Seminar - Susanne Stoddart (Royal Holloway, University of London) - "Is there one who, seeing them, would grudge them the national gift?": Exploring Visual Representations of Edwardian Welfare and Welfare Recipients in the Print Press
When: Thu, 21 February, 17:30 – 19:30
Where: Room STB5, Basement, Stewart House, 32 Russell
Square, London, WC1B 5DN (map)
Description:
The
Edwardian period is often identified as a golden age of printed political
propaganda. Visual material, particularly in the form of cartoons, emerged as a
powerful tool utilised by political parties and the newspapers that supported
them in order to communicate with the mass electorate and to rally support. The
Edwardian period also laid the foundations of the welfare state in Britain,
with the Liberal party introducing measures including National Insurance in
1911. This paper explores the important role played by visual representations
of welfare and welfare recipients, produced by the Liberal press. It discusses
how the images were used to evoke specific emotions, and to convey important
messages about the Liberal policies, which were often more difficult to evoke
or convey in a textual or spoken format. For example, the use of drawings and
photographs of welfare recipients by the press simply enabled them to be seen,
reminding audiences that they were human beings in need, rather than a
statistic. This helped to evoke the emotions sympathy and compassion, and
therefore to help establish legitimacy for the often contested welfare
policies. Elsewhere, the visual art form of cartoons represented Liberal
welfare politicians aiding the poverty-stricken and the struggling working
classes in the guise of policemen, doctors, and even Father Christmases. This
paper suggests that these selected and recurring representations of welfare
politicians were utilised by the Liberal cartoonists in order to import the
cultural meanings associated with such public or mythical men during the
Edwardian period. This, in turn, conveyed important messages about the nature
of Liberal welfare reform, for example in terms of the redefined relationship
between the state and the welfare recipient, and in terms of its impact upon
masculine independence and the feminisation of public politics.
Meet the Curator: Beverley Cook curator for social history at the Museum of London, Tuesday 19th February 18:00 - 20:00 in room S261.
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Call for
papers & Conferences
·
The 12th
International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe
Landscape and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Babes-Bolyai
University and the Romanian AcademyLandscape and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches
CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA, 27-29 MAY 2013
The conference invites postgraduate students and early-career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to take part in an interdisciplinary debate about the nature, meaning, uses and representation of the Central and East European landscape and environment. The geographical spread of the conference includes Germany, South-East Europe, Russia and the countries of the former USSR (including Central Asia).
Disciplines include, but are not limited to, anthropology, art and architectural history, cultural and literary studies, economics, geography (including urban studies), history (medieval to modern, including the history of science and technology), philosophy, politics and sociology. We particularly encourage comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as proposals using new research methods.
We look forward to receiving submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- urbanisation and rural flight;
- the rural environment, farming and famine;
- urban planning;
- altering the natural landscape;
- the sourcing and use of natural resources – mining, fossil fuels, and their impact;
- sustainability and renewable energy sources;
- the representation of landscapes and the environment in art, literature, film and drama;
- institutional and political approaches to landscape and environment;
- energy politics.
Abstracts of up to 300 words and a brief biography should be sent to 12pgconference2013@ubbcluj.ro Papers should not exceed twenty minutes. The language of the conference is English. The organising committee will provide accommodation for speakers. The conference is organised in association with UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 4 MARCH 2013
PAST PRESENT & FUTURE
13th-14th September 2013
Oxford
PRE-RAPHAELITISM
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Alison Smith (Tate Britain)
Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck)
CONTEXT AND AIMS
In the wake of recent major exhibitions and publications
such as Tate Britain’s
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
and The Cambridge
Companion to Pre-
Raphaelitism, this two-day conference will present
new and innovative approaches
to the study of Pre-Raphaelitism by bringing together
established academics,
museum curators and research students. This conference
also seeks to examine Pre-Raphaelitism as a bridge between Romanticism and Aestheticism,
and to engage with current critical work regarding its relationship to
Modernism in literature.
The breadth and diversity of Pre-Raphaelite art,
literature and design will be drawn
on in order to consider major questions such as: What is
Pre-Raphaelitism? Where
does the movement begin and end? Who should be included
or excluded? What are
its major influences, and to what extent has it influenced
other artists and movements? How have perceptions of Pre-Raphaelitism changed
or remained the same since its nineteenth-century beginnings?
FORMAT AND THEMES
This will be a two-day conference, organized jointly by
Professor Christiana Payne
and Dr Dinah Roe (Oxford Brookes University), Colin
Harrison (Ashmolean Museum)
and Dr Alastair Wright (Oxford University). Academic
sessions will be held at the
Ashmolean Museum (Friday 13th) and St John’s College
(Saturday 14th). A programme of guided walks and talks around Pre-Raphaelite sites
in Oxford will be held on Sunday 15th September. We invite proposals for papers on all aspects
of Pre-Raphaelite work, especially with a cross-disciplinary focus. Papers by
current or recently graduated research students are welcome, as well as those
by more established scholars.
CONTACT
Professor Christiana Payne and Dr Dinah Roe
If you are interested in attending as a delegate please
email to reserve a place.
BOOKING DETAILS
Conference booking opens in May 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
Please submit abstracts of 300 words for 20 minute papers
with a CV to: Dr Dinah
Roe (d.roe@brookes.ac.uk) and Professor Christiana Payne
(cjepayne@brookes.
ac.uk) no later than 31 March 2013.
·
5th Qualitative
and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013) at 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, RomeItaly: http://www.isast.org/qqml2013.html
Since 2009 QQML has provided an
excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in
every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and
Research.
The 5th QQML2013 was
scheduled during the previous 4th QQML2012 Conference. It was also
decided that the 6th QQML2014 International Conference will
be organized in Istanbul, Turkey.
QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011 and
QQML2012 were successful events both from the number and quality of the
presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books.
QQML2013 will continue and expand
the related topics.
Papers are invited for this
international conference. 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
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
Special
Sessions – Workshops
You may send proposals for Special
Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops(more than 2 sessions) including
the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org
or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
You may also send Abstracts/Papers
to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed
papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
Contributions may be realized
through one of the following ways
a. structured abstracts (not
exceeding 500 words) and presentation;
b. full papers (not exceeding
7,000 words);
c. posters (not exceeding 2,500
words);
d. visual presentations (Pecha
kucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is
displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes 40
seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to
time your presentation exactly.
In all the above cases at least
one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full
papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the
web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html
The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
All abstracts will be published
in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The
papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference,
after the permission of the author(s).
Student
submissions
Professors and Supervisors are
encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and
dissertations.
Please direct any questions regarding
the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat
of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org
·
STYLISTIC DEAD-ENDS? FRESH
PERSPECTIVES ON BRITISH ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
THURSDAY 20TH
– FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 2013, ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, OXFORD
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE:
PROFESSOR ALAN POWERS (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR/NYU LONDON)
CALL FOR PAPERS
As interest
in the full range of architecture in the interwar years grows, now is a good
time to examine the various manifestations of modernism and non-modernism in
the period. This symposium, to be held at St John’s College, Oxford, will pick
up on the richness and variety of architectural output that engaged with the
International Style whilst not ideologically part of it, and that which sought
to ignore it all together.
This symposium
aims to bring non-Modernist, but not necessarily non-moderne, monuments, to the foreground. The symposium aims to
encourage terms like the neo-Georgian, Tudoresque, streamline moderne, twentieth century gothic
revivalism, and vernacular to be discussed and to engage with each other on the
same platform.
The recourse
to discussion of style, and the evolution of style, needs to be problematised.
The narrative of architectural history has tended towards the development of
style rather than the examination of architectural ideas across a number of
simultaneously existing stylistic options. Were there formal or theoretical
interests that transcended stylistic concerns during the interwar period?
We are
seeking papers on this material, including but not limited to the following
broad areas, from architectural historians and scholars of related fields:
· Public and commercial architecture
· Domestic architecture
· International practice and influence
(how foreign practice influenced British architects and vice-versa, British
architectural output throughout the Empire etc)
· Architectural theory and methodology
(how does work on this period bring into focus broader theoretical and
methodological questions)
· ‘Afterlives’: any aspect of a
building’s life after its completion (architectural, textual, or visual
reformulations or appropriations)
· Cross-disciplinary, cross-media
approaches and responses to interwar architecture (e.g. filmic responses to
interwar architecture, papers from non-architectural historians etc.)
We invite proposals for 20-minute
papers on interwar architecture from academics and graduate students working in
architectural history. Please email abstracts of no more than 300 words by February 4th, 2013 to stylisticdeadends@googlemail.com.
·
CALL FOR
PAPERS. The issue examines humanitarian
history and will be a supplement inDisasters, the foremost journal for
conflict and natural disaster response studies. EntitledAid in the archives:
academic histories for a practitioner audience, it is designed to bring
historical debates into an area of policy and practice that has generally not
had a strong historical consciousness.
More details are contained in the
call for papers, which is available on the website below. The deadline for
proposals is 10 March 2013. They are hoping that it will attract the interest
of early career researchers working on various facets of humanitarianism in
history.
·
London Medieval Society Colloquium on 'Rhetoric', 23 February
2013, Arts One Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End
Road, London, E1 4NS
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.
·
The Oxford Travel Cultures Seminar Series would like to invite
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:
- ARTWORKS Cross-border traffic of objects
(cultural transfers, customs regulations, arbitrage, etc.) and its effect on
the formation of private and public collections.
- AGENTS Market integration throughout Europe
(national/transnational dealer networks, centre and periphery, impact of
revolution and war, etc.)
- 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.)
· INSTITUTIONS: History Lab Annual Conference 2013
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
·
CENTER
FOR THE UNITED STATES AND COLD WAR FELLOWSHIPS
New York University¹s Tamiment Library announces the Center for the
United States and the Cold War Fellowships and travel grants for
2013-2014.
The Center for the United States and the Cold War supports research on
the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and
geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American
politics, culture, and society. We will be offering a dissertation
fellowship and a post-doctoral fellowship. Applicants for the
dissertation fellowship must have passed their comprehensive
examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two
years. The post-doctoral fellowship is designed for junior scholars
who will have received the Ph.D. by August 31, 2013. A dissertation
fellow will receive a stipend of $25,000 for a nine-month academic
year; a stipend for post-doctoral fellow is $45,000; and travel grants
are $2,000 per month. This year there are at least five travel grants,
one post-doctoral fellowship, and one dissertation fellowship
available.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a short project
description (5 pages maximum), a statement describing the relevance of
the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project, and two
letters of recommendation. Writing samples are welcome (5 pages
maximum).
Submit material by February 15, 2013 to Zuzanna Kobrzynski at
zk3@nyu.edu.
Zuzanna Kobrzynski
New York University¹s Tamiment Library announces the Center for the
United States and the Cold War Fellowships and travel grants for
2013-2014.
The Center for the United States and the Cold War supports research on
the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and
geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American
politics, culture, and society. We will be offering a dissertation
fellowship and a post-doctoral fellowship. Applicants for the
dissertation fellowship must have passed their comprehensive
examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two
years. The post-doctoral fellowship is designed for junior scholars
who will have received the Ph.D. by August 31, 2013. A dissertation
fellow will receive a stipend of $25,000 for a nine-month academic
year; a stipend for post-doctoral fellow is $45,000; and travel grants
are $2,000 per month. This year there are at least five travel grants,
one post-doctoral fellowship, and one dissertation fellowship
available.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a short project
description (5 pages maximum), a statement describing the relevance of
the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project, and two
letters of recommendation. Writing samples are welcome (5 pages
maximum).
Submit material by February 15, 2013 to Zuzanna Kobrzynski at
zk3@nyu.edu.
Zuzanna Kobrzynski
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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 Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, University of London.
School of Advanced Study, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
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.
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Workshop
Feminist Postgraduate Reading Group
Senate House Library
First session: Tuesday February 4th 6.30 pm in Senate House
Library, Room 246
‘Body Politics and Reproductive Technologies’
The politics of the body and reproductive rights have been central to
feminist scholarship and activism throughout the last century. In this semester
the reading group revisits classic texts on embodiment and reproduction, which
offer alternative ways of knowing and living the body. We will discuss the
political implications of radical non-reproductivity, egg freezing,
transnational surrogacy and queering reproduction. Combining insights from
social sciences and humanities, our approach is interdisciplinary and attends
to the representation of reproductive and non-reproductive bodies in
photography, documentary film, literature and feminist thinking. Throughout the
term, we intend to put our own lived experience of the broader implications of
contemporary body and reproductive politics centre stage in the discussions,
honouring the assertion that the personal is political as well as a resource
for critical reflection.
This informal postgraduate reading group offers the opportunity to read
and discuss feminist writing. It is open to anyone interested from any
discipline or institution. The discussion is based around the reading of
theoretical material alongside literary or cultural texts, iconographic
materials and film. Participants are welcome to attend regularly or
occasionally. We are a friendly and welcoming group, always looking for new
input.
For more information or to be added to our mailing list please contact
us at pgfeministreadinggroup@gmail.com
A Facebook page is also under construction at www.facebook.com/pgfrg
and more information about the group can be found at http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/
With only a few weeks to go until the relaunch of History Lab North East and our debate on the 'relevance of history', one of our organisers has kicked things off by writing a blog post on the historical basis of EU membership of an independent Scotland. Check it out at www.historylabne.blogspot.co.uk.
Feel free to comment on the blog, or contact us if you'd like to write a post yourself.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at Northumbria University on 15 February. We'll be sending out the schedule for the day soon!
· 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
