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February 2012
Date		Location
13	Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries 2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the...	Oxford United Kingdom
13	'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill 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...	London United Kingdom
15	Political History Network Seminar (University of Reading) The Political History Network is a seminar group organised for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in modern political history. The network provides a forum to present papers, share...	Reading United Kingdom
15 - 17	Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe 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...	London United Kingdom
15 - 30	CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series 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...	Reading United Kingdom
17	Teaching pre-modern history: e-learning challenges and opportunities Guest speakers from QMUL, Exeter, Manchester and Nottingham Trent will lead sessions about: creating student-led repositories (medieval Spanish); addressing issues in teaching using medieval Latin...	London United Kingdom
18	Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe 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...	Alton United Kingdom
20	Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries 2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the...	Oxford United Kingdom
22	25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014 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? The documentary ‘Afghanistan, Land of Wonders’ (2009) by...	London United Kingdom
22	Meet the Historian: Sally Alexander '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...	London United Kingdom
23	Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940 The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History warmly invite you to: Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking...	Manchester United Kingdom
24 - 25	Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference	Bristol United Kingdom
24	Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium 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...	Manchester United Kingdom
25	Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads 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...	Cambridge United Kingdom
25	Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage 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...	York United Kingdom
27	Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries 2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the...	Oxford United Kingdom
28	Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12 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....	Swansea United Kingdom
29	Bentham Seminar series 2012 This year's Bentham Seminar series, organised by UCL's Bentham Project, have been confirmed. All of the seminars will be held between 11am and 1pm in the Committee Room in the School of Public...	London United Kingdom

March 2012
Date		Location
01	New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications A talk by Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Scripts, Languages and Cultures at the British Museum Thursday, 1 March - 7.30 for 8.00 pm at Wimbledon & Dstrict...	Wimbledon, London United Kingdom
02	Teaching with Images and Material Culture: innovations and best practice to improve student learning (with a focus on teaching north American history). 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...	Manchester United Kingdom
03	Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction 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-...	London United Kingdom
05	The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act Is there a place for politics in academic historical research? A generation ago historians were at the forefront of political debates on hot topics such as gender, class,...	London United Kingdom
05 - 14	Schama headlines season of events to mark new home for history at Queen Mary TV historian Simon Schama and award-winning poet Ruth Padel are among the stellar names speaking at a spring season of events hosted at Queen Mary, University of London. From 5 to 14 March...	London United Kingdom
06	Meet the Historian: Mary Beard '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...	London United Kingdom
06	Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution' 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,...	Oxford United Kingdom
07	Bentham Seminar series 2012 This year's Bentham Seminar series, organised by UCL's Bentham Project, have been confirmed. All of the seminars will be held between 11am and 1pm in the Committee Room in the School of Public...	London United Kingdom
07	Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12 Goldsmiths History Seminar programme (and related events), 2011/12 Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm (unless otherwise stated) Venue: Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building (unless...	London United Kingdom
08 - 10	New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012	Sarasota United States
09 - 10	New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 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...	Glasgow, United Kingdom
09	Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers 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...	Huddersfield United Kingdom