History Lab

Bulletin

2012-02-22T17:10:00.001Z

History Lab Bulletin 21 February 2012

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab
Workshops
Calls for Papers
Events and conferences

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Next in History Lab:

Meet the historian: Sally Alexander, Wednesday 22 February, 18:00 – 20:00, Torrington Room (Room 104), South Block, Senate House

'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.

Sally Alexander is Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been an editor of History Workshop Journal since its foundation in 1976 and her research interests lie in the history of social movements, feminism in particular, London history, the history of psychoanalysis, oral history and subjectivity. Co-convenor of the Modern British History seminar and Psychoanalysis and History at the IHR, she is currently editing, with Professor Barbara Taylor, a volume on Psychoanalysis and History for Palgrave, 2012.
Methods Workshop: 'Facing the blank page, starting to write', Tuesday 28 February, 18:00 – 20:00, Room S261, Senate House

Short presentations by three historians on strategies they use for starting to write, followed by a chaired discussion: Charles Smith (Loughborough), Lucy Allwright (Warwick), and Elaine Tierney (Sussex/ Victoria & Albert Museum)

The History Lab Methods Workshop is a programme of workshops which asks PHD students to reveal, discuss and consider each other’s research methodologies. Each event features a short presentation (10-15 minutes each) by three PHD students on their methods, followed by a chaired discussion.

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab
Putting Historical Theory Into Practice: A one-day study day organised by the Centre for History and Theory at Roehampton University and History Lab, 9 May 2012

This study day is directed towards postgraduate (master's and doctoral) students who wish to look at current historical theory and the ways in which theory can be used in producing historical research. It is made up of a series of interactive workshops in which academics from Roehampton introduce theoretical ideas which have influenced their own historical work and explore the ways in which these ideas can be deployed in writing dissertations, articles and books. The focus of the day will very much be on the practical value of theory and there will be ample opportunities for students to reflect on and discuss the role of theory in their own work.

Venue: Howard 103, Department of Humanities,University of Roehampton, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PU

Programme:

10.00-10.30 - Registration

10.30 – 11.15: John Tosh: 'Paradigms for the perplexed' – How historians handle explanatory theories

11.15 – 12.15: Krisztina Robert: ‘The spatial turn’ - How spatial theory and analysis can be used in historical research

12.15 – 1.15: Lunch

1.15 – 2. 0: Susan Deacy and Fiona McHardy: ‘New approaches to the history of violence’ – with a special focus on ancient Greece

2.0-2.45: Sara Pennell: ‘History and material culture’: Looking at the way theoretical ideas have migrated to History from Archaeology and Anthropology

2.45-3.30: Carrie Hamilton: ‘History and intersectionality’ – drawing on theory from feminism and critical race theory

3.30-4.0: Tea

4.0-5.0: Round table on ‘Historiography and Historical theory now’ led by Antonio Cartolano

The event is free. Lunch will be available from the university cafés, or you are welcome to bring your own.

To register, open 9 May on the calendar at www.history.ac.uk/historylab and click on the link at the end.

Call for papers: Agency: History Lab Annual Conference 13-14 June 2012.

The Conference will open with a plenary panel on Agency and history. Professor David d’Avray FBA and Professor Catherine Hall of UCL, and Professor Christian List of the LSE will each give a short paper, followed by a round-table discussion. 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: historylab2012@gmail.com by Monday 27 February.

For more information see: http://the-history-lab.blogspot.com/
History Lab Committee: The roles on the History Lab committee change each Easter as final-year students leave to focus on writing up. So this is an ideal time to join the committee and get involved. Roles are varied, including events officer, secretary, catering officer and treasurer, and we meet once a fortnight in term time. Being part of the committee gives you a say in the kind of events we organise, expands your network, does wonders for the skills section of your CV - and can be fun!

If you are a master's or doctoral student in history or a related discipline and you'd like more information, please email us on: ihrhistorylab@gmail.com.

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Workshop

Institute of Historical Research: 'Preservation and research data: what's in it for me?', 14 March, 14:00-16:30, Stewart House (Room ST265) University of London 32 Russell Square

To register for FREE, contact Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/event/3723

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Call for papers

'Clay Embodied: Ceramics and the Human Form', a two day symposium at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, February 22-23, 2013

The Birmingham Museum of Art, a comprehensive regional museum, has emerged as a major Southeastern center for ceramic study. Currently, the collection includes more than 16,000 objects of ceramic art from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia, dating from the Jomon period of Neolithic Japan to the present day. The collection reflects the centrality of ceramics to cultures
worldwide. It is central to the mission of the Museum to provide the public with a sense of the value and relevance of the artworks it houses.

The primary purpose of hosting a ceramics symposium is to educate the public about the importance and relevance of ceramics both historically and today. By exploring universal themes that touch on core aspects of the human experience, the Museum hopes to engage current and future museum visitors by connecting ceramic art to people and their lives.

Ceramics of all periods and cultures share a relationship with the human body. Whether utilitarian, ritualistic, decorative, or artistic in function, all ceramics interface with the human body in their design, manufacture, decoration, or use. Indeed, the very nomenclature used to describe a ceramic pot the lip, mouth, neck, shoulder, belly, and foot is derived from the human form. The symposium will explore the relationship between ceramics and the human body by considering the subject in a broad
array of historical and geographical contexts.

The Museum welcomes a variety of papers that address the relationship between ceramics and the human form. The subject is intended to be interpreted broadly. Papers representing new research are particularly welcome and authors are invited to submit proposals based on, but not limited to, the following themes:

contextual foundation for the relationship between ceramics and the human form, materials and processes, formal and conceptual language, the role of curatorial practice in making relationships between ceramics and the human form manifest, case studies of individual artists, movements, and the iconography of the artist or cultural group.

Proposals for papers (300 words) accompanied by short biographies of the authors (150 words) should be submitted by April 1, 2012 in Word format.

A schedule for submission and presentation of papers is available for potential presenters and all inquiries should be made to
aforschler@artsbma.org.

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Professor John Miller Event and Conference

Queen Mary College (QMUL) is hosting a lecture on the evening of the 12th March and a full-day conference on the 13th March to mark Professor John Miller's retirement. Professor Miller has been a leading scholar of the Restoration and early 18th century periods, and a long-time convener of the 17th Century British History seminar at the IHR. Full details of these events, including booking information, are available at: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/artstwo/miller/index.html.

Doctoral students and faculty members are welcome to attend.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Bulletin

2012-02-15T08:12:00.002Z

History Lab Bulletin 12 February 2012

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab
Panel Debate
Museum Studies Day
Call for papers
Talks, tours, events
Colloquium

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Next in History Lab:

Seminar: Elena Zanoni (Verona/Birkbeck) - Antonio Stoppani and the Popularisation of Science in Risorgimental Italy, Thursday 16 February, 17:30 – 19:30, Holden Room (Room 103), Senate House
Meet the historian: Sally Alexander, Wednesday 22 February, 18:00 – 20:00, Torrington Room (Room 104), South Block, Senate House

'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.

Sally Alexander is Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been an editor of History Workshop Journal since its foundation in 1976 and her research interests lie in the history of social movements, feminism in particular, London history, the history of psychoanalysis, oral history and subjectivity. Co-convenor of the Modern British History seminar and Psychoanalysis and History at the IHR, she is currently editing, with Professor Barbara Taylor, a volume on Psychoanalysis and History for Palgrave, 2012.
Methods Workshop: Facing the blank page, starting to write, Tuesday 28 February, 18:00 – 20:00, Room S261, Senate House

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab

Calls for papers: Agency: History Lab Annual Conference 13-14 June 2012.

The Conference will open with a plenary panel on Agency and history. Professor David d’Avray FBA and Professor Catherine Hall of UCL, and Professor Christian List of the LSE will each give a short paper, followed by a round-table discussion. 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: historylab2012@gmail.com by Monday 27 February.

For more information see: http://the-history-lab.blogspot.com/

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Panel Debate

Hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library: 'The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act', 5 March 2012, 6pm to 8pm, Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

Booking essential as seating is limited: to book please email Katy Pettit - k.pettit@uel.ac.uk

Panel members: Professor Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-founder of ‘History & Policy’), Maurice Glasman, Dr Maurice Glasman (Reader in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University and Labour Peer), Dr Mark Levene (University of Southampton), Professor Lynne Segal (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Chair: Gareth Stedman Jones (Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University and Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London)

Is there a place for politics in academic historical research?

A generation ago historians were at the forefront of political debates on hot topics such as gender, class, sexuality, race, health and peace campaigning. Radical historians such as Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop movement not only informed public discussion through historical research, but questioned current norms and structures and contributed to the reshaping of behaviours, ways of life and beliefs through their grass-roots activism. Moving away from top-down historical subject matter, they excavated hidden histories, driven by observation or experience of inequality to reveal and question power relations in the past and present, and to suggest how things could be in the future.

Are historians politically-minded nowadays? How many activist-academics are there today highlighting urgent contemporary political concerns through the focus of an historical lens? Is it that historians are engaging differently in political lobbying? What are the dangers and implications of historical research being applied wrongly for political campaigning? Is there a generational divide in which younger scholars are no longer radicalised or motivated by contemporary politics to incorporate it into polemical history-writing? Have all the social and political 'battles' been fought and won? Does the way historians are funded today constrict the type of history that is written? Are today’s historians interrogating their own investment in the histories they are telling? And if so, what questions are being asked and what methods are being used?

This panel debate will focus on these questions and more as we ask what sort of role the historian can play in contemporary political debate.

For further information: http://www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/events/c_and_d.php or contact claremakepeace@hotmail.com or victoriapowell1@gmail.com.

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Museum Studies Day

British Museum, Museum studies day, Monday 12 March 2012, 11.00–15.30,BP Lecture Theatre,£10

A day of talks by British Museum staff gives a behind-the-scenes insight into the running and organisation of the British Museum. Students wishing to broaden their knowledge of museums and the culture and heritage sector are welcome.

10.30–11.00

Registration

11.00–11.30

Emma Poulter, Community Programmes Coordinator

Emma manages the Museum’s Talking Objects programme, connecting curators with young people from the local community, encouraging dialogue and debate around a single Museum object. Since 2009 the programme has worked with young people from across London to discover, question and creatively respond to the stories behind British Museum objects. Emma will provide an overview of the programme and will also discuss the importance of bringing together object-focused research with an audience-led approach within the Museum.

11.30–12.00

Katherine Hudson, Head of Membership

Membership both provides a sustainable source of income for the Museum and engages a community of supporters. Katherine will speak about the strategic aims behind Membership, its relationship to other parts of the Museum’s work and the diversity of areas involved in delivering and growing a Membership scheme, from programming events and producing the Members’ magazine to creating the new Members’ Room.

12.00–12.30

Stuart Frost, Head of Interpretation

Stuart provides an overview of the work of the Museum’s Interpretation Team. This presentation will focus on the team’s role in the development of temporary exhibitions, particularly its use of audience research to better understand and improve the visitor experience.

12.30–12.45

Panel Q&A and short introduction to Future Curators Programme

12.45–13.45

Lunch, please make your own arrangements

13.45–14.15

Evan York, Senior Museum Assistant, Ancient Egypt and Sudan

The Museum Assistant teams have a vital role within the departmental collections, in all aspects of their everyday work. They are responsible for looking after the collections to ensure their preservation and accessibility, within the Museum and on loan.

14.15–14.45

Catherine Eagleton, Curator of Modern Money, Coins and Medals

Catherine is the lead curator on the project to redisplay the permanent Money Gallery (Room 68). The new Citi Money Gallery opens in June 2012, and will be linked to a five-year educational and communities programme. Catherine will talk about what it’s like leading a permanent gallery redisplay project, and what she wishes she had known at the start.

14.45–15.15

Matthew Cock, Head of Web

Matthew will talk about the Museum’s website, and some of the initiatives and projects that the web and marketing teams have undertaken to engage audiences on the website and across the web in recent years, including the Wikipedian-in-Residence project, A History of the World and Hajj Stories.

15.15–15.30

Panel Q&A

Tickets may be booked through the British Museum Ticket Desk, Tel: 020 7323 8181 Fax: 020 7323 8616 or online at
www.britishmuseum.org.

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Calls for papers

The 6th Annual International Conference of the Taiwan Association of

Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, October 26-27, 2012

“Infinite riches in a little room”: Collecting as a Cultural Practice and Literary Theme in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Collecting is a topic which has attracted much attention in recent years. William Gibson, the pioneer of cyberpunk fiction, observed that “the idea of the Collectible is everywhere today.” Yet, if we are to believe one critical study of the subject, the cultural practice of collecting goes back to the mythical beginnings of humanity: “Noah was the first collector. Adam had given names to the animals, but it fell to Noah to collect them … And Noah, perhaps alone of all collectors, achieved the complete set.” (John Elsner and Roger Cardinal) A more recent collector, the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-626 BCE) may not have had a complete set, but he did maintain a great library that held thousands of clay tablets. The Hellenistic Greeks and Romans collected books, statues, gems, etc. and created the first musea, those of Alexandria and Pergamon being the most prominent examples. They also wrote about collecting and were avid encyclopedists. Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia is the model for many later writings in the genre which includes Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae (ca. 630), the 10th Century Byzantine Suda, and Vincent of Beauvais’ high medieval Speculum majus (13th Century). The monastic libraries of the Middle Ages and their scriptoria copied and collected books and in doing so preserved the European heritage. Yet, it was the global commerce in knowledge, people, and objects during the age of discovery and exploration which aroused a passion for collecting as never before as princes, scientists, merchants, and artists all over Europe from Ferrante Imperato in Naples to Peter the Great in Russia competed in creating increasingly spectacular and luxurious studiolos, cabinets of curiosities, Wunderkammer, and Kunstkamers. Yet, the habit could be costly. King Charles I of England, a lavish spender and great collector of art, first lost his kingdom and then his life. Less than a decade later, the Dutch painter Rembrandt ran into debts and had to sell his house and his collections.

TACMRS provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussions and debates on collecting as a cultural practice and literary theme from Antiquity to the Renaissance and seeks to create dialogue between and across disciplines and periods. We encourage submissions with cross- cultural approaches, and on this premise welcome papers that reach beyond the traditional chronological and disciplinary borders of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies. Thus, in addition to the historical categories and thematic questions raised above, topics such as collecting practices East and West; the representation of ancient libraries, collectible objects or cultural treasures in modern literature and film; the cabinet of curiosities in modern art; and other topics that engage critically with the conference theme will be considered.

TACMRS welcomes papers on any other subjects that fall within the historical periods and disciplinary areas covered by the Association.

This conference is under the auspices of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan.

Conference Location: Tunghai University; Taichung 40704, Taiwan

Conference Language: All papers are required to be written and presented in English.

Guidelines for Abstract Submission: The length of the abstract should be maximum 350 words. Abstracts should be typed in fonts of size 12 and spacing of 1.5 and saved in MS Word format. Do not include the name or other identifying information of the author(s) in the abstract; there will be a blind review of the submissions. Send the abstract by e-mail to flld@thu.edu.tw with a subject line stating “Submission for the 6th TACMRS Conference.” Include information regarding academic affiliation of presenter(s) in email. Send abstracts/proposals for papers to:

Henk Vynckier, Chair

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature

Tunghai University; Taichung 407; Taiwan

flld@thu.edu.tw

Tel.: 04/2359-0121 Ext.: 31200

Fax: 04/2359-4002

Due date for abstract submission: March 15, 2012. Notification of abstract acceptance: May 1, 2012. Deadline for registration: Oct. 1, 2012

Due date for full paper submission: Oct. 5, 2012

Contact Information:

Phone Number: 04-2359-0121 Ext. 31200: Ms. Sherry Jan (Assistant)

Email: sj1109@thu.edu.tw (Assistant Sherry Jan) or

hvynck@thu.edu.tw (Dr. Henk Vynckier, Chair)
God and the Enlightenment: 4-6 October 2012

The George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions, which has its home at Ohio University, invites paper proposals for a conference and subsequent edited volume on religion and the Enlightenment. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (4–6 October 2012) and is co-organized by William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram. John Milbank (Nottingham) will deliver the keynote lecture, while Justin Champion (London), Jonathan Clark (Kansas), Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), Maria-Cristina Pitassi (Geneva), Joan Pau Rubies (LSE), Jonathan Sheehan (UC–Berkeley) and Dale Van Kley (Ohio State) will deliver plenary lectures.

This conference aims to promote academic discussion and to explore new research trends on the origins, character and consequences of the Enlightenment, especially regarding religion. The conference organizers welcome the work of advanced doctoral students and both young and established scholars in the fields of history, religion, philosophy and literature.

Proposals — which should include a 500-word abstract, a brief curriculum vitae, and complete current contact information — should be sent by 9 March 2012, to the conference organizers: William J. Bulman, Department of History, Lehigh University (bulman@lehigh.edu)Robert G. Ingram, Department of History, Ohio University (washingtonforum@ohio.edu)

Notifications of a paper’s acceptance will be sent out in early April.

The conference is supported primarily by a grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation

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Talks, tours, events

Towner Contemporary Art Museum

On Saturday, 10th March, Jem Southam, one of the UK's leading
photographers, will give a rare insight into his work and career. Towner
holds a significant number of works by Jem Southam in the collection, two
of which are on show in New Eyes, our current collection exhibition.

The Towner Collection will also be the focus of Dr. Julian Freeman's study
morning on Saturday, 14th April. During the later twentieth century the
Towner Art Gallery gained something of a cult status, as successive
curators cannily exploited the re-emergence of what was known as 'Modern
British' British art of the approximate period 1880-1960. Dr. Julian
Freeman will examine the reappearance of some of the most formidable art
ever produced in Britain, its public rejection, and the intriguing story of
the development of Towner's remarkable art collection.

For further information and to book online please go to
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/events/talks-tours-events . You will
also find details of our store and gallery tours which can be tailored to
the needs of individual groups, if you would like to bring along your
students to focus on a particular artist or area of interest.

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Colloquium

The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London cordially invite you to the next Neale Lecture and Colloquium in British History, entitled “Emancipation, Slave Ownership and the Remaking of the British Imperial World.”

The colloquium will take place at UCL from March 29^th - 31^st 2012, and will be opened by a public lecture from Professor Robin Blackburn on “Slavery and Finance in Britain’s Empire of Free Trade.” This lecture will take place at 5:30pm in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Main Building, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

Over the next two days, the colloquium will debate current work, including that of the LBS project, on the centrality of slavery and slave ownership to the remaking of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833, and consider the implications of these legacies for history writing.

Speakers and respondents include Catherine Hall, Nick Draper, Keith McClelland, Zoe Laidlaw, Richard Huzzey, Miles Taylor, Pat Hudson, Chris Evans, Julian Hoppit, Heather Cateau, Anita Rupprecht, Clare Anderson, Alison Light, Andrea Stuart, Cora Kaplan, Sir Hilary Beckles, Vijaya Teelock, Francoise Verges and Andrea Levy.

A programme and registration form are available on our website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/nealeconference/. We have a reduced rate for postgraduates – please see the registration form for details.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

CFP History Lab Annual Conference 2012

2012-02-10T16:17:00.000Z

Dear all,

See below for the call for papers for History Lab Annual Conference. The Conference will open with a plenary panel on Agency and history. Professor David d’Avray FBA and Professor Catherine Hall of UCL, and Professor Christian List of the LSE will each give a short paper, followed by a round-table discussion.

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AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Institute of Historical Research, London , 13-14 June 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

The study of agency, traditionally understood as the ability of the individual to act independently of political, social and cultural structures, has been dominated by social scientists such as Simmel, Elias, Bourdieu, and more recently, Anthony Giddens. With this in mind, the aim of the History Lab Conference 2012 is to investigate the relationships between agents and structures through the analysis of historical example.

History Lab would like to bring together postgraduate students and early-career researchers to explore the significance of agency. Potential speakers are invited to submit proposals for papers, or panels of three speakers, on specific topics exploring agency or on wider methodological and philosophical issues.

Papers may cover any historical region or period, exploring agency in topics including, but not limited to, the following areas.

Religious lives
Popular politics, protest and resistance.
Crown and estates.
Court culture.
Administration and bureaucracy.
Industry and urbanisation.
Rural lives.
The family.
Social mobility.
Cultural production.
Labour, business and industrial relations.
Policing, surveillance and the law.

Some travel bursaries will be available for research students travelling from the United States. Please email historylab2012@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:

historylab2012@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 27^th February, 2012.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Bulletin

2012-02-04T14:39:00.001Z

History Lab Bulletin 25 January 2012

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab
Calls for papers
Internships

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Next in History Lab:

Meet the historian: Antony Beevor, Wednesday 25 January 2012, 18:00 – 20:00, Russell Room (Room G32) Senate House

Antony Beevor is the author of The Battle for Spain, Crete - the Battle and the Resistance, Stalingrad, Berlin - the Downfall, and D-Day The Battle for Normandy. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have sold over four million copies. He is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College and the University of Kent and a former chairman of the Society of Authors.

‘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.
Seminar: Chloe Kroeter (King’s College Cambridge) - The Two Sphinxes: Fighting Poverty with Art on the Covers of The New Age, Thursday 2 February 2012, 17:30 – 19:30, Holden Room (Room 103), Senate House

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab
Calls for papers: AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Institute of Historical Research, London, 13-14 June 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency. The study of agency, traditionally understood as the ability of the individual to act independently of political, social and cultural structures, has been dominated by social scientists such as Simmel, Elias, Bourdieu, and more recently, Anthony Giddens. With this in mind, the aim of the History Lab Conference 2012 is to investigate the relationships between agents and structures through the analysis of historical example. History Lab would like to bring together postgraduate students and early- career researchers to explore the significance of agency. Potential speakers are invited to submit proposals for papers, or panels of three speakers, on specific topics exploring agency or on wider methodological and philosophical issues. Papers may cover any historical region or period, exploring agency in topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Religious lives

Popular politics, protest and resistance

Crown and estates

Court culture

Administration and bureaucracy

Industry and urbanisation

Rural lives

The family

Social mobility

Cultural production

Labour, business and industrial relations

Policing, surveillance and the law

Some travel bursaries will be available for research students travelling from the United States. Please email historylab2012@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:

historylab2012@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 27th February, 2012.

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Calls for papers

Don’t miss the 3rd-round submissions to the 4^th QQML2012 International Conference (22-25 May 2012 Limerick Ireland). The deadline for submissions is: 30 January 2012. For more information, see: http://www.isast.org/sessionsworkshops.html

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Internship

Jane Withers Design Consultants/Curators. Design consultant and curator looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable intern to help in the office. Main responsibilities will include, but are not restricted to, research and supporting in coordinating an upcoming design event/exhibition. This is an ideal opportunity for someone interested in learning about consulting and curating in the field of design.

The ideal candidate will preferably have a background in art or design
history, arts management or design and a strong interest in design and
architecture. He or she will have previous experience conducting in depth research and a capacity to edit findings, an eye for detail, and be resourceful. Good knowledge of Powerpoint essential and working knowledge of Creative Suite appreciated, but not essential.

Please send your current CV and covering letter stating why you are
interested in this internship and how you fit the description to
gaia@janewithers.com. Please state when you would be available to begin,
for how long you would like to intern and how many days a week in your
email. Please include any software you can use and useful graphic
experience in preparing presentations. (Travel expenses and lunch will be
covered). NB: This is not a hands on creative internship, suitable for
designer interested in curating.

Application deadline 27.1.12
Tudor Portraiture (Sixteenth-Century British Art) Curatorial Internship Opportunity

The National Portrait Gallery is seeking to appoint two Interns to provide research related assistance in its Curatorial department. The successful candidates will gain valuable experience in a national collection, and training using the Heinz Archive & Library will be provided. Additionally there will be the opportunity to attend a Gallery induction day to learn more about the range of the Gallery's work. The internship will be for a six-month period from mid-March 2012, one day per week. The internship is unpaid.

1) Research project: Making Art in Tudor Britain

The principal task will involve working with curators and conservators as part of the Making Art in Tudor Britain project, which is investigating Tudor and Jacobean painting techniques through technical analysis of the Gallery’s collection of sixteenth-century portraits. The internship would be ideally suited to candidates with knowledge or experience of technical art history or material studies, and involves working on the project database, collating both historical and technical information, and also supporting the research for forthcoming displays that relate to the project.

2) Research project: forthcoming exhibition

The principal task will be to support the Chief Curator and Associate Curator (16^th century) with research relating to a forthcoming sixteenth-century exhibition. The internship will involve using the archive and other resources to research portraits and works of art of the period.

General assistance

The interns may also on occasion assist with other projects, using the archive and library to research paintings.

Hours

1 day (8 hours) per week for six months by arrangement with the curator.

Travel Expenses

Travel costs of up to five pounds (£5) per week can be claimed

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Good general knowledge of British art and/or history during the sixteenth century and a reasonable understanding of portraiture as a genre

The internship would ideally suit current MA students in Art History or History who have an interest in pursuing museum work

Skills and Attributes

Ideal candidates will need to have a flexible approach and be prepared to contribute to a number of different projects. Candidates will also need to be able to demonstrate a careful approach and attention to detail. Excellent written English is an essential requirement

How to Apply:

Please send your CV and a covering letter either e-mailing: curatorialoffice@npg.org.uk or by writing to: Seraphina Coffman, Curatorial Office, National Portrait Gallery, 2 St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE.

Closing date for returned applications is 9am Wednesday 15^th February 2012.

The Gallery is committed to equality and is a member of the Employers’ Forum on Disability, Race for Opportunity and the Equality Exchange

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Bulletin 17 January 2012

2012-01-20T10:57:00.001Z

History Lab Bulletin 17 January 2012

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab
Calls for papers
Culture forum
Postgraduate Workshop

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Next in History Lab:

Methods Workshop: Managing the Bibliography, Tuesday 17 January 2012, 18:00 – 20:00, Room S261, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Short presentations by three historians on managing large bibliographies:

Christopher Nicholson, UCL SSEES

Sally Osborn, University of Roehampton

Simon Trafford, Institute of Historical Research Training Officer

Sally Osborn will be talking about keeping her bibliography in a reference manager which she synchronises across devices. Christopher Nicholson will be advocating a far less technological approach, and Simon Trafford, who runs the School of Advanced Study’s EndNote programme, will introduce Endnote.

Other forthcoming History Lab Methods Workshops:

28 February 2012 6pm-8pm, Methods Workshop: Facing a blank page, starting to write

21 May 2012 6pm-8pm, Methods Workshop: The upgrade (from MPhil to PhD)

If you would like to take part in one of these events please email a short proposal to the co-ordinator: Guy Beckett at gbecke01@mail.bbk.ac.uk
Seminar: Emma Wells (Durham) - *The Fantassie of Idolatrie’* : the ‘Sense’ of Loss in Reformation Saintly Devotion, *c*.1530-1543, Thursday 19 January 2012, 17:30 – 19:30, Holden Room (Room 103), Senate House
Meet the historian: Antony Beevor, Wednesday 25 January 2012, 18:00 – 20:00, Russell Room (Room G32) Senate House

Antony Beevor is the author of The Battle for Spain, Crete - the Battle and the Resistance, Stalingrad, Berlin - the Downfall, and D-Day The Battle for Normandy. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have sold over four million copies. He is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College and the University of Kent and a former chairman of the Society of Authors.

‘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.
Seminar: Chloe Kroeter (King’s College Cambridge) - The Two Sphinxes: Fighting Poverty with Art on the Covers of The New Age, Thursday 2 February 2012, 17:30 – 19:30, Holden Room (Room 103), Senate House

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab
Calls for papers: AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Institute of Historical Research, London, 13-14 June 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency. The study of agency, traditionally understood as the ability of the individual to act independently of political, social and cultural structures, has been dominated by social scientists such as Simmel, Elias, Bourdieu, and more recently, Anthony Giddens. With this in mind, the aim of the History Lab Conference 2012 is to investigate the relationships between agents and structures through the analysis of historical example. History Lab would like to bring together postgraduate students and early- career researchers to explore the significance of agency. Potential speakers are invited to submit proposals for papers, or panels of three speakers, on specific topics exploring agency or on wider methodological and philosophical issues. Papers may cover any historical region or period, exploring agency in topics including, but not limited to, the following areas.
Religious lives
Popular politics, protest and resistance
Crown and estates
Court culture
Administration and bureaucracy
Industry and urbanisation
Rural lives
The family
Social mobility
Cultural production
Labour, business and industrial relations
Policing, surveillance and the law

Some travel bursaries will be available for research students travelling from the United States. Please email historylab2012@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:

historylab2012@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 27th February, 2012.

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Calls for papers

First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium 'Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650'

Call for Papers Deadline: 20 January 2012. Conference to take place on Saturday 28 April 2012 at The Courtauld Institute of Art. For more, see: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2012/summer/28apr_RenaissanceSymposium.shtml
WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly)

Fashion Guest Editors: Eugenia Paulicelli & Betsy Wissinger

Fashion is an economic and social force, a culture industry, a global
powerhouse, a political statement. Fashion can simultaneously express
freedom and constriction, be both democratic and totalitarian; both repress
and liberate the body and gender roles. Transformation and affect are at
its heart. Fashion is a universal form of human expression that
transgresses boundaries of gender/race/class/embodiment/culture/nation.
Fashion ignites passions, produces colossal waste, demands ruthless
exclusion, inspires hysterical devotion. Bubbling up and filtering down,
fashion mixes high and low, sultry and strong, ancient ritual and cutting
edge technology.

A thorough study of the history of fashion in its symbolic, creative and
coercive faces shows how it has been crucial in the construction of
national identities in fascist regimes or in processes of decolonization,
such as in India, or in the remapping of the world economy, including
China, India and Brazil. Fashion is closely tied to industrial,
technological and economic developments and is at the center of cultural
activity and change. In today's globalized world, the fashion and textile
industry are key factors to understand the profound transformations
occurring in cities, nations and regions the world over.

Underlying all the recent scholarly attention that has been given to
fashion is the intent of stripping it of its apparent light and frivolous
reputation, and replacing it with a serious scholarly investigation that
seeks to uncover the many complex layers that its surface conceals. The
study of fashion, costume and dress has involved a series of disciplines,
and has expanded their boundaries.

Is fashion a women's issue? Inherently gendered, based on female bodily
display, taking fashion seriously demands exploring the limits of gender
and embodiment. Pushing that envelope reveals how fashion can question
pre-established notions of gender, aesthetics and behavior. How do we
understand masculinity in relation to dress and fashion? We invite
exploration of fashion, clothing and adornment through plays of androgyny,
from dandyism to lesbian chic. Seeing through clothes to the politics of
power they materialize draws fashion into debates concerning identity,
selfhood, sustainability, subjectivity, representation, and virtuality. How
does the fashioned body trouble the boundaries between lived and
represented, driving toward new phenomenological conceptions? How do the
globe spanning trends of fashion reshape experiences of self and locale,
and bring new relations of time and space? How has fashion in the
blogosphere affected technologies of self, and produced new relations
between bodies and city-scapes all over the world? How does fashion
mediate the body? How do these mediations feed through text, film, the
Internet and beyond?

Always in flux, never static, fashion's fast pace often defies and disrupts
the discipline-bound analytics of traditional scholarship. In this special
issue of WSQ we seek scholarship that pushes the boundaries between dyadic
conceptions of art and commerce, technology and the body, nature and
culture, aesthetics and politics, reality and representation.

We invite a rethinking of the traditional organization of disciplines
within the social sciences and the humanities to include the impact of
fashion within their contexts and welcome academic papers from a wide range
of approaches, including theory, empirical research, literature, art,
history, design, media and film studies, cultural studies, performance
studies, women's and gender studies, psychology, sociology, semiotics, and
anthropology, as well as creative prose, poetry, artwork, memoir and
biography. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Fashion cities in literature, cinema, the arts
Fashion and digital technology
Sustainability and ecofashion: how can we make sustainability a fashionable choice?
Fashion shows, models, and the work of producing fashion
Fashion Capitals
Fashion and philosophy
Fashion, policy, and gentrification
Fashion tourism
Fashion and religion
Fashion and feminism
Fashion and masculinity
Cross-dressing
Drag Queens
The closet
The street
The runway
Stars
Shopping
Fast Fashion
Luxury Brands
Fashion designers/Fashion Design
Fashion and museums
New York Garment District, Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Fashion and Migration
Fashion and sweatshops
Fashion East/West
Blogs and their effect on fashion
Clothing as a second skin
Anti-fashion
Transgression/transgender/ transformation/ transcendence
Department Stores
Fashion Photography
Fashion Films

If submitting academic work, please send articles by March 15, 2012 to the
guest editors, Eugenia Paulicelli and Betsy Wissinger at
WSQFashionIssue@gmail.com. Please send complete articles, not abstracts.
Submission should not exceed 20 double spaced, 12 point font pages and
should comply with the formatting guidelines at
http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/submission-guidelines.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor, Kathleen Ossip,
at WSQpoetry@gmail.com by March 15, 2012. Please review previous issues of
WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems.
Please note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified
immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been
previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the
e-mail along with all contact information.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's
fiction/non-fiction editor, Nicole Cooley, at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com by
March 15, 2012. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of
submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose
submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions
are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance
elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please
provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail.

Art submissions should be sent to Margot Bouman at WSQArt@gmail.com by
March 15, 2012. After art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be
sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of
300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should
be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS
University of East Anglia , School of World Art Studies and Museology . Postgraduate Symposium on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st April 2012 . The deadline for calls for papers has been extended to 20 January 2012. Please email abstracts to: britartinternational@gmail.com

There have been two decades of vigorous interest in British art history, but up to now this has tended to assume a more or less unproblematic category of national identity and has not enquired closely into the elusive idea of ‘Britishness’. More recently, the concept of the transnational has proved to be a productive way for art historians in the 21st century to reflect not only on contemporary art, but also that of previous centuries. This graduate conference will address the extent to which these two approaches overlap in British art between 1851 and 1960, not only in terms of British artists working abroad and non-British artists adopting Britain as a base, but also in less tangible or previously unconsidered ways.

Between 1851 and 1960, Britain’s global position altered radically – from the early consolidation of British imperial power in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars, the rise of the US to the reassessment of Britain’s political and cultural position in the post-war world, against a background of increasingly porous national and cultural boundaries. In this context, British art’s relationship with ‘the international’ seems a pertinent topic to consider, particularly from our own, increasingly ‘transnational’ perspective. ‘Transnational’ and ‘international’ are problematic terms here – the former reflects our own, more fluid concept of nationhood in the 21st century, while the latter offers a clearer definition of how nations were considered between 1851 and 1960. But is it possible to study British art of this period from our ‘transnational’ viewpoint? Can we talk of British art as separate from Britain as a nation or nationality? If British art between 1851 and 1960 cannot be considered ‘transnational’ in our terms, nor wholly ‘British’, how can it be considered in ‘international terms’?

We welcome papers from graduate students working in any field who engage with and reflect upon British art as international art. Keynote speakers will be Michael Hatt of The University of Warwick and Emma Chambers of Tate Britain. Please send an abstract of up to 300 words to: britartinternational@gmail.com by 5pm on Friday 20th January.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, contact details and paper title with your submission. For further information please contact britartinternational@ gmail.com.

Topics for discussion could include but are not limited to:

*The continued historical usefulness of ‘Britishness’ in analysing British art

* Internationalism and the self – roots, rootlessness and the multiple national identities of ‘British’ artists

*International travel and art

*Émigré activity and migration

*Britons and/or Anglophiles abroad

*Insularity and the failures of British Internationalism

*British art and fantasies/dreams of other cultures

*The relationships between British artists and colonialism, empire, the commonwealth, confederacy, NATO, etc.

*British art as export commodity – Britain as a brand?

*Internationalism and institutions – the interaction between nationalism and internationalism and gender/sexuality/economics

*Internationalism and war
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Culture Forum 'Childhood and the nineteenth-century' Programme:

Week 1 (20 January): MUSEUM TRIP. We will meet at the Museum of Oxford on St. Aldate’s to see the Lewis Carroll exhibit at 1pm

Week 2 (27 January): SEMINAR. Dr. Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes) will speak to the title “‘Mother! I am Florence!’: Reuniting with Lost Children in Florence Marryat’s There Is No Death & The Spirit World.” Platnauer Room, Brasenose, 12-1:30pm

Week 3 (3 February): FILM NIGHT. Screening of The Turn of the Screw (1999), with drinks and snacks provided! *Venue tbc.

Week 4 (10 February): SEMINAR. Erin Johnson (Mansfield) will speak to the title “Africa, Empire, and Masculinity in the Early Writings of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë.” Platnauer Room, Brasenose, 12-1:30pm

Week 5 (17 February): READING WEE K. Discussion of extracts from Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty (1877). Platnauer Room, Brasenose, 12-1:30pm *For extracts, please email us at the address below!

Week 6 (24 February): SEMINAR. Maija Kuharenok (Warwick) will speak to the title “Childhood and Motherhood in Mathilde Blind’s The Ascent of Man”; and Octavia Cox (St. Anne’s) will speak to the title ‘My Babe so Beautiful!’ (Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”): Childhood as Redemption for Past Sins in Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s Poetry.” Platnauer Room, Brasenose, 12-1:30pm

Week 7 (29 February): LONDON TRIP. The Foundling Museum, Dickens’house, and V&A Museum of Childhood. Signup Week 4.

Week 8 (9 March): SEMINAR. Dr. Sarah Hoem Iversen (Keble) will speak to the title “‘Do You Understand This, My Little Pupil?’: Children’s Dictionaries, Pedagogy, and Constructions of Childhood in the Nineteenth Century.” Platnauer Room, Brasenose, 12-1:30pm

The Interdisciplinary C19 Culture Forum welcomes all scholars, at all levels, who share a common interest in nineteenth-century culture.

Convenors: Hannah Sikstrom (Brasenose) and Eloise Moss (Magdalen).

Email us at: nineteenthcenturyculture@hotmail.co.uk
History Lab NORTH WEST Postgraduate workshop ,Wednesday 25th January 2012 , Lecture Room 1 and Arthur West Room at the Department of History , 9 Abercromby Square , University of Liverpool, L69 7WZ

9:30 – 10:00 am Registration and Welcome

10:00 – 11:00 am Panel 1: Understanding the Marginalised: Historians and their Craft , Lucy Williams (University of Liverpool) 'The Dangers of the Social Historian of the 19th century becoming the "New Lady Visitor"', Ian Gwinn (University of Liverpool) 'Worker-historians: Subjectivity, Self, Experience '

11:00 – 11:15 am Tea and Coffee

11:15 am – 12:45 pm , Panel 2: Reality, Representation, and Ephemeral Media. Michael Whitman (University of Liverpool) 'A Succession Dispute in the Calendars of Papal Letters: The United Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, 1455 – 1484', Paula Chorton (University of Manchester) 'Folk Devils and Moral Panics? The Creation of the Council Tenant in the Post- War Period', Nick Barnett (Liverpool John Moores University) "Russia Wins Space Race”: Britain's Sputnik Moment, 1957

12:45 – 14:00 pm Lunch – a number of reasonably priced food outlets are available on and around campus.

14:00 – 15:30 pm , Panel 3: Racialised Discourse: Threat Perception in America. Emily Trafford (University of Liverpool) 'American Decline and the Immigrant Gene: The Creation of the “Immigrant Health Threat” and the Regulatory Response during the Progressive Era', Sarah Louise Wood (University of Manchester) 'The Republic on Trial?: The 'Galmot affair' and the Politics of Violence in Interwar French Guiana', James West (University of Liverpool) 'Get up, Get into it, Get involved: James Brown's significance in the Black Power era, c1966-1974'

15:30 – 16:00 pm Coffee

16:00 – 17:00 pm , Panel 4: Corrective Reinterpretations . Jim Hinks (University of Liverpool) 'Demons in human shape?: The Representation and Negotiation of Gender in Two Scottish "Baby-Farming" Trials' , Nicholas Wong (University of Liverpool) 'The Rushworth Family of Liverpool, 1828-2002'

17:00 pm, Close. Join us for a drink, a bite to eat and a chat at a nearby location

To find us:

By car: From the M62 at the end of the motorway continue straight ahead onto Edge Lane (A5080 then A5047) and follow signs for Liverpool City Centre and the University. Postcode for satellite navigation or online directions: L69 7WZ . There is pay parking facilities on the campus, but there are limited spaces. Instead a commercial parking garage is located at 38 Mount Pleasant, L3 5SD. Continue down Brownlow Hill, turn left onto Clarence Street, then right onto Mount Pleasant at the lights. To return walk up Mount Pleasant toward the Metropolitan Catholic Cathedral, from which you can follow signs toward Abercromby Square.

By rail: The Campus is just a ten-minute walk away from the nearest mainline station at Lime Street. Take the main exit and turn left into Lime Street. Then turn left again at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel and continue up Brownlow Hill towards the Metropolitan Catholic Cathedral and Red Brick Building with its clock tower. From across the clock tower head over to the Blackwell’s and follow signs for Abercromby Square.

By coach: The National Express coach station is in Norton Street, a ten-minute walk from the Campus. From the exit, turn right and cross London Road into Seymour Street and Russell Street. Then turn left into Brownlow Hill and head towards the Metropolitan Catholic Cathedral. Across from the Cathedral you can follow signs for Abercromby Square.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Special Bulletin 4 January 2012

2012-01-05T00:47:00.000Z

History Lab Special Bulletin 4 January 2012

Dear all,

See below for the call for papers for History Lab Annual Conference.

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AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Institute of Historical Research, London , 13-14 June 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency. The study of agency, traditionally understood as the ability of the individual to act independently of political, social and cultural structures, has been dominated by social scientists such as Simmel, Elias, Bourdieu, and more recently, Anthony Giddens. With this in mind, the aim of the History Lab Conference 2012 is to investigate the relationships between agents and structures through the analysis of historical example. History Lab would like to bring together postgraduate students and early- career researchers to explore the significance of agency. Potential speakers are invited to submit proposals for papers, or panels of three speakers, on specific topics exploring agency or on wider methodological and philosophical issues. Papers may cover any historical region or period, exploring agency in topics including, but not limited to, the following areas.

Religious lives
Popular politics, protest and resistance
Crown and estates
Court culture
Administration and bureaucracy
Industry and urbanisation
Rural lives
The family
Social mobility
Cultural production
Labour, business and industrial relations
Policing, surveillance and the law

Some travel bursaries will be available for research students travelling from the United States. Please email historylab2012@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:

historylab2012@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 27th February, 2012.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Bulletin 29 December 2011

2012-01-05T00:46:00.000Z

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

· Next in History Lab

· Calls for papers

_________________________________________________

Next in History Lab:

· Methods Workshop: Managing the Bibliography, Tuesday 17 January 2012, 18:00 – 20:00, Room S261, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

The History Lab Methods Workshop is a programme of workshops which asks PHD students to reveal, discuss and consider each other's research methodologies. Each event features a short presentation by three PHD students on their methods, followed by a chaired discussion.

Other forthcoming History Lab Methods Workshops:

28 February 2012 6pm-8pm, Methods Workshop: Facing a blank page, starting to write

21 May 2012 6pm-8pm, Methods Workshop: The upgrade (from MPhil to PhD)

If you would like to take part in one of these events please email a short proposal to the co-ordinator: Guy Beckett at gbecke01@mail.bbk.ac.uk

· Seminar: Emma Wells (Durham) - *The Fantassie of Idolatrie’* : the ‘Sense’ of Loss in Reformation Saintly Devotion, *c*.1530-1543, Thursday 19 January 2012, 17:30 – 19:30, Holden Room (Room 103), Senate House

· Meet the historian: Antony Beevor, Wednesday 25 January 2012, 18:00 – 20:00, Russell Room (Room G32) Senate House

Antony Beevor is the author of The Battle for Spain, Crete - the Battle and the Resistance, Stalingrad, Berlin - the Downfall, and D-Day The Battle for Normandy. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have sold over four million copies. He is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College and the University of Kent and a former chairman of the Society of Authors.

‘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.

· Seminar: Chloe Kroeter (King’s College Cambridge) - The Two Sphinxes: Fighting Poverty with Art on the Covers of The New Age, Thursday 2 February 2012, 17:30 – 19:30, Holden Room (Room 103), Senate House

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab

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Calls for papers

· 81^st Anglo-American Conference of Historians: Ancients and Moderns, Thursday 5^th and Friday 6^th July 2012, Senate House, London

Full details of the conference can be found at:

www.history.ac.uk/aach12.

The deadline has been extended to the 9^th January 2012.

The Institute’s 81^st Anglo-American conference seeks to represent the full extent of work on classical receptions, welcoming not only those scholars who work on Roman, Greek and Judaeo-Christian legacies and influences, but also historians of the ancient kingdoms and empires of Asia and pre-Colombian America. Our plenary lecturers include: Paul Cartledge (Cambridge), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Mark Lewis (Stanford), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) and David Womersley (Oxford).

Proposals for individual papers, panels (of up to three papers and a session chair) and roundtables are invited. Please send a half-page abstract to the IHR Events Officer at AncientsandModerns@lon.ac.uk by 9^th January 2012. Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed by 20^th January 2012 and the full conference programme published at the end of January. Registrations open on 1st February 2012. For any queries, please contact the IHR Events Office at IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk on 0207 862 8756.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Bulletin

2011-12-07T16:32:00.001Z

History Lab Bulletin 5 December 2011

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab

Workshops

Calls for papers

_________________________________________________

Next in History Lab:

Seminar – Matthew Mesley - Gerald of Wales and the Episcopal Ideal, Thursday 8 December, Holden Room, Senate House, 17:30 – 19:30

Meet the Historian - Richard J. Evans, Wednesday 14 December, Bloomsbury Room (Room G35), South Block, Senate House, 18:30-20:30

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab

Speakers wanted:

Are you methodical?

The History Labs Methods Workshop is a programme of workshops which asks PHD students to reveal, discuss and consider each other's research methodologies. Each event features a short presentation by three PHD students on their methods, followed by a chaired discussion. We are looking for speakers at the following events:

17 January 2012 6pm-8pm

Methods Workshop: Managing the bibliography

28 February 2012 6pm-8pm

Methods Workshop: Facing a blank page, starting to write

21 May 2012 6pm-8pm

Methods Workshop: The upgrade (from MPhil to PhD)

If you would like to take part in one of these events please email a short proposal to the co-ordinator: Guy Beckett at gbecke01@mail.bbk.ac.uk

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Workshops

The Business Archives Council is once again organising a Meet the Archivists workshop for students. The workshop will be held on the 8^th December 2011 and will be hosted by The Rothschild Archive. The workshop aims to explore ways in which new, and existing, research students can identify and use business records in a surprising variety of different research fields. Participants will be able to explore the vast and varied materials available at many of the UK's business archives. The day will commence with an archives skills workshop run by eminent academic historians, followed by a buffet lunch, where participants will be able to meet the archivists. The event is free.

For further details and to reserve a place please contact Michele Blagg at: Michele.Blagg@kcl.ac.uk

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Calls for papers

Unofficial Histories

Saturday 19^th May 2012 at Bishopsgate Institute, London

A free public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

The “unofficial histories” conference seeks to bring together those who work in the academic, community and cultural fields to consider the value and purpose of historical engagements and understandings that take place within, on the edges of, or outside “official” sites and channels for the communication of historical ideas. Taking its cue from the assumption that history is, as Raphael Samuel put it, “a social form of knowledge; the work, in any given instance of a thousand different hands”, the conference aims to open up to examination the ways in which historians, curators, writers, journalists, artists, film makers, activists and others, seek to represent the past in the public realm, and in the spheres of popular culture and everyday life.

What kinds of subjects, ideas and themes are presented? What styles and mediums are used to construct history? How is this history produced, transmitted and consumed?

We hope to sharpen the awareness of the different sites and forms of historical production and consider how they impact public perceptions and consciousness of history. We are also concerned to understand the interactions between competing (and corresponding) impulses in the processes of formation: the scholarly and the political; the academic and the everyday; the imperatives of funding, ethics and access.

Finally, we would like to consider whether or not such “unofficial histories” have political effects that might serve democratic and emancipatory goals, and/or can be seen as sources of dissent and resistance against conventional, privileged models of historical knowledge.

Presentations of between 10 and 20 minutes (different approaches to communication are encouraged) are welcomed on any aspect of the above, which may include:

People’s History and the History of Everyday Life

Consuming History: History as Commodity

TV, Radio and Internet

Literature, Poetry and Folksong

Museums, Heritage, Archives, and Education

Feminist and Women’s History

Historical Re-enactment and Living History

Memory, Myth and Folklore

Oral History, Testimony, and Biography

Local, Regional and Community History

Family History and Genealogy

Art, Drama and Theatre

The Role of the Historian in the Public Sphere

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words by 31^st January 2012 to Fiona Cosson,

fiona.cosson@northampton.ac.uk

For more information and to register for the conference, please see our website at

www.unofficialhistories.wordpress.com

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Bulletin 28 November

2011-11-28T14:09:00.000Z

History Lab Bulletin 28 November 2011

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab
Calls for papers
Seminars and lectures
Workshops
Conferences
Funding

________________________________________________

Next in History Lab:

Methods Workshop – Beyond the Card Index, Today 28 November, 18:00 – 20:00, Bloomsbury Room (Room G35), Senate House
Seminar – Matthew Mesley - Gerald of Wales and the Episcopal Ideal, Thursday 8 December, 17:30 – 19:30, Senate House (Room 103), Senate House
Meet the Historian - Richard J. Evans, Wednesday 14 December, 18:30-20:30

For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab

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Calls for papers

Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology
Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Vol. 8
(Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013)
Deadline for Proposal: December 12, 2011

We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science,
technology, and medicine, science and technology studies, material culture, museum
and cultural studies for innovative contributions that explore
technological artefacts within the context of a history of globalization. The papers
will be published in Volume 8 of the Artefacts Series by Smithsonian
Institution Scholarly Press. Publication is projected for late 2013.

Global movement of people, objects and ideas‹the basis of the
interconnectedness that makes up globalization‹has only been possible
because of myriad technologies. Technology has driven globalization
and globalization has changed technology. To understand the intricate
relationship of both, we need to go back to the artefacts and examine
machines, appliances and large systems in the (global) networks
through which they have circulated. How have the dynamics of globalization
been materialized in objects? Although technological consumer objects such
as phones, PCs and frozen foods are frequently named when globalization
effects are described, artefacts often disappear in public and scholarly
debates. Yet, by their double nature as both material entity and symbol, they
produce, re-produce and react to globalisation effects. While generations
of historians of technology have focused on the materiality of objects in
the sense that they have analysed their innovative technical character,
their operation modes and improvements, recent paradigm shifts have
resulted in a more integrative approach to technical material culture. Artefacts
are increasingly understood as embodying both a material and immaterial
side that goes beyond their mere modes of functioning into the social and
cultural realm. Concurrent with that is the acknowledgement that
technological objects need to be studied in view of increasingly
globalized production and consumption cycles. While the globalized world has
changed the ways that technological objects have been engineered, built and
sold, it similarly has changed how they have been perceived and appropriated
as consumer goods and symbols.

Successful contributions will focus on technological objects as the
primary objects of inquiry and sources of evidence. We are currently accepting
proposals for research papers (approx. 6,000 words), case studies
(max. 3,000 words) and exhibition reviews/discussions (max.1,500 words). Due
to the tight time-line for this project, please limit your proposals to
projects that are already well advanced.

A topic as large as globalization and technology poses challenges for
potential contributors wanting to ground their projects in a
manageable framework. For this reason we are proposing a number of research
themes. Researchers may wish to explore one or several of these.

1. From Technology Transfer to Reciprocity
In contributing to a history of globalization, object-focused transfer
studies will have most value where they address questions of dialogue
and reciprocity in the transfer process, or where they problematize and
historicize the concept of transfer itself.

2. Modernity, Nation-States and Multinational Corporations
Historians of technology need to analyze globalized technological
artefacts in their relations to historical meta-narratives and concepts such as
modernity and Westernization, imperialism and nationalism, colonialism
and postcolonialism.

3. Global and Local

If we follow Madeleine Akrich¹s dictum of user scripts inscribed by
producers of technology and de-scripted, modified or rejected by users,
the relationship between global and local contexts of artefacts become
important. What is the relationship between globalization and
localization?

4. Globalization as (Non-)Movement of People, Objects and Knowledge
Studying globalization¹s effects on technology means to analyze the
multidimensional network that is made up of subjects, objects and
contexts. Who and what have moved in a globalized world? How have labour markets,
international expert cultures, cooperation and knowledge transfer
influenced globalization?

5. Globalization and Museums
Finally, the science and technology museum as medium between producers
and consumers needs to be considered. How has globalization influenced the
museum, its collections, its exhibitions, its research and its
administration? How do we exhibit globalization?

Proposals should include a title and abstract (no more than 500 words),
as well as the author¹s curriculum vitae. Please send all proposals
electronically by December 12, 2011 to:

Bryan Dewalt, Canada Science and Technology Museum,
bdewalt@technomuses.ca

AND Nina Moellers, Deutsches Museum, n.moellers@deutsches-museum.de
Don’t miss the 2nd-round submissions to the 4^th QQML2012 International Conference (22-25 May 2012 Limerick Ireland). The deadline for submissions is: 15 December 2011. For more information, see: http://www.isast.org/sessionsworkshops.html
History Lab North West are pleased to issue a call for papers for our next event, which will be held Wednesday 25^th January 2012 at the University of Liverpool.

If you are interested in presenting a 20 minute paper at this event, please send us a working title and an abstract of up to 300 words, along with your name and institution. We welcome submissions from postgraduate students across the North West region and beyond, working on an historical topic in any relevant discipline. Abstracts should be e-mailed to us at the following address: historylab.northwest@hotmail.com

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is: Friday 16th December2011

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Seminars and lectures

The Pathology Museum Seminar at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on Wednesday 30 November has been cancelled in support of industrial action taking place
King's College London event: Dr. Seema Srivastava is delivering a lecture on Wednesday 7^th December at 18:00 entitled “Representations of 1857 by an English woman in India”

Dr. Srivastava is an Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Fellow in the department of History. Her talk will look at the Indian uprising of 1857.

Venue: K3.11, 3rd floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus,WC2R 2LS

The lecture will be followed by a reception.

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Workshops

Speakeasy One day public speaking workshop, Oxford History Faculty, Saturday 3 December, 10:00 – 17:00. For more information, see: http://speakeasyworkshops.co.uk/upcoming-events/
"Social History and Community": A PGR Training and Research Workshop Wednesday 18 January 2012, Northumbria University. The workshop begins at 1pm and finishes at 5.30pm, following which will be a 'Labour and Society Research Group' paper, given by Professor Nigel Copsey for Teesside University. Both the workshop and the paper are free of charge to attend. "This workshop deals with concepts of community, identities, protest and related methods. It is open to both PhD and MA/MRes students, but places are limited so please apply early. This is a training event and provides a unique opportunity to engage with leading academics in their field. Discover new perspectives, discuss theoretical approaches and see how these approaches can relate to your own research. Please send a short email, indicating your own area of interest. Feel free to state some problems that you can discuss during the workshop. This helps us tailor the workshop to specific needs."

Programme:
Panel 1: Re-discovering Communities
Dr. Avram Taylor (Northumbria University): "Oral History to Capture Communities"
Dr. Michael Cullinane (Northumbria University): "Oral History and the Problems of Memory"

Panel 2: "Think Global, Act Local": Regional Identities and Community
John Charlton (North East Labour History Society): "Regional Identity and Popular Politics in the North East"
Dr. Natasha Vall (Teesside University): "Regional History and Local Identity"

Panel 3: Histories of Protest
Dr. Catriona Kennedy (University of York): "Current Issues in the History of Radicalism and Popular Protest 1789-1815"
Dr. Matt Perry (Newcastle University): "The History of Unemployment Protests"

"Labour and Society Research Group" - Paper:
Prof. Nigel Copsey (Teesside University): "Jewish Community Responses to British Fascism in the 1930s"

Please respond by Friday 9 December to: mark.wilson@northumbria.ac.uk

Here is a link to the Northumbria City Campus map - the event will be held on the first floor of building number 15 - the Lipman Building: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/brochure/visit/campus_branch/ncle_cmp/city_campus/?view=Standard

And a map with directions from the Central Railway station to the main university campus:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

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Conferences

University of York - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (CECS) -
The Grand Tour in Britain and Ireland, Saturday 3rd December 2011,
9.30am-5.00pm. For more information, see: http://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/workshop-autumn-2011/

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Fellowships

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships 2012/13

The Henry Moore Institute is a world-recognised centre for the study of
sculpture in the heart of Leeds. An award-winning exhibitions venue,
research centre, library and sculpture archive, the Institute hosts a
year-round programme of exhibitions, conferences and lectures, as well as
developing research and publications, to expand the understanding and
scholarship of historical and contemporary sculpture. The Institute is a
part of The Henry Moore Foundation, set up by the sculptor Henry Moore
(1898-1986) in 1977 to encourage appreciation of the visual arts,
especially sculpture. Research is central to the activities of the
Institute. Through it, we aim to encourage research into sculpture both
within our walls and without, acting as a hub to develop communities of
research. Each year we offer a number of fellowships, enabling researchers
of different backgrounds and disciplines to develop their work at the
Institute.

The Henry Moore Institute invites applications for the following fellowship
programmes in 2012-2013: Research Fellowships are intended for artists,
scholars and curators, working on historic and contemporary sculpture using
the Institute's library, archive of sculptors' papers and the collection of
Leeds Art Gallery. Up to four fellows will be given the opportunity to
spend a month in Leeds to develop their own research. With access to our
resources and an on-going dialogue with the Institute staff, fellows are
free to pursue their own interests in a supportive and stimulating
environment. Senior Fellowships are intended to give established scholars
(working on any aspect of sculpture) time and space to develop a research
project free from their usual work commitments. Up to two senior
fellowships, for periods of between four to six weeks will be offered. Both
fellowships provide accommodation, travel expenses and a per diem. The
Institute offers the possibility of presenting finished research in
published form, as a seminar, or as a small exhibition.

For more information on the Henry Moore Institute research fellowships
visit: http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research

For further information or to apply for a fellowship contact:
Kirstie Gregory - Research Programme Assistant
E: kirstie@henry-moore.org
Henry Moore Institute,
The Headrow,
Leeds LS1 3AH
T: + 44 (0) 113 246 7467

To apply for either fellowship send a letter of application, a proposal
and a CV by 9 January 2012

Beyond the Card Index - Monday 28 November

2011-11-20T22:45:00.000Z

Meet Quentin Skinner - Monday 21st November

2011-11-20T22:44:00.001Z

Bulletin

2011-11-08T11:05:00.001Z

History Lab Bulletin 7 November 2011

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab
Calls for papers
Fellowships

_________________________________________________

Next in History Lab:

Seminar: Jens Olesen (Oxford) - Liberal vs Conservative Conceptual History? A Comparison between Skinner’s and Koselleck’s Method, Thursday 10 November 2011 at 17:30, STB7, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN. For more information, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab

Speakeasy one day public speaking workshop: Saturday, 12 November 2011 from 10am to 5pm, Rooms G37 & G26, Senate House

Do you get the jitters every time you give a seminar paper? Do you find that you are unable to project your voice, speak too fast and don’t connect with the audience? Or worse, are people falling asleep in your lectures? Clear, effective and professional communication skills are absolutely essential to any aspiring academic. While doctoral students are taught essential research skills, less emphasis is placed on learning how to communicate their research effectively either in the lecture hall or in the seminar room. Speakeasy, a public- speaking training organisation, is a one-day workshop on the art of public speaking for young historians. Organised by an academic and a professional actor, the Speakeasy workshop is specifically designed for historians at the start of their career. Drawing on professional acting skills and techniques, our one-day course addresses the following issues:

-How to be an effective communicator in the lecture theatre, the seminar room or in the conference hall.

-How to get your message across, keep your audience engaged and actually enjoy the experience.

-Voice projection, posture, body language and how to calm your nerves

-Different modes of communication: how to lead seminars, chair conferences and conduct a Q&A.

-Techniques for presenting, how to deliver complex ideas and personalise your style of delivery.

-Methods of communication: how to use PowerPoint, present a poster and ‘how to think on your academic feet’.

This course is available to all registered PhD, Mphil students and early career historians. Due to the interactive nature of the workshop, numbers must be limited to 25.

Note on the workshop leaders:

Liza Filby is a historian based at King’s College, London. She was formerly Chair of the History Lab, the Institute of Historical Research’s national postgraduate network and editor of Vitae’s GradBritain. She has four years experience in running peer-based training workshops for PhD students.

Steven Clarke is a professional actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has a number of distinguished roles under his belt and is currently appearing in a Broadway production of a John Osborne play in New York. Steven has led training sessions on public speaking for both private and public sector organisations.

Reviews of previous Speakeasy workshops in London:

‘A really good day – glad I came all the way from Birmingham’

‘A very, very good day – far exceeded expectations in terms of how useful it has been – thank you!’

‘Great! Very passionate people, very useful!’

‘The session made me realise the importance of public speaking as a tool of professional development and career advancement’

‘[my] confidence grew as the day wore on. Generally really useful – and fun too!’

For a review of one workshop by History Lab organiser Amelia Nel go to:

http://the-history-lab.blogspot.com/

Course requirements: All attendees are required to bring along with them a printed copy of 150 words on/about their research- this could be part of a chapter, paper etc. It is perhaps best not to bring part of your original PhD research proposal. Please also make sure that you wear loose comfortable clothing; don’t be scared by this, no crazy stunts involved!

The cost to attend the workshop is £40 which includes lunch, refreshments and a course pack. If you would like to attend, please sign up and register via the Speakeasy website:

http://speakeasyworkshops.co.uk/.

_________________________________________________

Calls for papers

81^st Anglo-American Conference of Historians:
Ancients and Moderns, 5-6 July 2012, Senate House, London

With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our own times, and how successive epochs of modernity since the Renaissance have situated themselves in relation to the various ancient civilisations. From political theory to aesthetics, across the arts of war and of peace, to concepts of education, family, gender, race and slavery, it is hard to think of a facet of the last millennium which has not been informed by the ancient past and through a range of media, including painting, poetry, film and the built environment. The Institute’s 81^st Anglo-American conference seeks to represent the full extent of work on classical receptions, welcoming not only those scholars who work on Roman, Greek and Judaeo-Christian legacies and influences, but also historians of the ancient kingdoms and empires of Asia and pre-Colombian America. Our plenary lecturers include: Paul Cartledge (Cambridge), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Mark Lewis (Stanford), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) and David Womersley (Oxford). Proposals for individual papers, panels (of up to three papers and a session chair) and roundtables are invited. Please send a half-page abstract to the IHR Events Officer at AncientsandModerns@lon.ac.uk by 1^st December 2011. Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed by 31^st December 2011 and the full conference programme published at the end of January. Registrations open on 1^st March 2012. Further information on the conference can be found at www.history.ac.uk/aach12.

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Fellowships

THE INTERIOR: ART, SPACE, AND PERFORMANCE (EARLY MODERN TO POSTMODERN) , Announcement for four three-year doctoral posts at the Institute of Art History, University of Bern, beginning March 1, 2012

In the framework of the Sinergia Project “The Interior: Art, Space, and Performance (Early Modern to Postmodern)”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, four doctoral positions will be available as of March 1, 2012. Under the leadership of the Bern Institute of Art History, the aforementioned Sinergia Project “The Interior” will be run through six subprojects at two universities. In total six doctoral and one post-doctoral-coordinating position can be funded for three years. Directed by five art historians and one theatre historian, diverse models, concepts, and interpretations of interiors in art, architecture, theatre and visual culture from the Early Modern to the Contemporary eras will be investigated. Proceeding from a heterogeneous and dynamic concept of the interior drawn from various media, styles, and contexts, new questions will emerge simultaneously engaging various disciplines. As a Sinergia project, “The Interior” is divided into the following subprojects:

Subproject: The Stage as Scena Mundi: Narration, Performance and Imagination (Director: Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx, Institute of Theatre Studies, University of Bern / Institute of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Cologne). Contact: peter.marx@itw.unibe / peter.marx@uni-koeln.de.

Subproject: The Art and Visual Culture of Solitude: Interiority and Interior Spaces in Post-Tridentine Europe (Director: Prof. Dr. Christine Göttler, Institute of Art History, University of Bern). Contact: christine.goettler@ikg.unibe.ch.

Subproject: “Mit köstlichen tapetzereyen und anderer herrlicher zier” – Interiors for Court Festivals and Ceremonies (Director: Prof. Dr. Birgitt Borkopp-Restle, Institute of Art History, University of Bern). Contact: birgitt.borkopp@ikg.unibe.ch. Institut für Kunstgeschichte Hodlerstrasse 8 , CH-3011 Bern , Tel. +41 031 631 47 41 , Fax +41 031 631 86 69 , www.ikg.unibe.ch

Subproject: Anagrammatic Spaces: Interiors in Contemporary Art (Director: Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann, Institute of Art History, University of Bern). Contact: peter.schneemann@ikg.unibe.ch.

Subproject: Constructions of the Feminine Interior (Director: Prof. Dr. Norberto Gramaccini, Institute of Art History, University of Bern). Contact: norberto.gramaccini@ikg.unibe.ch.

Subproject: Heterotopian Spaces: Public, Semi-public and Non-public Interiors in Contemporary Architecture, 1970–2010 (Directors: Prof. Dr. Bernd Nicolai, Institute of Art History, University of Bern, and Prof. Dr. Wendy Shaw, Institute of Art History / Center for Cultural Studies, University of Bern). Contact: bernd.nicolai@ikg.unibe.ch; and wendy.shaw@ikg.unibe.ch.

Doctoral positions for the following subprojects are currently open: Borkopp-Restle, Göttler, Gramaccini and Nicolai / Shaw (all Institute of Art History, University of Bern). The positions will be funded for a maximum of three years and will support the execution of dissertation projects. Associated positions are possible. Through Sinergia, the Swiss National Science Foundation enables innovative research projects of international interest that promote new generations of scholars involved in elite research. Applicants with outstanding qualifications are encouraged to apply. In addition to art and architectural historians, applicants from other related disciplines, particularly Theatre Studies, are welcome. Application materials should be submitted electronically and should include a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a research proposal (maximum three pages) and a summary of the applicant’s M.A. thesis (maximum two pages). Please send the application by November 25, 2011 to the responsible party of each subproject.

Applicant interviews will take place on December 16, 2011 in Bern. For questions about the entire project please contact the principal investigator (Prof. Dr. Christine Göttler, christine.goettler@ikg.unibe.ch). For further information on the project and the individual subprojects please consult the website of the Institute of Art History (News / Research Projects):

http://www.ikg.unibe.ch.

--
Regards,

The History Lab team.

Web: www.history.ac.uk/historylab

Email: ihrhistorylab@googlemail.com

Bulletin

2011-11-03T21:29:00.001Z

History Lab Bulletin 31 October 2011

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

In this issue:

Next in History Lab

Calls for papers

Conferences

Seminars and lectures

Workshops

Projects

Funding

Reading groups

_________________________________________________

Next in History Lab:

Seminar: Jens Olesen (Oxford) - Liberal vs Conservative Conceptual History? A Comparison between Skinner’s and Koselleck’s Method, Thursday 10 November 2011 at 17:30, STB7, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN

Speakeasy one day public speaking workshop: Saturday, 12 November 2011 from 10am to 5pm, Rooms G37 & G26, Senate House

Do you get the jitters every time you give a seminar paper? Do you find that you are unable to project your voice, speak too fast and don’t connect with the audience? Or worse, are people falling asleep in your lectures? Clear, effective and professional communication skills are absolutely essential to any aspiring academic. While doctoral students are taught essential research skills, less emphasis is placed on learning how to communicate their research effectively either in the lecture hall or in the seminar room. Speakeasy, a public-speaking training organisation, is a one-day workshop on the art of public speaking for young historians. Organised by an academic and a professional actor, the Speakeasy workshop is specifically designed for historians at the start of their career. Drawing on professional acting skills and techniques, our one-day course addresses the following issues:

-How to be an effective communicator in the lecture theatre, the seminar room or in the conference hall.

-How to get your message across, keep your audience engaged and actually enjoy the experience.

-Voice projection, posture, body language and how to calm your nerves

-Different modes of communication: how to lead seminars, chair conferences and conduct a Q&A.

-Techniques for presenting, how to deliver complex ideas and personalise your style of delivery.

-Methods of communication: how to use PowerPoint, present a poster and ‘how to think on your academic feet’.

This course is available to all registered PhD, Mphil students and early career historians. Due to the interactive nature of the workshop, numbers must be limited to 25.

Note on the workshop leaders:

Liza Filby is a historian based at King’s College, London. She was formerly Chair of the History Lab, the Institute of Historical Research’s national postgraduate network and editor of Vitae’s GradBritain. She has four years experience in running peer-based training workshops for PhD students.

Steven Clarke is a professional actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has a number of distinguished roles under his belt and is currently appearing in a Broadway production of a John Osborne play in New York. Steven has led training sessions on public speaking for both private and public sector organisations.

Reviews of previous Speakeasy workshops in London:

‘A really good day – glad I came all the way from Birmingham’

‘A very, very good day – far exceeded expectations in terms of how useful it has been – thank you!’

‘Great! Very passionate people, very useful!’

‘The session made me realise the importance of public speaking as a tool of professional development and career advancement’

‘[my] confidence grew as the day wore on. Generally really useful – and fun too!’

For a review of one workshop by History Lab organiser Amelia Nel go to:

http://the-history-lab.blogspot.com/

Course requirements: All attendees are required to bring along with them a printed copy of 150 words on/about their research- this could be part of a chapter, paper etc. It is perhaps best not to bring part of your original PhD research proposal. Please also make sure that you wear loose comfortable clothing; don’t be scared by this, no crazy stunts involved!

The cost to attend the workshop is £40 which includes lunch, refreshments and a course pack. If you would like to attend, please sign up and register via the Speakeasy website:

http://speakeasyworkshops.co.uk/.

_________________________________________________

Calls for papers

Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
02.04.2012-04.04.2012, Edinburgh
Deadline: 30.11.2011

The next conference of the Association for German Studies in Great
Britain and Ireland will take place at the University of Edinburgh, 2-4
April 2012. The lead panel for the conference will be "Deviants in
German-language literature and culture", with further panels on History
and Remembrance, Linguistics, Gender, Translation, Medieval and Early
Modern Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nineteenth and Earlier
Twentieth Century Studies, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Studies.
Information about the conference and the call for papers can be found on
the AGS website at: http://ags.ac.uk/ags2012.htm

If you are interested in contributing a paper to a panel, please send
your proposal directly to the e-mail address of the specific panel
convener. If you would like to propose a panel or if you would like to
offer a paper that does not fall within the remit of any of the listed
panels, please contact the Conference Secretary Melani Schroeter
(m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk). Proposals for papers should be 150-200
words, panel outlines 50-100 words. Proposals for papers should reach
the relevant conveners by 30 November 2011. Any proposals for additional
panels should reach Melani Schroeter by the same date.

Further details:

Lead Panel Convener: Mary Cosgrove/Frauke Matthes;
Mary.Cosgrove@ed.ac.uk/frauke.matthes@ed.ac.uk

'Representation of the owners, Donors & Patrons in Medieval Art' Conference is taking place at University of Kent at Canterbury on Friday 11 May 2012. The deadline for submission is 15 January 2012. For more information, see attached document.

The International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
22.07.2013-28.07.2013, Manchester
Deadline: 15.03.2012

The general theme of the Congress is "Knowledge at Work" and ICOHTEC encourages proposals for sessions dealing with the history of technology within this broad framework.While open to all proposals, the programme committee suggests the following sub-themes for the consideration of session organisers and
contributors:

-technical knowledge and environmental improvement
-industrial management: theory and practice
-institutionalizing research and development in the corporation
-race, gender, technology, and the workplace
-craft skill and political power
-educational ideology and industrial development
-knowing users: social demands in shaping technology and designing
products
-just applied science? the origins of technological knowledge
-industrial espionage and access to hidden technology
-military technology and the production of civilian goods

We urge contributors to organize a full session of three papers, or
multiple related sessions of three papers each, with a named chair for
each session. Individual paper submissions will, of course, be
considered and grouped into sessions if deemed appropriate, but full
sessions are strongly preferred. The programme committee encourages the
organizers of sessions to announce their plans to compile sessions and
communicate with potential collaborators through H-NET and other
networks such as social media. It is also possible to propose papers
unrelated to the general theme. They can be presented in a "Special
Topics" session.

Note: Membership in ICOHTEC is not required to participate in the
symposium. We especially encourage graduate students to participate in
the symposium and submit their proposals. Limited travel grants will be
available; see further information at: http://www.icohtec.org/ .

SESSION proposals must include: (1) an abstract of the session (400
words maximum), listing the proposed papers (see individual paper
proposal guidelines below) and the chairperson; (2) abstracts for each
paper (200 - 400 words); (3) a one-page CV for each contributor and
chairperson. Sessions consist of three speakers, and may include several
sections of three speakers each, which might extend over more than one
day. Each individual section should have a chairperson.

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals must include: (1) a 200 - 400 word abstract
in English; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts should include the author's
name and email address, a short informative title of the paper, a
concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and
a summary of expected conclusions. In preparing your paper, remember
that presentations are not full-length articles. You will have no more
than 20 minutes speaking time, which is roughly equivalent to 8
double-spaced typed pages. Contributors are encouraged to submit
full-length versions of their papers after the congress for
consideration by ICOHTEC's journal ICON. If you are submitting an
independent paper proposal dealing with a particular sub-theme, please
indicate this in your proposal.

Please, submit proposals for papers and sessions via the ICOHTEC online
submission system at:
http://www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting/cfp-system/2013-manchester/

Pay close attention to the instructions, particularly those that
relate to the word length of submitted documents.

Should you have any queries on the procedure, please contact Mark Clark,
the chair of the programme committee, via email (mark.clark@oit.edu).

If you are unable to access the submission website, proposals may be
sent by fax to Mark Clark: 001-541-885-1520. Otherwise they may be sent
via regular mail, postmarked 28 February 2012 to:

Mark Clark
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Oregon Institute of Technology
3201 Campus Drive
Klamath Falls, OR, 97601
USA

Conferences

Interrogation in war and conflict: between liberty,
security and justice - Reading, 11 November 2011

Professor Hilary Footitt and Dr Simona Tobia, University of Reading;
with the support of the Leverhulme Major Research Programme
29.11.2011, Reading, UK

After recent revelations of a 'UK Abu Ghraib', with allegations of
systematic mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners of war at a British military
interrogation centre, and the opening of a formal inquiry, the role of
military interrogations has once again been under scrutiny. This seems a
particularly opportune time to discuss 'interrogation' both as a
military event and as a cultural phenomenon. Interrogation raises moral
questions, especially for states that see themselves as 'liberal', but
it can also be approached from many other angles. It is often, for
example, a 'first contact' between actors who come from different
cultures and speak different languages. It sets out to elicit
information, but the absorption of that information depends on the
conceptual scheme of the interrogator. There are important differences
between interrogations done by ordinary soldiers, debriefings by
professional intelligence operatives, and interviews that generate
forensic evidence.

Given these complexities, it is surprising that practices involving the
'questioning of enemies' seldom receive comparative discussion. This
interdisciplinary workshop gives an opportunity for a historically-informed discussion of the continuing problems that they cause for liberal states.

For more information, see attached document.

DFG-Network "Body Techniques"; in co-operation with the German
Historical Institute London 17.11.2011-19.11.2011, London, German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ

While the history of sport in the modern period has attracted a great
deal of interest in recent years and new approaches have found their way
into research, sport and physical exercise in the early modern period is
still a rather neglected topic. Our aim is not to continue the
well-known discussion of whether or not sport existed in pre-modern
times. There were many physical activities beyond the courtly exercises
of fencing, riding and dancing, ranging from rowing, wrestling, jeu de
paume, soccer and gymnastics to swimming, diving, pall mall, shooting,
running and ice skating. The early modern period had professional
players as well as sports grounds, training as well as contests,
referees as well as public audiences. And sometimes important political
and economic issues were at stake.

This conference aims to bring together specialists from diverse
disciplines and many nations to view the practice of sport and physical
exercise in its cultural context, taking into special consideration
social, political and economic influences. Contributions may relate to
individual countries, to specific individuals or groups, or to individual sports.

For more, see:

http://www.ghil.ac.uk/events_and_conferences/conferences_and_workshops.html

Realism and Romanticism in German Literature: An International Conference at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Thursday, 1 December and Friday, 2 December 2011

Co-Ordinators: Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham) and Nicholas Saul (Durham)

Conference Fees:
2 Days: £65.00; £60.00 Reduced Rate; £35.00 Student Rate
1 Day: £40.00; £35.00 Reduced Rate; £25.00 Student Rate
Dinner on Thursday, 1 December: Three courses with choice incl. coffee: £35.00
Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies/paying members of the IGRS
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only

For more information and how to register, see:

http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences-workshops/realism-and-romanticism- conference.html

'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution'. Fourth International Multidisciplinary Conference, Imperial War Museum, London, 4-6 January 2012

This conference is a follow-up to the three successful conferences which took place at the Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006 and 2009. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated as well as open up new fields of academic enquiry.

More than 100 speakers from all over the world will present and discuss the latest results of their research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies, Slavonic people, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called racially impure, and forced labourers.

Papers will focus on following areas:

-DPs in post-war Europe
-Reception and resettlement
-Survivors in central, east and southeast Europe
-Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
-Child survivors
-Women survivors and gender issues
-Trials and justice
-Reparation and restitution
-Testimonies and record building
-Film and photography
-Memory and amnesia
-Trauma and intergenerational transmission
-Remembrance and memorials

Further information and a registration form are now available at:

http://beta.iwm.org.uk/events/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour

The 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference QQML2012, Limerick, Ireland, 22 – 25 May 2012

For more information, see attached poster.

Seminars and lectures

History of Art Department Research 2011-2012 seminar series at the University of York.

This term, all seminars will take place in the Berrick Saul auditorium. Seminars are followed by refreshments. The schedule for Autumn 2011 is as follows:

7 November Anne Wagner, Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art at
the University of California at Berkeley, Title to be announced

21 November Jeanne Nuechterlein, Senior Lecturer in the History of Northern
Renaissance Art at the University of York, Writing Fictional Histories of
Early Netherlandish Art

Please contact emily.guerry@york.ac.uk with any questions.

Frank Davis Memorial Lecture, which will take place on Tuesday 8 November and which will be given by Dr Catherine Reynolds (Christie's). This lecture, entitled 'Makers of Royal Manuscripts: Court Artists in France and the Netherlands', will be at 5.30pm in the
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre.

For more information, see attached document.

Workshops

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies is accepting proposals from Workshop Co-ordinators to co-ordinate
two-week research workshops at the Museum during the months of July and
August of 2012. The Center's Summer Research Workshop program provides an environment in which groups of scholars working in closely related areas of study, but with limited previous face-to-face interaction, can gather to discuss a central research
question or issue; their research methodologies and findings; the major
challenges facing their work; and potential future collaborative
scholarly ventures.

For more information, see attached document.

Projects

Historians Connect encourages collaboration and dialogue between
academic historians and school history teachers in order to enhance
students' understanding and enjoyment of history. When they register
with 'historians connect!', history teachers in primary or secondary
schools are paired with an academic historian (usually a PhD student
or post-doctoral researcher) whose area of expertise best suits their
needs.

For more information, see:

http://www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/young-history-workshop/

The e-mail address for enquiries is: historiansconnect@gmail.com

Funding

The National Army Museum is offering two bursaries of £500 each towards travel and accommodation costs incurred by students while researching in the NAM Templer Study Centre. For more information and how to apply, see attached document.

Reading groups

The Global Century: A Twentieth Century Global History Reading Group, alternate Thursdays, 3-5pm, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Rosy Rickett (University of Manchester) and William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas, London) would like to announce a new reading group based in London, aimed primarily at postgraduate students but open to all. Over the course of the academic year we will be taking in many of the major events, themes and developments of the past hundred years or so, devoting a fortnightly session to the following topics:

World War I and the Global Settlement; Old Empires and New Nations; The Long Cold War;Modernity and Modernism The Market Intervenes; Responses to the Great Depression; World War II and the Postwar Order; China’s Century; Decolonisation; Neo-Imperialism; The Politics of Race; Postwar Western Europe; Globalization; Responses to State Power; The Neoliberal Paradigm; Not the End of History; Where is History Leading?

The first session will take place on Thursday 3rd November from 3-5pm at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Details of the first three sessions (including key text and other suggested readings) can be found at the group's blog: http://theglobalcentury.wordpress.com

Convenors:
Rosy Rickett (University of Manchester) - rosyrickett@gmail.com
William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas, London) - william.booth@postgrad.sas.ac.uk

If you are interested in attending or require further information regarding subsequent weeks, please contact the convenors.

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Web: www.history.ac.uk/historylab

Email: ihrhistorylab@googlemail.com

Blog: http://the-history-lab.blogspot.com

Post: History Lab, The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Bulletin

2011-10-25T12:25:00.001+01:00

Dear all,

Please follow the link for History Lab's forthcoming events this week:

http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab

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History Lab committee members vacancies:

If you are interested in becoming a committee member, History Lab is currently recruiting volunteers for the following positions:

Treasurer
Co-seminar convenor
Conference committee members

We also welcome anyone who is interested to help out at any of our events.

If any of the above roles appeal to you, please come along to our next committee meeting. It will be held on the 27th of October at 15:30 in the Tavistock Hotel Pub:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/oldmap.srf?x=529822&y=182403&z=0&sv=WC1H+9HG&st=2&pc=WC1H+9HG&mapp=oldmap.srf&searchp=oldsearch.srf

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Regards,

The History Lab team.

Speakeasy and book launch

2011-10-21T13:38:00.001+01:00

Dear all,
HISTORY LAB
Speakeasy - ONE DAY PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP
SATURDAY 12th NOVEMBER 2011 at 10am-5pm
Rooms G37 and G26, Senate House
Do you get the jitters every time you give a seminar paper? Do you find that you are unable to project your voice, speak too fast and don’t connect with the audience? Or worse, are people falling asleep in your lectures? Clear, effective and professional communication skills are absolutely essential to any aspiring academic. While doctoral students are taught essential research skills, less emphasis is placed on learning how to communicate their research effectively either in the lecture hall or in the seminar room. Speakeasy, a public-speaking training organisation, is a one-day workshop on the art of public speaking for young historians. Organised by an academic and a professional actor, the Speakeasy workshop is specifically designed for historians at the start of their career. Drawing on professional acting skills and techniques, our one-day course addresses the following issues:
· How to be an effective communicator in the lecture theatre, the seminar room or in the conference hall.
· How to get your message across, keep your audience engaged and actually enjoy the experience.
· Voice projection, posture, body language and how to calm your nerves
· Different modes of communication: how to lead seminars, chair conferences and conduct a Q&A.
· Techniques for presenting, how to deliver complex ideas and personalise your style of delivery.
· Methods of communication: how to use PowerPoint, present a poster and ‘how to think on your academic feet’.

This course is available to all registered PhD, Mphil students and early career historians. Due to the interactive nature of the workshop, numbers must be limited to 25.

Note on the workshop leaders:
Liza Filby is a historian based at King’s College, London. She was formerly Chair of the History Lab, the Institute of Historical Research’s national postgraduate network and editor of Vitae’s GradBritain. She has four years experience in running peer-based training workshops for PhD students.
Steven Clarke is a professional actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has a number of distinguished roles under his belt and is currently appearing in a Broadway production of a John Osborne play in New York. Steven has led training sessions on public speaking for both private and public sector organisations.

Reviews of previous Speakeasy workshops in London:
‘A really good day – glad I came all the way from Birmingham’
‘A very, very good day – far exceeded expectations in terms of how useful it has been – thank you!’
‘Great! Very passionate people, very useful!’
‘The session made me realise the importance of public speaking as a tool of professional development and career advancement’
‘[my] confidence grew as the day wore on. Generally really useful – and fun too!’
For a review of one workshop by History Lab organiser Amelia Nel go to: http://the-history-lab.blogspot.com/
Course requirements: All attendees are required to bring along with them a printed copy of 150 words on/about their research- this could be part of a chapter, paper etc. It is perhaps best not to bring part of your original PhD research proposal. Please also make sure that you wear loose comfortable clothing; don’t be scared by this, no crazy stunts involved!

Places are limited on this course so if you would like to attend please email speakeasyworkshops@yahoo.co.uk ASAP. The cost to attend the workshop is £40 which includes lunch, refreshments and a course pack.
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History Lab member publishes thesis
Dr. Samantha Bird completed her PhD back at the end of 2009 and have now had her thesis published. Her story has been one of success going from student to published author. Her book has now been published and there is an event to launch it this Friday, 21 October at the Bishopsgate Institute. Samantha's work is on Stepney borough, in the East End of London, from the outbreak of the First World War through to the Festival of Britain. Bishopsgate is an ideal place to launch the book! It would be great to have a few members coming over to show support. Samantha will be speaking, alongside her supervisor Professor Denis Judd, and also Peter Stone who recently reviewed her book.

History Lab Bulletin

2011-10-17T20:38:00.002+01:00

Dear all,

See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.

Workshop:

History Lab is organising a workshop on Putting Theory into Practice next year, and would be interested in your suggestions for what you would like us to cover.

Please email sally.osborn@me.com with any thoughts on the areas of theory you struggle with most, any particular theoretical dilemmas you've faced, the kind of work you feel is most difficult to apply theory to, or anything else you feel warrants discussion. Many thanks.

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Oral History Project:

The History of Parliament is looking for volunteers with a close interest in and knowledge of post-1945 British politics to become oral history interviewers for a project to create a sound archive of people involved in politics at national and constituency level which will provide a unique record of post-Second World War British political history. This project is being undertaken with the sponsorship and collaboration of Dods, the publishers of Dods Parliamentary Companion and the House Magazine.

For more see:

http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2011-09-30/history-parliament-seeks-volunteers

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Seminars:

Pathology Museum Seminars at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

presents a unique series of seminars that promise both fascinating insights into a diverse range of topics, and also a glimpse into a little known London museum. Housed within the grounds of St.Bartholomew’s Hospital at West Smithfield, the museum holds a broad range of
pathological specimens, some of which date from the late 1700s, and the papers programmed all speak in some way to this collection, as well as to each other. We hope you will able to join us for what promises to be a stimulating series of conversations. No need to book. Wine and nibbles are provided.

See attached flyer for more information.

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The Uses of Space In Early Modern History 1500-1850
Seminar Series 2011-12
International History Department

London School of Economics

The study of space and place is an increasingly important research-field in the humanities and social sciences. This series explores how spatial ideas and approaches can be used to understand the societies, cultures and mentalities of the past. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines will reflect on the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history; and how particular spaces were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods.

Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock p.stock@lse.ac.uk
Place: LSE New Academic Building, room 2.14
Time: 18.00 Thursday

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V&A/RCA

History of Design and Material Culture

Autumn Research Seminar Series

Thursday 13th October at 5pm

See attached document for more details.

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FASHIONING THE BODY
'Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture'
Seminar Series 2011-12
The History Department, Royal Holloway University of London

Seminars will take place at Royal Holloway, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1, Room F1, on Wednesday at 5.00pm.
Convenors: Sandra Cavallo, Jane Hamlett, Weipin Tsai , Anna Whitelock.

2011 Autumn Term
26 October. Suzy Knight, 'Fashioning Faith: the Renaissance Rosary as
Fashionable Amulet and Devotional Tool'.
23 November. Giulia Calvi (EUI), 'Across three Empires. Balkan Costumes in
Sixteenth-Century Europe'.
14 December. Lesley Hoskins (RHUL), 'Clothing, Control and Identity in the
Lunatic Asylum, 1840-1914'

2012 Spring Term
25 January. Lizzy Currie (RHUL), 'Ganymede's Hose and Cupid's Doublet:
Fashion and Effeminacy in Late Renaissance Italy'.
15 February. Juliet Ash (RCA), 'Seams of Change: From Uniforms and
Treadmills to Intimations of Rehabilitative Reform in Prison Clothing in
Britain 1860s - 1900's'.
21 March. Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (Illinois), '"Healthier and Better
Clothes for Men": Men's Dress Reform in Interwar Britain'.

Call for papers:

Material Matters
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Saturday, April 14, 2012

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Tenth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars

Object-based research has the potential to expand and even reinvent our understanding of culture and history. In honour of the tenth anniversary of the MCSES, we seek a broad range of papers from emerging material culture scholars. Whether exploring the latest theories, viewing existing material through a new lens, or reinterpreting standing historical conversations with an object-based focus, proposed papers should exemplify the possibilities in material culture research. In exploring these material matters, we hope to promote an interdisciplinary discussion on the state of material culture studies today.

For more see:

http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/ess_call.html

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Start the year with History Lab

2011-09-27T14:13:00.000+01:00

Dear all,

Come along to History Lab's first week of events and help us get the year off to a great start!

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Seminar:

We start with a chance to meet and talk to a prominent historian:

Meet the Historian: Jeffrey Weeks

Monday 3 October, 6-8pm

Bloomsbury Room (G35)

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.

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Workshop and social:

History Lab's first Methods Workshop of the year:

'What I wish I'd known then'. Advice for those starting a History PhD

Speakers: Lucy Allwright, Alyson Mercer and Kathryn Wilkins

Wednesday 5 October from 5:30-7pm

Senate Room (Senate House)

followed by our social:

History Lab Welcome Social

from 7pm at the Queen's Larder

1 Queen Square

WC1

Food, drink and conversation with your fellow historians – your first drink is free!

Thurs 13 October, Ilia Xypolia, 'Divide et Impera and Radicalize'

2011-09-23T12:21:00.002+01:00

IHR Day for New Research Students, 5 October 2011

2011-09-12T21:26:00.000+01:00

Meet Jeffrey Weeks, 3 October 2011

2011-09-12T21:12:00.004+01:00

Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University. He is the author of over 20 books and more than 100 articles and papers, chiefly on the history and social organisation of sexuality, family and intimate life. His books include Coming Out (1977), Sex, Politics and Society (1981, 3rd edition 2012), Sexuality and Its Discontents (1985), Invented Moralities (1995), Making Sexual History (2000), The World We Have Won (2007), Sexuality (3rd edition 2009) and The Languages of Sexuality (April 2011). He has been an editor of History Workshop Journal and on the editorial boards of, among others, Victorian Studies, Gender and History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Homosexuality and Sexualities.

New History Lab Methods Workshop, 5 October 2011

2011-09-12T21:05:00.003+01:00

A new History Lab Methods Workshop, followed immediately by the new year's Welcome Social (see below) - a great opportunity for new researchers to get the inside track on 'doing' a PhD as well as to meet other people in corduroy. Smashing.

Come to the History Lab Welcome Social, 5 October 2011!

2011-09-12T21:04:00.002+01:00

History Lab autumn programme is now out!

2011-09-10T09:55:00.003+01:00

History Lab End of Year Party! 23 June, 5pm-9pm

2011-06-14T21:44:00.001+01:00

History Lab Networks Conference, 22-23 June

2011-06-14T21:38:00.006+01:00

If you would like to attend, please register at http://tinyurl.com/historylab by 5pm on Friday 17 June.

100 Years of Social Housing in a Mile walk, 30 June 2011, 6pm

2011-06-13T21:31:00.002+01:00

Cancellation of Thurs 26 May Seminar

2011-05-26T08:48:00.002+01:00

We regret to announce that the seminar on Thursday 26 May: Ilia Xypolia 'Please Mind the Context', has been cancelled on account of unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Calendar of Events, Summer 2011

2011-05-16T12:08:00.003+01:00

Thurs 12 May, Sean Dettman, 'Broadcasts of the Blitz'

2011-05-05T09:55:00.002+01:00

Tues 12 April, Meet Cornelie Usborne ('Meet the Historian')

2011-04-07T21:36:00.002+01:00

Thurs 31 March, Mark Honigsbaum 'Influenza, celebrity and suffering'

2011-03-25T14:33:00.002Z

Thurs 24 March, History Lab Stress Workshop

2011-03-12T16:48:00.002Z

To sign up for the Stress Workshop, please click here and fill out the form.

Thurs 17 March, Denise Gonyo, 'Visions of India'

2011-03-12T16:46:00.001Z

Thurs 03 Mar, Eloise Moss, 'The Pleasure Culture of Crime'

2011-03-03T07:29:00.001Z

Thurs 17 Feb 2011, Jon Howlett, 'The "decolonisation" of Shanghai'

2011-02-12T18:09:00.001Z

Wed 9 Feb, Museum Visit to 'High Society' and 'Medicine Man'

2011-01-24T16:34:00.002Z

Thurs 20 Jan, Kevin Tennent 'A Distribution Revolution'

2011-01-17T11:02:00.002Z

History Lab Forthcoming Events Spring 2011

2011-01-14T11:42:00.003Z

An Evening with John Tosh, Thurs 10 Feb, 6pm-8pm

2011-01-14T11:34:00.001Z

SPEAKEASY!

2010-12-24T18:11:00.001Z

Review of SpeakEasy! workshop 14/12/2010 by Amelia Nel

Speakeasy! is a one-day interactive course with practical exercises aimed at postgraduate students to improve their public speaking skills. Around 20 of us arrived bright and early on the 14th of December eager to learn new skills. We were met with coffee and biscuits by our two friendly instructors, Liza and Steve.

They divided us into two groups, one group taken for the first session with Liza, the other group taken by Steve. Liza's session covered the academic aspects of public speaking. Issues covered included: how to deal with difficult academic settings, rules to follow in such settings and how to be an effective speaker. Liza also talked about the art of writing a good presentation (know your audience, write to speak, keep it simple). Afterwards we had a practical session in which we learnt how to chair a panel at a conference, and crucially, how to answer questions from an audience effectively. Each of us had to brought a short excerpt of our work, which we delivered in a mock-conference setting, with one in each group chairing the 'conference'. Liza directed us with some difficult questions and we had to answer in an effective, clear manner.

This panel underlined that being able to speak in public with confidence and authority are two paramount skills to possess for any budding historian. Liza emphasised that when a student delivers an academic paper they need to be conscious of ways to 'hook' the audience's attention, for example by using a short anecdote relating to our work.

For session two we swapped over to Steve, who as a working actor, knows everything about how important voice projection and posture are to ensure a good acting performance. As historians, we are constantly talking about our work to others. When a speaker delivers an academic talk, that speaker is also 'acting'. Actors' techniques are very useful to assist us academics. Through a series of exercises, Steve showed us how to warm up our voices, how to improve our posture, how to articulate properly and how to speak with confidence. We practised this skill by taking turns in reading out a piece of historical writing. After this, we then returned to our own excerpts of work and delivered them to the group incorporating the techniques we had explored. Steve provided us with helpful comments on our strengths as speakers and some constructive criticism that really helped in improving our performance.

I left the workshop feeling wholly motivated and with heaps of confidence for my first public engagement as a postgraduate student. The day was well presented, interestingly delivered and both Liza and Steve were incredibly knowledgeable and helpful. I would wholeheartedly recommend this workshop to all postgraduate students. For more information on further SpeakEasy! events please contact Liza at: liza.filby@kcl.ac.uk

History Blogging Project, Tues 18 Jan 2011

2010-12-21T18:08:00.001Z

Historical Concepts of Drunkenness, Thurs 16 December 2010

2010-12-14T21:19:00.003Z

Speakeasy workshop - New date added

2010-11-30T13:24:00.002Z

Public Speaking workshop- NEW DATE ADDED. Due to intense interest in the
History Lab Speakeasy workshop, we have decided to add another date that
week, on Friday 17th December at the Institute of Historical Research,
9.30-5pm. Places are limited, so if you are interested could you please
return the attached application form (download link here) with accompanying cheque for
£25 (made payable to Liza Filby to the address below) by the 10th December.
Please note that places cannot be reserved without payment. If you are
unable to make a payment via cheque please contact
liza.filby@googlemail.com for an alternative form of payment.

Please note that the workshop on 14th December is now full.

History Lab 5th Birthday Party

2010-11-12T11:20:00.003Z

SPEAKEASY!

2010-11-03T20:24:00.003Z

Please note that the date of this event is now December 14th.

To SPEAKEASY! Public Speaking Workshop for Historians Tuesday 14 December 2010, 9-5pm Institute of Historical Research, London Thiscourse is available to all registered PhD and Masters students and would be relevant to students studying humanities subjects. The cost ...ofthis course is £25 for the day which includes lunch and refreshments. There are only a limited number of places in this class so please email liza.filby@googlemail.com ASAP to register.

The History Lab is now on Twitter!

2010-11-02T01:09:00.002Z

Call for Papers - Postgraduate Work-in Progress Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies

2010-07-16T18:06:00.002+01:00

Postgraduate Work-in Progress Seminar
Institute of Classical Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London

We are now inviting abstracts from postgraduate students who would like topresent a paper at the seminar during the year 2010/11.

Speakers give a paper of about 45 minutes duration dealing with anysubject connected with the ancient world (broadly defined), the receptionof antiquity, or classical scholarship. They have the opportunity toreceive questions, moderated by the joint chairs, from an audience ofpostgraduate students, mainly, but not exclusively, from the University ofLondon, and to continue the discussion over wine and nibbles. The seminarprovides a friendly environment in which speakers are able to talk abouttheir research, take part in stimulating discussion of their paper, andextend their social and academic network. During the past two years wehave been pleased to attract speakers from twenty-four differentinstitutions in the United Kingdom and further afield in Europe.

The seminar will take place at Senate House at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays duringterm.

Speakers travelling from outside London will be eligible to submit a claimfor reimbursement of reasonable travelling expenses within the UK.

Please submit an abstract of about 300 words, together with a workingtitle for your paper, to both of the seminar’s joint chairs:s.royston-davies@ucl.ac.uk and alexander.millington@ucl.ac.uk. Thedeadline for submissions is 12 midday on 23 August 2010.

For further information please visit our website: www.pgwip.org.uk.

With all good wishes,
Stephen Royston-Davies and Alexander Millington

Institute of Classical Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU

History Lab Conference - programme update

2010-06-28T18:59:00.003+01:00

We have had to cancel our first panel tomorrow morning (Tuesday 29 June) due to unforeseen circumstances.

We will open registration at 10am with lunch at noon. We will then hold our first panel at 1pm.

Final reminder - Politics and Power!

2010-06-28T12:11:00.001+01:00

I would like to remind you all that our annual conference, Politics and Power, starts tomorrow (Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 June).

Please visit this link to register:

http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab/conference/register

Details of our annual conference can be found here:

http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab/conference

2010-06-18T14:08:00.001+01:00

Here is an excellent IHR blog. Watch this space: History Lab will be featuring on here soon...