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16-18 July 2005 at Harris Manchester College, University of
Oxford, UK.
The conference seeks to bring together a wide range of scholars encompassing all chronological periods for an opportunity to meet others and to discuss the history and uses of the prosopographical method in history.
It is being organized by researchers in prosopography at the Modern History Reserach Unit, Oxford, who will be launching their Guide to the Principles and Practice of Prosopography at the conference.
Suggested themes include:
- Working towards definition, prosopography vs. collective
biography
- Why prosopography?
- Intersections: prosopography & onomastics, place-names,
source criticism
- The future of prosopography
- Prosopography & Computing
- database construction
- text encoding
- network analysis
Scholars and students working on prosopographical projects are invited to submit proposals for papers, consisting of no more than 250 words, by 1 November 2004, for non-UK scholars, by 1 December for UK scholars.
Submissions should be sent to:
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