Transcending the Boundaries

1. Transcending the Boundaries Doctoral research across disciplines On Saturday 30 January 2010 the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester will host a one-day workshop on ‘Transcending the Boundaries: doctoral research across disciplines’. The workshop will feature presentations by students from a number of British universities, all presenting their research in a manner designed to engage and inform postgraduate students in history. Cost Registration is free, and tea, coffee and lunch will be provided at no charge. Unfortunately, delegates must pay their own travel and accommodation costs. Programme The event will feature 14 speakers across several small-group sessions. Speakers will give short, informal presentations about their work, which will be discussed by delegates. A plenary lecture will be given by Joe Moran, historian at Liverpool John Moores University and author of the books On Roads and Queuing for Beginners A precise timetable is available at www.newhistorylab.org. The workshop will begin at 10am and finish at 6pm. Registration A registration form is available from www.newhistorylab.org. Delegates must register by 22 January 2009. The workshop is funded by the University of Leicester Graduate School

2. Further information The workshop will begin at 10am on Saturday 30 January 2010. It will be held at the Centre for Urban History, Marc Fitch Historical Institute, 1 Salisbury Road, Leicester, LE1 7QR. Registration A registration form is available from www.newhistorylab.org. Please register as early as possible. Deadline: 22 January 2010. Directions Maps can be obtained from: http://www.le.ac.uk/maps Marc Fitch House is a ten-minute walk from Leicester Station, and ten minutes from Leicester University main campus. Parking is available nearby, but payment is required. Lunch Lunch will be provided free of charge. Vegetarian food will be available, but please indicate whether you have any further dietary requirements. Dinner All participants are invited to dinner at a local restaurant. Contact information All questions can be directed to Malcolm Noble (mjn13@le.ac.uk) at the Centre for Urban History

3. Speakers The speakers listed below have all agreed to speak at the workshop. A programme will be made available on www.newhistorylab.org DhanZunino Singh (IHR): The use of visual sources for a cultural history of the underground railway: Buenos Aires, 1886-1945 Amy Burrell (Leicester): Applying contemporary criminological theory to historical research Geoffrey Mead (Sussex): ‘Scattered squalor’ and ‘Downland homes‘: Brighton’s interwar suburbia Conny Bailey (Leicester): German religious sculpture Paul Marshall (Manchester): Using replicant technology as an aid to understanding television history Julie Crawshaw (Manchester): Do you see the trees? Articulating the role of the artist Matthew Hollow (Oxford): Bring the scientist into the kitchen: modernity, technoscience and domestic space in post-war Britain OyvindEide (King's College London): An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information CathrynEnis (Reading): The Political Alliances, Kinship Networks and Material Culture of the Warwickshire Gentry, 1547 to 1590 Caroline Mogg (Lincoln): ‘‘Sisters are doing it for themselves...’’: reconstructing the unmarried woman in nineteenth century England. William Marshall (Huddersfield): Will the real George Mellor please stand up: the treatment of Luddism in Victorian fiction Gill Murray & Julie Ives (Leicester): Changing depictions of Stoke on television