Past conferences

2026

Charles Ignatius Sancho: a Black British man of letters and his world

2025

The Migrant Body: Embodied Experiences and Bodily Strategies in South-South Migration

Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing

Comparative Literature and Decoloniality

Deconstructing the Inca: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Empire in the Andes

The Global Baroque: European Material Culture between Conquest, Trade and Mission, 1600–1750

Mental Health in Context: Research, Policy and Practice

Achebe Redivivus

The Ethics of Health Communication

Building a Sustainable Future: Integrating Climate Action, Financial Stability, and Transition Financing

Risk Uncertainty and Decision 2025

Social Practice Theory and Public Health: Microbes, Bodies and Environments

Religious, Ethnic and Professional Groups in the Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000

Parity of Esteem as a Constitutional Principle in Northern Ireland and Beyond

Mind the Gap: Language Development is Key for Inclusive Education and Wellbeing

Domestic Atmospheres: How the Immaterial Shapes the Home

Communicating Air Quality: Physical, Digital, and Theoretical Advances

Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception

Linguistic Injustice and Inequality in the Public Domain

2024

Laughter and Medicine

Prison Voices

Knowing the Vernacular: Critical Reflections and Future Directions

Reinterpreting History and Memory: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Symbol ’24: Icons for Society: Past, Present & Future. An Exploration of 40 Years of Symbol Culture

Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance

How can we prevent gender-based violence? A 10-year vision

Therapeutic Spaces Behind Bars: Eco-psychosocially Supportive Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Wards

Material Cultures of Eastern Africa: New Historical Perspectives from the Local to the Global

The Commercial Business of Comics: Transforming Authorship, Distribution, Technology, Story and Aesthetics in the Global North and South

Transnational Elites: Imperial Histories, Global Power and Public Resistance Today

The Realisation of Human Rights in Societies Beyond Growth

Comparative Perspectives on Migration Attitudes and Behaviours: Causes, Consequences, Interventions

Addressing the Trafficking of Cultural Property Through the Public or Private Law Nexus

Resisting fascism: Fifty years of anti-fascism ‘from below’, 1974-2024

Post-crisis Professionalism? Setting the Agenda for a New Politics of Healthcare Professionalism

Music and Majesty: Chapels Royal, Cathedrals, and Colleges, c.1485-1688

2023

Narratives of Law in the Exhibition Space

Partition Machine: The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne 100 Years Later

Resisting Toxic Climates: Gender, Colonialism, and Environment

Hegel and the Hegelian Tradition in Political Thought

Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures

Lessons of resilience and social inclusion from the COVID-19 pandemic

Public health after COVID: beliefs, religion and competing epistemologies

Art and the Market: Examining the Intersections between Museums, Philanthropy, Commerce and the Law

Reproductive Justice in a Post-COVID World: Transnational Protest and Resistance

An Aesthetic Enquiry of the Anthropocene

Measuring Heritage Loss and Damage from Climate Change for Effective Policy Reporting

2022

Reading Ancient Societies: 200 Years of Decipherment

From Colony to Republic: The Social History of Law in 19th-Century Latin America

The Russo-Ukrainian War

The Mosquito: across communities, politics and literatures

Licchavi Heritage at the Crossroads: Multidisciplinary Approaches to History and Heritage in Nepal

Diaspora Remittance Flows: Restitution, Culture and Capital – ASAUK Biennial Conference 2022

The literature and history of Anglo-Dutch relations, medieval to early modern

Building peace through culture: art, memory, landscape, time

Technology and the future of labour: historical and contemporary perspectives

Public attitudes to benefits systems and their users: deservingness, stigmatisation and policy design

Inequalities in the 21st Century: the IFS Deaton Review

The gift of architecture: spaces of global socialism and their afterlives

Towards 'cohesive societies': economics of identity, norms and narratives

Constructing and contesting veterinary expertise: professionals, publics and prospects

2021

The social intellectual: experience and thought in the Middle Ages

Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material

Thomas Becket: life, death and legacy

Reimagining Andrew Marvell: the poet at 400

Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970): reappraising a musical visionary

Quentin Skinner's "Meaning and Understanding" after 50 years: interdisciplinary perspectives

The matter of silver: substance, surface, shimmer, trauma

Menstruation: sharing experiences from the global north and south

2020

No conferences took place in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019

Mieczysław Weinberg: east and west

Song beyond the nation: translation, transnationalism, and performance

Sovereignty: a global perspective

Child marriage in forced migration: social processes in-flux

The alphabet of universal grammar

Representing homelessness

New lives, new landscapes: rural modernism in 20th century Britain

Carol Ann Duffy: the legacy of the Laureateship

Narratives of old age and gender

Exploring the Syriac Galen Palimpsest

2018

Challenges to Judicial Independence in Times of Crisis

Burckhardt at 200: The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance reconsidered

Global Neoliberalisms: Lost and Found in Translation

Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair

Biblical Traditions in the Qur’an

How Maoism was Made: Analysing Chinese Communism beyond the Totalitarian Lens, 1949-1965

2017

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues

New Light on Tony Harrison

The Anglosphere and its Others: The ‘English-speaking Peoples’ in a Changing World Order

Defending the Faith: Religious and Secularist Apologetics in Twentieth-Century Politics

Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe

Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics

2016

Empathy neuroscience: translational relevance for conflict resolution

Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English culture, 1516-2016

Civil Rights documentary cinema and the 1960s: transatlantic conversations on history, race and rights

Distant and neglected voices: women in the history of linguistics

Using Behavioural Science to Target Prolific Criminals

European attitudes to immigration

2015

Aliens, foreigners and strangers in Medieval England, c. AD 500-1500

Splendid innovations: the development, reception and preservation of screen translation

How terrorist groups ‘learn’: innovation and adaptation in political violence

The Race Relations Act @ 50

African multilingualism: motivations, modalities, movement and meaning

Interdisciplinary Barthes

2014

Slaveries old and new: the meaning of freedom

Transforming information: record keeping in the Early Modern world

Parliaments and minorities: ethnicities, nations and religions in Europe, 1848-1948

War: an emotional history

After 2015: development and its alternatives

The First World War: literature, culture, modernity

2013

The production and circulation of printed books in the Occident and Orient, from the accession of the Tang Dynasty (c.618) to the first Industrial Revolution

Sensory substitution and augmentation

Tracing networks: communicating knowledge in antiquity and the digital age

Uses of the past in past societies: a global perspective

When the party's over: the politics of fiscal squeeze in perspective

The cognitive revolution 60 years on

Desert Island Discs and the discographic self