Australian Research Council

Network for Early European Research

Inaugural International Conference

3-8 July, 2007, The University of Western Australia

Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400-1850

The inaugural NEER international conference aims to foster innovative research and new connections between researchers, and especially to promote interdisciplinary and international contacts and collaborations. The conference will encourage discussion and the future advancement of topics and themes by means of 21 panel sessions of 4 pre-circulated papers per session. The Conference Programme is now available.

One session has also been provided for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers to present posters and discuss their work with conference delegates. All PGs and ECRs planning to attend the conference are encouraged to put forward a poster proposal. Please note that the deadline for poster proposals has been extended to 21 May 2007. Click here for poster guidelines.

In conjunction with the panel and poster sessions NEER has invited nine plenary speakers who will address the broader conference theme, Networks, Communities, Continuities, consistent with their various disciplinary approaches:

Michael Bennett: University of Tasmania
"Women and vaccination against smallpox in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain."

Gene Brucker: University of California, Berkeley
"Florentine Historiography from Dante to the Fall of the Republic, 1300-1350"

Hal Cook: The Wellcome Trust Centre University College London
"Beyond the Republic of Letters: Travel, Meetings, and Global Communication in the 17th Century" (At WA Maritime Museum, Friday 6pm)

Yasmin Haskell: The University of Western Australia
"A Dutch doctor's 'Grand Tour' in Latin Verse"

Jean Howard: Columbia University
"Fictions of Community and Otherness: The New and Old Worlds in Early Modern Drama."

Ludmilla Jordanova: King's College London
"Images, Objects and Networks 1600-1850"

Stephen Knight: University of Wales, Cardiff
"Marvellous Merlin: Knowledge and Power"

Constant Mews Monash University
"Communities of learning and the search for synthesis: The schools and colleges of thirteenth-century Paris"

Rosemary Sweet: University of Leicester
"Antiquarianism and the presence of the past in eighteenth-centuryculture"

Informed and engaged discussion is the key to this conference so all Network Participants and interested researchers are encouraged to participate, whether they are presenting papers or not. All pre-circulated papers will be available on the conference web site no later than 31 May 2007. Please contact Dr Claire McIlroy for further information or to submit a poster proposal.

Conference Registration

Registration details are now available for the NEER International Conference, 3-8 July 2007, at the following web address:

http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/activities/neer_conference_2007_registrations

A draft programme for the conference and information regarding conference accommodation options are also available on this site.

If you have any queries regarding registration or accommodation please contact the wonderfully helpful staff at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) iasuwa@admin.uwa.edu.au

General Conference Enquiries

Dr Claire McIlroy (cmcilroy@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)

A/Prof Andrew Lynch (alynch@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)

The original call for proposals for the conference is also available here as a PDF document.

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