History News

5 February 2010: University of Warwick, Institute of Advanced Study (Milburn House), Seminar Room F.204

An AHRC funded worshop at the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study. Speakers: Dr John Bergin, Dr Rebecca Probert, Mary O'Dowd, Professor Maria Luddy, Dr Joanne Bailey, Professor Eleanor Gordon, Dr Katie Barclay, Dr Elizabeth Foyster. Directions to the Institute can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/about/location/.

Space, Place and Translating the Past in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Britain, University of Warwick, Saturday 27 February. TRAVEL BURSARIES STILL AVAILABLE.

Speakers include Prof. Nigel Thrift, Dr Lynne Walker, Prof. Elizabeth Edwards and Prof. Gillian Rose.

Envisioning Community is a one-day conference exploring how multidisciplinary approaches to the study of community can better inform our understanding of the historical past. Featuring renowned scholars from the fields of history, historical geography and anthropology, the day offers an opportunity to interrogate research wrought by the spatial turn and the new challenges of representation and the visual in telling and writing history.  A range of papers will engage with spatially located communities as well as those established thorough material or political practices, testing the ways in which community has been conceptualised.  They also offer new ways of considering how community has been, and continues to be, made and imagined through walks, photography, film and town planning.

Centre for Russian & East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower, Rm.113. February 3 2010, 5pm.

Speaker: Robert Service (St Antony’s College, Oxford), 'Trotsky and the Bolshevik Revolutionary Project: Who Betrayed What?'.

Refreshments will provided for a small charge. To assist with catering arrangements, please send a message in advance to Rosalind Lucas r.m.lucas@warwick.ac.uk at Warwick's Institute for Advanced Study if you plan to attend.

Warwick/Vanderbilt Early Career School, 31 May -4 June 2010

Both literature and history specialists have paid renewed attention in the last decade to the profound transformations wrought by the Reformation and Counter-reformation, and by frequent military and social conflict, on religious culture and belief, especially in relation to the natural world, and focussing espcially on the relationship between ritual and belief and to manifestations of “strangeness” in the natural world. This workshop will explore the historical roots and literary expressions of these tropes from 1550 to 1850.  It will draw together students and staff from the History and English departments at Warwick and Vanderbilt and encourage cross-institutional conversation as well as interdisciplinary investigation.

Friday 5 February, 1 - 4.15pm, Social Studies Building, SO.13

A symposium jointly organised by The Social Theory Centre Symposium and the Department of History. All welcome.

The Registrar’s meeting for all non-academic staff is due to take place on Tuesday 26 January from 1pm to 2pm in the Butterworth Hall, Arts Centre.

23-25 March 2010, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

The Annual Conference of the History Subject Centre has now reached its twelfth successful year. The conference brings together a diverse range of speakers and covers all aspects of teaching and learning. The common objective is to drive forward teaching and learning practices in History at Higher Education level.

Please submit a 300 word abstract by 31 January 2010, to Antony Bounds antonybounds@googlemail.com. Travel and accommodation bursaries are available for speakers. For more information on the conference please email the History Subject Centre HEAHistorysubjectcentre@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website www.historysubjectcentre.ac.uk.

14-15 May 2010, A Workshop at the University of Cambridge

This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of ideas of India in Britain between 1857 and 1947, by bringing together early-career researchers and more senior academics from different disciplines working on this crucial aspect of British intellectual history.

Papers should not exceed 30 minutes and will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion. To apply please send abstracts of not more than 500 words to the addresses given below. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 February 2010. Unfortunately we are unable to provide financial support towards travel or staying arrangements, however we will do our best to provide you with adequate details of how to get here and reasonable places to stay.

Please send abstracts and direct any enquiries to: Mishka Sinha: mishka.sinha@gmail.com or Tom Green: tg245@cam.ac.uk