Past conferences

2024

How can we prevent gender-based violence? A 10-year vision

Therapeutic Spaces Behind Bars: Eco-psychosocially Supportive Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Wards

Material Cultures of Eastern Africa: New Historical Perspectives from the Local to the Global

2023

Narratives of Law in the Exhibition Space

Partition Machine: The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne 100 Years Later

Resisting Toxic Climates: Gender, Colonialism, and Environment

Hegel and the Hegelian Tradition in Political Thought

Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures

Lessons of resilience and social inclusion from the COVID-19 pandemic

Public health after COVID: beliefs, religion and competing epistemologies

Art and the Market: Examining the Intersections between Museums, Philanthropy, Commerce and the Law

Reproductive Justice in a Post-COVID World: Transnational Protest and Resistance

An Aesthetic Enquiry of the Anthropocene

Measuring Heritage Loss and Damage from Climate Change for Effective Policy Reporting

2022

Reading Ancient Societies: 200 Years of Decipherment

From Colony to Republic: The Social History of Law in 19th-Century Latin America

The Russo-Ukrainian War

The Mosquito: across communities, politics and literatures

Licchavi Heritage at the Crossroads: Multidisciplinary Approaches to History and Heritage in Nepal

Diaspora Remittance Flows: Restitution, Culture and Capital – ASAUK Biennial Conference 2022

The literature and history of Anglo-Dutch relations, medieval to early modern

Building peace through culture: art, memory, landscape, time

Technology and the future of labour: historical and contemporary perspectives

Public attitudes to benefits systems and their users: deservingness, stigmatisation and policy design

Inequalities in the 21st Century: the IFS Deaton Review

The gift of architecture: spaces of global socialism and their afterlives

Towards 'cohesive societies': economics of identity, norms and narratives

Constructing and contesting veterinary expertise: professionals, publics and prospects

2021

The social intellectual: experience and thought in the Middle Ages

Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material

Thomas Becket: life, death and legacy

Reimagining Andrew Marvell: the poet at 400

Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970): reappraising a musical visionary

Quentin Skinner's "Meaning and Understanding" after 50 years: interdisciplinary perspectives

The matter of silver: substance, surface, shimmer, trauma

Menstruation: sharing experiences from the global north and south

2020

No conferences took place in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019

Mieczysław Weinberg: east and west

Song beyond the nation: translation, transnationalism, and performance

Sovereignty: a global perspective

Child marriage in forced migration: social processes in-flux

The alphabet of universal grammar

Representing homelessness

New lives, new landscapes: rural modernism in 20th century Britain

Carol Ann Duffy: the legacy of the Laureateship

Narratives of old age and gender

Exploring the Syriac Galen Palimpsest

2018

Challenges to Judicial Independence in Times of Crisis

Burckhardt at 200: The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance reconsidered

Global Neoliberalisms: Lost and Found in Translation

Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair

Biblical Traditions in the Qur’an

How Maoism was Made: Analysing Chinese Communism beyond the Totalitarian Lens, 1949-1965

2017

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues

New Light on Tony Harrison

The Anglosphere and its Others: The ‘English-speaking Peoples’ in a Changing World Order

Defending the Faith: Religious and Secularist Apologetics in Twentieth-Century Politics

Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe

Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics

2016

Empathy neuroscience: translational relevance for conflict resolution

Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English culture, 1516-2016

Civil Rights documentary cinema and the 1960s: transatlantic conversations on history, race and rights

Distant and neglected voices: women in the history of linguistics

Using Behavioural Science to Target Prolific Criminals

European attitudes to immigration

2015

Aliens, foreigners and strangers in Medieval England, c. AD 500-1500

Splendid innovations: the development, reception and preservation of screen translation

How terrorist groups ‘learn’: innovation and adaptation in political violence

The Race Relations Act @ 50

African multilingualism: motivations, modalities, movement and meaning

Interdisciplinary Barthes

2014

Slaveries old and new: the meaning of freedom

Transforming information: record keeping in the Early Modern world

Parliaments and minorities: ethnicities, nations and religions in Europe, 1848-1948

War: an emotional history

After 2015: development and its alternatives

The First World War: literature, culture, modernity

2013

The production and circulation of printed books in the Occident and Orient, from the accession of the Tang Dynasty (c.618) to the first Industrial Revolution