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Conference, symposium - History
Decentring the “Flâneur”: walking the early modern city
Ideas about the origins and context for the flâneur have been tied to Paris, and viewed through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. While Benjaminian orthodoxy has increasingly been challenged, the association of the flâneur with modernity and European cities has continued to dominate studies of its variant forms. This conference aims to de-centre the concept and expand such critique by identifying and analysing forms of pedestrian observation in the early modern period taking note of the fact that strolling, seeing and being seen—and walking the city—emerged well before Europe and the 19th century in urban experiences in cities like Istanbul, Isfahan, Delhi and Beijing.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
Tele(visualising) health: TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics
Televisions began to appear in the homes of large numbers of the public in Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases was receding, to be replaced by chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour. Public health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology. TV offered a way to reach large numbers of people with public health messages; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health. But it could also act as a contributory factor to those new public health problems.
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London
Conference, symposium - Europe
Stages of Utopia and Dissent, 50 years on...
15 May 1968: the Odeon theatre in Paris is occupied by students and becomes the insurgent headquarters where every night militants recount the days' action in occupied factories to an audience of people camping in the auditorium. Youth rebellion was never as mythologised as that of the French students’ fight against institutional oppression. The effects were felt across the Channel, too – but the nature of those effects was, and remains, disputed. 50 years on… where are we? What remains of autogestion and emancipatory education? What remains of theatre inventiveness and sedition? What remains of a need for participatory audiences? What remains of utopia and dissent?
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London
Conference, symposium - History
Broadcasting health and disease
Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s
In the television age, health and the body have been broadcasted in many ways: in short health education films, school television, professional training materials, TV ads, documentaries, reality TV shows and news, as well as stand-alone videos distributed to specific audiences. This three-day conference proposes an exploration of how television formats have influenced and staged bodies, health and healthy practices from local, regional, national and international perspectives, and how these TV programmes spread the conviction that viewers could and should invest in their health and shape their own body.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
The “Replacement” conference includes 5 keynote talks, 36 shorter papers, an art exhibition and three film-showings: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940), A Secret (Claude Miller, 2007) and 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015).
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London
Conference, symposium - History
The Allied Occupation of Germany Revisited
New Research on the Western Zones of Occupation, 1945-1949
The Allied occupation of Western Germany after the Second World War has recently seen a revival of interest among historians. This two-day international conference will showcase new research from scholars based across the globe and provide a forum for the presentation of innovative approaches to the history of the three western zones of occupation. It also aims to stimulate dialogue between historians of the different zones of occupation and so bring together hitherto almost entirely segregated historiographies.
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London
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Human Evolution : Past, Present and Future
Anthropological, Medical and Nutritional Considerations
An International Conference to review the current knowledge about Human Evolution. Special reference is made to consider how Man's evolution has possibly been influenced by a period of adaptation to an aquatic environment.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
The crisis of the Absolute Monarchy
Conference in honour of William Doyle
Réunissant une équipe internationale d'historiens spécialistes de l'Etat, de la politique, de la religion, de l'armée et de la diplomatie au XVIIIe siècle, cette conférence se propose de contribuer au débat sur les origines de la Révolution en portant son attention sur le thème de la crise de la monarchie absolue. -
City of London
Conference, symposium - Europe
Religion and Politics in the Construction of the European Union
Department of Government, European Institute, London School of Economics
This one-day conference explores the ways in which religions have contributed to the construction of the European Union, from the establishment of the European Economic Community in 1957 to today. -
London
Conference, symposium - Information
Books on the move : tracking copies through collections and the book trade
2006 Annual Conference on Book Trade History
This year's annual conference on book trade history will trace individual copies and their movement in and out of collections and across international frontiers, exploring aspects of the history of provenance and book ownership. -
London
Conference, symposium - Modern
War Experiences and Identities
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Contemporary Perception
The importance of the armed struggles which took place across Europe and far beyond European borders between 1789 and 1815 for the framing of the political and military culture of the nineteenth century has been largely underestimated. The enduring legacy of this period of warfare related not only to the much-analysed after-effects of the French Revolution, which permanently influenced European political culture far beyond France's borders, but also to the constant state of war which existed between 1792 and 1815. -
London
Conference, symposium - History
Economic history society annual conference
Provisional conference programme
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London
Conference, symposium - Early modern
Culture scientifique dans la Rome moderne
SCIENTIFIC CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ROME COLLOQUIUM Organised by the Ecole française de Rome and the Warburg Institute in association with the Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS-MNHN-EHESS) 10 - 11 October 2003 PROGRAMME FRIDAY -
London
Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance
Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance: A Warburg Institute Colloquium
Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance -- A Warburg Institute Colloquium Friday and Saturday, 27-28 June 2003 Supported by the British Academy and the British Library. Thirteen scholars from Europe, North America -
London
Conference, symposium - Language
Colloque sur la litterature contemporaine des femmes en francais
Le colloque 'New Women's Writing in French' aura lieu le 26-28 septembre 2002 a l'Institute of Romance Studies, Universite de Londres. -
London
Conference, symposium - Modern
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE2-3 September, Queen Mary, University of LondonMonday10-11Welcome & opening plenary: Margaret Cohen11-11.15coffee11.15-1.15parallel sessions 1-3 The Franco-Prussian War, -
London
Conference, symposium - Thought
French and British intellectuals : comparaisons and transferts
Participants : Pierre Bourdieu, Pascal Brioist, Laurence Brockliss, Peter Burke, Pascale Casanova, Christophe Charle, Philippe Chassaigne, Stefan Collini, E H H Green, Jeremy Jennings, Eric Hobsbawm, Marian Hobson, Michael Kelly, Christophe Prochasson, Da
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