History News

Doctoral student Darshi Thoradeniya will be giving a paper at the Ethics of State Involvement in Women's Health Conference, 5 April 2010. Darshi is a second year student,  working on women's health and bodies in post-independent Sri Lanka.

MR4 (Meeting Room 4 SUHQ), 2pm Wednesday 10 March.

As part of International Women's Week (Week 9, Term 2), Sarah Learmonth from the Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC) will be holding a presentation and discussion group about the myths and stereotypes surrounding sexual abuse.

We are fundraising for the centre during week 9 to help them with the amazing work they do counselling victims of sexual abuse during their time of crisis. Sarah is an inspirational woman and I would encourage anyone who wants to ask her any questions or just sit and listen to come along, especially if you are interested in feminist studies or considering going into social/charity work.

19-20 March 2010, The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Works of art — from Primo Levi’s If this is a Man to Anselm Kiefer’s Margarethe — are built up out of the destruction of human life and dignity. Drawing specifically on the horrors of history, they come to haunt us and question our understanding of the past, of ethics, even of the idea of ‘knowing’ itself. Yet, what is it exactly that these works of art can achieve? Medicine is able to heal or alleviate suffering through the work of professionals observing, testing, and writing about patients’ physical and psychological pain. Human rights activists craft testimonies with the echoes of the victims’ howling cries; lawyers draft national and international laws and resolutions with a history of persecution, war, and genocide foremost in mind. Registration will close on Friday 12 March 2010.

16-17 July 2010, University of Edinburgh

The aim of this conference is to re-create or reconstruct Renaissance and Baroque Festivals by an interdisciplinary approach. This includes the presentation of the project’s online exhibition in which the project’s investigators re-create music played in Festivals and a 3D model of the city with the reconstruction of the ephemeral architecture displayed in it.

The organisers of this two-day conference seek contributions related to any aspect of Early Modern European festivals and are especially interested in proposals which relate to the festivals of the Hispanic Habsburg dynasty. The deadline for proposals is 1 April 2010. Notification of acceptance will be made before 1 May 2010. Selected papers will be considered for publication. The deadline for the full paper submission is 1 July 2010.

15-17 June 2010, University of Manchester

Students are invited to submit abstracts on any aspect of their research within the field of Latin American Studies. (As in past years, engagement of the conference theme is completely optional.) We invite papers from a wide variety of disciplines and academic levels. Please note that to give a paper you must be a registered postgraduate student. Postdoctoral applications will not be accepted.

25-27 March 2010, University of Leeds.

The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the miners’ strike at the time, and subsequently, across the broad range of cultural expression such as the press, TV, film, performance, photography and music and song. Plus, 25 years on, how both archive study and new creative work lead us into new insights and perspectives. The conference is organised into four strands - Memory, Legacy, Media and Popular Culture, and Witness - to help compare and contrast the personal and the objective study, the artefact and the heritage industry, cultural memory and the creative. Online Registration

We will also be holding two very special events in conjunction with Opera North at the Howard Assembly rooms. These are also open to all. http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/film-battle-of-orgrave/ and http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/songs-at-years-end/

3 March 2010, Social Studies Building, Rm S0.98, 12.30pm.

Seminar led by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh to coincide with the launch of 6 new titles by the School of Health and Social Sceinces. To book a place please contact Jas Bains : j.k.bains@warwick.ac.uk 

3 March 2010, 1.30-3.00pm, Social Studies Building, Rm S0.98

The School of Health and Social Studies offers the chance to meet the authors of six new titles:

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering (eds), Hannah Bradby & Gillian Lewando Hundt; Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities (eds), Ravi K Thiara & Aisha K Gill; Domestic Violence Working with Men: Research, Practice Experiences and Integrated Responses, Andrew Day, Patrick O’Leary, Donna Chung & Donna Justo; Ethnic Minorities and Politics: The British Electoral System, Muhammad Anwar; The Real Cost of Poor Housing, Maggie Davidson, Mike Roys, Simon Nicol, David Ormandy, Peter Ambrose; Gender and Policy in France, Gill Allwood & Khursheed Wadia.