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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: Lecture Seminar Summer Program Workshop 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 28 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2008-02-06 and 2008-02-07. ###################################################################### # Category: Lecture ###################################################################### Title: "Mission to McMurdo Station: Experiences on a Supply Ship in the Antarctic"Antarctic" Location: Connecticut Date: 2008-02-10 Description: Dini Macris will present a porgram on "Mission to McMurdo Station" on Sunday, February 10th at 2:00 p.m. at the Shaw Mansion, the New London County Historical Society. Macris, a recent graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, King's Point, spent several months last year on a supply shi ... Contact: info@newlondonhistory.org URL: www.newlondonhistory.org Announcement ID: 160735 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160735 Title: Feb.19: "Using Technology to Advance Missions of Advocacy and Social Service NGOs," 12:30-2:00 PM Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-02-19 Description: Please feel free to distribute this invitation to others who you think might be interested INVITATION IREX Speaker Series: Technology Serving Civil SocietyPresents Theresa Crawford Director of the Advocacy and Leadership Center, Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) on Using Technology to Adva ... Contact: techseries@irex.org Announcement ID: 160826 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160826 Title: O. D. Skelton Memorial Lecture / Confrence commmorative O. D. Skelton Location: Ontario Date: 2008-02-27 Description: O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture, Ottawa, 27 February 2008 The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Leonard J. Edwards, is pleased to announce that the O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture for 2007-8 will be given by the distinguished Canadian soldier and statesman John de Chastelain. General de Chastelains le ... Contact: hector.mackenzie@international.gc.ca URL: www.international.gc.ca/department/skelton/menu-en.asp Announcement ID: 160795 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160795 Title: 2008 Alan M. & Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography at the Library of Virginia Location: Virginia Date: 2008-03-08 Description: Dr. Matthew H. Edney will present two captivating lectures entitled, John Mitchell, His Map, and the Eighteenth-Century Culture of Geography and How to Write theHistory of Maps and Mapping in the Modern World. The first lecture will present the results of Dr. Edneys recent research into the sophisti ... Contact: Rebekah.Closs@lva.virginia.gov URL: www.lva.virginia.gov Announcement ID: 160825 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160825 ###################################################################### # Category: Seminar ###################################################################### Title: MSc in Forced Migration at the University of Oxford Description: Master of Science in Forced Migration The MSc degree in Forced Migration offers a dynamic and intellectually rigorous path to the examination of forced migration resulting from conflict, repressive regimes, environmental change and development policies. Scholarship opportunities available. ... Contact: rsc-msc@qeh.ox.ac.uk URL: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/teaching_master.html Announcement ID: 160678 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160678 Title: Darwin Day Cleveland Location: Ohio Date: 2008-02-12 Description: Free & Open to the Public February 12, 2008 is Charles Darwin's 199th birthday. Join us to celebrate (with Birthday Cake!) and to see the documentary "Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial" Discussion will follow! 5-7pm DeGrace Hall Room 312; Adelbert Rd, Case Western Reserve University, Clevel ... Contact: evolution@case.edu URL: www.case.edu/artsci/evolutionarybiology/ Announcement ID: 160739 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160739 Title: Mongolia: Empire and Democracy - International Faculty Development Seminar, June 2008 Date: 2008-02-15 Description: International Faculty Development Seminars Summer 2008 http://ciee.org/IFDS/seminars.aspx Mongolia Mongolia: Empire and Democracy June 1-11, 2008 Rationale The seminar will allow participants to visit many of the historical sites associated with Chinggis Khan (popularly spelled Genghis Khan) and the ... Contact: brascoe@ciee.org URL: www.ciee.org/ifds Announcement ID: 160690 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160690 Title: Rethinking America in a Global Perspective Seminar Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-03-01 Description: The National History Center, American Historical Association, the Community College Humanities Association, and the Library of Congress invite you to apply for Rethinking America in a Global Perspective, a summer institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC. The fo ... Contact: mhauss@historians.org URL: www.historians.org/projects/rethinkingamerica/2008/index.cfm Announcement ID: 160820 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160820 Title: The People and the Judges: Constitutional Politics and Judicial Review in American History Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-03-03 Description: The Institute for Constitutional Studies (ICS) announces its spring graduate seminar, "The People and the Judges: Constitutional Politics and Judicial Review in American History." The seminar, which will take place on six consecutive Monday evenings beginning March 3, will be led by Professor Michae ... Contact: icsgw@law.gwu.edu URL: docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/ Announcement ID: 160697 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160697 Title: NEH Funded Institute on Appalachia, Ferrum College, Location: Virginia Date: 2008-03-03 Description: The National Endowment for the Humanities is funding a four-week institute for college and university teachers at Ferrum College on the topic of Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: Appalachia Up Close. Big Creek People in Action of Caretta, West Virginia, is also participating in this project. From ... Contact: pcrow@ferrum.edu URL: www.ferrum.edu/neh Announcement ID: 160745 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160745 Title: Stalin as Warlord and Peacemaker: Beyond Myth and Propaganda Date: 2008-03-05 Description: On Wednesday 5 March 2008 prof. Geoffrey Roberts (University College Cork, Ireland) will visit the SOMA-CEGES. He will give a seminar about his recently published book "Stalins Wars. From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953" (Yale University Press, 2006). Without ignoring that the Stalin regime was res ... Contact: mathieu.vanhaelewyn@cegesoma.be URL: www.cegesoma.be Announcement ID: 160793 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160793 Title: Christianity and the Holocaust: Teaching the Tough Questions Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-03-15 Description: UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust 2008 Seminar for Seminary and Religious Studies Faculty Christianity and the Holocaust: Teaching the Tough Questions June 1620, 2008 The Committee on Church Relations and the ... Contact: vbarnett@ushmm.org URL: www.ushmm.org/research/center/church/ Announcement ID: 160667 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160667 Title: Summer Research Seminar on "The Influence of Religion on Constitutional Thought" Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-04-21 Description: The Institute for Constitutional Studies is pleased to announce its ninth annual residential summer research seminar, to be held at George Washington University from June 8-14, 2008. Applications are encouraged from advanced graduate students and junior faculty. This year's seminar will explore "The ... Contact: icsgw@law.gwu.edu URL: docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/ Announcement ID: 160681 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160681 Title: UAE & Oman Faculty Development Seminar Date: 2008-06-06 Description: Spend 11 days in the Persian Gulf learning about the core concepts of Islamic thought and values and how they are applied to various aspects of contemporary society in the UAE and Oman. Hosted by the the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), faculty from Colleges ... Contact: brascoe@ciee.org URL: ciee.org/IFDS/seminars/uae_oman.aspx Announcement ID: 160707 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160707 ###################################################################### # Category: Summer Program ###################################################################### Title: NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers"Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region" July 7-31 at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts Location: Massachusetts Date: 2008-03-03 Description: Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region The Institute will be concerned with the study of the Himalayan region (principally Nepal, Kashmir, Tibet,) and particularly the literatures, arts, and religions that have been especially important in pan-Asian history. Using an interdisciplin ... Contact: tlewis@holycross.edu URL: college.holycross.edu/orgs/himalayan_cultures/ Announcement ID: 160672 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160672 Title: J.S. Bach in the Baroque and the Enlightenment: an Interdisciplinary NEH Institute for K-12 Teachers, June 30-July 25, 2008 Date: 2008-03-03 Description: J.S. Bach in the Baroque and the Enlightenment An Interdisciplinary NEH Institute for K-12 TeachersJune 30-July 25, 2008 Application Deadline: March 3, 2008 For more information: www.bachforteachers.org An NEH Institute for School Teachers , "J. S. Bach in the Age of the Baroque and the Enlightenmen ... Contact: hbinford@moravian.edu URL: www.bachforteachers.org Announcement ID: 160824 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160824 Title: MATILDA: New International Masters in Women's and Gender History Date: 2008-03-10 Description: MATILDA is the first International Masters in Women's and Gender History to offer students the opportunity to study full time in two or more European countries: UK, France, Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary. Launched in 2008 by the universities of Lyon 2 (France), Vienna (Austria), Nottingham (UK), CEU ... Contact: amanda.samuels@nottingham.ac.uk URL: www.nottingham.ac.uk/history/general/MATILDA.php Announcement ID: 160733 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160733 Title: NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Summer Workshops Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution Location: Massachusetts Date: 2008-03-17 Description: The Tsongas Industrial History Center invites educators from across the U.S. to Lowell, Massachusetts, to apply to Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution, a week long summer workshop funded by the We the People program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This workshop is f ... Contact: Ellen_anstey@uml.edu URL: www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH Announcement ID: 160792 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160792 Title: Summer Course Abroad in China Date: 2008-06-01 Description: ILS 599 International Perspective on Digital Libraries-Seminar on Chinese Digital Librarianship Summer Course Dates: June 1-June 15, 2008 This course abroad program is designed to benefit students two-fold. Program participants will attend seven lectures and tour five of the best libraries in Beijin ... Contact: liuy1@southernct.edu URL: www.southernct.edu/internationalprograms/shorttermprograms/ Announcement ID: 160751 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160751 Title: Summer Program in St. Petersburg and Ukraine Date: 2008-06-20 Description: HISTORICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN JEWISH STUDIES:THEORY AND PRACTICE OF FIELD RESEARCH IN FORMER SHTETLS OF UKRAINE The Petersburg Judaica Center of the European University at St.Petersburg, Russia offers a summer program in the history and anthropology of East European Jewry. The program is ... Contact: kushka@eu.spb.ru URL: www.eu.spb.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=272&Itemid=02 Announcement ID: 160804 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160804 Title: Eisenhower Academy Location: Pennsylvania Date: 2008-07-06 Description: The 11th annual Eisenhower Academy, a summer institute for teachers, will be held July 6 - 11, 2008 at Gettysburg College and Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA. Sponsored by the National Park Service, Gettysburg College, and Mount St. Mary's University, the Academy presents an in-d ... Contact: carol_hegeman@nps.gov URL: www.nps.gov/eise Announcement ID: 160687 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160687 ###################################################################### # Category: Workshop ###################################################################### Title: Columbia Workshop on Russia and Islam, Feb. 15 Location: New York Date: 2008-02-15 Description: Dear Colleagues, You are invited to join us for an international workshop on Friday February 15, "Russo-Arab Ties in Historical Perspective: A Workshop on Imperial Russia, Islam, and the Ottoman Arab Lands." This event brings together scholars from Europe, Uzbekistan, Russia, and the United States w ... Contact: ek2497@columbia.edu URL: www.harrimaninstitute.org/events/conferences.html Announcement ID: 160813 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160813 Title: The Manhattan Project and its Cold War Legacy Date: 2008-02-20 Description: The Manhattan Project and its Cold War Legacy* February 20, 2008 (4:00 - 6:00pm) 5th Floor Conference Room Woodrow Wilson Center Visit ww.cwihp.org for more information and to RSVP The Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project will sponsor an in-depth discussion of the Manhattan Project ... Announcement ID: 160700 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160700 Title: Across the Divide: Interdisciplinary dialogues on the Archive Date: 2008-03-15 Description: Immensely rich and important historical artefacts and documents are contained and maintained in a variety of publicly run archives and private collections in the UK and elsewhere. In the past, research on collections has been the preserve of specialist scholars. There is much to be gained by develop ... Contact: g.low@dundee.ac.uk URL: www.investigatingthearchive.org/ Announcement ID: 160718 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160718 Title: WHEATS: Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science Location: Kansas Date: 2008-04-04 Description: WHEATS 2008 Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science. A workshop designed for senior graduate students who research investigates the intersections between environmental history, agricultural history the history of technology and the history of science in any combi ... Contact: blynn@ksu.edu URL: www.k-state.edu/history/wheats Announcement ID: 160818 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160818 Title: Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for College Instructors, cosponsored by the Institute for Constitutional Studies, Emory University, and the Georgia Humanities Council Location: Georgia Date: 2008-04-11 Description: The Institute for Constitutional Studies is pleased to announce its second annual regional workshop for college teachers. This year's workshop, "The Constitutional Convention," will take place on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 6-11. Professor Sally Hadden of Florida St ... Contact: icsgw@law.gwu.edu URL: docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/ Announcement ID: 160682 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160682 Title: Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers--"Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer: The Outside World and the Writer's Imagination" Location: Mississippi Date: 2008-07-01 Description: Come into Eudora Welty's world--into her house, her garden, her hometown. Study her fiction as you experience the world that sparked her imagination. The National Endowment for the Humanities offers this opportunity. Each K-12 educator selected for a weeklong workshop in Jackson, MS, will receive a ... Contact: manorwl@millsaps.edu Announcement ID: 160769 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160769 Title: Second Annual Interdisciplinary Regional Summer Workshop for College Instructors: "The Constitutional Convention." Location: Georgia Date: 2008-07-06 Description: The Institute for Constitutional Studies is pleased to announce its second annual Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for College Instructors. This summer's workshop will take place from July 6-11 on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and is cosponsored by Emory University and the Geo ... Contact: icsgw@law.gwu.edu URL: docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/ Announcement ID: 160300 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160300 --
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