Teaching pre-modern history: e-learning challenges and opportunities

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:02:23 +0000

Date:

17 February 2012

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 and vernacular sources; early modern multimedia work; blogging and bookmarking; online discussion forums as aids to learning.

Other speakers include:

Organiser(s):

Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Queen Mary University, London & Dr Jamie Wood, Manchester University.

Teaching with Images and Material Culture: innovations and best practice to improve student learning (with a focus on teaching north American history).

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:59:17 +0000

Date:

2 March 2012

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 documentary and feature films; materials culture and the use of museums and memorials. Though the sessions will use a large number of north American sources, the approaches will be important across the discipline.

Other speakers include:

Organiser(s):

Dr Catherine Armstrong, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012

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 implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.

Organiser(s):

Tosh Warwick and Eve Colpus

Preservation and research data: what's in it for me?

jane.winters — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

All researchers create research data, from the database you've set up for your PhD, to your extensive collection of references, to more complex and extensive projects.

As researchers you have two choices:

A. Do you want to ensure that your research data gets the attention and validation it deserves over time? Do you want to make sure that it is safe, accessible and shareable as a valued resource for as long as possible?

New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Date:

16 March 2012 - 18 March 2012

The University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre, in conjunction with the History Lab North West postgraduate network, is pleased to announce the first annual postgraduate workshop on New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century. This new venture aims to bring together postgraduate students from the North West and across the UK, giving a platform for the next generation of eighteenth-century scholars to share their research and ideas.

Organiser(s):

Eighteenth-Century Worlds, University of Liverpool

Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:18 +0000

Date:

22 March 2012

How can we engage students with economic history? The subject has become increasingly marginalised from many university history curricula in recent years, but it remains a fundamental part of the discipline and essential for a proper understanding of much broader topics such as population distribution, patterns of consumption and material culture, and the rise and fall of empires, governments and mass political and social movements.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alysa Levene

Sowing the Seeds Network and the Centre for Economic History at the University of Reading: An Early-Career Workshop on Medieval Urban Community and Public Space

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:22:07 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012

Registration: Free. Furthermore, travel bursaries are available subject to certain criteria

Organiser(s):

Dr Catherine Casson (Universities of Birmingham and Oxford) and Mr Will Liddle (Queen's University Belfast)

Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:02:34 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012 - 30 March 2012

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Organiser(s):

Organisers: Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), Angela Davis (Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick) and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:20 +0000

Date:

31 March 2012

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both individually and collectively. The voice of the ‘deviant’ is often absent from surviving sources and by extension from the historiography. In other instances, the voice of the ‘deviant’ is mediated through official records or constructed by those in positions of power.

Organiser(s):

Dr. Elaine Farrell and Dr. Conor Reidy

The Oxford Movement & its Legacy

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:04:14 +0000

Date:

14 April 2012

A Kent Archaeological Society study day looking at the Oxford Movement and its legacy, especially in Kent, through a combination of lectures (in the morning) and workshops (in the afternoon). Among the speakers will be Dean Michael Chandler, an expert on the Movement. Using Holy Trinity Church in Folkestone, two of the three workshops will focus on the church and its documents to allow participants to explore how the Movement's ideas were deployed at the level of the parish.

Organiser(s):

Jackie Davidson

Developing teaching skills for teaching assistants and new lecturers in history

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:07:14 +0000

Date:

20 April 2012

The convenors and guest speakers from both of the Manchester universities will lead sessions about: designing learning; structuring lectures; planning and running seminars; issues in assessment; team teaching, managing relationships and supervision; working smart; and career building.

Other speakers include:

Dr Max Jones (University of Manchester)
Dr Catherine Armstrong (MMU)
Dr Jamie Wood (University of Manchester)

This workshop will take place between 10.00 and 3.00.

Organiser(s):

Dr Jamie Wood, Manchester University, Dr Catherine Armstrong, MMU & Dr Max Jones, Manchester University.

Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-90

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:42:41 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

In what ways – and to what extent – did academic life change in Western Europe and the United States during the Cold War era? Why did it change the way it did? These are the leading questions of a workshop that will examine the evolution of scholarly life within the context of far-reaching transformations of public spheres and political cultures.

Organiser(s):

Riccardo Bavaj (University of St Andrews / Saint Louis University), Dominik Geppert (University of Bonn), Mark Edward Ruff (Saint Louis University)

Between Families and Institutions: Towards a Comparative History of Urban Communities, 1350-1600

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:55:08 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Arie van Steensel

'Retailing and Distribution in Hard Times'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:08 +0000

Date:

2 May 2012

CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites proposals for papers that explore retailing and distribution cultures and practices during economic downturns, busts and hard times, in Britain and beyond. Papers focusing on all historical periods and based on any methodological perspective are welcome as are papers that focus not only on the impact of poverty, but also on impoverishment and declining living standards.
Themes of interest include – but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Laura Ugolini

The Making of Landscapes in Modernity

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:00:33 +0000

Date:

10 May 2012 - 11 May 2012

This is a call for papers for a workshop on the making of landscapes in modernity. We will have a keynote address on the first day followed by a day consisting of three to four panels on the second. We aim to produce a special issue for a journal as a result of this this workshop.

Organiser(s):

James Koranyi, Bernhard Struck

The 1898 Law on Workplace Accidents and the Pricing of Bodies in Europe

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:38:38 +0000

Date:

15 May 2012

In recent years, scholarly studies on risks and occupational health diseases have reactivated a field of research that emerged in France between 1975 and 1985. At a moment when environmental health issues are attracting more and more historical interest, it seems important to return to the problems related to workspaces by including them in this more recent problematic.

Organiser(s):

Thomas Le Roux, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

Event Announcement

Centre for Transnational History

University of St Andrews

Organiser(s):

Marie Ventura, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews

Economics for Ancient and Mediaeval Historians: a Workshop for recent Ph.D.s and Graduate Students

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:49:53 +0000

Date:

21 May 2012 - 8 June 2012

The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University is hosting a residential workshop, May 21st to June 8th, 2012, to help young ancient and mediaeval historians (specializing in any field from the Ancient Near East to approximately 1400 AD) to learn more about the methods of economic historians from two distinguished economists.

Organiser(s):

William Harris

Space and Social Relations in Historical Perspective

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000

Date:

7 June 2012

The relationship between space and social relations is a prominent topic in current affairs. This innovative one-day workshop will address how space is defined and organised. It will focus especially on how historical perspectives can inform our understandings of how people use and experience space. Papers will be pre-circulated and the workshop will emphasize discussion and relaxed debate, offering presenters and participants an opportunity to consider how we can more effectively define and think about space in historic contexts.

For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th – 19th c.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:44:52 +0000

Date:

18 June 2012

If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the industrial revolution, and if environmental history has been immediately written on a global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations. The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

Organiser(s):

Thomas Le Roux, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

CFA: The Rothschild Archive London American Project Summer School

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:02:50 +0000

Date:

17 September 2012 - 21 September 2012

The Rothschild Archive, London in conjunction with King’s College, London is conducting a research project on the financial involvement of Rothschild in the Americas over the long nineteenth century. The project is based on the large quantity of archive materials that form part of the Archive’s holdings in Britain and France.

Organiser(s):

Kathryn Boodry