Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 1pm to 6pm, at Royal Holloway University of London
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is organising a research training workshop for postgraduates (MA students and PhDs) and early career scholars (defined as within five years of PhD graduation). The event is intended to be a “one-stop-shop” where attendees can take part in a variety of training and development workshops, get advice and feedback on their own work and meet with other researchers. The event is targeted primarily although not exclusively at those interested in the Americas, with both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We particularly encourage those just starting out in postgraduate research to attend. We also hope that the sessions will appeal to those making the transition from postgraduate research into the next stage of their academic careers, who often find that there is a dearth of research training catering to their particular position.
The event has five elements:
1) Training and development workshops. Sessions include:
Getting published, Teaching as a postgrad, Using social media, Applying for funding, Conference organisation, Job search and CV writing, Being a part-time postgrad, Coping with academic stress, Working with your supervisor & mentoring others, Remaining research active post-PhD graduation
2) A “drop-in surgery” for advice
3) The chance to present one’s research project in poster format and receive feedback on it (optional)
4) A “marketplace” showcasing publishers, scholarly organisations and societies etc
5) Networking and socialising opportunities, including a drinks reception kindly supported by The Paul Mellon Professorial Fund
The cost is £20. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 14th November 2012.
To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the organisers (Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, Oxford University) via shawsociety@gmail.com
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Thursday, 18 October 2012
Friday, 10 June 2011
Anglo-American Conference 2011: Health and History
Anglo-American Conference 2011: Health and History
29th June - 1st July 2011
Venue: Brunei Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
The Anglo-American Conference 2011: Health and History hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, will feature papers and panels across all periods and areas of the history of medicine.
Of interest to researchers in Commonwealth Studies will be panels, including:
Healing and religion in African colonial history
•Chair: Kathleen Vongsathorn (Oxford)
•Myriam Mertens (Ghent/Exeter) Medicinal ‘irrationality’ and the social tensions of health care provision in the Belgian Congo during the interwar period
•Nina Studer (Zurich/Oxford) Protective device or a sign of degeneration? The role of Islam in the writings of French colonial psychiatrists
•Kathleen Vongsathorn (Oxford) In the image of Britain: Lake Bunyonyi leprosy settlement as a model community, Uganda, 1931-1951
•Georgina Endfield (Nottingham) ‘No place for a woman’: health, medicine and women's work among missionary wives and female missionaries in British colonial Africa
Military medical bodies: patients, power and practice in the British empire
•Chair: Julie Anderson (Kent)
•Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester) Men in pain: sociality, brutality and resistance in military hospitals, 1914-1918
•Wendy D. Churchill (New Brunswick) The right to care: military men and British imperial medicine, 1780-1820
•Michael Brown (Roehampton) From Social Darwinism to physical culture: the problem of the medico-military body in the age of new imperialism
Fighting fit: exploring military medicine
•Chair: Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester)
•Peter Starling (Army Medical Services Museum) Medical education and good wine: the formation of the army medical school and medical education in the British army in the later 19th century
•Mark Harrison (Oxford) Great expectations: the South African War and the reform of British military medicine
•Emma Reilly (Strathclyde) ‘They passed me A1 fit, can you believe it?’: The British Army body and the military medical exam, 1939-1945
•Kathleen Meghan Fitzpatrick (King’s College London) Weathering the storm: Commonwealth combat psychiatry in Korea (1950-1951)
Missionary bodies and medical spaces
•Chair: Peter Webster
•Emily Manktelow (Exeter) Missionary bodies, domestic spaces
•Esmé Cleall (Liverpool) ‘More bad news’: narratives of sickness in missionary writing, c. 1840-1890
•Rosemary Fitzgerald (SOAS) Purdah patients at home and in hospital: transforming female missionary medicine in north India, 1890–1914
Public health, colonial space
•Chair: Zirwat Chowdhary (IHR)
•Nicole Bourbonnais (Pittsburgh) ‘Where public opinion is in a mood’: British colonial policy and birth control in the West Indies, 1930-1970
•Shane Minkin (Swarthmore) Foreign hospital, local institution: public health and belonging in late nineteenth century Alexandria, Egypt
•Erica Wald (London School of Economics) Professional societies and the competition for medical authority in India, 1789-1854
as well as individual papers, in other panels
Further information on the conference, the programme and registration available at: http://www.history.ac.uk/aac2011
29th June - 1st July 2011
Venue: Brunei Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
The Anglo-American Conference 2011: Health and History hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, will feature papers and panels across all periods and areas of the history of medicine.
Of interest to researchers in Commonwealth Studies will be panels, including:
Healing and religion in African colonial history
•Chair: Kathleen Vongsathorn (Oxford)
•Myriam Mertens (Ghent/Exeter) Medicinal ‘irrationality’ and the social tensions of health care provision in the Belgian Congo during the interwar period
•Nina Studer (Zurich/Oxford) Protective device or a sign of degeneration? The role of Islam in the writings of French colonial psychiatrists
•Kathleen Vongsathorn (Oxford) In the image of Britain: Lake Bunyonyi leprosy settlement as a model community, Uganda, 1931-1951
•Georgina Endfield (Nottingham) ‘No place for a woman’: health, medicine and women's work among missionary wives and female missionaries in British colonial Africa
Military medical bodies: patients, power and practice in the British empire
•Chair: Julie Anderson (Kent)
•Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester) Men in pain: sociality, brutality and resistance in military hospitals, 1914-1918
•Wendy D. Churchill (New Brunswick) The right to care: military men and British imperial medicine, 1780-1820
•Michael Brown (Roehampton) From Social Darwinism to physical culture: the problem of the medico-military body in the age of new imperialism
Fighting fit: exploring military medicine
•Chair: Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester)
•Peter Starling (Army Medical Services Museum) Medical education and good wine: the formation of the army medical school and medical education in the British army in the later 19th century
•Mark Harrison (Oxford) Great expectations: the South African War and the reform of British military medicine
•Emma Reilly (Strathclyde) ‘They passed me A1 fit, can you believe it?’: The British Army body and the military medical exam, 1939-1945
•Kathleen Meghan Fitzpatrick (King’s College London) Weathering the storm: Commonwealth combat psychiatry in Korea (1950-1951)
Missionary bodies and medical spaces
•Chair: Peter Webster
•Emily Manktelow (Exeter) Missionary bodies, domestic spaces
•Esmé Cleall (Liverpool) ‘More bad news’: narratives of sickness in missionary writing, c. 1840-1890
•Rosemary Fitzgerald (SOAS) Purdah patients at home and in hospital: transforming female missionary medicine in north India, 1890–1914
Public health, colonial space
•Chair: Zirwat Chowdhary (IHR)
•Nicole Bourbonnais (Pittsburgh) ‘Where public opinion is in a mood’: British colonial policy and birth control in the West Indies, 1930-1970
•Shane Minkin (Swarthmore) Foreign hospital, local institution: public health and belonging in late nineteenth century Alexandria, Egypt
•Erica Wald (London School of Economics) Professional societies and the competition for medical authority in India, 1789-1854
as well as individual papers, in other panels
Further information on the conference, the programme and registration available at: http://www.history.ac.uk/aac2011
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Canadian studies study tours, internships, conferences and events
"Thinking Canada" - EU-Canada Study Tour and Internship Programme 2011
"Thinking Canada" is an initiative of the European Network for Canadian Studies - a four-week study tour to Canada for European students that will take place from 4 September to 2 October 2011, followed for selected participants by two-month internships. The tour to Canada commences with three days of briefings in Brussels on the EU and EU-Canada relations.The aim of the study tour is to offer its participants a unique in-depth experience of Canada through an intensive programme of visits to major private and public institutions, government bodies, think tanks and NGOs. At each place, the students will receive briefings and have the opportunity to exchange views with representatives of these bodies, many of them leading experts in their fields. The tour will begin in Brussels, and travel to Ottawa, Québec, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria.
This immersion in Canada will offer a unique opportunity for an academic experience in a non-academic setting. The tour is focused on a number of themes, in particular cultural diversity (including the English/French relationship, the First Nations and multiculturalism), political issues (federalism, regionalism, the role of government), the environment (including Arctic issues), urban issues and economic topics (business, finance, trade). EU-Canada relations will also be covered and provide a recurring backdrop to the discussions. Two European academic advisors will be accompanying the tour to serve as resource persons and provide feedback.
In addition to the tour, eight two-month internships will be offered to participants immediately following the end of the tour.
For further information on the tour, its programme, internships, cost and how to apply, see the tour's website.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 18 May 2011
Where is Here Now? Canadian Literary Study in the 21st Century
The British Association for Canadian Studies Literature Group is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a symposium on 12th September 2011 at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British library. This one-day symposium will provide an opportunity for emerging and established scholars to situate developments and innovations in current Canadian literary studies in the UK and beyond.
We see this symposium as a chance to re-evaluate dominant modes of Canadian literary canon making and map out new ways of understanding Canadian literature's place and influence in and beyond Canada at the beginning of the new millennium. To this end, we invite papers aiming to look forward, focusing on emerging writers, as well as those offering fresh approaches to established writers and forgotten or marginalised writers who are due renewed critical attention. To help us with these productive re-evaluations we have invited two eminent, influential and innovative scholars and BACS members to give a joint plenary and lead the first discussion: Dr. Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham) and Dr. Faye Hammill (Strathclyde University).
We suggest the following topics of interest, although contributors should not feel limited to these areas:
•Canada on the global stage
•Canada since 9/11
•Canadian literature and culture in the cyberage
•Canadian engagement with new literary genres
•Cosmopolitanism
•Re-assessing ideas of the postnational and/or transnational
•Multiculturalism and diversity
•Indigeneity and/or the absence of decolonization
•Canadian literary prize culture
•Rethinking the 'lit' in CanLit
•Changing materialities
•Interdisciplinary approaches to Canadian literature
•Comparative frameworks: postcolonial and/or hemispheric paradigms
•The institutional positioning of Canadian literature in the UK: Is it an 'Area Studies' subject? Should it be taught under World literatures or general contemporary literature?
We invite paper proposals for 5-10-minute position papers. All panellists will be required to submit a 2000 to 3000-word version of their paper, which will be posted for all delegates to read in advance on the BACS literature group webpage. Proposals of 300 words and brief biographical notes should be emailed to Catherine Bates, Fiona Tolan and Gillian Roberts.
CONFERENCE ON WAR OF 1812 - SENATE HOUSE, LONDON, 13-14 JULY 2012
A major conference marking the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 is being arranged in London on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July 2012. This will be the annual conference of the History and Politics Group of the British Association for Canadian Studies. Over 20 papers on the War of 1812 have already been received and one of the plenary speakers will be Professor Donald Hickey, who has written one of the main books on the subject. Further papers are invited, especially on the significance of the War of 1812 in Anglo-Canadian-American relations since then. If you are interested in attending or submitting a paper or would like more details about the conference please contact Tony McCulloch. Paper proposals (one or two paragraphs) plus a short bio should be submitted by 1 July 2011.
Canada's Special Relationships - SENATE HOUSE, LONDON, 15 JULY 2011
The 2011 Canadian Studies conference will be held on Friday 15 July and will be on the theme of "Canada's Special Relationships". If you would like to attend or submit a paper please contact Tony McCulloch. It is hoped that some funding for travel from Dundee and accommodation in London will be available for presenters and chairs.
It is intended that a selection of the papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal. Possible topics include Canada's relationships - now or in the past - with Britain, the USA, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, NATO, the UN, the EU, the G8/G20, the Arctic, etc.***Extended Deadline: 5th May, 2011***
"Thinking Canada" is an initiative of the European Network for Canadian Studies - a four-week study tour to Canada for European students that will take place from 4 September to 2 October 2011, followed for selected participants by two-month internships. The tour to Canada commences with three days of briefings in Brussels on the EU and EU-Canada relations.The aim of the study tour is to offer its participants a unique in-depth experience of Canada through an intensive programme of visits to major private and public institutions, government bodies, think tanks and NGOs. At each place, the students will receive briefings and have the opportunity to exchange views with representatives of these bodies, many of them leading experts in their fields. The tour will begin in Brussels, and travel to Ottawa, Québec, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria.
This immersion in Canada will offer a unique opportunity for an academic experience in a non-academic setting. The tour is focused on a number of themes, in particular cultural diversity (including the English/French relationship, the First Nations and multiculturalism), political issues (federalism, regionalism, the role of government), the environment (including Arctic issues), urban issues and economic topics (business, finance, trade). EU-Canada relations will also be covered and provide a recurring backdrop to the discussions. Two European academic advisors will be accompanying the tour to serve as resource persons and provide feedback.
In addition to the tour, eight two-month internships will be offered to participants immediately following the end of the tour.
For further information on the tour, its programme, internships, cost and how to apply, see the tour's website.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 18 May 2011
Where is Here Now? Canadian Literary Study in the 21st Century
The British Association for Canadian Studies Literature Group is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a symposium on 12th September 2011 at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British library. This one-day symposium will provide an opportunity for emerging and established scholars to situate developments and innovations in current Canadian literary studies in the UK and beyond.
We see this symposium as a chance to re-evaluate dominant modes of Canadian literary canon making and map out new ways of understanding Canadian literature's place and influence in and beyond Canada at the beginning of the new millennium. To this end, we invite papers aiming to look forward, focusing on emerging writers, as well as those offering fresh approaches to established writers and forgotten or marginalised writers who are due renewed critical attention. To help us with these productive re-evaluations we have invited two eminent, influential and innovative scholars and BACS members to give a joint plenary and lead the first discussion: Dr. Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham) and Dr. Faye Hammill (Strathclyde University).
We suggest the following topics of interest, although contributors should not feel limited to these areas:
•Canada on the global stage
•Canada since 9/11
•Canadian literature and culture in the cyberage
•Canadian engagement with new literary genres
•Cosmopolitanism
•Re-assessing ideas of the postnational and/or transnational
•Multiculturalism and diversity
•Indigeneity and/or the absence of decolonization
•Canadian literary prize culture
•Rethinking the 'lit' in CanLit
•Changing materialities
•Interdisciplinary approaches to Canadian literature
•Comparative frameworks: postcolonial and/or hemispheric paradigms
•The institutional positioning of Canadian literature in the UK: Is it an 'Area Studies' subject? Should it be taught under World literatures or general contemporary literature?
We invite paper proposals for 5-10-minute position papers. All panellists will be required to submit a 2000 to 3000-word version of their paper, which will be posted for all delegates to read in advance on the BACS literature group webpage. Proposals of 300 words and brief biographical notes should be emailed to Catherine Bates, Fiona Tolan and Gillian Roberts.
CONFERENCE ON WAR OF 1812 - SENATE HOUSE, LONDON, 13-14 JULY 2012
A major conference marking the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 is being arranged in London on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July 2012. This will be the annual conference of the History and Politics Group of the British Association for Canadian Studies. Over 20 papers on the War of 1812 have already been received and one of the plenary speakers will be Professor Donald Hickey, who has written one of the main books on the subject. Further papers are invited, especially on the significance of the War of 1812 in Anglo-Canadian-American relations since then. If you are interested in attending or submitting a paper or would like more details about the conference please contact Tony McCulloch. Paper proposals (one or two paragraphs) plus a short bio should be submitted by 1 July 2011.
Canada's Special Relationships - SENATE HOUSE, LONDON, 15 JULY 2011
The 2011 Canadian Studies conference will be held on Friday 15 July and will be on the theme of "Canada's Special Relationships". If you would like to attend or submit a paper please contact Tony McCulloch. It is hoped that some funding for travel from Dundee and accommodation in London will be available for presenters and chairs.
It is intended that a selection of the papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal. Possible topics include Canada's relationships - now or in the past - with Britain, the USA, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, NATO, the UN, the EU, the G8/G20, the Arctic, etc.***Extended Deadline: 5th May, 2011***
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