Events/news of interest to postgraduates
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note, the information here is provided as a courtesy. The
following events are not organised by Historical Perspectives, which
claims no responsibility for them.
Crime and Policing: Past and Present: Wednesday, 19 May 2010, West
Park Conference Centre, Dundee, 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (followed by a
wine reception). Hosted by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research
and the Department of History, University of Dundee. There is no charge
for
attending and lunch will be provided.
The conference is the first
in a series of events to be co-sponsored by the Scottish Institute for
Policing Research and the Department of History at the University of
Dundee. The series is intended to provide a unique forum for
historians and other academics to engage with crime and policing
professionals, with the aim of sharing and enhancing mutual knowledge
and research agendas. It is particularly intended to provide an
opportunity for contemporary crime and policing issues to be considered
from a historical perspective. Applications for places by 1 May—space is limited—to heilbronn@dundee.ac.uk
The Senior Hume Prize in Scottish
History. Applications are invited for this prestigious prize, the
current value of which is £4,500. The award is made for the best first
book on any aspect of Scottish history published in the years 2008 or
2009. Any graduate of any Scottish university is eligible. The closing
date for applications is 31 May 2010. Submissions should be made by
individual authors, enclosing three copies of their book to Professor T.
M. Devine, Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and
Palaeography, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, 17 Buccleuch
Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LN. Books will be returned to their authors at
the end of the competition.
The judging panel consists of the
current holders of the three established chairs of Scottish History at
the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews. The panel
reserves the right to consider books not entered by their author.
Oral History Training Seminar run by the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC), Monday, 7 June 2010. These
'day schools' seek to introduce oral history theory, methodology,
technology and ethics/legal considerations to anyone looking to utilise
oral history interviewing and/or analysis. We at the SOHC (based at the
University of Strathclyde in Glasgow) strive to promote 'best practice'
in the use and conduct of oral histories, and to teach and advise on the
practicalities of conducting oral histories. These training seminars
are suitable for anyone thinking about using oral history interviewing
in their current or future research and projects (for example,
dissertations and theses, community and local history projects, and
museums and archives), although they will appeal to anyone interested in
the use and presentation of oral history in general.
More details and registration form. Contacts: Dr Angela Bartie (angela.bartie@strath.ac.uk) and Professor Arthur McIvor (0141 548 2212/a.mcivor@strath.ac.uk).
Goodall Lecture at the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow,
Monday, 7 June, at 6:30
p.m. The Goodall Lecture this year will be given on the topic of
Renaissance Medicine to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of
Maister Peter Lowe in August 1610. The lecture will be given
by Professor Vivian Nutton. Recently retired as professor of the
history of medicine at University College, London, Professor Nutton is
currently writing a book on the development of medical ideas and
practices in the Renaissance of the sixteenth century. The lecture
which will be accompanied by a display of Renaissance medical books
from the college’s collection. All are welcome.
The Scottish Catholic Historical Association and the Scottish Catholic Archives present
'Liturgy and the Nation', their 19th annual conference, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Saturday, 12 June,
Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow, St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow G3 6NH.
Greta-Mary Hair (University of Edinburgh): 'The Cults of St Andrew and St Kentigern, Patron Saints of Scotland and Glasgow'
Alan Macquarrie (University of Strathclyde): 'The Need for a New Edition of the Aberdeen Breviary'
Rachel Butter and Simon Innes (University of Glasgow): 'The Glenorchy Psalter and Gàidhealtachd Liturgy'
Stephen Holmes (University of Edinburgh): 'The Scottish Liturgy, from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century'
James MacMillan (Composer): 'Liturgy and Nation in 21st-Century Scotland: A Composer's View'
Registration £15 (£9 students/OAP/unwaged) includes coffee and lunch.
For
more information or to register, please contact the Scottish Catholic
Archives, Columba House, 16 Drummond Place, Edinburgh EH3 6PL. 0131 556
3661
Modern British History Network Conference
on Modern British History, University of St Andrews, 22-23 June. The
event is aimed at members of all the Scottish universities and the
northern English universities although all historians are very
welcome. The conference aims to represent work covering the period from
the late eighteenth century with topics in political, economic, social,
cultural, religious and intellectual history.
Confirmed keynote
speakers: Professor Bob Morris (University of Edinburgh); Professor
Jeffrey Richards (University of Lancaster); Professor Penny Summerfield
(University of Manchester).
Please see the network’s web site for information on this conference and other activities: www.mbhn.org.uk
Enquiries to Dr James Nott, Modern History, University of St Andrews: james.nott@st-andrews.ac.uk
Early Modern Women's Work, a
workshop to examine methodological issues in the study of work in the
early modern period, will take place on Thursday 23 and Friday 24
September 2010 at Jesus College, Cambridge. There will be no formal
papers. Rather, discussion will be organised around the various
methodological issues which have arisen in discussing work across
cultures and across time (between medievalists, early modernists and
modernists). The workshop is involved in or planning investigations of (women's) work
and the idea is to bring participants' nationally specific experience
of sources and historiography to the table in discussion on these
issues. The organisers would be grateful for expressions of interest in
attending.
Further
information/enquiries: Dr Amy Erickson, Senior Research Associate,
Group for Population History, University of Cambridge,
amyerickson@blueyonder.co.uk
Women's History Scotland 2010 Annual Conference Call for Papers: 15-16 October, UHI
Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch.
'Women on/in the Land (Scape): Gender, Space and Environment in Women's
and Gender History.'
Sangis of the Scottis Reformatioun: five
concerts in 2010 to mark the 450th anniversary of Scotland's
'Reformation Parliament' and celebrate the music of gude & meike
Jhone Angus of Dunfermline (d. 1596) and the poetry of Elizabeth
Melville, Lady Culross (d. 1640).
The
music is mostly taken from the Thomas Wode Partbooks, copied in St
Andrews between 1562 and 1592, by Thomas Wode, ex-Benedictine of
Lindores, reader at Holy Trinity St Andrews after the Reformation. For
images and more information, see http://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/wode. The
concerts will be sung in Scots and feature different sets of readings
(in Scots) for each venue by Dr Jamie Reid Baxter.
Sat.
23 October at 3 p.m. in Newburgh Parish Kirk, next door to the ruins of
Lindores Abbey, Wode's one-time home. Readings from the Fife Protestant
historian Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie.
Sun.
21 November at 7.30 p.m. in Dunfermline Abbey, John Angus' one-time
home. Readings from David Fergusson, the long-lived first Reformit
minister of Dunfermline. This concert will feature all 13 of Angus'
surviving pieces, and will be recorded for release on CD. An illustrated book on John Angus and music in Dunfermline will be launched at this event.
Scottish Society and the Parish—Call for Papers.
The Scottish Records Association and the Economic & Social History
Society of Scotland, Wednesday 24 November, The Tolbooth, Stirling.
This
conference marks the 450th anniversary of the Reformation in
Scotland. For much of this period, the Parish was the key civil
and administrative unit across Scottish society. The idea of 'the
parish' and records relating to parishes are therefore key to
historians of Scotland from the medieval to the modern era.
Proposals are invited under three general themes: Medieval,
Social and Economic, and Ecclesiastical. The scope within these
themes is broad and includes health, education, poverty, patronage,
popular culture, church and religion.
While the conference is intended to appeal to social and economic and
ecclesiastical historians, it is also aimed at a wider audience such as
archivists, local studies librarians, museum curators, local historians
and genealogists. Preference will therefore be given to paper
proposals that suggest an appeal to this broad audience. The Scottish
Records Association, however, also encourages paper proposals on
'Scottish Society and the Parish' for its journal, Scottish Archives,
from archivists and historians who wish to focus firmly on the Records
aspect of the conference. Abstracts of no more than 300 words are
invited. These should be submitted no later than 30 June and can
be sent by e-mail to Dr Iain Hutchison at
eshss@keapub.fsnet.co.uk Please indicate preferences for your
proposal: conference presentation, Scottish Archives journal, or both.
School of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland (Hamilton Campus) PhD research projects.
Suitably qualified candidates (perhaps in the process of completing a
Master's) invited to undertake one of two possible PhD research
projects linked to migration and migrant identity in Scotland. Both
projects require a background in historical studies/research, with a
particular interest in the history of modern Scotland: one focusing on
a comparative analysis and the other on Ulster/Scotland links.
Studentships to the value of £6000/year are currently being offered by
UWS.
Details of both projects (and studentships) can be found here.
Project titles: 'Migration and Identity in Scotland, 1815-1945'
(PHD0C031) and 'Migration and Identity in Scotland: The Ulster
Connection, 1815-1914' (PHDS0C032).
Organisations/Societies
Economic History Society
http://www.ehs.org.uk/
ESRC Homepage
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/
History On-Line
http://www.history.ac.uk/search/welcome.html
Institute for Historical Research
http://www.history.ac.uk/conferences/
London School of Economics Cliometrics Group
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/colvinc/clio/index.htm
Social History Society
http://socialhistory.org.uk/
Women’s History Network
http://www.womenshistorynetwork.org/
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