Events
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In Conversation: Jay Kleinberg & Jessie Ramey
Location: Institute for Historical Research, London
Date:
28/06/2013
Description:
This event sees historians Jay Kleinberg (Brunel University) and Jessie Ramey (University of Pittsburgh) come together to discuss their work and explore the connections between their scholarship, particularly the myriad links between Rameys 'Childcare in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages', (2012) and Kleinbergs 'The Shadow of the Mill: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907', (1989) and 'Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939', (2006).
Both have written extensively on issues surrounding gender, families, working-class employment, welfare and social policy from the late nineteenth century onwards. They also share a bond with Pittsburgh that has informed both their lives and their writings. Kleinberg based her first book on a case study of the city and completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where Ramey is now an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the same department.
Coming together in conversation for the first time gives them the opportunity to share their thoughts and perspectives with a wider academic audience. The discussion is followed by a wine reception at 6pm.
The event is kindly supported by the Institute for Historical Research and the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW). For further information, please email SHAW.
Website: http://shawsociety.tumblr.com/inconversation
Contact Email: shawsociety@gmail.com
Voluntary Action History Society Conference
Location: Huddersfield, England
Date:
10/07/2013 - 12/07/2013
Description:
The Call for Papers for the next Voluntary Action History Society conference at the University of Huddersfield, 10-12 July 2013 is out now. We are delighted to welcome Professor Ellen Ross and Professor Barry Doyle as keynote speakers. We are inviting proposals for individual papers or panels of three papers on six themes:
- Activism and campaigning
- Humanitarianism and relief
- State and voluntary action
- Cooperation and mutualism
- Leisure and voluntary action
- Wars and voluntarism
Papers might address these themes at any level, from the local to the global, and we would be especially interested in papers that take a transnational approach to their subject. There is much more information about the conference, the venue and the keynote speakers on the webpage including details of how to submit proposals.
http://www.vahs.org.uk/events/conference/
The deadline for proposals is 31 December 2012. We strongly encourage panel submissions, so do get in touch if you have an idea for a panel and would like to be matched up with potential partners.
Website: http://www.vahs.org.uk/events/conference/
Contact Email: p.grant@city.ac.uk
'Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives
Location: M&S Archives, Leeds
Date:
05/09/2013
Description:
2013 CHORD Conference Call for Papers:
'Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives'
5 September 2013
The conference will be held at the:
Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) and the M&S Company Archive invite proposals for papers that explore the relationship between retailing and the senses, in Britain and beyond. We welcome papers focusing on both buying and selling, approaching the topic from any discipline and focusing on any historical period.
We invite contributions that explore the connections between retailing and any one or more of the senses:
o Sight
o Smell
o Taste
o Touch
o Hearing
o as well as the sixth sense
Proposals are welcome for 20 minute and for shorter 10 minute papers (all papers will be followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion). To submit a proposal, please send by 15 April 2013, title and abstract of c. 300/400 words to Laura Ugolini and Karin Dannehl.
For further information, or to discuss ideas before submitting an abstract, please e-mail Karin Dannehl.
The conference web-page can be found at: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2013conf.htm
The venue will be the M&S Company Archive, Leeds. For more information about the archive, including location maps, see: http://marksintime.marksandspencer.com/
News about CHORD events can now also be found at: http://retailhistory.wordpress.com/about/
Website: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2013conf.htm
Contact Email: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
A New Platform for Scottish Renaissance Studies
Location: Perth Concert Hall, Perth, PH1 5HZ
Date:
26/10/2013 - 27/10/2013
Description:
The purpose of this conference is to set a new platform for future research in the field of Scottish Renaissance Studies by bringing together research undertaken in the last decade into a coherent whole. There will be five paper session and two site visits, one to the privately owned Megginch Castle on the Carse of Gowrie and the other to Huntingtower to the west of Perth, ancient paternal seat of the earls of Gowrie, which Historic Scotland has recently reinterpreted.
Speakers include Professor Richard Oram of Stirling University, Madame Monique Chatenet, Conservateur en chef du Patrimoine, Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, Professor Ian Campbell of Edinburgh University and, as Rapporteur, Professor Konrad Ottenheym of Utrecht University.
The conference is by way of by way of a celebration of the contribution of Professor Charles McKean to the field of Scottish Renaissance Studies, with particular reference to the architecture of the Scottish country seat, on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Dundee.
For further information, a draft programme, and to book, please visit the conference website.
Website: www.dundee.ac.uk/humanities/research/conferencesseminars/newplatform/
Contact Email: suehewer1@btopenworld.com
CfP*Challenges of International Banking Regulation
Location: Frankfurt
Date:
16/01/2014 - 17/01/2014
Description:
Call for Papers for a jointly organised event by the ERSC-funding project 'The Development of International Financial Regulation and Supervision (1961-1982), University of Glasgow (www.bank-reg.co.uk) and EABH e.V.
Financial regulation and supervision has gained prominence in the public debate over the past few years. The aim of this conference is to contextualise discussions about financial regulation and supervision since World War II, in particular by providing an historical perspective to current debates.
Conference organisers welcome proposals investigating the obstacles and challenges to international banking regulation and supervision after 1945. The aim of the conference is to bring together different approaches - legal, economic, political science / political economy, historical - in order to enrich and widen the debate about international regulation and supervision.
Some of the broader questions that we hope to address are:
- What were / are the obstacles to an effective international banking regulation and / or supervision?
- Have lessons been learnt from previous banking crises?
- Can we draw parallels between our current predicament and the international banking crises of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s?
- Why and how has the governance of banking regulation and supervision evolved since World War II, i.e. between the national, international and supranational levels?
- What have been the driving forces and conflicting interests behind this evolution?
- Has it really created a global level playing field, or has the international governance of banking regulation and supervision become too complex for its own good?
Potential contributors interested in participating should submit a paper proposal not exceeding one page and a recent CV as email attachments by 30 September 2013 to Dr Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (Emmanuel.Mourlon-Druol@glasgow.ac.uk), writing EABH / Glasgow Conference in the email headline.
Final papers will be circulated in advance of the conference and should be around 6000 words. The organisers plan to publish the proceedings of the conference.
The selection committee (composed of Professor Catherine Schenk, University of Glasgow, Dr Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow, and Dr Piet Clement, Bank for International Settlements/EABH) will then review the proposals and inform successful applicants in due course.
Please note that should your institution be unable to do so, there are limited funds available to support travel expenses.
Contact Email: c.hofmann@bankinghistory.de
