History News

17-18 June 2010, University of Liverpool, School of History

The conference sets out firstly to investigate the unique nature of nuclear culture in twentieth century Britain and, secondly, to rethink the conceptualisation of nuclear culture more generally. We are seeking to explore the impact nuclear culture had on British society, and the ways in which the scientific community, political decision-makers, consumerism, works of popular science, literature, journalism and film combined to create an identifiable nuclear culture. Also, because established studies have focused predominantly on the socio-cultural and political implications of nuclear energy and weapons, our conference aims to move towards a broader conceptualisation of nuclear culture in general.

Please send your 250-400-word proposal by 1 March 2010 to the co-organisers: Dr Jonathan Hogg jgh@liv.ac.uk or Dr Christoph Laucht c.laucht@liv.ac.uk

Deadline for Nominations: Friday 26 February

The Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) is an important recognition of the excellent teaching and support of learning that is taking place across the University. We would like to remind you that nominations for WATE are now invited and we would appreciate your help in encouraging staff and students in your departments to nominate any member of staff whom they consider deserves this recognition. Nomination forms and guidelines for submitting an application can be found on the WATE website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/funding/wate.

Thursday 11 March, 5.30pm - 7.20pm, University House Café

The theme of the next Ideas Cafe, 'What is Colour?', was picked to coincide with the opening of nominations for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. Come along for a bite to eat and to hear speakers from across the University talk on areas including the perception of colour, race and colour in literature and the colour of stars

Friday 19 March 2010, University of Birmingham, The Hilton Shepherd Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Postgraduate Symposium.

The theme for papers is real and perceived periodisation in Medieval studies: when does Late Antiquity become the Middle Ages? What does the transformation from Roman to Medieval or Anglo-Saxon mean? Are these temporal boundaries a help or a hindrance? We invite speakers from all fields of Late Antique and Medieval study. The symposium will provide a friendly forum for postgraduates at all stages of their studies to share their research.

Papers should be 20 minutes in length.  Please send proposals of approximately 300 words to: hiltonshepherd@hotmail.co.uk by Wednesday 24 February 2010.

20 July 2010, British Library Conference Centre

This conference aims to explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of
newspapers, considering the effect that this has had on research and
researchers and the implied changes to research methodologies. Not only has
the digitisation of historical newspapers made it easier to discover information
about events from the past, but the way in which they have been digitised
makes it possible to discover how those events were represented, debated
and sold as news. It will debate current limitations as well as opportunities for
future development.

September 10-11, Wellcome Collection, London

The conference will be open themed. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length with ten minutes for questions and discussion. Abstract should be no lonfer than 200 words and should be sent to The Conference Committe (bsshconference@googlemail.com) by Friday 9 April 2010. Ideas for specialist panels will be strongly considered. 

25-27 March, University of Leeds

Registration is now open for this conference, which is aimed at both HE scholars and the public, with keynote speakers representing different approaches to the ‘re-telling’ of the strike. The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the 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.

For more information, and to register: Online registration

Or contact Dr. Eleri Pound at ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk or on 0113 343 5805.

February 2010, two complementary programmes:

'Europe Meets Latin America: A Forum for Young Leaders: The Bicentenary' (EMLA) is an active network of young leaders from across the world, who conduct activity to strengthen European-Latin American relations. Further information and application form: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/youngleadersforums/index.php?en_forums_emla_about

'Nuestra America: Celebrating 200 years of Latin American Independence and Looking Towards an Interdependent Tomorrow' is an international conference for students, young professionals, economists, diplomatic and political representatives, and civil society practitioners from across the world. For further infromation and application form: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/index.php?en_nuestra