History News

Space, Place and Translating the Past in 19th and 20th Century Britain

Saturday 27th February 2010

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.

Wednesday 25 November, 12:15-2.15, Theatre Studies Studio, Milburn House

These sessions are designed to give colleagues across the faculty a much needed space for the sharing of ideas and practices in learning and teaching across the Faculty of Arts

• Discussions will be based primarily on the practical experiences of colleagues currently teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Warwick.
• The aim of the forum is to provide you with an opportunity to find out what’s happening in other departments and to hear about what does – and doesn’t – work.
•  This is an open meeting. Any member of the Arts Faculty is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting.

Tuesday 1 December, 3-5pm, CAPITAL Centre, Universty of Warwick

Angels in America Practical Workshop for non-actors in history and related subject

Interested in playing around with themes of history and sexual health? Join the CAPITAL Centre for a interdisciplinary workshop specifically designed for non-actors. Explore the thrills and aggravation of Tony Kushner's brilliant political epic 'Angels in America' on the AIDS crisis in the 80s, recently made into a film starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Patrick Wilson.

Please find the link below for the Faculty of Arts Events List which includes details of seminars and lectures within the Faculty.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/events?start=111109&view=monthly

If you would like to advertise an event please email Kerry Drakeley, artsfaculty@warwick.ac.uk

Friday 27 November, 1-4.15pm, University of Warwick Engineering Building, F.110

1.00-2.45: Reading the ‘Post’ of Post-Colonial Singapore: Reconsidering Historical Sociology and Colonial Narratives, Yoke-Sum Wong (Sociology, Lancaster)

Colonial Violence, Postcolonial Historical Sociology: Some Insights from French Mandate Syria, Daniel Neep (Politics, Exeter)

Global Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Eurocentrism, Gurminder K Bhambra (Sociology, Warwick)

2.45-3.15: Tea / coffee

3.15-4.15: Roundtable discussion with Yoke-Sum Wong, Daniel Neep, Gurminder K Bhambra, chaired by Charlie Turner (Sociology, Warwick)

May 2010, University of Liverpool

A call for papers on any aspect of the English Reformation for a one day postgraduate research conference.  Papers are to be 20 minutes long and can cover any aspect of the English Reformation.  This is a great opportunity for postgraduates to share their research and receive feedback in a friendly, supportive environment.  We would be very grateful if you could express your interest before 27/11/2009

If you would like to hear more about the event or wish to propose a paper please contact Ryan Clayton at rclayton@liv.ac.uk

12 June 2010, Multi-disciplinary Postgraduate Symposium hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University

This conference will provide a stimulating environment for postgraduate students and other researchers to present work and to share and discuss ideas stemming from the examination of texts employing varied representational modes, adaptations and interactions between text and image. Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers not exceeding 20 minutes should be submitted by 15th February 2010, to the organisers at: conference@lancasterluminary.com. For more information please click here.

3 December 2009, Woolf College, University of Kent

This is a interdisciplinary postgraduate colloquium on Bad Behaviour, run by students the University of Kent's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and sponsored by the AHRC as part of its Beyond Text scheme. In addition to papers given by an international group of speakers on various kinds of antisocial behaviour including the pulling of beards and the misuse of firearms, there are tours, performances, and an exhibition of images from Kent's Cartoon Archive.