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HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition
The HRC announces a competition for 3 internal Doctoral Fellows. Each Fellow will receive a research budget of £400 and a conference budget of £600 to organise a one-day interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Conference during the academic year 2010-2011.
This is a one-year Fellowship and is not renewable. It is open to full-time and part-time students whose dissertations are being supervised in the Arts Faculty and Philosophy, including those holding other University and British Academy awards. If you will have completed at least one, but not more than two full-time years (or part-time equivalent) of Doctoral research by 1 October 2010, you are eligible to apply.
For further details and an application form please click here
or contact Sue Dibben in the HRC office.
Institute of Health Events 2009/2010
The Institute of Health at Warwick has announced it's programme of events for the coming academic year. Full details can be found here.
To register for events, please contact Jas Bains, j.k.bains@warwick.ac.uk
Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture 2010
Conference at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, 1-2 July 2010
To mark the foundation of the Indo-Caribbean Studies Association, the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick is hosting its second interdisciplinary conference. This event welcomes papers across the theoretical spectrum of Indo-Caribbean studies, and aims to investigate new avenues of research in the field. For more please click here.
Submissions: Proposals are invited from established and new scholars, including postgraduate researchers. 300-word abstracts should be sent to L.Gramaglia@warwick.ac.uk and should arrive by 21 December 2009. Acceptance will be notified by 1 February 2010.
Registration: please contact M.R.Tumbridge@warwick.ac.uk or Joseph.Jackson@warwick.ac.uk.
Digging the Seam: Cultural Reflections and Consequences of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike
A conference at the University of Leeds, 25-27 March 2010
Papers and panels are invited. Possible strands and contributions could include:
Culture and Industrial identity/Political theatre/ Folk traditions/ Music and the cultural impact of the strike/New documentary traditions in film and photography/Cultural re-orientation and the strike/ Arts therapy and reconciliation/Storytelling and testimony/ The cultural industries as new employers? /Digital resources and the strike/Archives and the re-constructions of cultural memory/ The impact of the strike on media cultures/The political novel/ Poetry and protest/ Culture as memory. We are also seeking proposals for screenings, performance, and art works for exhibition. For more please click here.
Proposal deadline: abstracts (250 words max) should be sent, by 1st December 2009, to the organising committee at: ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk, or by post to: Dr Eleri Pound, Digging The Seam Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Early Modern Studies Conference
University of Reading, 9-11 July 2010
This three-day conference at the University of Reading aims to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines working on areas related to the themes of controversy, protest, ridicule, and laughter in the early modern period.
We invite papers that consider any or all of this year's themes. Proposals (max. 300 words) for 30 minute papers and a brief CV should be sent via email attachment by 4 December 2009 to: Dr. Chloë Houston, School of English and American Literature, University of Reading, c.houston@reading.ac.uk
Medicine and Classicism in Comparative Perspective
For further information, please see http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/6352
Mimetic Factors in Health and Well-Being
Workshop 1: University of Warwick, Arden House, October 14 2009
Mimesis is the ability/susceptibility we all have to copy each other's behaviour. This workshop will combine speakers, discussion and an 'open space' session and comes from a new network based at Warwick. The ESRC, BBSRC and MRC have jointly funded a team to grow an interdisciplinary, international network focused on mimetic factors in individual health behaviour as part of the innovative "Understanding Individual Behaviour" programme.
Campaigning in Contemporary Society: Histories and Policies
A one-day workshop for postgraduate and early career researchers, University of Birmingham, 13 November 2009.
The event will feature papers from researchers working on the contemporary history of campaigning and its impact on social change and policy. Those papers will focus on problems and issues encountered in the course of research, rather than simply presenting findings.