History News

19th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network, University of Warwick 10-11 September 2010

The idea that selfhood is performed has a very long tradition. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the diverse representations of women's identities in the past and consider how these were articulated.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by 5th March 2010 to whnconference2010@googlemail.com. For more information please contact Dr Sarah Richardson, sarah.richardson@warwick.ac.uk, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

Thursday 21 January, 10-12pm, IAS Seminar Room, Milburn House

Professor Peter Galison will be receiving an honorary degree from Warwick on Thursday 21 January. Whilst here he will also be leading a seminar entitled 'Breaking, Crashing and Thinking: Technologies of the Self'.

The seminar will be of value to anyone interested in the philosophy and history of science and is open to all. Professor Galison will discuss his new book about self-reforming technologies, from the Rorsasch Test to nuclear storage. He will also talk about his new film, Wastelands, which explores the meaning of lands that are removed from human occupation - either because of their purity (wilderness sites) or because of their impurity (waste land, nuclear contamination, etc).

29 January, 12-2pm IAS Seminar Room, Milburn House

An informal workshop for postgraduates and early career scholars. Speakers: Prof. Trevor Burnard, Head of History Department; Dr, Rebecca Earle, History Department; Prof. Steve Hindle, Deputy Head of History Department. All welcome, lunch will be provided. For catering purposes please contact Lydia Plath to reserve a place by Monday 25 January.

24-25 June 2010, Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow

Conflicts continue to play a significant role in international affairs and the study of their history offers unique insight into the problems facing the contemporary world. This conference provides an opportunity for postgraduates/early-career academics undertaking research into the history of conflict, to present their work to a wider audience, thus highlighting the range of innovative studies currently in progress across the UK.

Proposals (c.300 words) for papers of 20 minutes should be submitted to Ms Ulrike Thieme at u.thieme.1@research.gla.ac.uk by Thursday 15 April 2010. There are no registration costs, and accommodation can be arranged by the organisers. There may be limited funds available to refund travel costs, but delegates are encouraged to apply to their host institutions for assistance. We welcome contact from anyone who wishes to attend the conference.

13-15 May 2010, London debates at the School of Advanced Study

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London invites applications for the second of a series of international debates for outstanding young researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

London Debates are discussion workshops at which a subject of broad concern in the humanities and social sciences is debated by a small group of invited senior academics and a selection of early-career researchers. The resulting publication will be published online by the School of Advanced Study.

The competition is open to scholars based in the EU/EEA, who are in their final-year of doctoral study or up to 10 years beyond the award of their doctorate. Successful applicants will be awarded bursaries to cover travel and accommodation.

The Modern History of the British Abroad: 1-2 April 2010, University of Newcastle

Interdisciplinary and trans-national perspectives on British travel experience and its impact from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Keynote speakers: Jeremy Black, Pablo Mukherjee, Jill Steward. Abstracts: Proposals of 300-400 words and a brief biographical statement to be sent to Dr Martin Farr at martin.farr@ncl.ac.uk and Dr Xavier Guégan at xavier.guegan@ncl.ac.uk by 28 January 2010, or please indicate your intention to send a proposal and the date by which you will be able to send it. Please add 5-6 key words and an indication of the most appropriate subthemes for your paper.

25-27 March 2010, University of Leeds

March 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the end of one of the bitterest industrial disputes in living memory, the 1984/5 miners' strike. The social and political consequences of this dispute, which have resonated for the past quarter century, have been subject to detailed analysis and reflection. The consequences for the arts and popular culture are less clearly mapped. This conference intends to explore the broad cultural legacy of the strike.  

We are also seeking proposals for screenings, performance, and art works for exhibition. Abstracts (250 words max) should be sent, as soon as possible to the organising committee at: icsconferences@leeds.ac.uk or mail to: Dr Eleri Pound, Digging the Seam Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

27 March 2010, University of Warwick

This workshop is aimed at postgrads (MA and PhD) and early career researchers with an interest in the historical relationship between voluntary/ charitable work and the home. We welcome submissions from all periods and countries to facilitate a comparative roundtable discussion in the second part of the day. We would encourage papers that consider the particular challenges speakers have encountered while investigating a particular area in the relationship between voluntarism and the home. The event aims to address methodological, thematic and evidential issues, rather than the substantive findings that result from this process. Speakers are therefore encouraged to reflect upon the particular challenges they have encountered in their research. We hope these papers will provide the basis for a lively and constructive debate in the the roundtable element of the workshop.

Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted to workshop@vahs.org.uk before 10 February 2010. Please see the attached call for papers for further details. If you would like more information, or have any comments or queries, please contact Stephen Soanes at S.Soanes@warwick.ac.uk