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Angles 2: Another interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on cultural history
By Stephen | 10 June 2010
Although this is not strictly speaking an early modern event, I’ve posted it in the interest of promoting Birkbeck evets, especially those run by and for students.
The aim of the conference is to bring together a range of postgraduate perspectives on cultural history from across the disciplinary spectrum. The focus is on unusual topics and unconventional approaches to otherwise familiar topics. Papers deal with cultural practices that have been neglected by traditional history, and engage with fields, trends, and themes that have been overlooked by existing scholarship.
Angles 2 is a free conference taking place on Saturday 19 June 2010 at Birkbeck, University of London. Registration is free. To register, please visit http://www.bbk.ac.uk/angles/registration
ANGLES 2
Another interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on cultural history
Birkbeck, University of London
B04, 43 Gordon Square
Saturday 19 June 2010, 10:00-17:30
10:00 – Opening remarks from Professor Steven Connor (Birkbeck) and Professor Markman Ellis (QMUL)
Papers
Observations on the changes to the Tibetan black yak hair tent. Sihao Shen, University of Auckland
‘What’s happening at home?’: Burglary insurance and fear of crime, 1889-1939. Eloise Moss, University of Oxford
Looking for cultural identity where it’s supposed to be absent: The modern dwelling as a signifier of identity in Cyprus. Ceren Kurum, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
‘The old order changeth’: The shift to codification in late Victorian mountaineering. Alan McNee, Birkbeck
Head up and heels down: Critical (re)enactment and questioning the centaur. Monica Mattfeld, University of Kent
Spinning with spiders’ silk: Methods, histories, and seductions. Eleanor Morgan, UCL
The problem with newspaper history: Literary geography and the Soviet press, 1953-1968. Simon Huxtable, Birkbeck
The memory of everyday life: A study of Edgar Reitz’s Heimat. Pehr Englen, Birkbeck
Urban humour in late-nineteenth-century Vienna. Heidi Hakkarainen, University of Turku
This is a free conference. Register at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/angles/registration
Co-organisers: Rachel Richardson, Thomas Turner, James Emmott (Birkbeck)
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London www.bbk.ac.uk/arts
Department of History, Classics and Archaeologywww.bbk.ac.uk/hca
London Consortium www.londonconsortium.com
Angles is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
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