History News

Saturday 20 June. 9.00-4.00 - Kings Manor Room K/159

On 20 June, the interdisciplinary 'Cultures of the Global' symposium aims to bring together academics from the fields of History, History of Art, Politics, and English-among others-to reconsider the complex role that the concept of the global has played throughout the modern period. Co-organised by Liz Buettner from the Department of History and Jane Elliott from the Department of English and Related Literatures, 'Cultures of the Global' is one of a series of events leading up to the inauguration of the University of York's new Centre for Modern Studies.

The fourth in the series of Ideas Café events will take place on Wednesday 17 June at 5.30pm in EAT Restaurant in the Arts Centre, with an evening dedicated to Interpreting Translation.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/ideascafejune/
 
The second Strategy Bites event of the Summer term, focusing on the Low Carbon Society Initiative, will take place on Tuesday 23 June from 12.30pm - 1.30pm in the Sutherland Staff Lounge, Rootes Social Building. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/strategybiteslowcarbon
 
From Thursday 4 June, the bus stops, currently situated on Library Road, will move back to the bus stops by Rootes. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/notices/busstopsjune09

17 September 2009 at the University of London
 
The Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, will be hosting a one day workshop on women in the later medieval economy, and related social issues, on 17 September 2009. Proposals (of no more than 150 words) for papers of twenty to thirty minutes are invited from graduate students and academics alike, to be received no later than Sunday 21 June 2009

Please find details of seminars and lectures within the Faculty at the following url:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/events?start=200509&view=monthly

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

On Saturday 16th May at the University of Warwick under the auspices of Prof David Dabydeen (University of Warwick), Prof Clem Seecharan (London Metropolitan University), and Dr Jeremy Poynting (publisher of Peepal Tree Press), who offered an insight into the history and development of the field over the past three decades. Special guests Prof Colin Clarke (Oxford University) and Prof Janet Wilson (editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing) expressed their enthusiasm for the Association and their hopes to see it grow. Plans for an annual conference and a peer-reviewed journal were announced during the event and regular updates will be posted on the website (http://go.warwick.ac.uk/icsa ) as these projects move forward in the coming months. The overwhelming success of the launch is extremely encouraging and we look forward to the continued support of friends and members being extended into future events.

To promote reading for life we now have a book swap box located in the Cafe Humanities where you can drop off a book you’ve read and swap it for another book completely free

Increased global trade and migration, and laws and governments that cross national boundaries are signs of an ever more globalised world. This month a conference at the British Academy in London brings together historians who have been attempting to examine historical events from a wider perspective than a purely Western one. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, historian of global cultural history, and Anne Gerritsen, lecturer in history at Warwick, discuss whether it is ever possible to write truly global history? And whether the influence of the nation state still lives on?

Adelia Lau wins the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology student essay prize