Conference at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, 1-2 July 2010

To mark the foundation of the Indo-Caribbean Studies Association, the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick is hosting its second interdisciplinary conference. This event welcomes papers across the theoretical spectrum of Indo-Caribbean studies, and aims to investigate new avenues of research in the field. For more please click here.

Submissions: Proposals are invited from established and new scholars, including postgraduate researchers. 300-word abstracts should be sent to L.Gramaglia@warwick.ac.uk and should arrive by 21 December 2009. Acceptance will be notified by 1 February 2010.

Registration: please contact M.R.Tumbridge@warwick.ac.uk or Joseph.Jackson@warwick.ac.uk.

A conference at the University of Leeds, 25-27 March 2010

Papers and panels are invited. Possible strands and contributions could include:

Culture and Industrial identity/Political theatre/ Folk traditions/ Music and the cultural impact of the strike/New documentary traditions in film and photography/Cultural re-orientation and the strike/ Arts therapy and reconciliation/Storytelling and testimony/ The cultural industries as new employers? /Digital resources and the strike/Archives and the re-constructions of cultural memory/ The impact of the strike on media cultures/The political novel/ Poetry and protest/ Culture as memory.  We are also seeking proposals for screenings, performance, and art works for exhibition. For more please click here.

Proposal deadline: abstracts (250 words max) should be sent, by 1st December 2009, to the organising committee at: ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk, or by post to: Dr Eleri Pound, Digging The Seam Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

University of Reading, 9-11 July 2010

This three-day conference at the University of Reading aims to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines working on areas related to the themes of controversy, protest, ridicule, and laughter in the early modern period.

We invite papers that consider any or all of this year's themes. Proposals (max. 300 words) for 30 minute papers and a brief CV should be sent via email attachment by 4 December 2009 to: Dr. Chloë Houston, School of English and American Literature, University of Reading, c.houston@reading.ac.uk

Saturday, September 19, 2009. Wolfson Room, IHR, Senate House, London

Sponsored by Centre of East Anglian Studies  and  British Association for Local History

A four-day Conference at Weetwood Hall, Leeds, 25-28 June 2009. Over 30 internationally renowned academics will present papers on the history of surrender from prehistoric times to the present. Deadline: 11 June 2009. Please contact Mr. Patrick Bourne conference-on-surrender@leeds.ac.uk for more information.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth on 22nd May 1859, the 2nd Arthur Conan Doyle: Edinburgh and Medicine Conference will be held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland on the 22nd and 23rd May 2009. Invited speakers include Owen Dudley Edwards and Andrew Lycett, with other key speakers to be announced shortly.