Royal Historical Society
University College London, Gower Street, LONDON, WC1E 6BT
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Events and Exhibitions
RELAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EAST INDIA COMPANY - SUMMER 2010
The historic East India Company will be relaunching this summer after laying dormant for over 150 years and as part of the historic brand's rebirth, historiographer Antony Wild has joined the company to ensure that past treasures are unearthed and present in the compnay today.
Press release including details, on the East India Company and Antony Wild.
Lectures, Seminars and Conferences
Anglo-Japanese Postgraduate History Colloquium
Institute of Historical Research, 10 September 2010
The IHR is hosting a half-day colloquium for graduate students and post-doctoral scholars working in British and Japanese history. The event will bring together junior Japanese scholars working on British history and British-based scholars working on Japanese history. The colloquium continues the network of activity and collaboration established by the triennial AJC meetings. All interested scholars, senior and junior, are welcome to attend the event which is being held between 1pm and 6pm on Friday 6th September in the Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research. Please contact Professor Miles Taylor on Miles.Taylor@sas.ac.uk for further details.
From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World
A One Day Colloquium at Birkbeck College, University of London on Friday 24 September 2010
As part of Birkbeck's thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern period.
The keynote speech will be given by Professor Jeroen Duindam of Groningen University: 'Exhilaration and Oddification: Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World'. This will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 23 September (room tbc) and will be followed by drinks. There is no charge to attend this first part of the colloquium and it is open to all. Professor Duindam is an expert on early modern rituals and has published Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals 1550-1780 (Cambridge: 2003) and Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court (Amsterdam: 1995). At the moment he is co-editing Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective (Brill Leiden, 2010).
Attendance fee is £20, which includes drinks and lunch; members of the Early Modern Society and students can attend for £10.
This colloquium is generously sponsored by the Royal HIstorical Society, the Society for the Study of French History, and the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London.
For more info. please see: http://www.bkc.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/useofritualcolloquium
German Historical Institute London - Seminars Autumn 2010
Seminars commence at 5.00pm at the German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ
19 October - Wolfgang Hardtwig (Berlin) "Academic History and Party Dominance: The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1945-1990"
26 October - Angelika Schaser (Hamburg) "From History to HIstories? Interpreting Autobiographical Texts of the Nineteenth Century"
2 November - John Röhl (Sussex) "The Long and Twisted Road to Sarajevo: kaiser Wilhelm II and the Approach of War in 1914"
30 November - Catherine Hall (London) "A Space of Siffernece: Liberalism and Empire Re-visited"
9 December - Phillipp Gassert (Augsburg) "Much Ado About Nothing? The NATO Double Track Decision and West German Political Culture"
14 December - Hans Medick (Erfurt) "The Close Proximity of a Distant War: Contemporary Perceptions of the Thirty Years War in England and Scotland"
Please check for any last-minute changes on 020 7309 2050, or visit http://www.ghil.ac.uk
The Second World War Experience Centre Autumn Lectures
The Centre is charity based in Leeds and is holding a series of four lectures at The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
30 September - Ben MacIntyre "Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy story that Changed the Course of World War II"
18 October - Gary Sheffield "The British Soldier in the Second World War: the Erperience of Combat"
2 November - Karol Colonnia-Czosnowski "Beyond the Taiga: Memoirs of a Survivor"
18 November - Charles Glass "Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944"
All lectures are held at the State Apartments, Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Lectures begin at 6.40pm. Reception and refreshments at 6.00pm and after the Lecture from 8.00- 8.45pm. Ticket price per lecture £30. For more infomration please contact: The Second World War Experience Centre, 2 Feast Field (off Town Street), Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4TJ. Tel. 0113 258 4993. Email: enquiries@war-experience.org. www.war-experience.org
Calls for Papers
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH RUSSIAN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
University of Edinburgh Princess Dachkova Centre, 15 October 2010
The University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology and School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures are happy to announce a one-day conference for postgraduate researchers in the field of Russian studies.
This conference aims to examine understandings and practices of ideology in relation to all aspects of Russian culture, considering questions such as: how does ideology influence the creation of cultural products or religious ideologies? How are ideologies understood, accepted or resisted? How do ideologies co-exist or compete in the Russian context? The term "ideology" is to be considered broadly, and a speaker may wish to consider, for example, political ideologies, ideology or language or religious ideologies. The keynote address will be given by Dr Iain McLaughlin of the University of Edinburgh.
We wish to provide a forum for postgraduates in all areas of the field to present to, and interact with, colleagues in other subject areas. Panels will therefore include history, politics, language, literature and social sciences. We invite proposals for research papers relating to all periods of Russian history, and welcome academic staff and students to attend as audience members.
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words for twenty-five minute papers to russianstudiesconference@gmail.com by Monday 23 August 2010. Abstracts should also include the speaker's name, institutional affiliation and a paper title. Travel bursaries will be available for speakers coming from outside Edinburgh, contingent upon funding.
If you would like to attend as an audience member only, please confirm your attendance to the above email address by Friday 24 September 2010.
CULTURES, COMMUNITIES AND CONFLICTS IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
University of Southampton, 4-6 July 2011
Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Keynote speakers: Professor Graham Loud (Leeds), Dr Anna Contadini (SOAS, London)
The University of Southampton is proud to host the 2011 biennial conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. This three-day conference will bring scholars together to explore the interactions of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly represented as divided by significant religious and cultural differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people, good and ideas crossed and influences neighbouring cultures and societies. We invite proposals in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography, history (including the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages, literature, music, philosophy and religion. Submission on the following topics would be particularly welcome:
Activites of missionary orders; Artistic contacts and exchanges; Byzantine and Muslim navies; Captive and slaves; Cargoes, galleys and warships; Cartography; Costume and vestments; Diplomacy; Judaism and Jewish mediterranean history; Literary contacts and exchanges; Material culture; Minority populations in the Christian and Islamic worlds; Mirrors for Princes; Music, sacred and secular; Port towns/city states; Relations between jews, Christians and Muslims; Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics; Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics; Seafaring, seamanship and ship-building; Sufis and Orders in North Africs and the Levant; Sultans, kings and other rulers; Trade and Pilgrimage; Travel writing; Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders.
Please send any enquiries and abstracts of papers of 300 words maximum, together with a brief CV to the organisers, Dr Francois Soyer (f.j.soyer@soton.ac.uk) and Rebecca Bridgeman (rmb77@cam.ac.uk). We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 October 2010.
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Professor Barbara Taylor
"THE DEMISE OF THE ASYLUM IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN: A PERSONAL HISTORY"
Friday 24 September 2010 at 5.30pm
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