History News

Dr. Katherine Angel, a postdoctoral candidate in the Centre for the History of Medicine, had an article published in the Independent Magazine this weekend (31-1 Nov). The headline was 'London's Crossbones Graveyard is the setting for a very eerie Halloween celebration', and the full text can be viewed here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/londons-crossbones-graveyard-is-the-setting-for-a-very-eerie-halloween-celebration-1810973.html

Cash for exciting student projects!

The Lord Rootes Memorial Fund provides grants to Warwick students normally ranging from £100 to £3,000. The Fund is intended to encourage student enterprise and effort and to support projects by individual and groups of University of Warwick students, especially projects:

1. involving observation and the intelligent use of experience in the scientific, cultural, environmental or business context; and/or
2. demonstrating creativity of thought and the development of an original and personal idea or objective.

A number of previous projects have involved travel abroad. The application deadline is 12 noon Thursday 14 January 2010.  A drop-in information session will be held on Wednesday 18 November 2009 from 4pm to 6pm in Students’ Union Meeting Room 4.  Further information about the Fund, the application process and eligibility for awards can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/go/lordrootes .

Sexual Health Awareness Week (SHAW 2009) presents another opportunity to add another string to your academic bow, in the form of a Videocasting training workshop. Become e-savvy and add this training to your e-portfolio and CV.

Warwick postgraduate student Sarah Easterby-Smith has a chapter in the recently published Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology. This is a Max Planck Institute for the History of Science preprint, edited by Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Daniel J. Kevles and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger. Sarah's chapter is entitled 'Propagating Commerce. Plant Breeding and Market Competition in London and Paris, c.1770-c.1800'.

A copy is available for viewing in Tracy Horton's (Postgraduate and Research Co-ordinator) office, H.342.

5 November, 18:30, The British Museum, Stevenson Lecture Theatre £5, £3

Guardian columnist Madeline Bunting will discuss her new book The plot: a biography of an English Acre, with JD Hill of the British Museum. In the book Bunting investigates the human need to be connected to a place and how humans shape the land on which they live.

Book tickets through British Museum Ticket Desk: 020 7323 8181 or tickets@britishmuseum.org

A new podcast is now available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/podcast

Or on iTunesU: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/warwick.ac.uk.2015041076

Peter E Pormann in the Classics and Ancient History department would be very glad to receive your feedback. Do you find it interesting? Is it useful for your teaching? 

21-23 September 2010, St Anne's College, University of Oxford

Please note the revised conference dates; this event will now take place on 21-23 September.

For decades before the Thirty Years War, Protestant communities Europe, lacking fully functional local universities responsive to their needs, sent their sons westward to study in Germany’s numerous universities and academies. The resulting contact and reciprocal influence knit the intellectual histories of these regions together in inextricable ways. The three decades of war which followed disrupted many of these institutions and replaced these patterns of academic travel with fresh waves of intellectual refugees fleeing in all directions. At the same time, the trauma of displacement transformed long-nurtured aspirations toward ecclesiastical reunification, political pacification, pedagogical improvement, and philosophical reform into an all-embracing programme of universal reformation. This international conference invites both emerging and established scholars to contribute their perspectives on this huge system and the unfamiliar intellectual traditions exchanged within it.

A Project for Collecting Oral Histories, November 2009

Be trained in taking oral histories on this professional course led by Professor Tilli Tansey, from the Wellcome Trust, UCL. Open to all levels of study, from 1st year to PhD, this training is a great addition to your CV and academic portfolio.

Applications welcome from all History students and related subjects. Please contact Dr Roberta Bivins for more details (r.bivins@warwick.ac.uk)