Housing and Power in the Modern World

The Housing and Power organising team are delighted to announce that the call for papers for their interdisciplinary conference Housing and Power in the Modern World is now open. They are inviting contributions on the theme of mass housing as a centre of social and political power.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2020.

The event is supported by AHRC through WRoCAH and will be hosted via Zoom on 11 November 2020. For further details, please see the Call for Papers poster (link below) or email: housingandpower@gmail.com.

For further details, including keynote speakers, please see this document: Housing and Power 2020 - Call for Papers

Britain, the League of Nations and the New International Order

The University of Edinburgh, in association with the National Library of Scotland, will be hosting a free online Conference Britain, the League of Nations and the New International Order from 20-21 November 2020. They would welcome 20-minute papers on any of the following aspects of the work of the League, and its role in the shaping of the post-First World War international system:

• The work of the League – mandates, minority protection, refugees, economics and finance, disarmament and peace-making
• The British Foreign Office and Geneva – the League Council and Assembly, British priorities
• The League and its operation – the international civil service, the League and international law
• The social work of the League – health, trafficking, women’s rights and gender equality
• The cultural impact and legacy of the League – the LNU, peace movements, the League and popular culture, global governance in the twentieth and twenty-first century

Deadline for abstracts: 20 August 2020. 

For further details, please see the Call for Papers poster (link below) or email: D.Kaufman@ed.ac.uk. 

Call for Papers Poster: LofN Conference

First published: 30 June 2020