Conferences
Centre for Religion and Political Culture 'Re-moralising Britain? An International Conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of Tony Blair's Premiership', May 17th-18th 2007
Timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Blair's appointment as Prime Minister, this international conference investigates the moral basis of Blairism and the 'New Labour' project. Drawing together speakers from a range of disciplines and commitments, this interdisciplinary conference offers a reckoning of this New Labour decade.
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CIDRA/Hallsworth/IPOW 'War and our World' Conference, 19th-21st July 2007
The University of Manchester is committed to promoting informed debate on the major issues of our time. Today's news media are full of stories of war, the sources of armed conflict and its impact on individuals and societies. This international conference will provide the opportunity to reflect on the changing nature, causes and consequences of conflict in the modern era. The organisers wish to encourage informed debate on the role and responsibilities of the public intellectual in understanding and communicating issues around armed conflict and intervention.
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CIDRA/Centre for Museology 'Nature Behind Glass: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Natural Science Collections', 6th-8th September 2007
CIDRA-Sponsored
The conference aims to promote and communicate inter-disciplinary research on historical, theoretical and museological aspects of natural history museums. For whereas other museum sectors (such as ethnography museums) have been the subject of thriving body of reflexive literature, the collecting and display of natural objects has yet to be so thoroughly theorized. Bringing together a critical mass of scholarship engaged in research in this area, the conference will develop a theoretical community concerned with 'natural museology'. Papers will provide innovative methodological or reflexive insights and be based on original research.
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Call for papers: Closes 31st October 2006
CIDRA/Centre for Museology 'Art, City, Spectacle' Conference, 9th-10th November 2007
2007 is the 150th anniversary of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, the largest temporary art exhibition ever held in Britain, consisting of around 16,000 exhibits in a specially constructed Art Treasures Palace that covered more than three acres. The Exhibition attracted over 1,300,000 visitors in just over five months between May and October 1857. However, the cultural and social significance of the Art Treasures Exhibition exceeds its extraordinary dimensions and scale. The aim of the conference, entitled 'Art, City, Spectacle: Revisiting the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition', is to address some of those questions.
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Call for papers: Closes 1st September 2006