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CALL FOR PAPERS – MOVEMENT: THE 14TH ANNUAL PGF CONFERENCE

Call for Papers

14th Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference

School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Newcastle University

19^th May 2017

‘Movement’

This interdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to bring together Postgraduate students studying histories relating to the theme of Movement. How do we study the past, not as a static, but as dynamic and changing? How does the movement from one context to another change how we interpret evidence? What are the effects of movement on societies, material, and intellectual cultures? How has the idea of movement, or a movement, been used for political, social, or artistic purposes? We welcome any papers exploring the movement of people, objects and ideas.

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

Migration and population movements
Journeys and travel
Trade and connections
Social movements
Cultural, Literary or Philosophical movements
Scientific movements
Physical movement such as gesture or dance

We also invite poster submissions from postgraduate students. In order to offer the opportunity to present work in the earlier stages of research, poster submissions are not necessarily required to fit with the theme of the conference.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to nshspgf@newcastle.ac.uk by 10th April 2017. If you have any ideas, questions or enquiries, please feel free to get in touch.

https://www.societies.ncl.ac.uk/pgfnewcastle/

PGF EVENT NEWSLETTER

PGF Event Newsletter
Week ending on Sun 19 February 2017

Research Seminars
• 21 February, 6pm @ Armstrong Bldg. 1.06: The Mediterranean Mattered More: Imperial weakness and
local responses either side of the Channel at the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries A.D.
• 23 February, 5pm @ Armstrong Bldg. 2.16: ‘Mirrors for Men: New findings with respect to
Technology and Culture of Medieval Swords from Europe and Japan’ between medieval Europe and Japan
• 9 March, 5pm @ Armstrong Bldg. 2.16: Settlement and Social Power: Landscapes of Authority in
Early Medieval England
• 6-7 March, Time TBA @ Newcastle University: Ancient Conceptions of Music: An interdisciplinary
workshop

Newcastle Events
• 22 February, 3:30pm @ Armstrong Bldg. 1.03: ‘Vandalism and Terrorism during the Revolutionary
France’
• 1 March, 5pm @ Armstrong Bldg. 1.03: ‘Thinking Globally about Irish Working-Class Writing?’
PGF Seminar
This Wednesdays @ 1pm: Armstrong Bldg. 1.03

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PGF Conference Programme

It’s that time of year again: the sun is out, the birds are singing… and the PGF Conference is soon!

The theme for this year’s conference, if you didn’t know it yet, is Individuals and Communities. We have a great day lined up for you, some interesting papers from across the disciplines and across the country (and beyond!), so come along to the Research Beehive on campus on 20th May. There will also be posters on postgraduate research.

You can find the programme here.

UPDATE: The research beehive can be found at number 25 on the campus map.

You can follow us @NewcastlePGF for information and live tweeting. Use the hashtag #PGFConference to join the discussion.

ScARF student network

The Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (ScARF) will be giving a seminar 12-13 on 21st March in Armstrong 2.09. This will be a great opportunity for anyone working on aspects of Scottish history and archaeology to network and think about their own research in the wider context.

More details can be found here.

Newsletter, week 30.11.15.

Apologies for the delay, this week’s newsletter is now here. If you would like to promote an event, please get in touch
(m.ahlers1@ncl.ac.uk).

Research Seminars

Archaeology:
Thursday 3rd December, 4-5pm, Armstrong Building, Room 1.06 Audrey Horning (Queens University Belfast): ‘Worlds in Motion: archaeological exploration of early modern identity in Ireland and America’

Classics and Ancient History:
Wednesday 2nd December, 5-7pm Armstrong Building, Room 2.50 Phillip Horky (Durham University): ‘The spectrum of animal rationality in Plutarch’

History:
Wednesday 2nd December, 5-7pm Armstrong Building, Room 1.04
Sean O’Connell (Queens University Belfast): ‘Looking beyond the Troubles: social memory in Belfast’s docklands’

Further School Events

Night at the Museum
Thursday 3rd December at the Great North Museum from 6-9pm

Newcastle University Public Lectures

1st December, 5:30-6:45pm, Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building Naveed Sattar (Professor of Metabolic Medicine, Glasgow University) “Cholesterol, statins and heart attack risks: the truth of the matter”

3rd December, 5-30-6:45pm, Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building Karen Sands-O’Conner (Professor of English, Buffalo State College, New York) “From abolition to Zephaniah: a brief history of literature for the Black British child”