History/Psychology: Fully Funded PhD scholarship: Remembering Disasters: Between Individual and Collective Memory This scholarship is a joint research study between Swansea University and Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes, and funded by SUSPRS (Swansea University) and IDEX (Université Grenoble Alpes). Start date: October 2018 or January 2019 Closing date for applications: 14 June 2018 The field of …
Category: Conferences, Workshops and Events (CFPs, Reports, Announcements and anything else)
Theatre: Colette Uncensored (10, 11 & 12 May 2018)
“Colette Uncensored” The award-winning one-woman playby Zack Rogow ’74, and Lorri Holt Starring renowned actor Lori Holt
Ethan Katz, ‘Jews, Muslims, Frenchmen: The Promises and Perils of Fraternity’ – Public Lecture 1 May 2018
On 1 May 2018, Ethan Katz will be talking about his latest book, The Burdens of Brotherhood, at a public lecture organised by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism. He will discuss the relations between Jews and Muslims in France throughout the twentieth century, a topic which is very timely in both France and Britain …
Call for Papers No End to the War: Cultures of Violence and Care in the aftermath of the First World War
Call for Papers No End to the War: Cultures of Violence and Care in the aftermath of the First World War Thursday 24-Friday 25 January, 2019, The University of Manchester Organisers: The Centre for the Cultural History of War, The University of Manchester War, Conflict and Society Research Group, Manchester Metropolitan University …
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2018 – Malcolm Crook (Keele), How the British & French Learned to Vote
Date & Place: Monday 8 January, at the Institut Français, South Kensington Speakers: Professor Malcolm Crook (Keele) Paper Title: How the British and French Learned to Vote Chair: Professor David Andress (Portsmouth) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) On January 8th, 2018, at the Institut Français, the SSFH and ASMCF held …
The First World War 100 Years On: Roundtable discussion at the IHR
THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Reflections on Scholarship and Commemoration 100 years on MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2017 5.30pm, Institute of Historical Research, Wolfson Room (NB02) How has the historiography of the First World War changed since the early twentieth century? What controversies animate contemporary historians today, and what roads are researchers currently travelling? How has commemoration …
Domesticating the Goddess Liberty: French history at the British Library (Monday 20 Nov 2017)
DOMESTICATING THE GODDESS LIBERTY Take a journey back in time through the British Library’s French poster collection. Join Collaborative PhD student Cherie Prosser (British Library/University of Sheffield) for the unravelling of a mystery that takes us to First World War Paris, as we reveal the historical significance of the changing female representation of ‘Liberty’: https://www.bl.uk/events/domesticating-the-goddess-liberty …
BEYOND POLITICS. New Directions in French History.
On 27 January 2017, Chris Millington (Swansea) led a one-day workshop at the Institute of Historical Research funded by the British Academy where doctoral and early career French historians met to discuss their research and approaches to teaching. Organised in conjunction with the French History Network and New Directions workshops, it showcased the work of …
TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM. New Directions in French History.
On 27 January 2017, Chris Millington (Swansea) led a one-day workshop at the Institute of Historical Research funded by the British Academy where doctoral and early career French historians met to discuss their research and approaches to teaching. Organised in conjunction with the French History Network and New Directions workshops, it showcased the work of …
TIME AND SPACE: New directions in French history
On 27 January 2017, Chris Millington (Swansea) led a one-day workshop at the Institute of Historical Research funded by the British Academy where doctoral and early career French historians met to discuss their research and approaches to teaching. Organised in conjunction with the French History Network and New Directions workshops, it showcased the work of …
