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Conference: Religion as Agent of Change<\/strong> Ole Grell has been invited to chair the Reformation session at the\u00a0Religion as Agent of Change<\/a>\u00a0international conference at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, (25-26 August 2011).<\/p>\n Workshop: ‘Bodies for Knowledge: Perspectives on Anatomy, 1600-1900’, The Open University in London, 20 June 2011<\/strong> The history of anatomy is a blossoming area of research, stimulating the interactions between scholars with different approaches, from medical to social historians and from anthropologists to art historians. Recent studies have called into question received accounts of a disciplinary continuity, stressing fundamental changes in anatomical practice and knowledge. This makes all the more important to recapture the historical specificity of such key activities as the procurement of bodies, the production of visual knowledge and the management of intellectual controversies. Bringing together scholars with a wide range of expertise, this workshop takes stock of recent developments in the field and charts future avenues of investigation.\u00a0The programme is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Seminar: \u2018Criminal Book History\u2019 Friday 18 February 2011<\/strong> This themed seminar explores the links between histories of crime and the history of print in the nineteenth century. Crime and its punishment has long been a topic which has attracted readers and filled the coffers of publishers. However, from the turn of the nineteenth century, developments in printing technology, the emergence of cheap publications and rising literacy levels meant that interactions between crime and print culture flourished. The four papers at this seminar will explore the ways in which crime shaped forms of writing, publishing, print distribution and reading. Follow this link fordetails of the papers and a registration form<\/a>.<\/p>\n Seminar: Reassembling the Collection: Indigenous Agency and Ethnographic Objects<\/strong> Rodney Harrison is co-chairing an Advanced Seminar ‘Reassembling the Collection: Indigenous Agency and Ethnographic Objects’ at the School for Advanced Reseach in Santa Fe from September 26-39.\u00a0More information is available online<\/a>. 30 September 2010<\/p>\n Public Lecture: The significance of the Reformation for medicine and natural philosophy<\/strong> Ole Grell has been invited to give a public lecture at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany on 2 November 2010 on \u2018The significance of the Reformation for medicine and natural philosophy\u2019. The lecture is part of a 4-day conference: The effects of the Reformation on science and education. 30 September 2010<\/p>\n Seminar: Biographical Methods Seminar<\/strong> Thursday 30th September 2010 12.30 – 1.30 in Library Seminar Room 1 Dr Rebecca Jones ‘When I get older’: Imagining bi futures Gerontologists have noted for many years that people find it hard to imagine themselves growing old, characterising this failure of imagination as both arising from and contributing toward ageism and the ill-treatment of older people. To the extent that people are able to imagine their own ageing, they often draw on older people they know, especially family members, as role models. They also draw on cultural resources around them, such as films, books and other media.\u00a0Further details from the Biographical Methodologies website<\/a>. 20 September 2010<\/p>\n Seminar: Work in Progress’ at the International Centre\u00a0 for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice, 21 July 2010<\/strong> Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Wilson A, Walton Hall This informal day seminar will provide an opportunity for several members of the centre to present research they are currently pursuing in the area of crime and justice and to receive feedback.\u00a0\u00a0A detailed programme can be found online<\/a>. 13 July 2010<\/p>\n Workshop: Healing sites, public health and medical therapies: research in the history of medicine at the Open University<\/strong> To promote exchange and foster collaboration on medical history across the University, a workshop on\u00a0Healing sites, public health and medical therapies: research in the history of medicine at the OU<\/a>\u00a0will be held at the The Open University in London on 12 July 2010. Follow the link for the programme. 28 May 2010<\/p>\n Conference: Ethnicity Crime and Justice; Historical and Contemporary perspectives, 8-9 June 2010<\/strong> This two day conference on \u2018Ethnicity Crime and Justice; Historical and Contemporary perspectives\u2019 aims to bring historians and criminologists together around common themes. The conference partly comes out of a recent ESRC-funded research project on ethnicity, crime and justice in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the desire of Peter King and John Carter Wood, who are writing a book out of this research, to bring together historians and criminologists working in this field. Speakers include: Coretta Phillips, Marty Wiener, Paul Iganski, and Rene Levy.Further information including contact details, the conference programme and registration form is available from the ICCCR website<\/a>. 13 May 2010<\/p>\n Conference: Shaping the Heritage Landscape: Perspectives from East and southern Africa<\/strong> Dr Lotte Hughes will co-host a workshop on \u2018Shaping the Heritage Landscape: Perspectives from East and southern Africa\u2019 on 5 and 6 May 2010 at the The British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi. This workshop will focus on issues around heritage, memory, identity, culture and peace making in these two regions, drawing upon new research.\u00a0Further information and abstracts are available online<\/a>. 6 April 2010<\/p>\n Conference: Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in interwar Britain, 26 February 2010<\/strong> The next conference in the series run by the History of Crime, Policing and Justice group (in conjunction with the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research) will be \u201cPolicing, Media and Civil Liberties in interwar Britain\u201d held at the Open University on 26th February, 2010. The\u00a0conference programme<\/a>\u00a0is available online (PDF, 55 KB). 27 January 2010<\/p>\n Conference on Homicide, 4th December 2009<\/strong> As part of the regular series of conferences put on by the History of Crime, Policing and Justice group (in conjunction with the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research) this day conference aims to bring together major historians and Criminologists working on homicide. The\u00a0conference programme<\/a>\u00a0is available online (PDF, 136 KB).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Talk: James Moore lectures in S\u00e3o Paulo and Beijing<\/strong> James Moore will give the plenary address, History and Philosophy of Biology Meeting 2010, Brazilian Association of Philosophy and History of Biology (ABFHiB), University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil), 11-13 August. He has also been invited to present a public lecture \u2018Darwin in Communication\u2019 at Beijing University in August. 30 January 2010<\/p>\n Talk: Professor Jim Moore on \u2018Phases of Darwin biography\u2019<\/strong> One of a series hosted by the\u00a0The Biographical Methodologies Group<\/a>, The Open University, 27th May, 2pm in Meeting Rooms 1, 2, and 3 Wilson A Building. The talk reviews how responsibility for shaping Darwin\u2019s image and reputation shifted from Darwin, to his family, to \u2018scientists\u2019, to the \u2018Darwin Industry\u2019 and finally to social and intellectual historians. It concludes with a few words about the way that Darwin\u2019s science-history is written today. Jim Moore is Professor of the History of Science at the Open University. He has published extensively on Darwin and Victorian lives. His and Adrian Desmond\u2019s best-selling\u00a0Darwin(1991) won many prizes and has been widely translated. Their Darwin\u2019s\u00a0Sacred Cause. Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins, was hailed by London Review of Books as the Darwin bicentenary\u2019s \u2018most substantial historical contribution.\u2019 29 April 2010<\/p>\n Talk: Anne Laurence on Women making money<\/strong> Anne Laurence is giving a public lecture at the University of Plymouth on 9 March 2010 on \u201cWomen making money: women and the stockmarket from the South Sea Bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prize: Sandip Hazareesingh awarded David Berry Prize<\/strong> Sandip Hazareesingh\u00a0 has been awarded the 2009 David Berry prize for his article ‘Interconnected synchronicities: the production of Glasgow and Bombay as modern global ports c. 1850-1880’,\u00a0Journal of Global History, vol. 1, part 4 (spring 2009). The prize is awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society for the best published scholarly article on a subject dealing with Scottish history.<\/p>\n Award: Saving Britain\u2019s Past wins BUFVC Learning on Screen Award<\/strong> The series\u00a0Saving Britain\u2019s Past<\/a>, which forms part of the course materials for AD281Understanding Global Heritage<\/a>, has won the Special Jury Award at the\u00a0British Universities Film and Video Council 2010 Learning on Screen Awards<\/a>. The award was announced at the Learning on Screen Conference held at the Open University on the 27th April, 2010. The series first screened on BBC2 over the summer of 2009, and Rodney Harrison and Susie West, both Lecturers in\u00a0Heritage Studies<\/a>\u00a0in the Faculty of Arts, acted as academic consultants on the series.<\/p>\n \u00a0Award: ESRC grant award: Exploring UK policing practices<\/strong> The Economic and Social Research Council has awarded \u00a398,000 to Clive Emsley and Georgie Sinclair for a 14-month project called “Exploring UK policing practices as a blueprint for democratic police reform: the overseas deployment of UK Police Officers, 1989 -2009”. This oral history project will involve interviewing British police officers who have been involved in missions abroad designed to encourage the adoption and development of community policing. It will also involve a user workshop which will bring together researchers, research subjects, practitioners, policy-makers, and other stakeholders. It forms part of a broader project on global policing which is taking shape in the European Centre for the Study of Policing.<\/p>\n ESRC award for project on Ethnicity, crime and justice in England 1700-1825<\/strong> Pete King has just been granted an ESRC award for a project on Ethnicity, crime and justice in England 1700-1825. This project will explore the degree to which ethnic minorities, and especially the black and Irish inhabitants of the metropolis were differentiated against by the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n Research Funding Success<\/strong> Professor Pete King and Dr John Carter Wood have been awarded \u00a398,440 by the AHRC for an 18 month project titled: Police, Press, public and the\u00a0\u2018Celebrity Female Victim\u2019 in Britain, 1926-1930. New publication by postgraduate student<\/strong> A recent postgraduate student in the History department has recently had part of her thesis published as: Janet Clark, \u2018Sincere and Reasonable Men? The Origins of the National Council for Civil Liberties\u2019,\u00a0Twentieth Century British History\u00a02009 20: 513-537<\/p>\n The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity, Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay (1900 \u2013 1925)<\/strong> Sandip Hazareesingh has recently published this book as part of the series \u2018New Perspectives in South Asian History\u2019, from Orient Longman. This is an original story about the coming of \u2018modernity\u2019 in Bombay city in the early twentieth century. In this account, Sandip Hazareesingh shows how this most global of forces had complex and contradictory meanings in the local urban setting of colonial Bombay. It offers fresh and stimulating insights into the multi-layered relationships between modernity, colonialism, and the production of urban space.Further details are available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paperback edition of Colonial Armies in South East Asia<\/strong> Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig,\u00a0Colonial Armies in South East Asia, first published in hardback by Routledge in 2006, came out in paperback in summer 2008. A review in the\u00a0Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History\u00a0stated that it \u2018opens up substantial new ground in Southeast Asian studies and world history\u2019.<\/p>\n The Politics of Vaccination<\/strong> In February 2008 Deborah Brunton\u2019s monograph\u00a0The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland 1800-1874\u00a0is published by Rochester University Press in their prestigious series Studies in Medical History.<\/p>\n New publication: paperback edition ofDarwin\u2019s Sacred Cause<\/strong> The paperback edition of\u00a0Darwin\u2019s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Originsby James A. Moore and Adrian Desmond has been issued by Penguin books.\u00a0Further details are available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n New publication:\u00a0War Planning 1914<\/strong> Annika Mombauer has contributed a chapter on German War Planning to a new book entitledWar Planning 1914, edited by Richard F. Hamilton, Ohio State University, and Holger H. Herwig, University of Calgary, published by Cambridge University Press in January 2010. This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting for the first time in three decades. Collectively and comparatively, the essays in this volume place contingency war planning before 1914 in the different contexts and challenges each state faced as well as into a broad European paradigm.Further details are available online<\/a>. Courses: Video introductions to new Arts courses<\/strong> You can now watch brief introductions to our new courses on YouTube. These include the Level 2 course\u00a0Understanding Global Heritage<\/a>(AD281) by Dr Rodney Harrison and an introduction to the new MA in\u00a0History<\/a>\u00a0by Professor Ian Donnachie. Both of these courses will be presented for the first time in October 2009.<\/p>\n Teaching and Learning History from Police Archives<\/strong> In August 2008 the ICCCR launched its first teaching packages based on material from the Police Archive held at the OU. The materials, aimed at Key stage 3 and sixth-form students explore the role of the police during the Second World War and Police and Citzenship. The preparation of these materials was funded by the AHRC and the Heritage Lottery Fund.\u00a0Follow this link to see the materials online<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" See below for past news items. Events Conference: Religion as Agent of Change Ole Grell has been invited to chair the Reformation session at the\u00a0Religion as Agent of Change\u00a0international conference at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, (25-26 August 2011). 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