History News

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=201009&view=monthly

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

6-7 July 2010, Durham University. An interdisciplinary symposium for early career researchers.

At once an organ system, disciplinary target, metaphor, creation of God, cultural construction, 'self' and receptacle for the soul, it is not surprising that the body has fallen under the attention of historians of art, gender, thought, medicine, theatre and costume, and of literary scholars, archaeologists and historical sociologists and philosophers. This symposium will look at the  human and human-like body on, and as, display, between c.1400 and c.1800.

Papers of 20 minutes are invited from postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers working on any part of the period. Studies looking at non-European countries are especially encouraged, as is flexibility in approaching the body as a visual, performative, aesthetic and representational entity. Please send abstracts (of no more than 300 words) to body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk by 30 January 2010.

 30 October, Sutherland Staff Lounge, Rootes Building, 12.30-1.30

The first Strategy Bites event of the Autumn term, focusing on Widening Participation, will take place on Friday 30 October from 12.30pm - 1.30pm in the Sutherland Staff Lounge, Rootes Building. Director of Student Admissions and Recruitment, Darren Wallis, will give an update on our recently approved Widening Participation strategy.

For more details please see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/strategybiteswideningparticipation/

28 October, Ramphal Lecture Theatre, 2-3pm.

All non-academic staff are invited to the Registrar's Open Meeting on Wednesday 28 October between 2.00pm and 3.00pm in the Ramphal Lecture Theatre, Ramphal Building. This Meeting will include an update on current activities and priorities for the University and will consider some of the challenges we face in the forthcoming academic year.

Please note: this meeting is open to all non-academic staff in both academic and administrative departments.

See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/registrarmtgoct09 for more details.

1-3 July 2010, The Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South, University of Sussex

Papers from members or non-members are requested on all topics concerning the History of the United States from 1890 to the present. Proposals from scholars outside the UK as well as those undertaking postgraduate study are especially welcome. The conference committee also welcomes proposals for complete panels of three or four speakers. Please send a c.v. and a précis of the proposed paper or session of no more than 300 words to Dr. Sandra Scanlon, Department of International History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE or S.Scanlon@lse.ac.uk by 11th December 2009.

6-9 November 2009. The ICD House of Arts and Culture, Kurfurstendamm 207-9, Berlin, Germany.

The event is hosted by the ICD and CivWorld/Demos on the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and will bring together an international group of young leaders, political and diplomatic representatives, and individuals from the private sector and civil society for a four-day program of lectures, seminars, and panel discussions. During the program, participants will consider the development of international relations over the past two decades, explore the challenges and opportunities of interdependence, and look at the importance of cultural diplomacy in ensuring sustainable multilateral cooperation.

Monday 7 December 2009, Rothley Court Hotel, Rothley, Leicestershire, LE7 7LG (Wilberforce Room)

To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Prof. Catherine Hall will present a critical reassessment of Macaulay at his birthplace, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire.

N.B. As seating is limited please book beforehand with Natalie Martin Csig@lboro.ac.uk. For further information please contact Natalie Marton (email: Csig@lboro.ac.uk, Tel: 01509 222973), or Dr. Robert Knight R.G.Knight@lboro.ac.uk.

15:30 - 17:00, Tuesday 13 October, University of Warwick

Dr. Ashok Malla is an IAS/WMS Visiting Fellow from McGill University, coming to Warwick at the invitation of Professor Swaran Singh in the Medical School. He will deliver a public lecture in Room GLT2 of the Medical School Building, WMS, entitled: 

'Is there more to early intervention in psychosis than intervening early?: The Canadian Perspective'