27 March 2010, University of Warwick

This workshop is aimed at postgrads (MA and PhD) and early career researchers with an interest in the historical relationship between voluntary/ charitable work and the home. We welcome submissions from all periods and countries to facilitate a comparative roundtable discussion in the second part of the day. We would encourage papers that consider the particular challenges speakers have encountered while investigating a particular area in the relationship between voluntarism and the home. The event aims to address methodological, thematic and evidential issues, rather than the substantive findings that result from this process. Speakers are therefore encouraged to reflect upon the particular challenges they have encountered in their research. We hope these papers will provide the basis for a lively and constructive debate in the the roundtable element of the workshop.

Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted to workshop@vahs.org.uk before 10 February 2010. Please see the attached call for papers for further details. If you would like more information, or have any comments or queries, please contact Stephen Soanes at S.Soanes@warwick.ac.uk

18 March 2010: Half-day Symposium, University of York

The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York invites proposals for a half-day symposium on early modern libraries. Papers on any aspect of the topic are welcome - intellectual libraries, material libraries, knowledge and libraries - but we would particularly welcome papers on women and libraries in the early modern era.

This seminar forms the 4th Thomas Browne Seminar, a forum for early modern studies and intellectual history. Contact Kevin Killeen: kk536@york.ac.uk

13 March 2010, University of Warwick

Warwick Sociology Department would like to announce a call for abstracts from postgraduate students wishing to present at the Warwick Postgraduate Conference 2010 ‘Whose Rights? How Right?’.  This is a conference run by and for postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities and provides and exciting opportunity to present your work in a friendly and supportive environment.

Abstracts should be up to 300 words and presentation of the papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Please send abstracts to Melissa Menent: M.Menent@warwick.ac.uk. Ensure that you state your name, department and institution in the same document as the abstract. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2009.

Tuesday 8 June 2010, School of History, University of Nottingham

The aim of this one day conference is to examine interdisciplinary approaches to history and to identify how collaborative work between ancillary disciplines can improve and redefine historical writing. The conference welcomes proposals from post graduate students wishing to submit a 15-20 minute paper on any aspect of collaborative history, please send all submissions by 31 January 2010 to Warren Dockter at ahxwd1@nottingham.ac.uk.

5 March 2010, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick

Proposals for papers are invited for a one-day conference on the theme of histoire(s) from research students in any area of French Studies including those with an interdisciplinary focus from other departments such as comparative literature, music, history or art.  The differing definitions ascribed to the notion of ‘histoire(s)’ in discourse significantly direct our own specific frames of reference; as such, this conference will follow a rather fluid thematic pathway stemming from the inherent ambiguousness of the French term. Exploring the many possible interpretations and their interconnectivity, and questioning the possibility of distinguishing fact from fiction, ‘history’ from ‘story’, we will explore aspects such as the filtering and rewriting of histoire(s) as well as the means of transmission, allowing for the representation of a variety of voices and a consideration of multiple perspectives.  It is hoped that papers will also challenge the idées reçues surrounding the linearity of histoire(s) and the issue of legitimisation.

10 June 2010, University of Reading, School of Modern Languages and European Studies

Contributions to this postgraduate conference are invited from postgraduate and postdoctoral students on the following topics: The narrator; Sermons; Dialogues between learned and unlearned texts; Translations; Translatio studii; Debates; Rhetoric; Poetics.

All papers should last 20 minutes. A selection of these papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Reading Medieval Studies.

Proposals for papers should be sent to the conference organizers: Professor Françoise Le Saux (f.h.m.le-saux@reading.ac.uk) and Dr Catherine Léglu (c.leglu@reading.ac.uk).

May 2010, University of Liverpool

A call for papers on any aspect of the English Reformation for a one day postgraduate research conference.  Papers are to be 20 minutes long and can cover any aspect of the English Reformation.  This is a great opportunity for postgraduates to share their research and receive feedback in a friendly, supportive environment.  We would be very grateful if you could express your interest before 27/11/2009

If you would like to hear more about the event or wish to propose a paper please contact Ryan Clayton at rclayton@liv.ac.uk

12 June 2010, Multi-disciplinary Postgraduate Symposium hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University

This conference will provide a stimulating environment for postgraduate students and other researchers to present work and to share and discuss ideas stemming from the examination of texts employing varied representational modes, adaptations and interactions between text and image. Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers not exceeding 20 minutes should be submitted by 15th February 2010, to the organisers at: conference@lancasterluminary.com. For more information please click here.