Wednesday 5 March 2014

Discovery, Invention and Reinvention

The deadline for the Newcastle University Postgraduate Conference is the 30th March. See below for details:

Call for Papers:
11th Annual PGF Conference 2014
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Newcastle University
16 May 2014

Discovery, Invention and Reinvention

This interdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to reflect on the continuous (re)discovery and (re)invention processes which historical disciplines and our understanding of the past go through over time.
     Through the course of history individuals, countries and cultures have discovered and rediscovered their pasts; inventing and reinventing personalities, identities, social structures, conventions and ideologies. An iconic figure or artefact may be discovered, forgotten and rediscovered by the same or different peoples and cultures, bearing different meanings and connotations for each given context. An identity or concept may be invented and reinvented at different times. This conference intends to explore these processes and man’s connection and continuous engagement with the past.
     Our keynote speaker this year is Professor Brian McGing, of Trinity College Dublin. Professor McGing holds the Regius Chair of Greek at Dublin and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He will be giving a paper entitled 'The attractions of roads less travelled. Reinventing Polybius, Josephus and Appian'.

We are seeking proposals for individual twenty-minute papers from historians, archaeologists, classicists and ancient historians. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Intellectual history and reception
• Material culture
• Family and gender
• Religion and ritual
• Comparative history
• Politics and national identity
• Class and race
• Memory and commemoration
• Historiography
• Interdisciplinary history

We also invite poster submissions from postgraduate students. The posters do not necessarily need to be on the conference theme, but rather are a way to begin to present your work in the earlier stages of your research.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250-300 words for papers and 150-200 words for posters along with title and CV to Emma Nicholson (e.nicholson@ncl.ac.uk) by 30 March 2014.

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