History News

The Department of History invites outline applications for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships. Applicants wishing to apply should submit the following to the Departmental Administrator (R.S.Horton@warwick.ac.uk) by Friday 28th January 2011, ideally with an advanced draft of the Leverhulme application or at least the following documents:

• 2 page research proposal
• 100 word abstract
• 250 words on past research related to the project
• CV
• Which member(s) of academic staff in the Department you would particularly like to work closely with
• Details of the duration of Fellowship requested and a justification for this (so if you wanted to do a book, for instance, you might need three years – if you wanted to do a number of articles, two years might be more reasonable)
• Details of any UG teaching that you would be willing to undertake during your Fellowship (either teaching on an existing module or the creation of a new module based on your own research, in either instance with a limited capacity of 20 students per year)

Applicants who are successful in the Department’s internal competition will be invited to submit full applications to the Trust, the forms for which are available from The Leverhulme Trust website.

Dr Giorgio Riello has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize, one of only twenty-five academics in the country to be handed the honour.

As part of an AHRC-funded project, 'Empire Loyalists', there is one full-time three-year long PhD studentship available from 1 January 2011 in the History Department at the University of Warwick. The studentship will cover university fees and maintenance at the current rates set by the AHRC for applicants eligible Home or EU students. The deadline to apply is 22 November 2010.

Tuesday 6 July, Senate House, University of London

Designed for all historians, from PhD students through to senior academics, who want to engage with the media – regardless of whether you have had formal media training in the past. Sessions will explore: news and current affairs, working with press officers, documentaries and historians’ own media experiences. 

One-day symposium on the contemporary far-right, University of Northampton, 17 September 2010

Focusing on the use of new media by right-wing extremists, and connecting academic approaches to this topic with the experiences of practitioners, this symposium will offer a series of relevant panel discussions and networking opportunities. To register, or to find out more, please contact Dr Matthew Felman (matthew.feldman@northampton.ac.uk) or myself, Dr Paul Jackson (paul.jackson@northampton.ac.uk).

Who did they think they were? The Sea and the Making of Identities, University of Exeter, 17-19 Spetember 2010

A conference focusing on the relationship between the sea and identity in widest possible sense, naval or maritime; local, regional, national or international; gender and sexuality; fact, film or fiction. It will look beyond the usual nationalistic rhetoric to explore how identity has been moulded by attitude to and relationships with the sea. The conference will interrogate the idea of identity in its various manifestations in order to examine the importance of the sea to different audiences.

3-4 September, University of Cambridge

This conference will seek to explore 19^th century concerns about the power of ‘negative’ influences upon individuals and society.  It will attempt not only to document the attention paid to the perceived dangers of moral corruption, but also to describe how ‘innocence’ was conceptualized as a moral category, and to understand its cultural, philosophical, and religious underpinnings.  The keynote address will be given by Dr. Rochelle Gurstein, who will be speaking on the ‘reticent sensibility’, and how its status was threatened from the new ‘agents of exposure’. Proposals for 20-minute papers, with a 250-word abstract, may be sent to David Sandifer at djs212@cam.ac.uk before 30 June 2010. Travel bursaries will be available for speakers, contingent upon funding.

This year the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) initiated a pilot project to deliver its research seminar programme online for historians from the UK and around the world to listen to and discuss. They are very interested in opinions in relation to this project and podcasting in general.  They particularly wish to gauge attitudes and knowledge about podcasting in the History profession and to learn about what historians would like to gain from online research provision. To discover more, theyhave devised a brief questionnaire.