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• 01 nov 2013

  02 nov 2013

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Literature, Public Space(s) and Democracy

  The important roles played by literature and by autonomous frameworks of discussion in the formation of a democratic public space, in Europe at the time of the Enlightenment, are well known. How can we, in a now globalized world, rethink the question of possible links between literature and democracy – whether we define the latter as a form of society (the exchange of words and discourses), a problem, or a moment in time? How can we define the place of literature in the public space as it is now configured?

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• 18 jan 2013

  Oxford

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  The Deakin Fellowship (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)

  Applications are invited for the Deakin Fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014. The Fellowship is intended to support scholarship related to France in the College's areas of interest: modern history, politics, international relations, economics, anthropology, sociology, social policy.

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• 31 jan 2013

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Accidents and Emergencies

  Risk, Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c. 1750-2000

  The aim of this conference is to take stock of the present by focusing on modern Europe and North America from roughly 1750 onwards. It welcomes historians from all sub-fields (social, medical, cultural, etc.), scholars from other disciplines such as sociology and cultural studies. Risk, welfare and safety have long been sites of historical inquiry. This conference takes this literature as its point of departure, and encourages both general and trans-national appraisals of the history and nature of modern "risk societies", as well as accounts which focus on particular technologies, practices and discourses. In sum, the aim of "Accidents and Emergencies" is to: rethink the history of risk, welfare and safety; encourage a more integrated approach to their empirical study and conceptualisation; open up new historical and sociological perspectives through which we might better grasp the present.

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