Next in History Lab
• Call for papers
• Conference
• Job opportunity
• Seminar Series
• Workshop
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Next in History Lab
Apologies for last weeks cancellation of Meet the Transnational Historians, this is hopefully being rescheduled.
This
paper will consider the practice and significance of the circulation of
remedies among a social network - the recipes' use as what might be
called social currency. To understand the concept, think
about the modern equivalent of emailing a friend with information on a
great place to stay or a new restaurant. The information
(the social currency) gets you brownie points (or social capital) which
means that your friend is more likely to return the favour with
information you need in the future.
Monetary currency can be spent on goods and services or saved and invested to build up a stock of financial capital. In
a similar fashion, social currency acts as a mediator in relationships,
its use forming a stock of social capital that can be accumulated by
providing favours or information and drawn on when assistance is sought
in return. The goodwill of others could be an extremely
valuable resource, particularly in an age when access to patronage was
so significant in the attainment of appointments or promotion.
Using
examples of recipes and extracts from letters and diaries, this paper
will examine the different elements of social capital, namely the social
networks that form its structure, the norms of reciprocity that guide
behaviour within the network, and the trust that the investment of
social currency tends to build up. From the particular
lens of the transmission of medical recipes, it will also venture
hypotheses regarding changes in the development and application of
social currency between the beginning and the end of the eighteenth
century.
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Call for papers & Conferences
Registration at 10.15am and finishes at 6pm with a wine reception afterwards. Speakers: Rita Copeland, Mary Carruthers, Gwilym Dodd, Ian Wei and Jonathan Morton
Book your place online: http://londonmedievalsocietyrhetoric.eventbrite.co.uk/
· We
invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 5th
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International
Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome
Italy. http://www.qqml.net/
The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1.
Bibliographic Control
2. Bibliometric Research
3. Change of Libraries
and Managerial techniques
4. Changes in Learning, Research and
Information needs and Behaviour of Users
5. Climate Change Data
6.
Communication Strategies
7. Data Analysis and Data Mining
8. Development
and Assessment of Digital Repositories
9. Development of Information
and Knowledge Services on the Public Library
10. Digital Libraries
11.
Economic Co-operation and Development
12. Energy Data and Information
13. Environmental Assessment
14. Financial strength and
sustainability
15. Health information services
16. Historical and
Comparative case studies related to Librarianship
17. Information and
Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture
18. Information and
Knowledge Services
19. Information Literacy: Information sharing,
Democracy and Lifelong Learning
20. Library Cooperation: Problems and
Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century
21. Library change and
Technology
22. Management
23. Marketing
24. Museums, Libraries and
Cultural Organizations
25. Music Librarianship
26. Performance
Measurement and Competitiveness
27. Publications
28. Quality evaluation
and promotion of info
29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries
and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users
30. Technology transfer
and Innovation in Library management
· Unofficial Histories - Manchester- June 2013 A
public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and
consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.
Following
a successful first conference in London in 2012, we’re delighted
to announce details and the Call for Participation for the second Unofficial Histories conference.
The conference aims to explore how society produces, presents, and
consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past. The
2013 conference will take place in Manchester and this time we’re making
a weekend of it over Saturday 15th June 2013 and Sunday 16th June 2013.
We
now invite presentation proposals for the meeting on Saturday 15th June
2013 to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University. You can find the
full Call for Participation at http://unofficialhistories.wordpress.com/uh13/cfp/ . The deadline for abstracts is Wednesday 20th February 2013. Conference registration will open in late January 2013 onwards.
proposals for its upcoming interdisciplinary conference to be held in
October 2013. The theme this year will be "Navigating Networks: Women, Travel, and Female Communities." We invite papers that address the topic of women’s travel networks in any historical period. We
welcome discussion on any of the following: nonfictional or literary
accounts; diaries; letters; articles; films; documentaries; photographs
and paintings. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (for papers of 20 minutes) to Hannah Sikstrom and Kimberly Marsh at travelculturesseminar@gmail.com
· The National Gallery and The Getty Research Institute, London and the Emergence of a European Art Market (c. 1780-1820) Conference
The National Gallery, London (21-22 June 2013). Call for Papers: abstract deadline & word-limit: 15 February 2013 (250 words). Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:
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ARTWORKS Cross-border traffic of objects (cultural transfers, customs
regulations, arbitrage, etc.) and its effect on the formation of private
and public collections.
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AGENTS Market integration throughout Europe (national/transnational
dealer networks, centre and periphery, impact of revolution and war,
etc.)
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INFORMATION Auction catalogues as economic tool and literary genre
(classification systems, lot sequence, transparency, connoisseurship,
etc.)
- VALUES
Idea of art as an investment (different national canons and currencies,
growth of investment-minded collectors, ascendancy of the banker as a
key player, price manipulation, etc.)
Institute of Historical Research, London, 12-13 June 2013
Institutions
have always been an integral part of human society and were
traditionally understood as instruments of bureaucratic and social
control and administration. However, recent events such as the Eurozone
crisis have seen a collapse of trust in politics and the rise of
activist movements such as Avaaz. These global changes have called into
question the traditional definitions of institutions. ‘Institution’ also
has a metaphorical meaning, from the ‘institution’ of marriage to a set
of behaviours with very specific rules.
What
is an ‘institution’? Who makes ‘institutions’? How do they operate?
What does the process of ‘institutionalisation’ entail? With these
questions in mind, the History Lab Conference 2013 aims to investigate
the relationships between institutions, societies and individuals
through the analysis of historical example.
Postgraduate
students and early-career researchers are invited to submit proposals
for papers (twenty minutes), or panels of three speakers, on specific
topics exploring institutions or on wider relevant methodological and
philosophical issues.
Papers
may cover any historical region or period, exploring institutions in
topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:
• Religion and morality
• Social and community activism, protest and resistance.
• Governmental, non-governmental and charitable
• Medicine, medical institutions and treatment.
• Administration, bureaucracy and accountability.
• Industry, trade and commerce..
• The family, education and welfare.
• Cultural production and practices.
• Labour, business and industrial relations.
• Policing, law and order, and incarceration.
Some travel bursaries will be available for research students travelling from the United States. Please email historylab2013@gmail.com for further details.
To
submit a proposal for the conference, please send your title along with
a 250-word abstract, your institutional affiliation, and full contact
details to: historylab2013@gmail.com by the deadline of Thursday 28th February, 2013.
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Job Opportunity
University of Stirling -School of Arts and Humanities
Grade 8 £37,012 - £44,166 p.a.
Interviews: Friday 22 Feb 2013 (with presentations Thursday 21 Feb), Closing date: Thursday 31 Jan 2013
We
seek to appoint to an open-ended Lectureship in Stirling’s
long-established specialism in continental European History
c.1650-c.1900 (supported by substantial teaching and research library
resources), with a particular focus upon the political, ideological,
socio-economic or cultural history of a region or regions of
western/central Europe. The successful candidate may have an interest in
such historical themes as the revolutionary and nationalist movements
of ‘the long-nineteenth century’, the rivalries of the Great Powers, the
enlightenment or urbanisation; but we would also welcome applications
from candidates with a versatile and inter-disciplinary range of
research interests who might collaborate with colleagues in
Trans-Atlantic, British and Environmental history, as well as in cognate
disciplines within and beyond the School of Arts and Humanities.
The
appointee would be expected to contribute to the History undergraduate
provision, to pursue a programme of research, including research outputs
and funding applications, to contribute to the development of new
taught Masters initiatives, to undertake postgraduate research
supervision relevant to their expertise and to undertake administrative
duties as prescribed by the Head of Division.
We seek to appoint to an
open-ended Lectureship in European History c.1650-c.1900 from 1
June.
Informal enquiries about the post can be made to the Head of the
Division of History and Politics, Dr. Andrea Baumeister, e-mail a.t.baumeister@stir.ac.uk , tel.: (+44) (0) 1786 467572.
The
Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is offering a Postdoctoral Research
Associateship (PRA) in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture. The
position is intended for a recent recipient of the PhD (degree granted
within the last three years) in a field related to British art. The PhD
must be in hand by the time the
position begins. The PRA may be held for up to three years. It is
expected that the post-holder will pursue long-term professional
employment during the period of hire. The PRA will receive an annual
salary of $45,000, plus standard Yale benefits. Funding to allow the PRA
to attend one professional conference annually,
and modest travel funds for undertaking work on behalf of the
department as well as for personal research, as determined by the
departmental head, will also be provided.
The PRA will
report directly to the Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture and
the Curator of Paintings and Sculpture. Primary duties will consist of
research associated with the collection of paintings and sculpture and
the exhibition program of the Center, including contributing to the
ongoing scholarly cataloguing of the collection, assisting with major
international loan exhibitions overseen by the Department, assisting
with the reinstallation of the permanent collection of paintings and
sculpture scheduled for 2015, and supporting the research activities of
the Senior Curator and the Curator. The PRA will be given one day a week
to pursue research in his/her own areas of specialization, and is
expected to give talks at scholarly conferences, publish and engage with
the wider art-historical community. Applicants should consult the job
description for full details of the requirements of the position: http://britishart.yale.edu/about-us/opportunities.
The deadline
for receipt of applications is March 4, 2013. Interviews are expected
to take place the following month. Applications should be made online
at britishart.yale.edu/about-us/opportunities.
Applicants should refer to the job description on the website, then
complete the application form and upload a cover letter, CV, and a
writing sample. Three letters of recommendation should be forwarded
directly by referees to ycba.research@yale.edu. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to Lisa Ford, Associate Head of Research, at lisa.ford@yale.edu, tel +1 203 432 9805.
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Seminar Series
· We are pleased to announce the first two talks in the successful Art History in the Pub series for 2013. On the Monday 28th January, Jennifer Wallis (Queen Mary University of London) will present Picturing the psyche: Fragments of the insane body in the late 19th century.
The talk will explore the history of the 19th-century asylum, and the
ways historians have paid increasing attention to the visual evidence
contained in the many hundreds of photographs taken of asylum patients,
either for administrative purposes or as classically-inspired, aesthetic
renderings of mental illness. The second talk, in many ways continuing
the theme and historical period, will take place on Monday 25th
February. Sarah Chaney (UCL) & Nicholas Tromans (Kingston) will
present Art, the Archive and the Avant-Garde Asylum, c. 1890 - 1914. This talk will explore some of the connections between art, psychiatry and modernism, focusing on the Bethlem art collections.
The next Cultural Memory seminar will take place on Saturday February
9th 11.00 am-4.00pm in room G34 Senate House, University of London
The theme of the day will be critical approaches to empathy, trauma
and witnessing.
Speakers will include Stef Craps (Literature, University of Ghent)
whose Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds has just been
published by Palgrave and Barbara Taylor (History and English, Queen
Mary, University of London) whose publications include Mary
Wollstonecraft
and the Feminist Imagination (2003),Women, Gender and Enlightenment
(2005, edited with Sarah Knott), On Kindness (2009,
written with Adam Phillips), History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis
and the Past (forthcoming, edited with Sally Alexander). She is
currently working on a historical memoir of the British mental health
system and a history of solitude in Enlightenment Britain. Susannah
Radstone, (University of East London) will act as respondent and as
usual we will schedule plenty of time for discussion and contributions
from seminar participants.
• V&A/RCA MA in Design History and Material Culture. All
seminars are held at 5.00 pm in Seminar Room A of the Research
Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Access to Seminar Room A
is via the entrance to the Research Department. To get there, go the top
of the staircase decorated with ceramic tiles that leads from the Asian
Sculpture Galleries (Rooms 17-20) on the ground floor, up past the
Silver Gallery (Room 70a). Please allow at least five minutes to get to
the seminar room from the Museum entrances. All those with a research
interest in the field are welcome. Admission to the Museum is free and
the event itself is free of charge. Please contact Katrina Royall on 020
7942 2574 (k.royall@vam.ac.uk) or Helen Woodfield on 0207 942 2576 (H.Woddfield@vam.ac.uk) with any questions.
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Workshop
· The Higher Education Academy (HEA) invites new and early career lecturers to an intensive, one-dayNew to Teaching workshop
on learning and teaching in history and related disciplines. The
primary aim is to offer GTA, new or recently appointed academic staff an
opportunity to reflect on and share their experiences of being a
university teacher in their main discipline; and help them to address
the main issues involved in providing high-quality learning and teaching
experiences for students. These include: curriculum design and quality
assurance; the history lecture; small group teaching; assessment and
feedback; career development and job applications.
There are two events:
HEA New to Teaching Workshop, University of Manchester, 22nd March 2013. To register, go to:http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/22_March_NTTHistory
HEA New to Teaching Workshop, University of Glasgow, 25th April 2013. To register, go to:http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/26_April_NTTHistory
These
events are free to attend, but applicants need to register before the
event. Delegates may also be eligible for a travel grant, but must apply at least one month before the event:www.heacademy.ac.uk/travel-grant
For
further information about these or any other HEA events, please contact
Peter D’Sena, Discipline Lead for History at the HEA: peter.dsena@heacademy.ac.uk
Speakers
include: Dr Ian Lyne (Associate Director of Programmes, Arts and
Humanities Research Council), Emma Carey (Former European Advisor, UK
Research Office), Maggie Credland (European Funding Administrator,
Research and Innovation Service, University of Leeds).
To book click here:
members £40; non-members £55. Please note, this workshop is open to all
but spaces are limited to 30 and are filling up quick!
•
The Institute of Historical Research is holding a free workshop for
history postgraduates and early career researchers on 'Developing an
effective social media presence'. The event, which will be held on
Tuesday 29 January 2013, has been organised as part of the AHRC-funded
Social Media Knowledge Exchange www.smke.org To register for the event, email Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk Places are limited, so book soon.
