Cities (Anglo-American conference 2009)

Jun 12, 2012

Today History SPOT looks back to 2009 to when we held our annual Anglo-American conference on the subject of Cities.  The first two podcasts (the welcome by the IHR Director Miles Taylor and the plenary paper entitled Ideas of the Metropolis by Derek Keene) are now...

Ancients and Moderns

Jun 11, 2012

The 81st Anglo-American conference will be held by the IHR at the beginning of July on the topic of Ancients and Moderns.  How does the modern world (in respective periods) look upon the ancient past?  How is it used to validate the present or inform the discourse? ...