3 December 2009, Woolf College, University of Kent

This is a interdisciplinary postgraduate colloquium on Bad Behaviour, run by students the University of Kent's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and sponsored by the AHRC as part of its Beyond Text scheme. In addition to papers given by an international group of speakers on various kinds of antisocial behaviour including the pulling of beards and the misuse of firearms, there are tours, performances, and an exhibition of images from Kent's Cartoon Archive.

30 November 2009, University of Warwick, Millburn House, IAS Seminar Room

Hosted by the European Early American Studies Association (AHRC), in conjunction with the Centre for Caribbean Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies. Speakers include Albane Forestier (LSE), Bertie Mandelblatt (Montreal), Pernille Roge (Cambridge), and Manuel Covo (Paris).

To register and for further information please email D.Toner@warwick.ac.uk 

A Project for Collecting Oral Histories, November 2009

Be trained in taking oral histories on this professional course led by Professor Tilli Tansey, from the Wellcome Trust, UCL. Open to all levels of study, from 1st year to PhD, this training is a great addition to your CV and academic portfolio.

Applications welcome from all History students and related subjects. Please contact Dr Roberta Bivins for more details (r.bivins@warwick.ac.uk)

Workshop 1: University of Warwick, Arden House, October 14 2009

Mimesis is the ability/susceptibility we all have to copy each other's behaviour. This workshop will combine speakers, discussion and an 'open space' session and comes from a new network based at Warwick. The ESRC, BBSRC and MRC have jointly funded a team to grow an interdisciplinary, international network focused on mimetic factors in individual health behaviour as part of the innovative "Understanding Individual Behaviour" programme.

17 September 2009 at the University of London
 
The Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, will be hosting a one day workshop on women in the later medieval economy, and related social issues, on 17 September 2009. Proposals (of no more than 150 words) for papers of twenty to thirty minutes are invited from graduate students and academics alike, to be received no later than Sunday 21 June 2009

In celebration of the centenary of The Round Table and the 60th anniversary of the modern Commonwealth, Round Table Commonwealth Awards for Young Scholars will be awarded to six students from Commonwealth countries studying at a UK University in the academic year 2008-9. Each student will undertake a 3 week study visit to a Commonwealth country in the summer of 2009 as part of his or her existing academic research projects (either undergraduate or postgraduate). On their return, scholars will write up their research into an article for publication in The Round Table and disseminate their findings through presentations to other university students.