Departmental news

Tuesday 8 June 2010, School of History, University of Nottingham

The aim of this one day conference is to examine interdisciplinary approaches to history and to identify how collaborative work between ancillary disciplines can improve and redefine historical writing. The conference welcomes proposals from post graduate students wishing to submit a 15-20 minute paper on any aspect of collaborative history, please send all submissions by 31 January 2010 to Warren Dockter at ahxwd1@nottingham.ac.uk.

5 March 2010, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick

Proposals for papers are invited for a one-day conference on the theme of histoire(s) from research students in any area of French Studies including those with an interdisciplinary focus from other departments such as comparative literature, music, history or art.  The differing definitions ascribed to the notion of ‘histoire(s)’ in discourse significantly direct our own specific frames of reference; as such, this conference will follow a rather fluid thematic pathway stemming from the inherent ambiguousness of the French term. Exploring the many possible interpretations and their interconnectivity, and questioning the possibility of distinguishing fact from fiction, ‘history’ from ‘story’, we will explore aspects such as the filtering and rewriting of histoire(s) as well as the means of transmission, allowing for the representation of a variety of voices and a consideration of multiple perspectives.  It is hoped that papers will also challenge the idées reçues surrounding the linearity of histoire(s) and the issue of legitimisation.

10 June 2010, University of Reading, School of Modern Languages and European Studies

Contributions to this postgraduate conference are invited from postgraduate and postdoctoral students on the following topics: The narrator; Sermons; Dialogues between learned and unlearned texts; Translations; Translatio studii; Debates; Rhetoric; Poetics.

All papers should last 20 minutes. A selection of these papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Reading Medieval Studies.

Proposals for papers should be sent to the conference organizers: Professor Françoise Le Saux (f.h.m.le-saux@reading.ac.uk) and Dr Catherine Léglu (c.leglu@reading.ac.uk).

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.

Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS), 16-18 July 2010, University of Cambridge

The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers, alternating with longer keynote addresses.

Abstracts (of approximately 250 words) should be sent to CambridgeICS@gmail.com, no later than 15 December 2009. In special cases, papers will be commissioned for publication without presentation at the conference (contact the organisers for more information). Please check the website for regular updates http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html 

25-27 July 2010, Rochester Cathedral, Allington Castle and the Medway Campus of the University of Kent

Textus Roffensis is a Rochester Cathedral book of the early 12th century that holds some of the most significant texts issued by England's various early medieval kingdoms, as well as abundant records from one of England's earliest episcopal sees. The organisers are interested in papers or panels on all topics related to Textus Roffensis. Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Interested scholars should submit a one paragraph proposal along with a CV to Bruce O’Brien, programme coordinator (bobrien@umw.edu) by 15 November 2009.

Anyone wishing to attend should contact Professor Kenneth Fincham, Head of the School of History at the University of Kent (k.c.fincham@kent.ac.uk) for further information and a booking form.

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.

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.

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.