International Symposium
Institute of Historical Research (Wolfson and Pollard Rooms), Senate House, University of London
28 June 2010, 09.30 – 07.30
A follow-up to the successful event in 2009 will be held at the IHR on 28 June 2010.
Programme for the day
- 9.30
- Registration, Coffee available
- 10.00
- Welcome
Professor John Beckett, Director, Victoria County History. - 10.15
- Voyageurs, sawyers and - sometimes - priests: what can we know about faith
in the Upper Mississippi Valley during the 1830's and 1840's?
Tangi VILLERBU, Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine
Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines Université de La
Rochelle
- 11.15
- Break – coffee available
- 11.30
- Exceptionalism and Local History (and National History, for that matter)
Annette Atkins, Professor of History/Flynn Professor in the
Humanities Saint John's University/College of Saint Benedict Collegeville
- 12.30
- Lunch (provided)
- 2.00
- The Depression of 1930s? The Workers of the Industrial City of Tampere in
global and national context
Jarmo Peltola, Department of History and Philosophy, University
of Tampere, Finland
- 2.45
- Beyond Illustrations: Photography as a Primary Source for Historical
Interpretation.
Constance Schulz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Editor, The
Digital Documentary Edition of the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott
Pinckney Horry (an NEH funded project) Department of History University of
South Carolina
- 3.30
- The Problem of Belonging: contested country in Australian local history
Frank Bongiorno, Senior Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian
Studies and Department of History School of Arts and Humanities King's
College London and Erik Eklund, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
- 4.15
- Break
- 4.30
- Plenary Session
Led by Professor Chris Dyer, Centre for Local and
Regional History, University of Leicester, and Professor John Beckett.
- 5.30
- Registration for the Fitch lecture
- 6.00
- Annual Marc Fitch Lecture: The Economic Worlds of Sir Richard Newdigate: Tenants,
Servants, Labourers and Craftsmen in a Warwickshire Parish, c.1670-1710
Professor Steve Hindle, University of Warwick
- 7.30
- Reception in the Common Room of the Institute of Historical Research.
[Notes from the day will be circulated after the event. You will be asked to leave an email address for contact.]
Booking
A copy of this programme is available to print out and bring with you.
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