Following successful events in the last academic
year at Northumbria and Teesside University, History Lab North East is pleased
to announce the call for papers for our upcoming workshop to be held at Newcastle University on November 29th 2013. We are seeking papers from postgraduate
students based in History, Classics, and Archaeology on the theme of ‘Sources and Evidence’. Papers should
provide a brief outline of research before discussing their particular approach
to sources. Themes for these papers could include, but are not limited to:
- Difficulties with source material and how these complications can be overcome (e.g. copyright, language, accessibility, and readability issues).
- Dealing with multi-lingual source material.
- The use of material culture.
- Accessing sources.
- Using controversial sources and what implications this may have for your research. (e.g. sources including sensitive material, human remains, sources from the recent past).
- Combining evidence from different mediums and the positives and negatives of such an approach (e.g. oral history, correspondence, film).
- Interdisciplinary sources (e.g. the use of anthropology, combining archaeological and historical evidence).
- Using sources in a digital age.
- The use of sources in public engagement.
Each paper should be 15-20 minutes long, with an expected ten minutes for post-paper discussion. Please send your abstracts of 200-300 words to historylab.northeast@gmail.com by 21 October 2013.
This workshop will also incorporate a training event
on the same theme which will be announced with the finalised programme, and a
social event after the workshop.
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