Forthcoming events

Protest, Memory, and Public History: a workshop

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:52:51 +0000

Date:

11 February 2012

Protest, Memory, and Public History: a workshop at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

The aim of this workshop is to establish dialogue between academic historians, community history groups and heritage/museum professionals on the past, present and future of protest history in the public sphere.

Organiser(s):

Katrina Navickas, Steve Poole

Georgian Coffeehouse Tour: with actors, musicians, and gritty black coffee

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:50:13 +0000

Date:

11 February 2012

Join actors, musicians, and Dr Matthew Green for a caffeinated tour of London’s original – and best – coffeehouses: from the City’s warren of medieval streets, through St Paul’s Churchyard, down historic Fleet Street, and into the cobbled courtyards of the Temple. Free shots of black and gritty coffee, brewed after the 18th-century fashion, included.

The streets of London are awash with chain coffee shops. But they are a dismal incarnation of London’s historic coffee culture: a heady brew of wit, wisdom, innovation…and crucified crocodiles.

Organiser(s):

Unreal City Audio

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the Bodleian’s modern political manuscript collections. The subjects are Clement Attlee; Roy Jenkins; Douglas Jay; and 60 years of political interviews by David Butler.

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:03:39 +0000

Date:

13 February 2012

The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated with London’s famous road, the Strand.

On Monday 13th February, Dr Rosemary Hill, author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, will be speaking about:

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’

Organiser(s):

Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London

Political History Network Seminar (University of Reading)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:25:53 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012

The Political History Network is a seminar group organised for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in modern political history. The network provides a forum to present papers, share ideas and network. For more information and to register for email updates please visit our website.

Our next seminar will take place at the University of Reading on Wednesday 15th February 2012 and will feature the following papers:

'The party's over: Political responses to fascism in the 1930s' Dr Coleen Weedon, University of Reading

Organiser(s):

Jason Parry (University of Reading)

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of flux. The resultant instability usually forces those affected to react to the disturbance and reassert a sense of equilibrium. By unravelling the operation of social and political mechanisms that are normally taken for granted, crises give rise to a number of questions: Were crises preceded by a generally accepted order? How did individuals confronted with a crisis react to the new state of affairs?

CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:22 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 30 April 2012

The Political History Network provides an informal forum for modern political historians to present papers, discuss ideas and network. We particularly welcome postgraduate and post-doctorate students working in 19th and 20th century political history, but anyone with an interest in political history is very welcome to take part in our events. Our regular events consist of termly symposiums which feature three or four papers from postgraduate or post-doctorate students working in political history on a variety of themes.

Organiser(s):

Political History Network

Teaching pre-modern history: e-learning challenges and opportunities

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:02:23 +0000

Date:

17 February 2012

Guest speakers from QMUL, Exeter, Manchester and Nottingham Trent will lead sessions about: creating student-led repositories (medieval Spanish); addressing issues in teaching using medieval Latin and vernacular sources; early modern multimedia work; blogging and bookmarking; online discussion forums as aids to learning.

Other speakers include:

Organiser(s):

Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Queen Mary University, London & Dr Jamie Wood, Manchester University.

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:43:20 +0000

Date:

18 February 2012

This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent research. While the 'wisdom' of folly in the early modern period has become a familiar concept, it has lacked significant cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural investigation. This symposium will include papers on Erasmus's character of Folly; the fools of Tudor interludes, French 'soties' and Shakespeare; king's fools and court jesters; carnivals and festive folly; and the representation of folly in art.

Organiser(s):

Dr Alice Hunt

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000

Date:

22 February 2012

How do we remember the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1989, and how does history relate to today’s state of affairs in that country?

Organiser(s):

LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme

Meet the Historian: Sally Alexander

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:24:08 +0000

Date:

22 February 2012

'Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline generally, and about their latest work. There will be the chance to ask questions and enter into discussion, and to join the speaker for drinks after the talk.

Organiser(s):

Sally Osborn

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:21:50 +0000

Date:

23 February 2012

The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History warmly invite you to:

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

By Carole O'Reilly, University of Salford

Organiser(s):

Manchester Centre for Regional History, Manchester Metropolitan University

Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:13:26 +0000

Date:

24 February 2012 - 25 February 2012

Organiser(s):

Hannah Walters

Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:38:14 +0000

Date:

24 February 2012

Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory invite research student members—or prospective members—of the EHS to join us for the 2012 Postgraduate Colloquium, to be held in the historic setting of The University of Manchester, John Rylands Library, Deansgate on Friday, 24 February 2012.

This has traditionally been an informal opportunity for students to get to know one another and to learn about each other’s work, and the papers are at least as interesting as those at the main conference!

Organiser(s):

Ecclesiastical History Society

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:43 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which is: "Junctions and Crossroads". The Colloquium this year will take place on the 25th of February, 2012.

We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on ‘The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney’.

Organiser(s):

CCASNC Committee 2012, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:36 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in the digital humanities who focus on different aspects of heritage. We are interested in paper presentations, posters and workshop proposals. The topics may include, but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Mariana Lopez, Oliver Jones and Gavin Kearney

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Date:

31 January 2012

Date:

28 February 2012

Date:

27 March 2012

Date:

24 April 2012

Date:

29 May 2012

Date:

26 June 2012

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012. These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3) of Swansea University. These seminars offer a friendly and informal atmosphere in which postgraduates can present and share their research.

Organiser(s):

Scott Jenkins

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

This year's Bentham Seminar series, organised by UCL's Bentham Project, have been confirmed. All of the seminars will be held between 11am and 1pm in the Committee Room in the School of Public Policy at UCL (Rubin Building, 29/30 Tavistock Square). For further information, please contact Phil Baker (philip.baker@ucl.ac.uk). All are welcome!

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:37:43 +0000

Date:

1 March 2012

A talk by Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Scripts, Languages and Cultures at the British Museum
Thursday, 1 March - 7.30 for 8.00 pm at Wimbledon & Dstrict Synagogue.

Organiser(s):

Adult education Wimbledon Reform Synagogue

Teaching with Images and Material Culture: innovations and best practice to improve student learning (with a focus on teaching north American history).

danny.millum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:59:17 +0000

Date:

2 March 2012

Guest speakers from MMU, UEA and Glasgow will lead sessions about: art; visual images and public history engagement; ethical and practical issues when using lynching photographs; the use of documentary and feature films; materials culture and the use of museums and memorials. Though the sessions will use a large number of north American sources, the approaches will be important across the discipline.

Other speakers include:

Organiser(s):

Dr Catherine Armstrong, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:36:22 +0000

Date:

3 March 2012

09.30 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.00)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

In 1936 Alfred H. Barr Jr’s history-making-and-shaping survey Cubism and Abstract Art put Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson together as the older and younger leaders of ‘geometrical abstraction’ in the Western World. It also announced that ‘geometrical abstraction’ was in decline, a judgement Mondrian immediately dismissed. For him, writing to Nicholson, ‘geom. abstr.’ was always in the ascendant.

Organiser(s):

Chris Green, Barnaby Wright (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Lee Beard (editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Nicholson)

Schama headlines season of events to mark new home for history at Queen Mary

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:50:18 +0000

Date:

5 March 2012 - 14 March 2012

TV historian Simon Schama and award-winning poet Ruth Padel are among the stellar names speaking at a spring season of events hosted at Queen Mary, University of London.

From 5 to 14 March, a series of lectures, seminars and performances will take place, marking the official opening of ArtsTwo, the College’s new humanities building on Mile End Road.

The striking £20m edifice, designed by award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre, will be formally opened during the celebrations by HRH Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London.

The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:26:54 +0000

Date:

5 March 2012

Is there a place for politics in academic historical research?

Organiser(s):

Clare Makepeace, Victoria Powell on behalf of the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library

Meet the Historian: Mary Beard

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:27:17 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Sally Osborn

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:46 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Webster is well known for his magisterial study of the Baconian tradition in seventeenth-century science, The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975).

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford; chaired by Professor Pietro Corsi, Professor, History of Science, University of Oxford

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:09:52 +0000

Date:

15 January 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Goldsmiths History Seminar programme (and related events), 2011/12

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm (unless otherwise stated)

Venue: Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building (unless otherwise stated)

All events are free and open to public. No registration required. For additional information, please contact the seminar convener Dr Dejan Djokic (d.djokic@gold.ac.uk).

Spring term

15 January
Anastasia Stouraiti (Goldsmiths), 'Marvels of the Levant: Wonder and Empire in Early Modern Venice'

7 March

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

Forthcoming events

Protest, Memory, and Public History: a workshop

Georgian Coffeehouse Tour: with actors, musicians, and gritty black coffee

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

Political History Network Seminar (University of Reading)

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series

Teaching pre-modern history: e-learning challenges and opportunities

Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014

Meet the Historian: Sally Alexander

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

Identity and Image: 18th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference

Ecclesiast​​ical History Society Postgradua​​te Colloquium

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

Bentham Seminar series 2012

New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications

Teaching with Images and Material Culture: innovations and best practice to improve student learning (with a focus on teaching north American history).

Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction

Schama headlines season of events to mark new home for history at Queen Mary

The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act

Meet the Historian: Mary Beard

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium