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Troubled transition to modernity: Scottish everyday life in the 20th century
Saturday 15 May 2010
University of Dundee Saturday Evening Lecture Series
In 1900 Scotland was one of the least prosperous industrial zones in Europe. House overcrowding was the highest in the western world, religious culture was vigorous and, to many modern eyes, artless and oppressive, whilst sexual relations were surrounded with complex repressive etiquette and the masculinity of 'the hard man'. By 2000, Scotland was transformed, with a liberal and mostly secular culture, spacious homes, the world's largest arts festival in Edinburgh, and a 'liberated' sexual culture defined by high illegitimacy rates and the idealisation of 'the new man'. In this lecture, Abrams and Brown present an illustrated account of this often traumatic transition in everyday life for Scots, most of it concentrated in the period since 1960. The lecture marks the launch of their jointly-edited book from Edinburgh University Press - The History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland (2010).
Lynn Abrams is the Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow, and the author of many books including The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002), Myth and Materiality in a Women's World: Shetland 1800-2000 (2005), and The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland's Broken Homes, 1845 to the Present (1998)
Callum Brown is the Professor of Religious & Cultural History at the University of Dundee, and author of 10 books, including The Death of Christian Britain (2001, 2009), Britain since 1707 (with WH Fraser, 2010), and Postmodernism for Historians (2004). He is married to Lynn.
6pm, Dalhousie Building
Tickets are available from the University's Online Store.
Drinks reception follows.
More info: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/externalrelations/events/sels/2010/abrams.htm
Women and the Writing of History in Early Modern Britain and France: Women as Witnesses to History
Friday 14 May 2010
A first conference on women’s history
writing in early modern France and Britain (June
6, 2009) showed that the contribution of women to
the dominant historical genres, such as
chronicles, official historiography, religious and
political history, was isolated and sporadic. Yet,
even if women wrote history differently from men,
their presence on the historical stage and their
contacts with those who made history allowed them
to provide precise accounts of the immediate past.
These dedicated female spectators, who were ready
to suffer in the name of the truth they were
describing, are the authors of important
testimonies on which this second conference will
focus. It seems essential, in order to understand
the way in which women read the past, to look at
the genres which they favoured, including letters,
memoirs, journalism by women, pamphlets, spiritual
writings (prophecies, treatises, autobiographies),
and poetry. Of particular interest are the sorts
of events about which they chose to write, the
perspectives they adopted, as well as their
assumptions about historical truth – itself a
highly problematic concept in the period. A
comparison between France and Britain could shed
light on national differences.
A selection of papers will be published in the
journal Études Épistémè
(http://www.etudes-episteme.org).
Venue To be held at Maison de la Recherche,
Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005
Paris
Address claire.gheeraert@univ-rouen.fr
dubois-nayt@iut-velizy.uvsq.fr
Abstract details Please send abstracts for
30-minute papers by December 15, 2009, to Armel
Nayt-Dubois (Université de Versailles Saint
Quentin) and Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
(Université de Rouen)
CFP Submission Date: 15 December 2009
More info: Contact: dubois-nayt@iut-velizy.uvsq.fr