Conferences at the University of Essex

Forthcoming events

• Nightline's 40th anniversary and National Conference
  March 2010.
• 'Become who you are': Kierkegaard, literature, and the philosophy of religion
  Thirteenth International Graduate Conference in Philosophy, 15 May 2010.
• Theory in the Face of Global Challenges: Capitalism and Ecology, Community and Citizenship
  Tenth Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory, 16-18 June 2010.
• UKCI 2010
  10th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 8-10 September 2010.

See also:

• Professional and short courses
• ISER: Joint Empirical Social Science (JESS) Seminars
• Events at the University of Essex
• The websites of departments, centres and institutes include details of their events and seminars

Facilities

• Conference Office
• Wivenhoe House Hotel and Conference Centre

Past events

• Model UN conference 2010
  29-31 January.
• Re-using the ESDS Qualidata Pioneers of Qualitative Research Collection
  UK Data Archive, 10 December 2009.
• Human Rights Day Celebrations
  8 December 2009.
• Psychoanalytic Methodology in Clinical and Non-Clinical Settings
  Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, 14 November 2009.
• Law Society of England and Wales
  11-12 September 2009.
• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009
  WaLT, 28-30 July 2009.
• 2009 BHPS Research Conference
  ISER, 9-11 July 2009.
• American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography
  LiFTS, 4-7 July 2009.
• BAA Accounting Education SIG Annual Conference
  Essex Business School, 20-22 May 2009.
• How not to do Philosophy
  The 12th International Graduate Conference in Philosophy at the University of Essex. Department of Philosophy, 9 May 2009.
• Communication, Organisation and Alienation: A Group Relations Conference (Word document)
  The 'in and out', 'near and far', 'top and bottom' of institutional and organisational life.
  Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. 28 January - 1 February 2009.
• Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying The 'Past'?
  School of Law and the Human Rights Centre, 10 November 2008
• Creative Women and Entrepreneurship Dissemination Workshop
  Essex Business School, 23 October 2008
• Language Day Conference for Teachers
  Department of Language and Linguistics, 20 September 2008
• SAGE08
  The Semigroups and Groups in Essex (SAGE) workshop.
  Department of Mathematical Sciences, 28-29 August 2008.
• GIS in Historical Research
  AHDS History, University of Essex, 21-22 August 2008.
• Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe VIII
  Department of Language and Linguistics, 28-31 August 2008.
• Human Rights: Interpretation and Implementation
  25th Anniversary Alumni Conference, Human Rights Centre, 4-6 July 2008
• Religion: New Perspectives
  Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by PhD students from the Department of Art History and Theory, 20 June 2008
• Global business conference
  Eighth International Entrepreneurship Forum, organised by the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, 16 June 2008
• Allegorical Impulses
  Postgraduate Symposium Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, 23 June 2007.
• 7th International Entrepreneurship Forum
  Joint organisers Shanghai Fudan University and the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex.
  Shanghai Fudan University, China, 30-31 August 2007.
• Halophiles 2007
  International congress exploring life at high salinity. University of Essex, 2-6 September 2007.
• International Symposium on Applied Molecular Microbiology in Oil Systems (ISMOS)
  What can microbiology and molecular biology offer the oil industry?
  University of Essex, 17-18 September 2007.
• Cyberinfrastructure and National Election Studies - The Wivenhoe House Conference
  Wivenhoe House, University of Essex, 8-9 June 2007.
• Developing an Entrepreneurial Culture
  Dissemination Conference for the Entrepreneurial Research Project.
  Southend-on-Sea, Essex County Hotel, 29-30 March 2007.
• International Conference on Design and Public Policy: Markets for Congestion and Carbon Trading
  CCFEA, New Lecture Theatre, University of Essex, 11 - 12 January 2007.
• First ECPR Graduate Conference
  European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex, 7-9 September 2006.
• Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (MOLS)
  ESRC United Kingdom Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC), University of Essex, 12-14 July 2006.
• Third European Congress of Reproductive Immunology (held jointly with the 6th ESRADI Congress and 10th AASIR Congress)
  11-15 September 2005.
• EPOP 2005
  Conference of the largest specialist group of the Political Studies Association of the UK. Department of Government. 9-11 September 2005.
• EuroPanel Users (EPUNet)
  ISER, 30 June - 2 July 2005.
• 2005 British Household Panel Survey Research Conference (BHPS 2005)
  ISER, 30 June - 2 July 2005.
• Intelligent Environments 05 (IE05)
  Intelligent Inhabited Environment Group, University of Essex, 28-29 June 2005.
• WEHIA 2005 - 10th Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
  Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex, 13-15 June 2005.
• CATALYST 2005: Global Perspectives on Successful Implementation of Human Rights of Women
  Human Rights Centre, Department of Law and Department of Sociology. 6 May 2005.
• Philosophy Department 30th Anniversary Conference
  One Day Conference on 'Terror, Torture and Genocide'. 7 May 2005.
• Sixth Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory: Difference, Borders, Others
  Department of Government. 13-14 May 2005.
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games
  Department of Computer Science, 4-6 April 2005.
• Second ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications.
  19-21 April 2005.
• Economics and Music Conference
  Department of Economics, 21 January 2005.
• The Lipsey Lectures
  Department of Economics, 2-3 December 2004.
• Self and the City: An International Conference Exploring the Sense of Self in Post-1945 Architecture
  Department of Art History / Architecture and Self, Tate Modern, London, 19-20 November 2004
• 'Entrepreneurship: Contexts, Locales and Values' International Conference
  The fourth conference of the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF), jointly organised by the OECD LEED Programme, the University of Essex and the University of Paris Dauphine, France. 22-24 September 2004, University of Paris Dauphine, Paris, France.
• Postgraduate History Conference, 2004: 'Critical Perspectives on Empire and Imperialism: past and present'
  Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference at the Department of History, 24-25 September 2004.
• The Second Art of Management and Organisation Conference, Paris 2004
  Presented by the Essex Management Centre, University of Essex, in association with ESCP-EAP European School of Management. To be held at ESCP-EAP European School of Management, Paris. 7-10 September 2004.
• 5th Conference of the European Society for Reproductive and Developmental Immunology (ESRADI) (sponsored by ISIR, AASIR and BSI)
  11-15 September 2005.
• Theory Conference
  Department of Economics. Held in the Constable Building, University of Essex, 18 June 2004.
• The Burrows Lecture: Is there any future for Essex's wildlife - and does it matter anyway?
  Simon Lyster, Director of the Wildlife Trust. 19 May 2004.
• Fifth Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2004: Difference, Gender, Class
  Department of Government. 7-8 May 2004.
• AS Sociology Conference
  Department of Sociology, in association with Colchester Sixth Form College. 23 March 2004.
• People Inspired Innovation Conference 2003
  Brings together internationally recognised visionaries and hands-on researchers in the design and development of information and communication technologies. Chimera, Adastral Park, 24-26 September 2003.
• 2003 Biological Sciences Graduate Forum
  23 September 2003.
• Boxing Clever: A Centennial Re-evaluation of Joseph Cornell
  AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies. 17-19 September 2003.
• Writingspace2003
  Creative writing summer school. Centre for Lifelong Learning and Department of Literature. 11-14 September 2003.
• Aesthetics and Politics
  6th Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, hosted by the Department of Philosophy. 9-11 September 2003.
• Summer School 2003: Practical Research Skills for Health Service and Community Care Professionals (Getting Started with SPSS & Qualitative Data Analysis)
  Department of Health and Human Sciences. 8-12 September 2003.
• Postgraduate History Conference
  Interrogating Hearsay: Rumours and Gossip in Historical Perspective, 1500-2003. Department of History. 26 July 2003.
• SCOS 21: The 21st Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
  Organizational wellness: mens sana in corporate sano? Organized in collaboration between the University of Keele's Department of Management and the Essex Management Centre. 9-12 July 2003, University of Cambridge, UK.
• BHPS-2003 Conference
  The 2003 British Household Panel Survey Research Conference. ISER. 3-5 July 2003.
• The Burrows Lecture: Shoemakers to the world - the Bata Estate on the Essex Marshes, 1939-1960
  John Tusa. 7.30pm, Wednesday 21 May, Southend Council Chamber.
• Fourth Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2003: Rhetoric and Politics
  Department of Government. 9-10 May 2003.
• International Workshop on Rescue Attempts for Jewish Prisoners held at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 1943-1945
  Department of History. 7-9 March 2003, Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, Germany.
• Sixth Form Conference on Politics
  For 'A' Level Politics students in both years of study. Department of Government. 6 November 2002.
• Summer School 2002: Practical Research Skills for Health Service and Community Care Professionals
  Department of Health and Human Sciences. 9-13 September 2002.
• Universities Weather Research Network Conference: UWERN 2002
  Department of Mathematics. 9-11 September 2002.
• Thirteenth Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference
  Department of Mathematics. 24-26 July 2002.
• The First International Academic Conference of Analytical Psychology
  Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. 5-7 July 2002.
• Eighth International Philosophy Graduate Conference: Desire
  Department of Philosophy. 28 June 2002.
• Crash course in careers
  Two-day intensive programme of seminars and workshops on CVs, interviews, job-hunting and the rest. Careers Advisory Service. 10-11 and 24-25 June 2002.
• A Critical Condition? Class and the Practice of History in the Twenty-first Century
  An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. Department of History.15 June 2002.
• Third Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory - The Politics of Equality: Race, Nation, Class
  Department of Government. 17-18 May 2002.
• The Søren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom One Day Conference on 'Kierkegaard and Modern European Thought'
  Department of Philosophy. 11 May 2002
• Economic Fluctuations Workshop
  Department of Economics. 26-27 April 2002.
• The Department of Sociology's Annual Graduate Conference: The Sociology of Love and Hate
  Aldeburgh, Suffolk. 21-22 February 2002.
• Sixth Form Conference, 2002
  For 'A' Level Politics students in both years of study. Department of Government. 9 January 2002.
• National Association of Student Employment Staff (external link)
  7th Annual Student Employment Conference. 3-5 July 2001.
• Celebrating Classic Sociology: Pioneers of Contemporary British Qualitative Research
  A two day symposium. Qualidata. 5-6 July 2001.
• British Household Panel Survey Research Conference
  Inaugural conference. ISER. 5-7 July 2001.
• Sensory bases of reading and language disorders symposium
  27-30 May 2001.
• Workshop on Information and Financial Markets 
  Hosted by the Department of Economics. 25-26 May 2001. 
• Second Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory
  Speakers include Fred Dallmayr, David Campbell and David Owen. Department of  Government, 4-5 May 2001.
• Seventh International Philosophy Graduate Conference: Philosophy and Technology
  Department of Philosophy, Saturday 24 February 2001.
• Francis Barker Memorial Conference
  Department of Literature, 20-21 January 2001.
• Plants, Animals and Human Rights
  A Day Conference for Fellows of the Centre for Theology and Society, staff and students of the University and members of the public. 2 December 2000.
• British Psychology Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference
  The 17th BPS Cognitive Section Conference has the themes 'Memory' and 'Language'. 6-8 September 2000. 
• VIEW 2000
  The second in an ongoing series of conferences organised to strengthen the language variation research community. Department of Language and Linguistics, 14-16 September 2000.
• Various workshops in optical communications
  Department of Physics, September 2000.
• Friendly Enemies: Blake and the Enlightenment
  The University of Essex Millennium Conference - a discussion of enlightenment, romanticism, modernity and of millennial ideas. Centre for Theoretical Studies, 24-26 August 2000.
• Four day Summer School at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
  For psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, academics, postgraduate students and various professionals from home and abroad. 25-28 July 2000.
• Teaching Sociology: new directions
  Wivenhoe House Conference Centre, 28-29 June 2000.
• Graduate Conference in Political Theory: Contemporary Theory and Politics for the New Millennium
  Papers focus on contemporary developments in political theory and the central political problems confronting us at the start of the new millennium. Department of Government and the Centre for Theoretical Studies, 12-13 May 2000.
• International Philosophy graduate conference
  The sixth annual international conference for graduate students in Modern European Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, 4 March 2000.
• Art and the future of the aesthetic
  After the art and theory of the 20th century can we still approach art through the notion of 'aesthetic experience'? Department of Philosophy, 13 November 1999.
• 1999 IATUR Conference
  The State of Time Use Research at the End of the Century. ISER, 6-8 October 1999.
• Building Bridges
  Conference of the International Society for the Psychological treatments of Schizophrenia and Psychosis (ISPS) UK Chapter, hosted by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, 16-17 September 1999.
• The Sixth Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition
  Hosted by the Essex Management Centre, 1-3 June 1999.
• Second International Workshop on Presence
  Open discussion forum covering presence research, measurement methodologies and applications in areas such as virtual environments and new broadcast media. Wivenhoe House Hotel and Conference Centre, 6-7 April 1999.
• Ninth National Auditing Conference
  Hosted by the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management, at Forte Posthouse, Eight Ash Green, Colchester, 26-27 March 1999.
• Women into Science, Engineering and Technology
  A web page set up to follow on from the conference held at the University on 12 January 1999.
• CLUK Research Colloquium
  The second annual Computational Linguistics UK Colloquium, 11-12 January 1999.
• Local Food Systems and the Local Economy: What are the Environmental and Social Benefits?
  Report on a one day conference held on 2 December 1998.
• 23rd International Conference on Infrared and Millimetre Waves
  7-11 September 1998.
• After Postmodernism: Critical Realism? An Interdisciplinary Forum
  1-3 September 1998.