Daily Archives: 12 July 2017

New Zealand Historical Association Conference 2017: Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Where Histories Meet – Call For Papers

Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Where Histories Meet
New Zealand Historical Association Conference 2017
Auckland, New Zealand
28 November – 1 December, 2017

NZHA is delighted to open its call for papers for this year’s biennial conference: Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Where Histories Meet.

We welcome submissions from teachers, students, scholars and practitioners of history along two main two main thematic lines:

  • Aotearoa – New Zealand, encouraging presentations on any aspect of New Zealand history, including reflection on its past and future; and
  • Tāmaki Makaurau – Auckland, interested in Auckland broadly defined, and urban spaces more generally, its many histories and many peoples.

Related specific themes include: tangata whenua, Pasifika, and Asian histories; academic history, including its current state and status; public histories; transnational histories; gender; and teaching history.

Abstract submissions closes on Friday, 28 July 2017.

We request that all conference presenters register and pay to attend by Tuesday, 31 October 2017.

For more information about the conference and to submit your abstract online, please visit the conference website: http://historiesmeet.org.

Lund University: Postdoctoral Fellowshipship in the History of Knowledge – Call For Applications

Lund University, Humanities and Theology, Dept. of History
Postdoctoral Fellowshipship in the History of Knowledge

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 42 000 students and 7 400 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

The Department of History at Lund University is a large institution with two sections, History and Human Rights Studies. There are about 50 permanent teachers and researchers. The Department of History hosts the National Graduate School in Historical Studies. At the moment (2017) the department has 28 Ph.D. students employed.

Human Rights Studies is a multidisciplinary research environment focusing on the historical writing of human rights in the early modern period, and on rights in political philosophy, religious affairs, military and humanitarian interventions, nationalism and women’s movements around the world.

A common denominator in the research at the section of History is a focus on cultural history in a broad sense. Chronologically, the research covers the period from the Middle Ages to the present, with a certain emphasis on the early modern period and the twentieth century. Part of the research is directed towards uses of history and the history of knowledge. The department is leading in the fields of historical culture and history didactics.

Lund University invites applications for a Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Knowledge at the Department of History.

Starting date: 1 January, 2018.

For full information, and to apply, please visit: https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:153500/type:job/where:4/apply:1.

Applications close: 15 September, 2017 (11:59 PM CET)

Courts and Their Records in Scotland, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day – Call For Papers

“Courts and Their Records in Scotland, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day”
SRA Conference 2017: The Annual Conference of the Scottish Records Association
New Register House, Edinburgh
10 November 2017

This one day conference will explore the subject of court records in Scotland. We welcome proposals for twenty – minute papers focused on courts, their processes of recording and record production, and legal records in Scotland. Papers can cover any aspect of the topic on any period, although we are seeking broad overall chronological coverage combined with a close focus on the records themselves in individual papers: what survives, where and when does it survive from, the processes behind record keeping and how these factors affect research today.

Proposals from scholars at any stage in their career addressing the following themes are especially welcome:

  • The central civil and criminal courts – the Session, the Justiciary Court, Justice Ayres
  • Local courts – burgh courts, sheriff courts
  • Military Courts, the Admiralty and police courts
  • Ecclesiastical courts (pre and post Reformation) and other religious courts
  • Legal Registers – deeds, testaments, sasines, and the land registry
  • Heraldic courts
  • Large-scale projects (completed, ongoing, planned) related to the digitisation or editing of court
    and legal records

Please send abstracts of 200-400 words, with a brief biography and (if applicable) current institutional affiliation and status to sraconference2017@gmail.com by Sunday 20 August, 2017.

The conference fee will be waived for speakers and small bursaries towards travel costs may be available for postgraduate speakers. If you are a postgraduate student and would like to be considered for support please indicate this on your application, although funds are very limited.