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Bulletin Board
If you would like to advertise a conference or event on this page, please email Linda Persson
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CULTURES IN TRANSIT III: New Frontiers
Liverpool
3rd - 5th September 2010
The CULTURES IN TRANSIT Conferences alternate between Liverpool Hope University and Jean Moulin University, Lyon. After the success of the Inaugural Conference in Liverpool (2008) and this year’s CULTURES IN TRANSIT II in Lyon, next year in 2010 we return to Liverpool.
This year’s conference will give a particular emphasis to the idea of New Frontiers, in three ways:
1. in terms of new themes and areas of migration;
2. in terms of new barriers to migration and multi-culturalism;
3. issues concerning new cultural spaces that sit ‘in-between’ perceived normative groups and values.
The deadline for the submission of papers is 30 June 2010.
For further information see:
http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/cultures.doc
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Gender and the Modern World: Conference in Honour of Pat Thane
Professor Pat Thane is retiring at the end of the academic year 2009-2010 from her post as Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary History at the Institute of Historical Research. To celebrate her contribution to the discipline of history and to individual historians, a one-day research conference will be held.
Pat's former PhD students will give papers on the overall topic of "Gendering the Modern World" in a series of themed sessions, on politics, sexuality, the life-cycle, education, and the professions. Speakers include Kate Bradley, Vanessa Chambers, Hera Cook, Helen Glew, Mary Clare Martin, Helen McCarthy, John Stewart, Cornelie Usborne and Selina Todd.
There will be poster presentations by her current students. This will be followed this with evening entertainments, including drinks and a meal in Greenwich. To register for this event, email genderthane@googlemail.com The conference is free, but we would like to invite donations to enable postgraduates to attend the annual conference
of the Social History Society. Please send cheques made out to "Social History Society" (marked Pat Thane Fund on the back), to Linda Persson at the University of Lancaster, Bailirigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YG.
For further details see:
http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/patthane.pdf
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Borderlands as Physical Reality:
Producing Place in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
A conference organized by UNC-Chapel Hill and King’s College London
October 21 and 22, 2011
Proposals for 8,000-word pre-circulated papers are invited, with comparative and/or interdisciplinary approaches being especially welcome. Please send a three-page c.v. and an abstract of not more than 300 words to borderlandsconference2011@gmail.com by September 1, 2010.
The conference will be held at King’s College London on Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, 2011, with the panel sessions on the first day being followed by discussion sessions for participants on the second. The organizers aim to publish the proceedings of the conference as an edited volume.
For further details, see:
http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/landscapes.doc
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British Historians of Women in the Americas
There are many historians in the United Kingdom researching women's history in North or South America or the Caribbean. Unfortunately we rarely gather as a group that interrogates women’s history from a hemispheric perspective. Instead our identity as historians of women within the Americas can be blurred when we participate in multidisciplinary or trans-national gender-based organisations. The British Historians of Women in the Americas (BHWAs) will bring together British-based researchers on the history of women in the northern and southern hemispheres of the Americas. We also invite historians of women and gender from outside the United Kingdom to participate in all our activities.
To join BHWAs, please send your name and research interests to Prof. S. Jay Kleinberg c/o grace.mansah-owusu@brunel.ac.uk
For further details, see:
http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/journals2.doc
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Pioneers of Qualitative Research conference
ESDS Qualidata recently hosted a popular one-day conference at the UK Data Archive on the ESDS Qualidata Pioneers of Qualitative Research collection and its academic re-use. The conference attracted some 50 participants and explored the creation and re-use of some of the most prestigious qualitative materials archived at ESDS Qualidata, with a focus on Peter Townsend’s The Last Refuge and Ray Pahl’s Isle of Sheppey studies.
Full a full report of the conference, see
http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/juteprog.doc
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Recruitment of examiners
Edexcel is Recruiting Examiners for:
GCE Government and Politics
GCSE/ GCE History
Edexcel is currently recruiting teachers to join our assessment team and assist in the marking of the 2010 examinations.
Joining Edexcel’s Assessment Associate Team offers an opportunity to gain greater insight into the assessment of candidates, and can inspire fresh ideas and new approaches to teaching your subject. If you are a qualified teacher, with experience teaching either Government and Politics or History, this will enable you to enhance your expertise within the classroom and will help you in preparing your students for their exams.
The marking period is between May – July. As well as payment, all examiners receive full training and support throughout the marking period, and have the flexibility to work from home.
Examiners can expect to earn between £750 and £1000 per examination series.
To apply please visit www.edexcel.com/aa-recruitment
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Association of Business Historians - Coleman Prize 2010
To be awarded at the ABH Annual Conference
16-17 July 2010, The York Management School
The Association of Business Historians invites submissions for consideration for the 2010 Coleman Prize. This prestigious prize is open to PhD dissertations in Business History either having a British subject or completed at a British University. All dissertations completed in the calendar years 2008 and 2009 are eligible (with the exception of previous submissions). The value of the prize is £200. Named in honour of the British Business Historian Donald Coleman, this prize is awarded annually by the Association of Business Historians to recognise excellence in new research in Britain. The Prize is now sponsored by Adam Matthew Publications Limited, a scholarly publisher which makes available original manuscript collections, rare printed books and other primary source materials in microform and electronic format. It is a condition of eligibility for the Prize that short-listed finalists present their findings at the Association’s annual conference, to be held at the York Management School, 16-17 July 2010. For more information see http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/coleman2010.pdf
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Women in Britain in the 1950s: ESRC Seminar Series
*Call for participants*
This two year seminar series is hosted by the University of Winchester (Dr Stephanie Spencer), University of Manchester (Dr Penny Tinkler) and the University of Sussex (Dr Claire Langhamer).
The aim of the series is to shed light on a neglected generation of girls and women. It includes four one-day seminars that use popular stereotypes from the fifties - the teenage girl, the suburban housewife, the glamorous young woman and the woman in love – as starting points for exploring the diversity and complexity of the lives and experiences of girls and women in this period. The series also includes two one-day workshops which explore neglected sources for researching women and gender in the 1950s, namely material culture, sound and photography.
For further details see http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/SHScall2010.doc.
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History of Crime - Historical Criminology: British Crime Historians Symposium 2
2 - 3 September, 2010, ICOSS Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
In recent decades, the historical study of crime has become a significant topic within social history and criminology. This is the second symposium that seeks to bring together historians of crime and criminologists engaged in historical research to review current cholarship. Like the symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University in September 2007, it will be a 'single strand' event organised around themed panels, keynote adddresses and roundtable discussion. This year a key aim is to address the inter-disciplinary engagement between history and criminology. However we welcome panel presentations on the broad range of issues concerning sources of, and response to, crime, from the 17C to the 20C. We are also keen to include postgraduates students undertaking research in the history of crime and criminal justice.
We aim to organise panels concerning:
. Methods and Interpretation
. Comparative Histories
. History and Current Policy
. Criminal Lives
. Empire and Internationalism
. Place and Space
Keynote speakers: Louise Jackson, Geoffrey Pearson, Robert Shoemaker, Pieter Spierenburg
Proposals (not more than 200 words please) should be sent by 28 February 2010 to Lisa Burns at the Centre for Criminological Research: l.k.burns@sheffield.ac.uk
For further information, contact Paul Knepper, University of Sheffield, p.knepper@sheffield.ac.uk or Heather Shore, Leeds Metropolitan University, h.shore@leedsmet.ac.uk.
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Children and Youth at Risk: a special issue of Paedagogica Historica
The issue of children and youth at risk does not seem to need the support of history of education to justify its relevance and importance. Nonetheless, the discipline can offer an important contribution by demonstrating, reflecting and disseminating awareness of the fact that threats to children and youth do not simply constitute an ahistorical constant, but take on different shapes under different social conditions. Circumstances which one society would not even perceive as dangerous may be viewed as a significant threat in another. To order a copy of this special issue, please visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/cpdh-si.asp
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Women's History Network (UK) book prize
The Women’s History Network (UK) will award annually (until further notice) a prize of £500 for an author’s first single authored book which makes a significant contribution to women’s history or gender history and is written in an accessible style that is rewarding to the general reader of history.
For further details click here.
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Continuity and Change
Special rate for members of the Social History Society. Members of the Social History Society may subscribe to the journal at £28 for an individual rather than the normal rate of £35.
For further information contact the Administrative Secretary, the Social History Society, Furness College, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YG, or by email.
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