Generations in European History

[Andy Byford]

Dear All,
I would like to bring to your attention the following conference taking
place in Oxford, 8-10 April 2005. Note that a large number of papers
concern Russia.

Generations in European History
New College, Oxford, 8-10 April 2005
Organisers: Prof Catriona Kelly (New College, Oxford) & Dr Stephen Lovell
(King's College, London)
The ‘generation’ is a concept much invoked but little analysed.
Historians, anthropologists, economists and political scientists have all
found uses for the term ‘generation’, but they construe it in subtly yet
significantly different ways: some researchers emphasise socialising
institutions, while others stress family life; some try to identify long
chains of historical succession, while others focus on the unique
experiences of a single cohort; some favour quantitative survey data,
while others see generation as primarily a discursive phenomenon to be
traced through the close reading of texts. The conference will bring all
these different intellectual communities into contact and interaction in
the effort to see whether it is possible to establish cross-national
patterns for relationships between generations at a given historical
moment, and to grasp how such patterns have changed over time, both in
particular societies, and in ‘Europe’ more broadly.
Conference website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~genconf/
Conference email: generations at ehrc.ox.ac.uk
Registration deadline: 1 March 2005

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