IHR events

Ancients and Moderns: the 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians

Date: 
5 July 2012 - 6 July 2012

With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our own times, and how successive epochs of modernity since the Renaissance have situated themselves in relation to the various ancient civilisations.

URL: 
http://www.history.ac.uk/aach12
Organiser(s): 
Manjeet K Sambi
Registration details
http://www.history.ac.uk/aach12/register

Teaching History in Higher Education: the 14th annual Higher Education Academy Teaching and Learning Conference 2012

Date: 
11 September 2012 - 12 September 2012

This year, the Higher Education Academy’s annual teaching and learning conference on history in higher education will be held in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, London. Scholars are more aware than ever before of the symbiosis between historical research and their teaching. They are also becoming more engaged with the ways in which pedagogic research, innovation and theory can inform, enhance and support both the student and staff experience. More generally, higher education is undergoing transformational change in the UK and elsewhere.

URL: 
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/academyevents/11_12_Teaching_History_conference

New perspectives on industrialisation

Date: 
17 September 2012 - 19 September 2012

The Institute of Historical Research and the PKU (Beijing) are joining together next September to host a conference on the recent historiography of British industrialisation. The second major collaboration between the two institutions, the conference will showcase the recent research on the British industrial revolution as well as new Chinese research on the subject and seek to place British industrialisation within a global and comparative perspective. Over a dozen Chinese universities will be involved, and the conference will fature a junior researchers' session.

Organiser(s): 
Manjeet K Sambi

Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 - A Conference to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the London Underground

Date: 
17 January 2013 - 18 January 2013

10 January 2013 will mark the 150th Anniversary of the public opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London. It was the world’s first urban rapid transport system to run partly in subterranean sections. As the precursor of today’s London Underground, it was not only a pioneer of technological and engineering advances, but also instigated new spatial, political, cultural and social realms that are now considered to be synonymous with London and modern urban experiences across the globe.

Organiser(s): 
Carlos Lopez Galviz, Sam Merrill, Centre for Metropolitan History
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