Crisis: Centenary Perspectives

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:47:16 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012

The Irish revolution, the label given to the years of severe political strife, violence, and change in Ireland between 1912 and 1921, is approaching its centenary. The revolution that resulted in the shattering of the Anglo-Irish Union and the creation of an independent Ireland has its immediate origins in the constitutional crisis prompted by the introduction of the third Home Rule Bill in April 1912, a genuine watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom.

Organiser(s):

Colin Reid and James McConnel

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

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Ecclesiast​​ical History Society Postgradua​​te Colloquium

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

Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

History of Women in the Americas

Women, Health and Welfare: Women’s History Network Southern Region Study Day

"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Irish agrarian radicals, c. 1850-1930

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

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries

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

Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

Economic History Society Annual Conference 2012

The Royal Body

Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations

Social History Society Annual Conference

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

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

The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

Burdens: Writing British History After 1945

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

Contextualising the Fifth Crusade: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Crusading Movement in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century

The Third Home Rule Crisis: Centenary Perspectives

Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium