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REPLACEMENT Conference 9-10 Dec 2016 Birkbeck, University of London. CALL FOR PAPERS. Conference at Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (http://www.brakc.bbk.ac.uk/ ) In a recent film, 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh, 2015), a couple about to celebrate forty-five years…
Protean Desires Symposium: Queering the Body, Transforming the Text Call for Papers April 22nd 2016, Singleton Abbey, University of Swansea Keynote Speaker: Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) ‘The Location of Queerness’ The Swansea University Centre for Research into…
Call for Papers: Saturday, 12 November 2016 University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ. The Conference is organised by: The Women’s History Network, Midlands Region The University of Worcester’s annual Women’s History Conference seeks papers for next year’s event…
Saturday 5 March, 2016: A conference organized by the Women’s History Network, Midlands Region and the Voices of War and Peace. WWI Engagement Centre, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Midlands B60 4JR. The Dig for Victory campaigns of the Second…
16 and 17 June 2016, King’s College London It is now over forty years since the bold declaration of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause that ‘The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken’. Stirred…
Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the Voluntary Action History Society’s 25th Anniversary Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, UK, between 13th and 15th July 2016. The theme is THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, THINKING…
From Somerville to Westminster, 1893 – 1946 A one-day Symposium and room-naming ceremony to be held at SOMERVILLE COLLEGE,OXFORD to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of Eleanor Rathbone (1872 – 1946), Somerville’s first Member of Parliament. Friday 22 January 2016, 9.30 am – 4.30pm.
Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January 2016 London, United Kingdom What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture…
Call for Papers: University of Reading 19-21 April 2016 As part of an international research network funded by an AHRC network grant entitled ‘Mothering Slaves: Comparative Perspectives on Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies’ we…