Sheffield History Research Colloquium (1st June 2009)
A one-day colloquium that showcased research in the Department of History. |
cfp: Genocide. The Future of Prevention (9th - 12th January 2009)
The International Network of Genocide Scholars together with the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence (SGMV) at The University of Sheffield/UK will dedicate the 1st Global Conference on Genocide, Sheffield, to sustainable genocide prevention for the 21st century. "Genocide: The Future of Prevention", the inaugural event in INOGS' biannual series of Global Genocide Conferences, will take stock of Genocide Studies and move on to develop new ideas about prevention. |
Engineering Society. The Scientisation of the Social in Comparative Perspective, 1880-1990 (20th - 22nd November 2008)
'Scientisation of the social' is a concept that has been developed to analyse the application of the social sciences to social problems. It focuses on the impact these sciences have had on both the structures and the self-descriptions of modern societies since the late nineteenth century.
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The Metropolis on Trial (10th - 12th July 2008)
An international conference will be held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 10-12 July 2008 to celebrate the completion of the Old Bailey Online project. Papers at the conference will draw upon the Proceedings between 1674 and 1913, and the proceedings of similar courts in other metropolitan centres, to explore aspects of cultural, social or political life from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries.
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Historicising the middlebrow (4th July 2008)
'The term 'middlebrow' emerged in the mid-1920s to describe dismissively the extensive area of cultural production which situated itself between high modernism and popular culture. The category was particularly associated with best-selling novels, but was also used to label certain types of broadcasting, cinema, periodical, music and interior decoration. The 'middlebrow' prompted hostility and fierce debate, both at the time and subsequently, and the underlying concept of different 'brows' has been a resilient one. |
Early Modern Discussion Group (21st June 2008)
This intellectual and social event will enable researchers of all levels to come together, listen and contribute in a friendly, informal and collaborative atmosphere. There will be a series of twelve talks discussing many aspects of early modernity, by postgraduates from around the country. The day will be concluded with a keynote lecture by Dr. Phil Withington, of the University of Leeds, entitled 'An Early Modern Muddle? The Early History of an Historical Category.'
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Cultures of the Cold War (20th June 2008)
This workshop hopes to contribute to a critical understanding of the Cold War by analysing European experiences of the Cold War from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, thus providing us with an innovative understanding of the ways in which cultures and world views became infused with Cold War meanings.
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Identities and Solidarities (11th April 2008) [timetable]
Modern Russian History and Culture: Northern Discussion Group Workshop. |
Materializing Culture: Home life An exploratory workshop (7th March 2008)
The Materializing Culture group, based at the University of Sheffield, explores the materialization of culture: how people now and in the past have engaged with, used and made culture, and how we as practitioners research and represent culture.
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Materialising Culture - Home Life (18th January 2008)
An interdisciplinary symposium which involved Arts and Humanities and Social Science departments. |
The Politics of Gesture: Historical Perspectives (15th - 16th September 2007)
This conference brought together a distinguished group of speakers, whose research interests range in time from early medieval to contemporary history, and in space across East and South Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Together, their papers approach gesture (as opposed to ritual) and focus more closely on who is communicating what (and with what success), in order to gain access to a wide range of politics—within the home, between generations and status groups, or between ethnic groups—and of politics in routine situations. |
The Voice of the People: The European Folk Revival, 1760 - 1914 (7th - 9th September 2007)
This was an interdisciplinary conference, combining history, literary, folklore studies, architecture and political science approaches to folklore in 19th-century Europe. The participation was from around the world, with over 50 papers. |
| Peace and Governments in Twentieth-Century Europe (28th - 30th August 2007) |
| Second Postgraduate Conference on Imperial and International History (31st May 2007) |
Domesticity (18th - 19th January 2007)
'Domesticity' is a key concept for much current research in both the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. This symposium addressed the nature of domesticity and its limits, its construction through practice, narrative and representation, and the uses of discourses of domesticity in personal and public life.
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War, Genocide and Memory: German Colonialism and National Identity (11th - 13th September 2007)
The conference aimed to address Germany's biased and troubled relationship with its colonial past over the course of two centuries. As postcolonial studies have shown, colonial engagement neither started nor ended with formal colonial rule.
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| First Postgraduate Conference on Imperial and International History (25th May 2006) |
| Imperial Biographies: Soldiers, Scientists, and Officials and the "Arendt Thesis" (4th May 2006) |
The Transfer of Ideas about Taxation since 1750 (16th - 18th September 2005)
In the three day conference historians and economists from different European countries and the USA explored the transfer of ideas about taxation from the mid-eighteenth century to the beginning of the 1950s.
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Genocides: Forms, Causes and Consequences (13th - 15th January 2005)
The Namibian War (1904-08) in historical perspective. |
