INSTITUTIONS: History Lab Annual Conference 2014
Institute of Historical Research, London, 11-12 June 2014
Throughout history there have been innovations, be it in terms of change, revolution and revision,
or in terms of industry, technology, science and medicine. There have been innovations related
to regimes of thought, ways of seeing and modes of understanding. Conversely there have also
been instances where innovation has been rejected, refused and rebuffed, with communities and
societies adhering to traditional forms of living, producing, believing and existing. Furthermore,
with the march of innovation also came the end of things, be it changes in approaches, perceptions,
living, education, modes of production and understanding. Finally innovation has led to an increase
in methodologies, theories and cross-disciplinary approaches in scholarship. How have these
assisted or constrained researchers be it in terms of the digital turn in humanities, or increasing
moves towards multi- and inter-disciplinarity?
The conference seeks to discuss and exchange ideas regarding innovation and correspondingly the
lack of innovation, resistance to innovation and matters of tradition, custom and convention. How
have innovations been regarded contemporaneously, by academics and as a lived experience, and
what have been the wider ramifications, influences and impacts of innovation?
With these thoughts in mind, postgraduate students and early-career researchers are invited
to submit proposals for papers (twenty minutes), or panels of three speakers, on specific
topics exploring Innovation, or on wider relevant methodological and philosophical issues to
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Papers may cover and explore the theme of Innovation in topics including, but not limited to, the
following areas:
• Popular Culture.
• Social, cultural, political mobility
• Religious movements and practices.
• Politics, protest and resistance.
• Health sciences, medicine, psychiatry, and psychology.
• Philosophical regimes of thought.
• Crown and estates, court culture.
• Administration and bureaucracy.
• Industry and urbanisation.
• Technology and science.
• Architecture and the built environment
• Welfare, health and sanitation.
• Rural/Urban lives.
• Education.
• Family & society.
• Labour, business and industrial relations.
• Crime, policing, surveillance and the law.
• Scholarship, methodologies and interdisciplinarity.
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