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• 29 jui 2015

  30 jui 2015

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - History

  Rethinking Right-Wing Women

  Gender, Women and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the Present

  This two-day international conference explores the relationship between women and conservatism since the late 19th century. In the media frenzy and the re-enactment of the visceral political divisions of the 1980s that greeted the death of Margaret Thatcher in April, 2013, it soon became clear that Britain’s first woman Prime Minister was being portrayed as an aberrant figure who had emerged from a party of men.  It appeared that the media and the public had not been well enough served by academics in making sense of and contextualizing the Thatcher phenomenon and, more broadly, the paradoxical sexual politics of the Right.

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• 01 jui 2015

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Scotland: migrations and borders

  Revue « Études écossaises » n°19, 2016

  The 2016 edition of the journal Etudes écossaises will focus on Scottish culture, history and politics through the prism of migrations and borders. Papers in English or French will be welcomed from specialists in all fields of Scottish studies including arts and literature, civilization studies, history, political science, culture and the media. 

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• 07 jan 2010

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Censorship and Discourse in English-Speaking Countries (XVIth-XXIst centuries)

  L’unité de recherche ACE (EA 1796, Rennes 2) organise un colloque international sur « Censure et discours dans les pays anglophones ». L’objectif est de générer des approches interdisciplinaires sur le thème de la censure, du XVIe au XXIe siècle. Les aires culturelles sont celles du Royaume-Uni et des pays du Commonwealth ainsi que de l’Amérique du Nord (Etats-Unis, Canada). Pour les besoins de la communication internationale, le colloque se déroulera intégralement en langue anglaise.

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