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EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET This index comprises all verified entries from H-Net's events database on the indicated dates. It has been sorted by type of event, not by content field. Users may print, post, or forward all or part of the index, or click on individual items to view and use the entire entry from the events site. H-Net assumes no liability for the accuracy of subsequent repostings of this material, so please check them carefully. To receive the digest by email, send the following command as the plain text of an email message addressed to listserv@h-net.msu.edu: subscribe h-announce yourname example: subscribe h-announce James Smith Please do not send events announcements to this list; instead, visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/ The following types of events are contained in this listing: Fellowship Grant Prize To skip down to the section listing calls for papers, for example, use the find feature of your mailer to look for: "Category: Call for Papers". The following 16 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2008-02-08 and 2008-02-11. ###################################################################### # Category: Fellowship ###################################################################### Title: Graduate Editorial Fellowships at the PHR Date: 2008-02-15 Description: The Pacific Historical Review offers two year-long graduate editorial fellowships that run from September 16, 2008, through September 15, 2009. Both fellowships provide a stipend, a graduate tuition waiver, a research expense allowance, and support for travel to a major professional conference. The ... Contact: phr@pdx.edu URL: www.ucpressjournals.com/ucpress.asp?page=PHRFellowship Announcement ID: 160802 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160802 Title: Research Fellowships in European History Date: 2008-02-29 Description: Research Fellowships in European History Institute of European History Mainz/Germany Closing date for applications: 29th Feb. 2008 The Institute of European History awards fellowships for a research stay in Mainz from July 2008. The Institute promotes research on the historical foundations of Europe ... Contact: berger@ieg-mainz.de URL: www.ieg-mainz.de/stipendienprogramm/ Announcement ID: 160784 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160784 Title: MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES OFFERSWILLIAM E. FOLEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Location: Missouri Date: 2008-03-01 Description: The Missouri State Archives offers the William E. Foley Research Fellowship to help support the use of its public records in scholarly research. Any research project that utilizes the holdings of the Missouri State Archives and/or its St. Louis branch to further knowledge of state or national histor ... Contact: shelly.croteau@sos.mo.gov URL: www.sos.mo.gov/archives Announcement ID: 160665 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160665 Title: New website announces innovative and fully-funded PhD programme in Ireland Date: 2008-03-01 Description: Texts, Contexts, Cultures is a new interdisciplinary pathway to the Arts and Humanities PhD. It will be launched in Autumn 2008 in co-operation between NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork. Texts, Contexts, Cultures offers students the opportunity to develop their research ... Contact: crawford.gribben@tcd.ie URL: www.textscontextscultures.ie Announcement ID: 160677 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160677 Title: National Center for Institutional Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Location: Michigan Date: 2008-03-01 Description: The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce a new Institutional Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This university-wide, interdisciplinary initiative seeks to advance the Centers national commitment to institutional diversity as ... Contact: NCIDpostdoc@umich.edu URL: www.ncid.umich.edu/fellows/mentoring.shtml Announcement ID: 160822 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160822 Title: David Woodward Memorial Fellowship in the History of Cartography, 2008-2009 Location: Wisconsin Date: 2008-03-14 Description: Created in honor of David Woodward, a founding editor of *The History of Cartography*, this annual fellowship provides support for a scholar to research and write on a subject related to the history of cartography while in residence for two months at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The fellow c ... Contact: freiling@wisc.edu URL: www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/#fellow Announcement ID: 160773 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160773 Title: Short-term research fellowship - French political economy Location: California Date: 2008-03-15 Description: Stanford University Libraries is accepting applications for a short-term research fellowship for scholars wishing to use the Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy, held in the Libraries' Special Collections department. The Libraries annually awards one stipend of $2000-$5000 (dependin ... Contact: ssussman@stanford.edu URL: library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/frnit/cfp_english.html Announcement ID: 160729 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160729 Title: Fellowship for Minorities Studies Date: 2008-03-30 Description: The Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History is being offered by the Munson Institute at Mystic Seaport. Since 1989, the Cuffe Fellowship has provided funds up to $2,400 to researchers from universities, colleges, and museums who were pursuing research ... Contact: munson@mysticseaport.org URL: www.mysticseaport.org/learn/lo-Cuff.htm Announcement ID: 160850 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160850 Title: Moore Research Fellowship Date: 2008-03-31 Description: Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship provides a stipend to promote research during the academic year or summer months using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Fellowship for 2008 The amount of the stipend will be $3,500. ... Contact: cdensmo1@swarthmore.edu URL: www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/peacewebsite/scpcWebsite/Documents/MooreFellowship.htm Announcement ID: 160767 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160767 Title: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2008 ESRC-SSRC Fellowships for UK and the Americas Date: 2008-04-04 Description: 2008 ESRC-SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship Call for Applications The deadline for applications is April 4, 2008. Website: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/esrc/ The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are pleased to announce fellowships for ... Contact: visiting-scholars@ssrc.org URL: fellowships.ssrc.org/esrc/ Announcement ID: 160835 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160835 ###################################################################### # Category: Grant ###################################################################### Title: Call for Grant Proposals Date: 2008-04-29 Description: The Society for Irish Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the launch of a new edition of its grants programme, the "Irish Latin American Research Fund". The objective of the Irish Latin American Research Fund is to support innovative and significant research in the different aspects of rel ... Contact: edmundo.murray@irlandeses.org URL: www.irlandeses.org/grants.htm Announcement ID: 160871 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160871 ###################################################################### # Category: Prize ###################################################################### Title: Nominations Sought for History Teacher of the Year Award Date: 2008-02-22 Description: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is seeking nominations for the annual History Teacher of the Year Award. The award honors one outstanding history teacher from each state and US Territory. The Institute, in partnership with Preserve America, inaugurated the award in 2004. This year, ... Contact: moses@gilderlehrman.org URL: www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/student8.html Announcement ID: 160828 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160828 Title: Montclair (NJ) Historical Society Seeks Executive Director Location: New Jersey Date: 2008-02-22 Description: The Montclair (NJ) Historical Society is seeking an Executive Director to provide overall organizational leadership as well as oversee day-to-day operations of the Society. Responsibilities include: -Program development; -fundraising; -membership recruitment and retention; -volunteer recruitment; -t ... Contact: mail@montclairhistorical.org URL: www.montclairhistorical.org Announcement ID: 160860 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160860 Title: New Jersey Historical Commission's Driscoll Prize nomination deadline extended Date: 2008-04-01 Description: Deadline for nominations extended to April 1, 2008 for theAlfred E. Driscoll Dissertation Prize, awarded in alternate years to the outstanding doctoral dissertation in New Jersey history. The prize of $1,000 is given to the author. Unsuccessful applicants may resubmit their dissertatons in subsequen ... Contact: peter.mickulas@sos.state.nj.us URL: www.nj.gov/state/divisions/historical/ Announcement ID: 160764 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160764 Title: The Southern Association for Women Historians invites submissions for its annual publications prizes. To be eligible, entries must be written in English, but the competition is not restricted to works published in the U.S. Date: 2008-04-01 Description: The Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for $750 is awarded for the best published book in southern womens history, broadly construed. The Willie Lee Rose Prize of $750 is awarded for the best book on any topic in southern history authored by a woman (or women). For both of these prizes, only monographs are ... Contact: mshockl@clemson.edu Announcement ID: 160788 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160788 Title: Urban History Association Annual Awards Date: 2008-06-16 Description: URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History in 2007: The UHA will award a prize of $500 for the best book in North American urban history with a publication date of 2007. To be considered, please submit three (3) copies of the bo ... Contact: Janet.Bednarek@notes.udayton.edu URL: uha.udayton.edu Announcement ID: 160815 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160815 The following 90 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2008-02-11 and 2008-02-12. ###################################################################### # Category: Call for Papers ###################################################################### Title: CFP: panelist needed for 2009 AHA panel Location: New York Date: 2008-02-10 Description: We are seeking a third panelist for the 2009 AHA annual meeting. The panel will examine First/Third world encounters in the global 1968. One panelist will examine the relationship between the Black Panther Party and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; the other panelist will explore discourse of the Th ... Contact: christiansen.s@neu.edu Announcement ID: 160779 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160779 Title: [CFP: 2009 AHA] Criminalizing the Working Body Location: New York Date: 2008-02-15 Description: [CFP: 2009 AHA] Criminalizing the Working Body Im seeking two papers for a panel exploring how moral reformers, political leaders, and/or the popular press have historically delegitimized and criminalized the working-class body. My paper investigates an incident in early-twentieth-century California ... Contact: andrewsm@email.unc.edu Announcement ID: 160781 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160781 Title: CALL FOR PAPERS: 2009 OAH CONFERENCE PANEL Location: Washington Date: 2008-02-15 Description: Panel Proposal for OAH Conference, March 26-29, 2009 Time Period: Early America / Atlantic World Panel Title: "Creating Peoples: Publications and Power in the Atlantic World." 200-word abstract due by February 15th . Dear H-net subscribers, I am currently assembling a panel for next Springs OAH conf ... Contact: otrem009@umn.edu Announcement ID: 160775 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160775 Title: Call for Panel Chair/Respondent for 2008 North American Conference on British Studies Location: Ohio Date: 2008-02-15 Description: Needed: A chair/respondent for a proposed panel on masculinity, identity and culture in the British Isles, post-1945, for presentation at the 2008 North American Conference on British Studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. The panel consists of papers dealing with masculinity and Irish identity, from 1952 to ... Contact: akellett@umd.edu Announcement ID: 160832 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160832 Title: OAH and AHA Conference Panelists Sought Date: 2008-02-15 Description: I am looking for panelists for both the OAH and AHA conferences; I realize this is short notice, but if you'd like to present, I will put together a panel submission. My research looks at the evolution of educational programming in American prisons; thus, we could form a panel on the history of crim ... Contact: pkahan@temple.edu Announcement ID: 160899 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160899 Title: International Society for Educational Biography Location: Illinois Date: 2008-02-22 Description: CFP International Society for Educational Biography International Society for Educational Biography Call for Papers April 24-26, 2008 The Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference Radisson Hotel Chicago, IL CFP deadline is February 22, 2008 . I.S.E.B. invites academics, teachers, graduate students, researcher ... Contact: tmulvihi@bsu.edu URL: iseb.blogs.edu.yorku.ca/ Announcement ID: 160837 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160837 Title: Call for Papers: Law, Religion, and Culture Group Location: Illinois Date: 2008-02-25 Description: The Law, Religion, and Culture Group invites submissions for its panels to be held at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 1-3, 2008. We accept paper and panel proposals, including author-meets-readers panels, on any aspect of the cultural, historical, critical, and c ... Contact: robertyelle@hotmail.com URL: www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Annual_Meeting/Current_Meeting/Call_for_Papers/ Announcement ID: 160882 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160882 Title: CFP: Apparatus XY: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Science Location: New Jersey Date: 2008-02-29 Description: Please note that the previous announcement contains a typo on the date of the conference. =-=-= Call for Papers: Apparatus XY: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Science APPARATUS XY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON GENDER AND SCIENCE 4 April 2008 Program in History of Science Princeto ... Contact: hchiang@princeton.edu Announcement ID: 160819 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160819 Title: Call for Papers: Visual Literacy Location: Texas Date: 2008-02-29 Description: Call for Papers (Deadline Extended) Power to Empowerment: Critical Literacy in Visual Culture June 6-7, 2008 Dallas, Texas Papers are solicited for an international conference examining visual literacy as it is shaped by and shapes private and public identity and subjectivity through social institut ... Contact: kowens@unt.edu URL: visualliteracyconference.unt.edu/ Announcement ID: 160853 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160853 Title: Religion, Faith, Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary and International Postgraduate Conference on the Past, Present and Future Date: 2008-03-01 Description: Final Call for Papers Religion, Faith, Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary & International Postgraduate Conference on the Past, Present & Future 25-26 June 2008 To be held by the Graduate School of the College of Arts and Humanities, Bangor University, Wales. Proposals for presentations are welcomed ... Contact: emue1b@bangor.ac.uk URL: www.bangor.ac.uk/cah/conferences.php.en?menu=8&catid=5384&subid=0 Announcement ID: 160801 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160801 Title: Writing the Self: Modes of Self-Portrayal in the Cultural Text Date: 2008-03-01 Description: THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST WRITING THE SELF MODES OF SELF-PORTRAYAL IN THE CULTURAL TEXT The 10th Annual Conference of the English Department of the University of Bucharest will be held between 5 7 June, 2008. Papers are invited in the following areas: Br ... Contact: bucharest_litcultst@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 160811 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160811 Title: Ethnic American Life Writing: Engaging Cultures, Communities, and Individuals Date: 2008-03-01 Description: Ethnic American Life Writing: Engaging Cultures, Communities, and Individuals Panel Proposal for Writing the Self Modes of Self-Portrayal in the Cultural Text The Annual Conference of the English Department University of Bucharest, Romania 5-7 June 2008 We seek paper proposals for a panel entitled E ... Contact: ruxandra.radulescu@american-studies.ro Announcement ID: 160812 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160812 Title: seminar aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum Date: 2008-03-01 Description: 12 -13 June 2008, University of Surrey, United Kingdom The seminar aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum within which both academics and practitioners are able to explore the often complex and contested relationships between work, gender and sexualities. The themes and issues to be explored in ... Contact: a.cronin@surrey.ac.uk URL: www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/gender/cfp.php Announcement ID: 160830 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160830 Title: CFP: Literature and the Other Arts (3/1/08, RMMLA 10/9 10/11/08) Location: Nevada Date: 2008-03-01 Description: CFP: Literature and the Other Arts (3/1/08, RMMLA 10/9 10/11/08) Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language AssociationOctober 9-11, 2008, Reno, Nevada Literature and the Other Arts Session Papers on any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts are welcome. Topics may include, b ... Contact: khylensk@d.umn.edu Announcement ID: 160838 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160838 Title: Anti-Globalization/Counter Globalization Location: Wisconsin Date: 2008-03-01 Description: Annual Institute on Culture and Society "Anti-Globalization/Counter Globalization" 2008 CFP The Marxist Literary Group's annual Institute on Culture and Society (MLG-ICS) will convene this summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 10-15, on the campus of the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. The six-dayI ... Contact: carol.stabile@gmail.com Announcement ID: 160856 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160856 Title: Reminder: Split-Screen Date: 2008-03-03 Description: This special issue of Refractory seeks to mine the motif of the split-screen in order to explore aspects of duality and duplicity in relation to screen culture not just in terms of the audio/visual relationship, but also, spectatorial processes (both engagement and identification), representation, f ... Contact: tdwyer@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au URL: www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/ Announcement ID: 160805 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160805 Title: Portals: Comparative Literature Graduate Student Journal Vol. 6 Date: 2008-03-03 Description: Portals invites graduate students of any level to submit original, critical essay submissions that explore comparative literary topics across cultural, regional, linguistic, and temporal boundaries as well as poetic translations for the Spring 2008 issue. Submission Guidelines NOTE: Only papers by c ... Contact: clsa@sfsu.edu URL: userwww.sfsu.edu/~clsa/portals/ Announcement ID: 160827 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160827 Title: Third Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History Location: California Date: 2008-03-04 Description: The Third Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History will showcase the strongest graduate work on topics in California History in a one-day seminar, moderated by top scholars in fields related to California History. The Seminar, which will convene on Friday, April 4th, 2008, seeks submi ... Contact: jsides@csun.edu Announcement ID: 160800 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160800 Title: Local-Nacional-Global: desafos trans-fronterizos para los creadores mexicanos Date: 2008-03-07 Description: Local-Nacional-Global: desafos trans-fronterizos para los creadores mexicanos Se convoca a investigadores(as) de ciencias sociales y humanidades (historia del arte, literatura, antropologa) a enviar propuestas de ponencias para el Simposio pluridisciplinario Local-Nacional-Global: desafos trans-fron ... Contact: proyecto_creaciones@yahoo.ca Announcement ID: 160798 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160798 Title: CFP: "University Spaces, Academic Bodies: New Approaches to the Corporate University" Location: New York Date: 2008-03-07 Description: University Spaces, Academic Bodies: New Approaches to the Corporate University April 4th, 2008 New York University Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Program in American Studies Neoliberal and corporatist logics are increasingly reconfiguring bodies in and around universities. The work of d ... Contact: EmbodimentConference@gmail.com Announcement ID: 160877 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160877 Title: Call for Papers for a "Special Session" Panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual ConventionSan Francisco, California -- December 27-30 2008New Urban Island Networks: Representing Berlin and Havana Post-1990 Location: California Date: 2008-03-10 Description: Call for Papers: "Special Session" at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention San Francisco, Ca. -- December 27-30 2008 New Urban Island Networks: Representing Berlin and Havana Post-1990 1990 brought radical change to Berlin and Havana. Both are engaging variously in the art of surv ... Contact: jhosek@queensu.ca Announcement ID: 160831 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160831 Title: Eighteenth-Century Thought -- CFP Date: 2008-03-10 Description: Eighteenth-Century Thought is an international, interdisciplinary annual founded for the purpose of supporting study of early modern thought by publishing research pertinent to the fields of philosophy, natural philosophy, medicine, law, historiography, political theory, religion, economics, and the ... Contact: jgbuickerood@eighteenthcenturythought.org URL: www.eighteenthcenturythought.org Announcement ID: 160863 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160863 Title: Call for Papers & Presentations Location: Iowa Date: 2008-03-11 Description: Call for Papers & Presentations The Iowa Studies Center at DMACC A community college educating its community about the community's history, politics, literature, science, and art. Iowa Studies Forum on Friday, April 11, 2008, at Des Moines Area Community College, Theme: The World in Iowa Immigrants ... Contact: llossian@dmacc.edu Announcement ID: 160834 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160834 Title: Amended CFP: Going Cheap? Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres Date: 2008-03-15 Description: School of Film and Television Studies University of East Anglia Norwich, UK June 25, 2008 This one-day event sponsored by the School of Film and Television Studies will examine how discourses of tabloidism, reality, and scandal shape the construction of female celebrity in contemporary and historica ... Contact: D.Negra@uea.ac.uk Announcement ID: 160803 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160803 Title: Eleventh International Karl Polanyi ConferenceTHE RELEVANCE OF KARL POLANYI FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Location: Quebec Date: 2008-03-15 Description: Call for Papers: Eleventh International Karl Polanyi Conference THE RELEVANCE OF KARL POLANYI FOR THE 21ST CENTURY The eleventh international Karl Polanyi Conference will be held at Concordia University, Montreal from December 4-6, 2008. The theme of this conference, marking the 20th anniversary of ... Contact: polanyi@alcor.concordia.ca URL: artsandscience1.concordia.ca/polanyi/ Announcement ID: 160864 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160864 Title: 2008 International Visual Sociology Association Date: 2008-03-15 Description: 2008 International Visual Sociology Association. August 6-8, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theme, Space, Time, and Image. Panel proposals due March 15 ; send to ivsa2008english@gmail.com. More information on panel submissions is at www.visualsociology.org. The call for papers on panel topics will be post ... Contact: ivsa2008english@gmail.com URL: www.visualsociology.org Announcement ID: 160887 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160887 Title: Iran and the Caucasus: Unity and Diversity, June 06-08, 2008, Yerevan, Armenia (2nd Circular) Date: 2008-03-15 Description: ARYA International University (Yerevan) and the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies (Yerevan), in collaboration with the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support, are organising an international conference entitled "Iran and the Caucasus: Unity and Diversity" on the problems of Ira ... Contact: iranist@yahoo.co.uk URL: www.armacad.org Announcement ID: 160888 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160888 Title: Call for Book Chapter on Globalization, Culture, and Identity in the Arab World Date: 2008-03-20 Description: Call for Book Chapters Globalization, Culture, and Identity in the Arab World How is globalization impacting Arabs in terms of their culture, identity, lives, and professions?How have their lives been changed or impacted, either positively or negatively, in light of globalization? The concept of glo ... Contact: aissa@aus.edu Announcement ID: 160898 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160898 Title: The Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Biennial conference Location: Ohio Date: 2008-03-30 Description: "Which Way Women's History?" The Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Biennial conference at the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12 and 13, 2008. Women's and Gender histories have had a significant impact on the overall study and production of history, posing challenges t ... Contact: jennifer_morris@mail.msj.edu Announcement ID: 160893 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160893 Title: Family Dynamics in Transnational African Migration Date: 2008-03-31 Description: The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on Family Dynamics in Transnational Migration among African migrants. The flotilla of dingy open boats bringing African migrants across the Atlantic Ocean to Spanish territories such as ... Contact: marina.deregt@planet.nl Announcement ID: 160833 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160833 Title: The University of Manchester Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies' First International Postgraduate ConferenceTranslation Frames: Gateways and Gatekeeping Date: 2008-03-31 Description: The University of Manchester Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce its First International CTIS Postgraduate Conference: Translation Frames: Gateways and Gatekeeping Keynote speakers: Dr Moira Inghilleri (University College London) and Professor Michael Cronin (Dubl ... Contact: ctis_postgrad_conference@yahoo.co.uk Announcement ID: 160872 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160872 Title: CFP: Cosmic enthusiasm: The cultural impact of space exploration on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the 1950s: International conference, January 22-24, 2009, Basel (Switzerland). Date: 2008-03-31 Description: Focus: Soviet space expeditions in their historical and cultural context, the impact of space exploration on everyday culture, the effects of military competition and competing consumer cultures, the construction of gender, emotions and social as well as cultural spaces. Disciplinary range: history, ... Contact: conference@spacecultures.net URL: www.spacecultures.net Announcement ID: 160906 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160906 Title: EMERGENCY CALL FOR PAPERS@ EAST ASIAN DIRECTORS Date: 2008-04-01 Description: This is a special edition journal to be published by a UK based academic publisher on EAST ASIAN DIRECTORS. Due to the issues with two of the contributors this call for papers has a very, very quick turn around. I would be looking for papers to be submitted to the editor before April 1st 2008 and ex ... Contact: k.taylor@bangor.ac.uk Announcement ID: 160916 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160916 Title: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1730-1945. Location: South Carolina Date: 2008-04-01 Description: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1730-1945. Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, eds. We are seeking contributions for an innovative collection of essays analyzing how African American masculinity has been practiced and imagined in American history and literature from the colonial p ... Contact: tbuckner48602@troy.edu Announcement ID: 160917 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160917 Title: NCIS 2008 Conference Call for Papers Location: California Date: 2008-04-01 Description: Call for Papers The National Coalition of Independent Scholars will hold its 2008 Biennial Conference from October 24-26, 2008, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. We welcome participation by all scholars whose research is not supported by employment in an academic or research ... Contact: caennen@gmail.com URL: www.ncis.org Announcement ID: 160911 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160911 Title: Submissions for critical arts journal Date: 2008-04-10 Description: The Wandering Scholars journal invites submissions of critical reviews and articles in any field of the arts for its July 2008 issue. The journal combines exploration of the contemporary arts with appreciations and revaluations of the canon. We welcome critical and scholarly writing that is accessib ... Contact: editor@wanderingscholars.org.uk URL: www.wanderingscholars.org.uk Announcement ID: 160903 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160903 Title: Call for panelists: Nationalism and Collaboration in the Modern Middle East (MESA 2008)We are currently seeking additional abstracts for a panel exploring the impact of nationalism on collaborative relationships between ruling elites in the Mi Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-04-12 Description: Call for panelists: Nationalism and Collaboration in the Modern Middle East (MESA 2008) We are currently seeking additional abstracts for a panel exploring the impact of nationalism on collaborative relationships between ruling elites in the Middle East (20th Century) and foreign influence... ... Contact: krisbarnwell@mail.utexas.edu Announcement ID: 160821 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160821 Title: CFP for conference: East-Central Europe in the Cold War, 1945-1989 Date: 2008-04-15 Description: 16-18 October, 2008 - Warsaw, Poland. East-Central Europe in the Cold War, 1945-1989 International scholarly conference organised by: Institute of National Remembrance, Poland Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Wa ... Contact: Anna.Piekarska@ipn.gov.pl URL: ipn.gov.pl/portal/pl/618/6781/ Announcement ID: 160843 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160843 Title: Call for Papers: North American Association for the Study of Religion Location: Illinois Date: 2008-04-15 Description: The North American Association for the Study of Religion invites submissions for its annual meeting to be held in Chicago on October 31 and November 1, 2008. Panel and paper proposals on the following themes are especially encouraged: 1) (De)Secularization and Integrism(e)" 2) The Role of Biblical S ... Contact: robertyelle@hotmail.com URL: www.as.ua.edu/naasr/callforpapers2008.pdf Announcement ID: 160883 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160883 Title: Globalization revisited: World-embracing technologies in a historical perspective Date: 2008-04-15 Description: Technologies of Globalization Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, October 30-31, 2008 (deadline for proposals: April, 15th, 2008) Presently (re-)shaping social life as well as economics and science, the effects of globalization are in their turn and in manifold ways related to and in fact highly depe ... Contact: stream4@tog08.org URL: www.tog08.org/ Announcement ID: 160896 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160896 Title: 2nd Global ConferenceFear, Horror and Terror Date: 2008-04-18 Description: 2nd Global Conference Fear Horror and Terror Wednesday 3rd September - Saturday 6th September 2008 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror. In particu ... Contact: rf@inter-disciplinary.net URL: www.wickedness.net/Fear/f2/cfp.html Announcement ID: 160874 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160874 Title: CFP - Modernity and Temporality, SECAC Conference, New Orleans, LA., Sept. 24-27, 2008 Location: Louisiana Date: 2008-04-20 Description: SECAC Conference, New Orleans, LA., Sept. 24-27, 2008 Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities of Modern Time: In 1830, the passenger train was introduced, followed by the computer (1833), trans-Atlantic telegraph (1844), the telephone (1876), automobile (1890s), cinema (1894), radio (1900-1910), ... Contact: kris_belden@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 160774 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160774 Title: "It's a Mad World": The Work of Terry Gilliam Date: 2008-04-30 Description: We seek essays of 4,000 to 8,000 words for an anthology that explores the work of writer-actor-director-comedian Terry Gilliam. For decades Gilliam has been a leading film auteur, both a comic and a social critic, and a historical, critical survey of his work is needed. While he has never wholly dep ... Contact: froulaa@ecu.edu URL: english.ecu.edu/~froulaa/CFPTerryGilliam.htm Announcement ID: 160881 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160881 Title: Final Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture Date: 2008-04-30 Description: The two-volume "Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture," scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2008, currently seeks contributors. Candidates must be willing to write entries totaling at least 500 words. Preference will be given to college professors, published writers, and ... Contact: Email: blacks_in_europe_project@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160878 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160878 Title: *WEB* - Location: New York Date: 2008-04-30 Description: NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN HISTORIANS CALL FOR PAPERS -- 2008 The New York State Association of European Historians will holdits fifty-eighth annual meeting September-19-20, 2008 at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY. Those interested in offering papers or entire panels to beconsidered for in ... Contact: valone@canisius.edu URL: eurohistory.org Announcement ID: 160913 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160913 Title: Conference Theme: The Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University invites papers for competitive selection Location: New York Date: 2008-05-01 Description: Visible Memories ConferenceSyracuse UniversityOct. 2-4, 2008 Call for Papers Conference Theme: The Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular focu ... Contact: atdemo@syr.edu URL: publicmemories.syr.edu/ Announcement ID: 160817 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160817 Title: Hagley Research Seminar Series/Call for papers Location: Delaware Date: 2008-05-01 Description: Call for Papers Hagley Research Seminar Series For its 2008-09 research seminar series, the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library invites paper proposals from advanced scholars in history, sociology, or anthropology of work, technology and/or en ... Contact: rhorowitz@hagley.org Announcement ID: 160876 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160876 Title: Histories of Violence: A Graduate Conference at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) Location: Virginia Date: 2008-05-01 Description: This is a graduate conference to be held 18 October 2008 at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. It will explore the ways in which violence is manifest in political, social and economic realms, and the various roles violence plays in the relation between these realms in any specific juncture, pas ... Contact: rcohn@gmu.edu URL: culturalstudies.gmu.edu/violence/ Announcement ID: 160918 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160918 Title: The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association: Call for papers Date: 2008-05-01 Description: The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association (IJAPA) an interdisciplinary, intercultural, full text, open access online peer reviewed journal now invites proposals for articles for its first issue (vol 1, no 1) on subjects related to the theme of Asian philosophies and the contempora ... Contact: wmansour@fatih.edu.tr URL: www.asianpa.org/ijapa/journal.html Announcement ID: 160908 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160908 Title: New Environmental Justice Journal--Call for Papers Date: 2008-05-11 Description: Environmental Justice, a new quarterly peer-reviewed journal, will be the central forum for the research, debate, and discussion of the equitable treatment and involvement of all people, especially minority and low-income populations, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement ... Contact: sewhood@uic.edu URL: www.liebertpub.com/env Announcement ID: 160780 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160780 Title: Arab Media & Society book reviews editor needed Date: 2008-05-11 Description: Arab Media & Society (www.arabmediasociety.com) is looking for a book reviews editor. The position entails selecting new books to review, recruiting writers and editing, making sure copy is persuasive, coherent and readable. We publish quarterly issues, each containing 3-4 book reviews of 800-1000 w ... Contact: ams.auc@gmail.com URL: www.arabmediasociety.com Announcement ID: 160869 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160869 Title: Symposium on the Vietnam Experience Location: Texas Date: 2008-05-15 Description: The 3rd Texas A&M UniversityKingsville Symposium on the Vietnam Experience is issuing a call for papers to all interested scholars for presentation on September 12, 2008, in Kingsville, Texas. This years focus in on drawing comparisons between conflict in Southeast Asia and conflicts in the Middle E ... Contact: kfmsh00@tamuk.edu Announcement ID: 160846 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160846 Title: Call for Papers for session on Company Towns in Comparative Perspective (15th World History Economic Congress) Date: 2008-05-15 Description: Call for paper proposals for a session on Company Towns in Comparative Perspective for the 15th World History Economic Congress which will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from August 3 to 7, 2009. The session is organized by Marcelo Borges (Dickinson College) and Susana Torres (Universidad N ... Contact: borges@dickinson.edu Announcement ID: 160866 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160866 Title: Social Medicine (Medicina Social) Call for Papers (English or Spanish): Research in Venezuela Date: 2008-06-01 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Health Care in Venezuela SOCIAL MEDICINE Is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed academic forum for the development and promotion of Social Medicine. Spanish version: Medicina Social http://journals.sfu.ca/socialmedicine/index.php/socialmedicine/ issue/view/21 ... Contact: jepaluzz@uncg.edu Announcement ID: 160855 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160855 Title: International Conference on Debt and Slavery: the History of a Process of Enslavement Location: Quebec Date: 2008-06-01 Description: An interdisciplinary conference on 'Debt and Slavery: the History of a Process of Enslavement' will be held at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from Thursday, 7th May to Saturday, 9th May 2009. The conference will cover all geographical areas and time periods. Pape ... Contact: iowc@mcgill.ca URL: indianoceanworldcentre.com/ Announcement ID: 160900 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160900 Title: Roger Morrice and his World Date: 2008-06-14 Description: Roger Morrice and his World : A Workshop The Breakfast Room, Merton College, Oxford, UK. The recent publication of Roger Morrice's Entring Book was an important milestone in the study of late seventeenth century Britain. This one-day workshop is designed to assess the impact of the Entring Book on t ... Contact: jason.mcelligott@merton.ox.ac.uk OR mag1010@cam.ac.uk Announcement ID: 160810 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160810 Title: Call for Papers: The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe Date: 2008-07-31 Description: Call for Papers The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe: Twenty Years OnConference dates: Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 September 2009 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. Organisers: Dr Kevin McDermott and Dr Matthew Stibbe, both in the Department of History, Sheffield Hallam Univ ... Contact: m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk; k.f.mcdermott@shu.ac.uk Announcement ID: 160897 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160897 Title: Fashions: Business Practices in Historical Perspective Date: 2008-09-15 Description: Fashions: Business Practices in Historical Perspective 11-13 June 2009, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Joint Meeting of the Business History Conference and the European Business History Association THEMES Fashion, as a concept, refers to much more than the way we dress. For this joint meeting of t ... Contact: rhorowitz@hagley.org URL: www.bhc.,org Announcement ID: 160880 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160880 Title: Citizenship, States and Social Movements in Latin America Date: 2008-10-01 Description: The Dilogos Latinoamericanos journal invites papers for the fall 2008 issue. Since the beginning of the new millennium many signs have pointed to a crisis of the neo-liberal development model in Latin America. Many left-wing and nationalist governments have come into office, often on the wave of wid ... Contact: romkh@hum.au.dk URL: www.au.dk/index.jps/publikationer/dialogoslatino Announcement ID: 160790 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160790 ###################################################################### # Category: Publication ###################################################################### Title: Call for Book Chapters Date: 2008-01-15 Description: CALL FOR CHAPTERS The Culture of Efficiency Edited by Sharon Kleinman, Ph.D. The Culture of Efficiency will explore the ways that people are managing, exploiting, and resisting technological advancements in the digital age. This multidisciplinary collection will be a reader-friendly mix of theoretic ... Contact: sharon.kleinman@quinnipiac,edu URL: www.displacingplace.org Announcement ID: 160207 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160207 Title: Call for Proposals: Radiohead and Philosophy Date: 2008-02-01 Description: Radiohead and Philosophy: Edited by Brandon Forbes and George Reisch The editors of Radiohead and Philosophy, forthcoming from Open Court Publishing Company, invite short abstracts describing essays for possible inclusion in this volume of Open Courts series, Popular Culture and Philosophy. Guidelin ... Contact: brandon_forbes@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160220 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160220 Title: CFP: New book on Popular Culture and 9/11 Date: 2008-02-28 Description: CFP: New book on Popular Culture and 9/11 (Greenwood Publishing, forthcoming) Essays sought (750-1000 words each) for a forthcoming volume on popular culture since September 11th. Essays must be written from a critical or cultural studies approach. Planned book chapters will cover a wide range of to ... Contact: september11book@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160703 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160703 Title: Omertaa, journal for applied anthropology, Special Issue on Time and Social Change Date: 2008-02-28 Description: Omertaa, Journal for Applied Anthropology Special Issue on Time and Change Omertaa, Journal for Applied Anthropology, was launched in January, 2007. It is an international peer reviewed journal, with an academic board, publishing on issues which belong to the broader field of Applied Anthropology an ... Contact: zebi_anthro@yahoo.com URL: omertaa.org/volumes/volume20082/volume20082.html Announcement ID: 160891 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160891 Title: Collection of essays to be published by Peter Lang, Winter 2009, titled Francesco di Giorgio Martini: An Architectural Reconstruction. Date: 2008-02-29 Description: Collection of essays to be published by Peter Lang, Winter 2009, titled Francesco di Giorgio Martini: An Architectural Reconstruction. Edited by Berthold Hub, ETH Zurich, and Angeliki Pollali, The American College of Greece. Francesco di Giorgio Martini represents a unique case in the history of Ren ... Contact: apollali@acgmail.gr Announcement ID: 160450 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160450 Title: Radical Religions in Pennsylvania Date: 2008-03-01 Description: I am in search of individuals for an edited volume on Radical Religions in Pennsylvania. I am seeking contributors who would be willing to write succinct and insightful essays on the historical and theological significance of radical religion in Pennsylvania. By "radical religion" I mean new or icon ... Contact: cdrodkey@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 160740 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160740 Title: Special Issue of JSR: Christian Radicalism Date: 2008-03-05 Description: CFP: Christian Radicalism JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism invites article submissions for a special issue on Christian radicalism. We particularly are interested in articles that help to map the terrain in this areatopics might include the extreme pro-life movement, Christian separatist gro ... Contact: jsr@msu.edu URL: msupress.msu.edu/journals/jsr Announcement ID: 160471 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160471 Title: Gilder Lehrman Center Accepting Douglass Book Prize Submissions for 2008 Date: 2008-03-31 Description: The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announces the tenth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English in 2007 on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. Publishe ... Contact: dana.schaffer@yale.edu URL: www.yale.edu/glc Announcement ID: 160423 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160423 Title: GLC Frederick Douglass Book Prize Submissions for 2008 Date: 2008-03-31 Description: The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announces the tenth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English in 2007 on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. Publishe ... Contact: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu URL: www.yale.edu/glc Announcement ID: 160646 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160646 Title: Call for Chapter Proposals -- New Media vs. Traditional Media Date: 2008-04-01 Description: I am seeking proposals for chapters for an edited book on the effects of new media on traditional media and how technological advancements are changing the traditional media landscape. Proposals may examine any aspect of media ranging from regulatory, economic, management, advertising delivery, the ... Contact: jhendricks@sosu.edu Announcement ID: 160754 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160754 Title: Launching of a new book series, Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora Date: 2008-04-10 Description: Routledge is pleased to announce the launching of a new book series, Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora. The Editors are Fassil Demissie (DePaul University), Sandra Jackson (DePaul University) and Abebe Zegeye (University of South Africa). The Series Editors are affiliated with the Cent ... Contact: fdemissi@depaul.edu Announcement ID: 160487 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160487 Title: Contributors needed for Historical Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas Date: 2008-04-10 Description: I am seeking contributors for the third round of article assignments for the three-volume Historical Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas. This project , to be published by Facts on File, will be the first multivolume reference work to focus on slavery in the New World, and will be aimed at both ... Contact: eeb36@cornell.edu Announcement ID: 160525 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160525 Title: Call For Submissions Date: 2008-04-10 Description: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ACADEMIC EXCHANGE EXTRA (AEE) http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/index.html A MONTHLY PEER-REVIEWED ON-LINE FORUM Submissions are invited from educators, graduates, and post-graduates of all levels and areas of study for Academic Exchange Extra (AEE) (Editor-in-Chief, ... URL: asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/index.html Announcement ID: 160549 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160549 Title: Sparta Volume 3 no. 2; Discovering Ancient Spartan and Greek History Date: 2008-04-11 Description: Nottingham, UK -- Markoulakis Publications have produced the second issue of the third volume (volume 3 no. 2) of the printed and online educational periodical entitled Sparta. The periodical is accessible for review purposes for all visitors to the following website: www.sparta.markoulakispublicati ... Contact: info@markoulakispublications.org.uk URL: www.markoulakispublications.org.uk Announcement ID: 160717 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160717 Title: Arrivals and Departures Date: 2008-04-15 Description: Call for submissions for genre, an International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and the Arts, for an issue on Arrivals and Departures, the same theme as that of the 2008 conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (http://www.acla.org/acla2008/) to be hosted by California ... Contact: genrejournal@gmail.com Announcement ID: 160312 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160312 Title: Vitalpoetics Vol.1, No.2 Date: 2008-04-15 Description: Submissions are now being sought for Vitalpoetics: A Journal of Critical Literary Theory (www.vitalpoetics.com) Vol.1, No.2. Vitalpoetics is a journal of critical literary theory. Our objective is to promote key ideas in the field through close analysis, always holding that literature and its theory ... Contact: submit@vitalpoetics.com URL: www.vitalpoetics.com/submit/ Announcement ID: 160895 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160895 Title: Gender and Jewish Culture Date: 2008-04-30 Description: For an upcoming special issue, the multidisciplinary online journal gender forum (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de) invites contributions discussing Jewish culture from a gender perspective. Proposed topics include but are not limited to culturally specific discourses of gender and sexuality, que ... Contact: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de URL: www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de Announcement ID: 160233 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160233 Title: Fall Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture Date: 2008-04-30 Description: The two-volume "Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture," scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2008, currently seeks contributors. Candidates must be willing to complete all entries no later than April 30, 2008. Please do not respond to this call unless you are confident th ... Contact: Blacks_in_Europe_Project@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160326 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160326 Title: Contributors needed: Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture Date: 2008-05-01 Description: "Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture" The two-volume "Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture," scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2008, currently seeks contributors. Preference will be given to college professors, published writers, and advanced gradua ... Contact: Blacks_in_Europe_Project@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160076 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160076 Title: Journal of Historical Biography: Call for Article Submissions Date: 2008-05-01 Description: The Journal of Historical Biography, an international, peer reviewed, online publication is published twice annually, in spring and fall, and seeks original contributions on an ongoing basis. Articles embracing any aspect of historical biography are welcome, including biographical portraits of promi ... Contact: jhb@ucfv.ca URL: www.ucfv.ca/jhb Announcement ID: 160542 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160542 Title: Call for Contributors: The Encyclopedia of the History of Invention and Technology Date: 2008-05-01 Description: I am seeking contributors for a 5-volume encyclopedia on the social history of technology and invention. The encyclopedia, to be published by Facts On File, will be a history reference focusing on the cultural, social, and economic impact of each invention. This encyclopedia will be a work of histor ... Contact: technology_encyclopedia@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160845 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160845 Title: Discovery and Invention: An Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society Date: 2008-05-11 Description: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS Discovery and Invention: An Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, and East River Books, a reference book producer, are seeking contributing scholars for a four-volume illustrated reference work on the hi ... Contact: discovery.assistant@encyclopediawebsite.com URL: www.encyclopediawebsite.com Announcement ID: 160226 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160226 Title: Call for reviews (online journal) Date: 2008-05-11 Description: For its upcoming issues, the multidisciplinary online journal gender forum (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de) invites reviews of recent publications in gender studies and related disciplines. For suggestions concerning books to be reviewed see our homepage http://genderforum.uni-koeln.de (Call fo ... Contact: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de URL: www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de Announcement ID: 160234 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160234 Title: El Norte - The Finnish Journal of Latin American Studies Date: 2008-05-11 Description: El Norte - The Finnish Journal of Latin American Studies is a new on-line academic journal launched May 28th 2006. We publish articles about Latin America and the Caribbean in English, Spanish, Portugues, Finnish and Swedish. The latest issue "Refiguring Latin American Borders" (December 2007-1) can ... Contact: markus.kroger@helsinki.fi URL: www.elnorte.fi Announcement ID: 160298 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160298 Title: seeking proposals for "American Chronicles" series Date: 2008-05-11 Description: The History Press - a traditional publisher of local and regional history - is currently seeking proposals for its "American Chronicles" series. Projects in this series collect historical vignettes essays, columns, articles culled from historical newspapers and organizational newsletters comprising ... Contact: jonathan.simcosky@historypress.net URL: www.historypress.net Announcement ID: 160332 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160332 Title: New Journal Announcement/CFP: Transformative Works and Cultures Date: 2008-05-11 Description: *New Journal Announcement/CFP* _Transformative Works and Cultures_ (TWC) is a Gold Open Access international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. TWC publishes articles about popular media, fan communities, and tra ... Contact: editor@transformativeworks.org URL: journal.transformativeworks.org Announcement ID: 160742 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160742 Title: Researching science in West and Central Africa Date: 2008-05-11 Description: I am doing research on the development of science in French-speaking Africa. In particular, I'm focusing on four countries: Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazaville, and Congo-Kinshasa. I'm looking for first-hand information regarding this topic. I'm looking especially to get data and insights from people ... Contact: rachel.frandsen@byu.edu Announcement ID: 160806 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160806 Title: Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences Invites Papers Date: 2008-05-11 Description: The peer-reviewed quarterly Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences invites papers on disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, technology assessment, science policy, history of science, and science education. Papers must be submitted by email to the editor (vcoates@mac.com) and must be 600 ... Contact: vcoates@mac.com URL: www.washacadsci.org Announcement ID: 160901 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160901 Title: Cahiers Leiris, no2: Appel contributions Date: 2008-06-01 Description: Le numro 1 des Cahiers Leiris vient de paratre. Plus ambitieux et consistants quun simple bulletin de liaison, dune priodicit annuelle, les Cahiers Leiris publieront leur deuxime numro vers la fin de lanne 2008. Tous les textes et documents indits sur Michel Leiris ou ressortissant son uvre (tudes c ... Contact: jsgallaire@yahoo.fr URL: www.michel-leiris.com/HH/ Announcement ID: 160626 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160626 Title: RSA, the annual, peer-reviewed Journal of AISNA (the Italian Association of American Studies Date: 2008-06-15 Description: RSA, the annual, peer-reviewed Journal of AISNA (the Italian Association of American Studies), welcomes submissions from both members and non-members for the upcoming issues of its new series. RSA publishes invited contributions on chosen topics by prominent scholars in the field, as well as general ... Contact: g.nori@unimc.it URL: www.aisna.net/ Announcement ID: 160823 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160823 Title: Call for Publications Date: 2008-07-01 Description: Early American Studies, the journal published by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, seeks articles for a special 2009 issue commemorating Henry Hudson's 1609 exploration of the river that bears his name. Submissions may examine any aspect of New Amsterdam, New Netherland, early New York, ... Contact: ecrane@fordham.edu Announcement ID: 160557 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160557 The following 23 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2008-02-12 and 2008-02-13. ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### Title: Authentic Japnese house is avilable in Hiyoshi (Yokohama) Description: "A traditional Japanese style house for rent in Hiyoshi(Yokohama)" It is rather a big house(4-5 rooms), truly authentic Japanese style house with a garden. It is located in Hiyoshi, Yokohama. It is very quiet, surrounded by nature. There is a park only a few minutes away. It is about 10 minutes' wal ... Contact: seankita@hotmail.com Announcement ID: 160854 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160854 Title: Seeking a panel for OAH 2009 in Seattle. Location: Washington Description: I would like to either form a panel or become part of panel for the OAH in 2009. I am proposing a panel on Pacific World Exchanges of Environmental Knowledge. My own paper deals with the development of forestry conservation policies in the Philippines under American colonial rule. Environmental topi ... Contact: ner3@u.washington.edu Announcement ID: 160894 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160894 Title: Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: An International Conference Begins: 2008-02-21 Description: "Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan" is an international conference that will bring together leading scholars, civil society members, and activists who are involved in proactively addressing the situation in Darfur and Sudan more generally. In conjunction with the forthcoming edited volume ... Contact: caray@fordham.edu URL: www.asrc.cornell.edu/darfur08/ Announcement ID: 160865 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160865 Title: "The Street" 2008 Visual Studies Conference, UC Irvine Location: California Begins: 2008-02-29 Description: February 29 - March 1, 2008 "The Street" 2008 Visual Studies Conference, UC Irvine Organized by the Visual Studies Graduate Student Association Keynotes: Susan Buck Morss, Cornell University (Feb. 29) Mike Davis, UC Irvine (March 1) Panels Feb. 29 (Re)placing Paris: Reconstruction, Revolution, and l ... Contact: cbalasch@uci.edu URL: www.humanities.uci.edu/visualstudies/street/ Announcement ID: 160857 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160857 Title: National identification from below. Ghent (Belgium) Date: 2008-03-07 Description: Deadline for early registration fee extended International Conference: National identification from below. Europe from the late 18th century to the end of WWI Programme committee: Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics), Grard Noiriel (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales), Heinz-Gerha ... Contact: frombelow@ugent.be URL: www.frombelow.ugent.be Announcement ID: 160840 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160840 Title: Temple's AYA Spring Conference Location: Pennsylvania Deadline: 2008-03-15 Description: Please forward this announcement to graduate students who are interested in African, Africana and/or African American Studies. Temple University's AYA: African American Studies Graduate Students is issuing a Call for Papers to graduate students interested in African American Studies for its annual A ... Contact: aya_aasgs@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 160925 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160925 Title: Modern Arabic Literature as/and World Literature Location: California Deadline: 2008-03-15 Description: Modern Arabic Literature as/and World Literature Special Session CFP 2008 Modern Language Association Convention San Francisco 27-30 December 2008 This panel examines the relationship between Modern Arabic and world literatures. The aim is to introduce a wider range of Arabic texts into world litera ... Contact: kseigneurie@lau.edu.lb Announcement ID: 160910 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160910 Title: Capital Science 2008 Location: Virginia Date: 2008-03-29 Description: Event organized in Arlington, Virginia, by the Washington Academy of Sciences with the support of the AAAS and the NSF. Astronomy, botany, anthropology, chemistry, engineering, bio-medical sciences, history of medicine, statistics, and other disciplines will be covered. FREE registration for student ... Contact: pegkay@washacadsci.org URL: www.washacadsci.org/capsci08/Index.htm Announcement ID: 160799 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160799 Title: Remembering 1948 and 1968: Reflections on Two Pivotal Years in Czech and Slovak History Date: 2008-04-03 Description: To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the imposition of communism in Czechoslovakia and the 40th anniversary of the Prague Spring a conference, hosted by the Department of Central and East European Studies in conjunction with the wider CRCEES network, will be held at the University of Glasgow on 03 ... Contact: l.cashman@lbss.gla.ac.uk URL: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/centralandeasteuropeanstudies/announce/ Announcement ID: 160808 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160808 Title: National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference Location: New York Begins: 2008-04-04 Description: National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference XI Union College April 4th and 5th 2008 The National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, a celebration of undergraduate research in bioethics sponsored by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, invites participation from students in the history ... Contact: peasea@union.edu URL: ethics.union.edu/nubc.html Announcement ID: 160844 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160844 Title: 2008 Society of Indiana Archivists Annual Meeting Location: Indiana Begins: 2008-04-04 Description: SIA Annual Meeting April 4 and 5, 2008 at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis, Indiana The Society of Indiana Archivists 2008 Annual Meeting will feature: Sessions on improving basic archival skills Sessions on researching ethnic and minority collections Tours of the Indiana Historical So ... Contact: emwilkin@purdue.edu URL: www.inarchivists.org Announcement ID: 160879 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160879 Title: Conference: Andre Gunder Frank memorial Location: Pennsylvania Begins: 2008-04-11 Description: Conference Andre Gunder Franks Legacy of Critical Social ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh, David Lawrence Hall, April 11-13, 2008 This is to be a major, international conference, honoring the life and work of Andre Gunder Frank, a pioneer in global analysis in history and social science. He died at a ... Contact: pmanning@pitt.edu URL: www.worldhistorynetwork.org Announcement ID: 160867 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160867 Title: War And Its Discontents: Understanding Iraq And The U.S. Empire Location: Georgia Begins: 2008-04-11 Description: Historians Against the War and the Peace History Society invite you to our upcoming national conference at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-13 April 2008. We want to attract historically minded scholars, activists from a variety of social movements, graduate students, educators, artist ... URL: www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/ Announcement ID: 160868 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160868 Title: 2008 Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference Location: California Date: 2008-04-19 Description: Eighteenth Annual Pacific Southwest Womens Studies Association Conference Students, Activists and Teachers Working Together Feminist Reclamations/Queer Reclamations: The Adaptive Faces of Revolution April 19, 2008 San Diego State University, San Diego Call for Proposals Revolutions have come to sign ... Contact: PSWSA08@gmail.com URL: pswsa.nwsa.org/ Announcement ID: 160904 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160904 Title: 2008 SFU English Department Graduate Conference - Games We Play: Strategies of the Everyday Location: British Columbia Begins: 2008-05-09 Description: 2008 Simon Fraser University English Department Graduate Conference Games We Play: Strategies of the Everyday Place: Burnaby, British Columbia Date: May 9th and 10th, 2008 Abstract Deadline: February 28th, 2008 Submit to: gradconf@sfu.ca Website: http://www.sfu.ca/~gradconf/ The 2008 SFU graduate co ... Contact: gradconf@sfu.ca URL: www.sfu.ca/~gradconf/ Announcement ID: 160807 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160807 Title: Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) 2008 Dunedin (NZ) Conference Begins: 2008-06-30 Description: ADSA 2008 Annual Conference hosted by the Theatre Studies Programme, Division of Humanities, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference dates: 30 June - 3 July 2008 Venue: Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago The Conference convenors invite submission of papers related to all forms of ... Contact: jerry.jaffe@stonebow.otago.ac.nz URL: www.otago.ac.nz/theatrestudies Announcement ID: 160858 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160858 Title: The Metropolis on Trial Begins: 2008-07-10 Description: An International Conference at the Open University, Milton Keynes10-12 July 2008 This conference heralds and celebrates the completion of the Old Bailey online project. From the early summer of 2008 it will be possible to consult at www.oldbaileyonline.org not only the Proceedings of the Old Bailey ... Contact: S.Watkins@open.ac.uk URL: metropolisontrial.wordpress.com/ Announcement ID: 160912 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160912 Title: The Mediterranean Diet. Refreshing your Understanding. Translating it to the Plate Begins: 2008-09-28 Description: Isle of Crete, Greece Sept. 28 Oct 4 repeats Oct 5-11 and optional Oct 12- 17 2008 With Chef Nikki Rose and Crete Culinary Sanctuaries A 6 day culinary-cultural immersion for accredited food, nutrition, health and culinary professionals. Participate in dialog, presentations, culinary-cultural explor ... Contact: amanda@fieldtoplate.com URL: fieldtoplate.com/forums Announcement ID: 160931 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160931 Title: UNAK'08="Information: Diversity and Awareness Date: 2008-10-06 Description: At the present day, rapidly increasing information and constantly developing information technologies in various science fields have brought up informaiton servicess being given quicker, more efficiently and economically in this field. With this aim, since 2000, Our Association(UNAK) has regularly o ... Contact: unak@unak.org.tr URL: www.unak.org.tr/unak08eng/ Announcement ID: 160935 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160935 Title: POLITICAL WOMEN 1500-1900 International Conference 12-14 November in Ume, Sweden Begins: 2008-11-12 Description: POLITICAL WOMEN 1500-1900 Call for papers 15 April 2008 International conference 12-14 November 2008 in Ume, Sweden The conference aims to survey, present and initiate research about politically active women 1500-1900. The theme include research in politically active women before the breakthrough of ... Contact: asa.karlsson.sjogren@historia.umu.se URL: www.umea-congress.se/politicalwomen2008.html Announcement ID: 160842 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160842 ###################################################################### # Category: Symposium ###################################################################### Title: Contramarchas epistemologicas a la metodica occidentalizacion de America Latina: una perspectiva mundial Deadline: 2008-03-14 Description: 53 CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE AMERICANISTAS LOS PUEBLOS AMERICANOS, CAMBIOS Y CONTINUIDADES: LA CONSTRUCCION DE LO PROPIO EN UN MUNDO GLOBALIZADO 19-24 de Julio de 2009 Ciudad de Mxico Call for papers Invitamos a enviar propuestas para participar en el Symposio CONTRAMARCHAS EPISTEMOLOGICAS A LA METO ... Contact: elm15@pitt.edu Announcement ID: 160886 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160886 Title: Blues and the Spirit: A Symposiumon the Legacy of Blues and Gospel Music, May 22-24.2008 Location: Illinois Begins: 2008-05-22 Description: Blues and the Spirit: A Symposium on the Legacy of Blues and Gospel Music will take place May 22 through 24, 2008 at Dominican University, River Forest, IL 60305, just 9 miles from Chicago's downtown in the near west suburbs. We're bringing it home to Chicago! The symposium will explore the shared r ... Contact: bluesandthespirit@dom.edu URL: www.dom.edu/bluesandthespirit Announcement ID: 160928 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160928 Title: 150 Years of Evolution Darwin's Impact on the Humanitiesand Social Sciences Location: California Date: 2009-11-20 Description: Researchers and scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit papers addressing the impact of Darwins ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Both disciplinary-specific and broadly interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Papers accepted for the symposium will be included in a volume ... Contact: mark.wheeler@sdsu.edu Announcement ID: 160902 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160902 --
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