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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. 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The following 28 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2009-11-23 and 2009-11-24. ###################################################################### # Category: Call for Papers ###################################################################### Title: TextbookCheck.coms High School History Textbook Analysis Description: The core feature of TextbookCheck.com is the sites page-by-page analysis of high school history textbookswith a current focus on U.S. history. Textbookcheck.com will provide scholars with sections of a high school-level history textbook (typically 10-15 pages in length), appropriate to said scholars ... Contact: editor@TextbookCheck.com URL: www.TextbookCheck.com Announcement ID: 172214 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172214 Title: Reminder:CFP Nietzschean Thinking Beyond the Two Cultures Deadline: 2009-11-30 Description: Papers are sought for workshop panels on the theme of Nietzsche, science, and imagination, taking place at the 12th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) in Ankara Turkey, Aug. 2-6, 2010. The topic of the conference is Thought in Science and Fiction. Reflect ... Contact: stobias@fullerton.edu URL: issei2010.haifa.ac.il/ Announcement ID: 172175 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172175 Title: CALL FOR PAPERS: Fighting Religion: Expressions of Violence and ResistanceCentre for the Study of Religions Annual Graduate Symposium, University of Toronto Location: Ontario Deadline: 2009-12-04 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS Fighting Religion: Expressions of Violence and Resistance Centre for the Study of Religions Annual Graduate Symposium University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada 16 April, 2010 Submission deadline: 4 December, 2009 The University of Torontos Centre for the Study of Religion extend ... Contact: b.greenberg@utoronto.ca Announcement ID: 172206 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172206 Title: CFP: "Religion and Language" for Special Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language Deadline: 2009-12-10 Description: This is a call for papers for the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL). The theme of this issue will be: Language and Religion. The aim of this issue is to bring into focus the complex cultural, social and political relationships between Language and Religion. Both the terms may ... Contact: mukherjeesipra@gmail.com Announcement ID: 172204 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172204 Title: Call for Papers: 16th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 18-20, 2010 Location: California Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: Main Theme China Effect: Securing Taiwan in the Age of Conflicts and Cooperation Elected on the campaign slogan we are ready in 2008, Taiwanese people had high expectation for the new administration. To meet these expectations, the top priority on the Presidents agenda was to loosen restraints on cr ... Contact: C.Cheng@sussex.ac.uk URL: www.na-tsa.org Announcement ID: 172164 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172164 Title: CFP: Cormac McCarthy (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-2/13/10) Location: New Mexico Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: CFP: Cormac McCarthy (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-2/13/10) Panel(s) now forming on the work of Cormac McCarthy: novels, plays, screenplays: Novels: The Orchard Keeper (1965); Outer Dark (1968); Child of God (1974); Suttree (1979); Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985); All the P ... Contact: pheldrich@sbcglobal.net URL: www.swtxpca.org Announcement ID: 172185 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172185 Title: CFP: Twilight and Stephanie Meyers (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-2/13/10) Location: New Mexico Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: CFP: Twilight and Stephanie Meyers (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-2/13/10) Panel(s) now forming on the phenomenon of Twilight Novels Films Marketing Audiences: tween, teens, Twilight Moms Twilight and Popular Culture Twilight and History Twilight and the construction of the Northwest Twilight and pla ... Contact: pheldrich@sbcglobal.net URL: swtxpca.org Announcement ID: 172186 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172186 Title: National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers -University of South Florida Tampa, Fl. - March 25-27, 2010 Location: Florida Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers University of South Florida Tampa, Fl. March 25-27, 2010 Conference Theme: Anything But Silence: Politics, Poetry, and Pedagogy "Being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice, as it were, what else could I do? What else but ... Announcement ID: 172194 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172194 Title: CFP - Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century. Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: This interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield aims to bring together the different scholarly ways of approaching the Victorian period and to examine their points of crossover and divergence. From The Charge of the Light Brigade to The White Mans Burden, from Honor Daumiers lithogr ... Contact: poetrypoliticspictures@sheffield.ac.uk URL: sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/ Announcement ID: 172210 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172210 Title: CFPThe Sixties: The Culture, the Movements, and the Summer of Love Location: Missouri Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: CFPThe Sixties: The Culture, the Movements, and the Summer of Love Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual National Conference Wednesday, March 31 through Saturday, April 3, 2010 Renaissance Grand HotelSt. Louis St. Louis MO Submission Deadline: December 15, 2009 The Sixties ... Contact: carmic28@msu.edu or spenc183@msu.edu Announcement ID: 172224 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172224 Title: CFP extended "Divergence & Convergence: People, Events, & Ideas that Have Shaped the World" Location: Texas Deadline: 2010-01-05 Description: The 2010 Conference of the World History Association of Texas will focus on historical and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the people, events and ideas influential in globalization. Conference organizers welcome proposals that connect world history teaching and research. ... Contact: christiw@stedwards.edu URL: faculty.stedwards.edu/kathyb/WHAT/ConferenceAnnouncement.htm Announcement ID: 172220 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172220 Title: CFP: ASA 2010 panel: Do real vampires sparkle? Deadline: 2010-01-10 Description: The popularity of Stephanie Meyers Twilight series and the subsequent movies Twilight and New Moon has nearly reached the intense popularity of the Harry Potter series. Twilight has spawned innumerable fansites in various languages, online role playing sites, Youtube spoofs, and even Twilight proms. ... Contact: Kim.Hewitt@esc.edu Announcement ID: 172189 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172189 Title: The (Muslim) Woman QuestionCompeting Representations, Contested Futures Location: Connecticut Deadline: 2010-01-25 Description: Yales Critical Islamic Reflections committee invites scholars and professionals from all fields to submit proposals for our 9th annual conference, The (Muslim) Woman Question: Competing Representations, Contested Futures. This interdisciplinary forum will explore the politics of representation vis-- ... Contact: yalecir@gmail.com URL: www.yale.edu/cir Announcement ID: 172197 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172197 Title: CFP - Graduate Student Conference: (Re)making (Re)presentation Location: New York Deadline: 2010-01-30 Description: Graduate Student Conference: (Re)making (Re)presentation May 3, 2010 CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Call for Papers The Theatre Students of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York announce their second graduate student conference, in conjunction with the conferral of the 2010 Edwi ... Contact: tsgccunyconference@gmail.com URL: opencuny.org/tsgccuny/ Announcement ID: 172201 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172201 Title: Changing Cultures...Veterinary Medicine & Literature Location: Ontario Deadline: 2010-02-01 Description: A two day symposium on veterinary medicine and the literary arts. Co-sponsored by the society for veterinary medicine and literature May 10th and 11th, 2010 Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph Examining the role of poetry, fiction and essays in veterinary medicine and exploring how lite ... Contact: vetlit@uoguelph.ca URL: www.barkingdogstudios.com/email/ovc/final.html Announcement ID: 172199 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172199 Title: Call for Papers- SJSU Art History Department Location: California Deadline: 2010-02-01 Description: The Art History Department at San Jose State University will host its 16th Annual Symposium on April 10, 2010. We are considering 20 minute papers from graduate and advanced undergraduate students on various aspects of art, architecture, and visual culture. You will be asked to submit a 250-word abs ... Contact: dfeuerberg@gmail.com Announcement ID: 172202 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172202 Title: Performatives after Deconstruction Deadline: 2010-02-01 Description: Since Derrida, de Man and Miller first read Austin, the encounter between deconstruction and the performative has affected every discipline of the humanities (politics, law, architecture, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, cultural studies, etc.). Analyses have multiplied and h ... Contact: fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk URL: fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1261 Announcement ID: 172212 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172212 Title: Jean-Franois Lyotard: an edited collection Deadline: 2010-02-20 Description: 'Beyond the Postmodern: Reading the 'late' Lyotard' edited by Heidi Bickis and Rob Shields Call for papers We invite submissions from philosophers, social and cultural theorists as well as artists and writers to be considered for an edited collection on Jean-Franois Lyotard's later philosophy. Texts ... Contact: hbickis@ualberta.ca Announcement ID: 172216 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172216 Title: Being Black and Becoming European: Un/Settled Migration and Hidden Histories Deadline: 2010-02-28 Description: Being Black and Becoming European: Un/Settled Migration and Hidden Histories Striving to be European and black requires some specific forms of double consciousness Paul Gilroy - The Black Atlantic, 1993 The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) announce a Call ... Contact: fdemissi@depaul.edu Announcement ID: 172174 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172174 ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### Title: CFP: American Apocalypses Location: Kansas Deadline: 2010-12-10 Description: Graduate student participants are sought for a panel on the end of the world for participation in the Mid-American Humanities Conference "Downward Spirals?: Thinking about 'Crisis' Across the Disciplines," to be held at the University of Kansas April 3rd, 2010. Possible topics include: 2012 in the p ... Contact: rebeccabfox@ku.edu Announcement ID: 172222 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172222 ###################################################################### # Category: Prize ###################################################################### Title: Call for Books - Rollins Prize for Studies in Popular Culture Deadline: 2010-06-01 Description: 2010 Rollins Prize The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA), a regional chapter of both the American Culture Association (ACA) and the Popular Culture Association (PCA), is pleased to announce again our NEPCA Book Award competition. This annual prize will recognize the best ... Contact: carol-ann.farkas@mcphs.edu URL: users.wpi.edu/~jphanlan/2009_Rollins_Prize_Committee%5b1%5d.htm Announcement ID: 172173 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172173 ###################################################################### # Category: Publication ###################################################################### Title: Authors Wanted: Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers of the Second World War Description: Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers of the Second World War Contributors needed for a monograph on American War Correspondents during the Second World War. Europe was lodged in the worst conflict in history when America entered the war in December 1941. American soldiers, sailors and ... Contact: jcook@ngu.edu Announcement ID: 172225 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172225 Title: Call for Chapters: Book on Technology's Impact on Acculturation and Global Migration Deadline: 2010-01-08 Description: Call for authors: Please submit an abstract by January 8, 2009 for a new book on Technology's Impact on Global Migration. Seeking well-written, 25-30 page typeset articles by academics but in a free-flowing style, well-sited about how the ability to use the Net or cell phone to call home affects mig ... Contact: mgerman@desu.edu Announcement ID: 172195 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172195 Title: GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing, vol 2.3, "Color!" now available online Deadline: 2010-01-15 Description: COLOR! now available GLIMPSE journal vol 2.3, autumn 2009 http://www.glimpsejournal.com CONTENTS Fluorescence in the Garden, by Christie Marie Bielmeier Ordering Colors: A multifaceted problem, by Dr. Rolf G. Kuehni, color scientist, North Carolina State University;author of Color Space and Its Divi ... Contact: editor@glimpsejournal.com URL: www.glimpsejournal.com Announcement ID: 172198 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172198 Title: Arthurian-Themed Comics Collection Deadline: 2010-01-30 Description: In commemoration of the upcoming 75 anniversary of PRINCE VALIANT, I am seeking brief proposals (apx. 200-500 words) for a collection of essays on comics (comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, web comics, and adaptations into other media) based on or inspired by the Arthurian tradition. The col ... Contact: Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com URL: PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.blogspot.com/ Announcement ID: 172169 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172169 Title: Publication opportunity for graduate students Deadline: 2010-01-30 Description: Visual Studies Reader An international, collaborate anthology of art history, art theory, visual studies, visual communication, visual anthropology, and other fields, written entire by graduate students around the world. All grad students are eligible If you are studying for an MA, MFA, or PhD, or i ... Contact: jameselkins@fastmail.fm URL: visualreader.pbworks.com/ Announcement ID: 172190 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172190 Title: Journal of Boyhood Studies Special Issue Deadline: 2010-03-01 Description: Papers wanted for a special issue of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, Boyhood on Film. We are not interested in reviews of specific films per se, but in historical, cultural, literary, and sociological analyses of how boys, both preteen and adolescent, have been portrayed in film. Scholars from a ... Contact: dennisjp@oneonta.edu Announcement ID: 172218 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172218 Title: Quilters in the Digital Age Deadline: 2010-05-01 Description: Quilters in the Digital Age When one thinks of quilters and quilting, computers, and especially Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking and virtual worlds, may be the very last thing to come to mind. After all, even in a culture boasting an increasing diversity of perspectives and voices, tec ... Contact: tigneram@msu.edu Announcement ID: 172226 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172226 --
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