Departmental news

Third Annual Conference, 19 June 2010, Brunel University, London

Brunel University's Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History (CATCH) is holding a one-day conference on 19 June 2010 to discuss transnational perspectives on the History of Women in the Americas.  Papers are welcome from established academics, early career scholars and postgraduates. Postgraduates can also submit proposals for poster sessions. There is a modest conference of £15 for academics and £5 for post-graduates. Proposals should be submitted by 15 May at the latest, please send a 250 word abstract to Prof. Jay Kleinberg. Non-speakers are more than welcome to attend but should register by 1 June as places are limited.

University of Dundee, 21-22 May 2010

The 7th Annual Conference of the Historical Perspectives Society. The theme for 2010, 'Conflict and Conformity', is intended to encourage participation by postgraduates working in a range of disciplines in the Arts and Social Sciences.  We welcome proposals (c.250 words) for 20 minute papers on any topic related to the theme.

19-20 March 2010, The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Works of art — from Primo Levi’s If this is a Man to Anselm Kiefer’s Margarethe — are built up out of the destruction of human life and dignity. Drawing specifically on the horrors of history, they come to haunt us and question our understanding of the past, of ethics, even of the idea of ‘knowing’ itself. Yet, what is it exactly that these works of art can achieve? Medicine is able to heal or alleviate suffering through the work of professionals observing, testing, and writing about patients’ physical and psychological pain. Human rights activists craft testimonies with the echoes of the victims’ howling cries; lawyers draft national and international laws and resolutions with a history of persecution, war, and genocide foremost in mind. Registration will close on Friday 12 March 2010.

16-17 July 2010, University of Edinburgh

The aim of this conference is to re-create or reconstruct Renaissance and Baroque Festivals by an interdisciplinary approach. This includes the presentation of the project’s online exhibition in which the project’s investigators re-create music played in Festivals and a 3D model of the city with the reconstruction of the ephemeral architecture displayed in it.

The organisers of this two-day conference seek contributions related to any aspect of Early Modern European festivals and are especially interested in proposals which relate to the festivals of the Hispanic Habsburg dynasty. The deadline for proposals is 1 April 2010. Notification of acceptance will be made before 1 May 2010. Selected papers will be considered for publication. The deadline for the full paper submission is 1 July 2010.

15-17 June 2010, University of Manchester

Students are invited to submit abstracts on any aspect of their research within the field of Latin American Studies. (As in past years, engagement of the conference theme is completely optional.) We invite papers from a wide variety of disciplines and academic levels. Please note that to give a paper you must be a registered postgraduate student. Postdoctoral applications will not be accepted.

25-27 March 2010, University of Leeds.

The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the miners’ strike at the time, and subsequently, across the broad range of cultural expression such as the press, TV, film, performance, photography and music and song. Plus, 25 years on, how both archive study and new creative work lead us into new insights and perspectives. The conference is organised into four strands - Memory, Legacy, Media and Popular Culture, and Witness - to help compare and contrast the personal and the objective study, the artefact and the heritage industry, cultural memory and the creative. Online Registration

We will also be holding two very special events in conjunction with Opera North at the Howard Assembly rooms. These are also open to all. http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/film-battle-of-orgrave/ and http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/songs-at-years-end/

17-18 June 2010, University of Liverpool, School of History

The conference sets out firstly to investigate the unique nature of nuclear culture in twentieth century Britain and, secondly, to rethink the conceptualisation of nuclear culture more generally. We are seeking to explore the impact nuclear culture had on British society, and the ways in which the scientific community, political decision-makers, consumerism, works of popular science, literature, journalism and film combined to create an identifiable nuclear culture. Also, because established studies have focused predominantly on the socio-cultural and political implications of nuclear energy and weapons, our conference aims to move towards a broader conceptualisation of nuclear culture in general.

Please send your 250-400-word proposal by 1 March 2010 to the co-organisers: Dr Jonathan Hogg jgh@liv.ac.uk or Dr Christoph Laucht c.laucht@liv.ac.uk

20 July 2010, British Library Conference Centre

This conference aims to explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of
newspapers, considering the effect that this has had on research and
researchers and the implied changes to research methodologies. Not only has
the digitisation of historical newspapers made it easier to discover information
about events from the past, but the way in which they have been digitised
makes it possible to discover how those events were represented, debated
and sold as news. It will debate current limitations as well as opportunities for
future development.

September 10-11, Wellcome Collection, London

The conference will be open themed. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length with ten minutes for questions and discussion. Abstract should be no lonfer than 200 words and should be sent to The Conference Committe (bsshconference@googlemail.com) by Friday 9 April 2010. Ideas for specialist panels will be strongly considered.