CFP: HistoryLab Annual Conference INNOVATION
Hi All,
HistoryLab Annual Conference 2014 11th-12th June 2014,
Senate House, London.
To celebrate the opening of the new IHR building the
theme of HistoryLab conference 2014 is Innovation.
The conference seeks to discuss and exchange ideas
regarding innovation and correspondingly the lack of innovation, resistance to
innovation and matters of tradition, custom and convention. How have
innovations been regarded contemporaneously, by academics and as a lived
experience, and what have been the wider ramifications, influences and impacts
of innovation?
Throughout history there have been innovations, be it in
terms of change, revolution and revision, or in terms of industry, technology,
science and medicine. There have been innovations related to regimes of
thought, ways of seeing and modes of understanding. Conversely there have also
been instances where innovation has been rejected, refused and rebuffed, with
communities and societies adhering to traditional forms of living, producing,
believing and existing. Furthermore, with the march of innovation also came the
end of things, such as ways of living, forms of education, modes of production
and belief and understanding. Finally innovation has led to an increase in
methodologies, theories and cross-disciplinary approaches in scholarship. How
have these assisted or constrained researchers, such as the digital turn in
humanities, or moves towards multi- and inter-disciplinarity?
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, or panels of
three speakers, from postgraduate students and early-career researchers.
Please submit proposals of 300 words to:
historylabconference2014@gmail.comby
*28th February 2014.*
Papers may cover and explore the theme of Innovation in
topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:
*Social, cultural, political mobility.
*Religious movements and practices.
*Medicine, psychiatry, psychology and health sciences.
*Philosophical regimes of thought.
*Administration and bureaucracy.
*Industry and urbanisation.
*Politics, protest and resistance.
*Technology and science.
*Architecture and the built environment.
*Education, welfare, public health and sanitation.
*Agriculture, landscapes and gardens.
*Family, society and popular culture.
*Labour, business and industrial relations.
*Crime, policing, surveillance and the law.
*Crown, court culture, estates and nobility.
*Scholarship, methodologies and interdisciplinarity.