Announcements

Social Science History Association Annual Meetings 
    http://www.ssha.org
      Miami, Florida, October 23-26, 2008
      Criminal Justice Network Organizers 2008:
            Jennifer Trost (Muskingum College), jtrost@muskingum.edu   
            Joe Spillane (University of Florida) spillane@crim.ufl.edu

    Queen Mary, Long Beach CA, November 12-15, 2009
    Chicago, Illinois, November 18-21, 2010
    Boston, Massachusetts, November 17-20, 2011

European Social Science History Conferences
     http://www.iisg.nl/esshc  
    April 14-17, 2010, Ghent, Belgium
        Criminal Justice Network Organizers: 
            Anja Johansen (University of Dundee, UK), a.m.johansen@dundee.ac.uk
            Paul Lawrence (Open University, UK) P.M.Lawrence@open.ac.uk
            Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld, Germany) klaus.weinhauer@uni-bielefeld.de


Conferences:

Crime, Violence & the Modern State II: Blame, Culpability and Shame, at Herzen State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 15-17 May 2009
    Please sent proposals to solonconferences@gmail.com by 14 July 2008.  Please send any enquiries to David Nash (dsnash@brookes.ac.uk), Judith Rowbotham (judith.rowbotham@ntu.ac.uk) or Marianna Muravyeva (muravjev@online.ru)
    Speakers Include: Joanna Bourke, Shani D’Cruze, Clive Emsley, Barry Godfrey, Tom Gallant, Marianna Muravyeva, and Natalia Pushkareva. 
    We invite offers of papers in the following (or other related areas:
        the State’s use of blame and shame:
        legal systems and culpability;
        revisiting theories of criminal behaviour (i.e. Lombroso etc.);
        mechanisms of media blaming and shaming;
        blame and culpability, criminal as group or individual;
        the culpability of the individual in law/community/society;
        guilt cultures versus shame cultures;
        religion, guilt and blame;
        moralities as guilt
        guilt, shame and punishment;
        blame, guilt and recidivism
 

4th CIRSAP Conference in Lille (France), 5-6 December 2008, CALL FOR PAPERS
     If you wish to submit a paper,  attend the conference, or require more information, please contact : catherine.denys@wanadoo.fr
    The proposal deadline (a title and an abstract of 200 words) is 1 June 2008. Acceptation notification is 1 July 2008. Complete papers should be sent by 1 October 2008 in order to prepare translations and help the moderators to prepare top-level discussions. The languages of the conference will be French and English. Some papers will be selected for a synthesis publication at the end of the third year of the CIRSAP research programme.
    For details click here.
   

Society of Legal Scholars Conference, LSE, 17-18 September 2008

Call for Papers from the SLS Legal History Section. The Legal History section will be in Group B this year, therefore meeting in the second half of the conference on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th.  We are now asking for volunteers to present papers at the four sessions that have been allocated to us.  Discussion of any aspects of legal history, including those using a socio-legal studies approach, will be welcome. However, given the theme of the conference, and the 150th anniversary of the operation of the modern divorce legislation and the 200th anniversary of the campaign to abolish slavery itself in the British empire, we would, in particular, welcome papers addressing issues relating to:

Closing Date: 1 March 2008   Please send proposals to either: Judith Rowbotham (Jrowbotham@gmail.com) or Lorie Charlesworth (loriecharles@googlemail.com)


International Conference: "Women and Crime in the British Isles and North America since 1500", Université Lyon 2 & Université Lyon 3, 11-13 September 2008.
Organisers: Professor Neil Davie (Lyon 2) & Dr Pauline Blanc (Lyon 3); click here for the program. 
 

Symposium on New Directions in the History of Crime, Leeds Metropolitan University, 4th – 5th September, 2008
Confirmed Speakers Include: Shani D’Cruze, Clive Emsley, Bob Shoemaker, Garthine Walker, Martin Wiener, John Carter Wood.
For further information about the symposium please contact Dr. Heather Shore, Leeds Metropolitan University, Tel: 0113 283 5938 Ext. 23361, Email: h.shore@leedsmet.ac.uk
    Click here for Symposium Poster.
    Click here for registration form. 


The Metropolis on Trial: An International Conference at the Open University, Milton Keynes, July 10-12, 2008
This conference heralds and celebrates the completion of the Old Bailey online project.  From the early summer of 2008 it will be possible to consult at www.oldbaileyonline.org not only the "Proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1834" but also those of its successor, the "Central Criminal Court", from 1834 to 1913. Papers at the conference should seek draw upon these proceedings, or those of similar courts in other metropolitan centres, to explore aspects of cultural, social or political life from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. 
Organized by Clive Emsley, Open University; Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire; Bob Shoemaker, University of Sheffield
     Click here for Conference Poster.
    Click here for Conference Program.
    Click here for Booking form. 


For information on the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and annual symposium, visit http://www.criminologyprize.com/extra/pod/
 

Colloquium and Seminars:

For information on all European Centre for the Study of Policing seminars,
    contact Sue Watkins, Secretarial Supervisor (Departments)/Assistant to Police Research Groups
    S.Watkins@open.ac.uk, ph: 01908-652477

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