Category Archives: Labex

Labex Workshop

2-3 June 2016: Workshop for joint Labex Pasts in the Present/AHRC Care for the Future award holders, Paris.

Report on AHRC/LABEX Franco-British Research Workshop 1

Fondation Royaumont, Val d’Oise, France 16-17 January 2015

By Michael Northcott, m.northcott@ed.ac.uk

A Franco-British Research Workshop of grant holders from the AHRC’s Care for the Future grant call and LABEX’s (Laboratory of Excellence) grant call ‘Les passes dans le present: histoire, patrimoine, memoire’ was held at the former Cistercian Abbey of Royaumont 20 miles north of Paris in January 2015. The Abbey was built in the thirteenth century and patronised by Louis XIV. It is situated in a large walled enclosure of gardens, water features and stone buildings. Over the centuries the monks instituted some remarkable hydrological features. Continue reading →

Collaboration with Cluster of Excellence (labex) Pasts in the Present programme

AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and Labex Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory are holding a series of three joint workshops in 2015. The workshops seek to bring together researchers, ECRs and practitioners/professionals from project teams across the two programmes for two days of ideas exchange and discussion on shared themes.

The first workshop took place at the Royaumont Foundation near Paris on 16th and 17th January 2015. Please see the programme here.

Joint funding call pre-announcement

19 Feb 2015: Joint funding call pre-announcement – AHRC Care for the Future and Labex Pasts in the Present will launch a call on 12 March for transnational projects. More info here.

Call for Papers

AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and Labex Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory are pleased to announce the second in a series of three joint workshops. The workshops seek to bring together researchers, ECRs and practicioners/professionals from project teams across the two programmes for two days of ideas exchange and discussion on shared themes.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2nd workshop, to take place at the Royal Society on 22nd and 23rd April 2015. Please see the Care for the Future and Pasts in the Present Joint Workshop 2 – Call for Papers for more information and the short application form. The deadline for applications in 15th March 2015.

Between cultural and natural heritage

by Dr Marianna Dudley, University of Bristol. Cross-posted from The Power and the Water: Connecting Pasts with Futures blog

Between cultural and natural heritage

“Fairytale castle”, chateau Chenonceau. Photo: Marianna Dudley.

Chenonceau is a chateau worthy of a fairytale princess. It has turrets and gardens and galleries – and a river running through it. Built between 1514 and 1522 on the site of an old mill, it became the home of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II. Diane loved the chateau, and built the bridge over the river. On Henry’s death in 1559, his widow Catherine de Medici demanded that Diane exchange Chenonceau for her chateau Charmont. Catherine built the galleries upon Diane’s bridge, and ruled France as regent from the building. Renaissance intrigues, not fairytales, brought this building to life.

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Delving back into the past to look into the present and future

by Dr Lucy Veale, University of Nottingham, cross-posted from the Weather Extremes project blog

AHRC and LABEX – a new partnership

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to represent the Weather Extremes team at a Franco-British Research Workshop organised by our funders AHRC, and LABEX (Laboratory of Excellence), a similar funder in France. The title of the workshop was ‘Delving back into the past to look into the present and future’ and the main aim was to explore connections between research funded under the AHRC’s Care for the Future theme and LABEX’s ‘Les passes dans le present: histoire, patrimoine, memoire.’ Both initiatives seek to explore representations of the past from multiple perspectives and disciplines, and have shared priorities and commitments. Continue reading →

Call for Papers

AHRC Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past and Labex Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory are pleased to announce a series of three joint workshops. The workshops seek to bring together researchers, ECRs and practicioners/professionals from project teams across the two programmes for two days of ideas exchange and discussion on shared themes.

Applications are now being accepted for the 1st workshop, to take place at the Royaumont Foundation near Paris on 16th and 17th January 2015. Please see the Care for the Future and Pasts in the Present 1st Franco-British workshop – Call for contributions for more information and the short application form. The deadline for applications in 17th November 2014.

Postdoctoral opportunities

3 Postdoctoral opportunities with French (labex) Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory programme

The Cluster of Excellence (labex) Pasts in the Present: history, heritage, memory is concerned with the presence of the past in contemporary society. More specifically, the cluster seeks to understand mediations of history in the digital age, politics of memory, social appropriations of the past up- and downstream from heritage policies. It is coordinated by the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (UPO), in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and networks with a wide range of national and international institutions and universities.

Three projects are seeking one-year full-time postdoctoral researchers, who will conduct project research as well as developing their related own project. They are:

“Ordinary” conceptions and “vernacular” vocabulary in the mediation of history
Reception, use and appropriation of historical exhibitions in a commemorative context
The impact of archives digitization on social sciences and humanities research

More information can be found at http://www.passes-present.eu/en/three-open-postdoctoral-positions-2014-cluster-pasts-present-2936, and the application form is also available here. The application deadline is Monday, 12th May 2014, at 12:00.