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Laura M. Chmielewski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History Purchase College, State University of New York Purchase, NY 10577 (914) 251-6081 ________________________________________ From: H-NET Distribution List for News and Announcements [H-ANNOUNCE@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of H-Net Announcements [announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:00 AM To: H-ANNOUNCE@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2009-11-10 - 2009-11-12 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 70 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2009-11-10 and 2009-11-12. ###################################################################### # Category: Call for Papers ###################################################################### Title: "Media Aesthetics Before 1900": ACLA Conference, April 2010 Location: Louisiana Deadline: 2009-11-13 Description: Paper proposals are invited for a seminar on "Media, Medium, Mediation: Media Aesthetics Before 1900." The seminar will take place at the American Association of Comparative Literature (ACLA) conference, April 1-4, 2010, in New Orleans. The seminar invites papers from across disciplines and national ... Contact: rachel.teukolsky@vanderbilt.edu URL: www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=965 Announcement ID: 171764 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171764 Title: International Society and its Discontents Location: Massachusetts Deadline: 2009-11-20 Description: ConIH 10: The Tenth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History International Society and its Discontents March 12-13, 2010 The ConIH Committee invites graduate students to submit proposals for the TenthAnnual Graduate Student Conference on International History to takeplace ... Contact: conih@fas.harvard.edu URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/ Announcement ID: 171863 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171863 Title: Travelling Photographies: An Interdisciplinary, Graduate Student Symposium at Concordia University, Montreal Location: Quebec Deadline: 2009-12-14 Description: The Art History Graduate Students Association of Concordia University announces its annual graduate symposium at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Travelling Photographies March 12-13, 2010 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christraud Geary, Teel Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Boston Museum ... Contact: ahgsa.concordia@gmail.com Announcement ID: 171850 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171850 Title: Update-Tarot in Culture at the PCA/ACA conference 2010 Location: Missouri Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: The deadline for submitting papers to the "Tarot" area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference has been extended to Dec. 15. This area welcomes papers on all aspects of Tarot practice and scholarly study, including, but not limited to, Tarot in history, literature, ... Contact: augere@canada.com URL: www.pcaaca.org/areas/tarot.php Announcement ID: 171914 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171914 Title: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference (July 1-4, 2010) Deadline: 2009-12-17 Description: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association ConferenceUniversity of Adelaide 1st-4th July 2010 The University of Adelaide and Flinders University are delighted to announce that they are hosting the Australia and New Zealand American Studies Conference in 2010. ANZASA brings together schol ... Contact: anzasa2010@gmail.com URL: www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Announcement ID: 171783 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171783 Title: Workshop on History of Quantum Physics, June 28-July 2, 2010. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Deadline: 2010-01-15 Description: Building upon the momentum generated by two previous conferences in Berlin (2007) and in Utrecht (2008), this meeting will bring together historians, philosophers, and scientists who work on the emergence and the development of quantum physics and related disciplines from the days of the old quantum ... Contact: hq_3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de URL: quantum-history.org/news/workshops/hq3 Announcement ID: 171880 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171880 Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOTORCYCLE STUDIES CONFERENCE, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 3-6, 2010 Location: Colorado Deadline: 2010-01-15 Description: Call For Papers: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOTORCYCLE STUDIES CONFERENCE, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 3-6, 2010 The International Journal of Motorcycle Studies (IJMS), the only online, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to motorcycle culture, will be hosting its inaugural conference at the Universi ... Contact: garber@gmail.com URL: ijms.nova.edu Announcement ID: 171916 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171916 Title: 1st Global ConferenceChildhood Deadline: 2010-01-15 Description: 1st Global Conference Childhood Saturday 3rd July Monday 5th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Papers This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to investigate and explore all aspects of childhood. The period of life prior to adulthood is one o ... Contact: child@inter-disciplinary.net URL: www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/childhood/call-for-papers/ Announcement ID: 171922 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171922 Title: 6th Global ConferenceCreative Engagements: Thinking with Children Deadline: 2010-01-15 Description: 6th Global Conference Creative Engagements - Thinking with Children Saturday 3rd July Monday 5th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers The sixth meeting of this global research project shall explore the many facets of creative engagement with children. Grounded in an inter-disciplinary ... Contact: ce6@inter-disciplinary.net URL: www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-with-children/call-for-papers/ Announcement ID: 171931 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171931 Title: Power--11th Annual Boston College Graduate Philosophy Conference Location: Massachusetts Deadline: 2010-01-19 Description: The formation of states, violent revolutions, and peaceful elections all show powers influence on human events. Philosophers traditionally have examined the dynamics of power as part of understanding social and political affairs. Other thinkers have called our attention to power as a hidden force in ... Contact: philgrad@bc.edu Announcement ID: 171942 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171942 Title: Western Highways: Journeys through Space and Time(42nd Annual Dakota Conference on the Northern Plains) Location: South Dakota Deadline: 2010-02-05 Description: Examine paths, trails, roads, and highways that crisscross the expansive Northern Plains and their impact on the lives of indigenous and immigrant peoples. Travel by foot, horse, cart, wagon, stagecoach, bicycle, motorcycle, and automobile--"from moccasins to motorcycles"--will be considered, but al ... Contact: harry.thompson@augie.edu URL: augie.edu/cws/dakotaconference/html Announcement ID: 171759 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171759 Title: Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and MusicOctober 1417, 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Deadline: 2010-04-01 Description: This conference, sponsored by Moravian College, the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, and the Moravian Music Foundation, explores Moravian history and music from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia within their contexts. We are now accepting propos ... Contact: hlempa@moravian.edu; hbinford@moravian.edu URL: : www.moravianconferences.org Announcement ID: 171909 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171909 Title: 2010 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference Deadline: 2010-04-30 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS 2010 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference at St. Aidans College Durham University 12 15 July 2010 The Chairman of the TSA, Prof Alan Dobson (University of Dundee) and Conference Chair for 2010 Prof John Dumbrell (Durham University) would like to extend an invitation to ... Contact: david.ryan@ucc.ie URL: www.transatlanticstudies.com/ Announcement ID: 171813 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171813 Title: 2010 American Studies of Turkey Conference: The Art of Language Deadline: 2010-04-30 Description: American Studies Association of Turkey 34th International American Studies Conference The Art of Language: Cultural Expressions in American Studies November 35, 2010 Alanya, Turkey Confirmed Speakers: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Cherrie Moraga Celia Herrera Rodriguez According to American poet and essayist ... Contact: asat2007@gmail.com URL: simplifyurl.com/4b0 Announcement ID: 171815 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171815 Title: 4th Annual International ACSA Conference, The Visual Imagination: Across Boundaries Deadline: 2010-04-30 Description: 4th Annual International ACSA Conference The Visual Imagination: Across Boundaries 1-3 November 2010, Bangkok, Thailand Imagination has more than often been conceived of as an art of forming mental images, particularly in relation to objects and phenomena not completely perceived in reality. But if ... Contact: acsaconference2010@gmail.com URL: www.gse.au.edu Announcement ID: 171877 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171877 ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### Title: A More Perfect Union? Location: New York Date: 2009-11-14 Description: The New York Metro American Studies Association is proud to announce our annual one-day conference, "A More Perfect Union?", to be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009, 9:00am-5:30pm, at St. John's University--Manhattan Campus, 101 Murray Street, New York, NY, 10007. The conference explores the appea ... Contact: sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu URL: www.nymasa.org Announcement ID: 171854 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171854 Title: World Philosophy Day 2009 Date: 2009-11-19 Description: The Institute for African Ecology and Philosophy, under the leadership of Mr. Boaz Adhengo would wish to extend a warm invitation to scholars and community based organisations to participate in the six organisation of World Philosophy Day as facilitated by IAEP since 2003. The event is scheduled to ... Contact: carole.munyasa@gmail.com URL: www.eeiu.org/chapters/nabuur Announcement ID: 171771 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171771 Title: L'art multipli. Production de masse, production en srie, production pour le march dans les arts du Moyen ge Date: 2009-11-25 Description: Programme 9h15 : accueil des participants Prsident de sance: Serena Romano (Universit de Lausanne) Michele Tomasi (Universit de Lausanne)Lart multipli : matriaux et problmes pour une rflexion Regula Schorta (Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg)Patterns and Looms. On Repeats, Repetition and Seriality in Medie ... Contact: michele.tomasi@unil.ch Announcement ID: 171769 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171769 Title: Invitation to a penal on pre-presidential rhetoric for SHAFR Annual Meeting 2010 Location: Wisconsin Date: 2009-11-29 Description: We are seeking a third panelist for a panel we are putting together on pre-presidential rhetoric for SHAFR Annual Meeting 2010. The first paper focuses on Richard Nixon and his congressional, senatorial, and vice-presidential rhetoric. Using the advantages the rhetorical approach offers, the panelis ... Contact: americana2180@wp.pl Announcement ID: 171812 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171812 Title: Ideology in Motion: On the Relationship of Sports and Politics Location: British Columbia Date: 2009-12-04 Description: Ideology in Motion: On the Relationship of Sports and Politics. Graduate Student Conference at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. December 4-5, 2009. Before Vancouver welcomes the world to the 2010 Winter Olympics, it will first host this international and interdisciplinary conferen ... Contact: jkredlich@gmail.com URL: ideologyinmotion.wordpress.com/ Announcement ID: 171842 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171842 Title: Conference: Embroidery and Storytelling / broder et raconter Date: 2009-12-10 Description: International Conference Embroidery and Storytelling / broder et raconter Rouen, France December 10 and 11, 2009 Programme Thursday December 10 Full Session 9.15 a.m Opening of the conference Parallel Sessions From Female Achievement to Female Expression Chair: Nicole Terrien (CORPUS, Universit de R ... Contact: nicole.terrien@free.fr Announcement ID: 171755 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171755 Title: Women's Education Worldwide Conference 6-8 January 2010, The Women's College within The University of Sydney. Registration now open. Date: 2010-01-06 Description: Women's Education Worldwide Conference 6 - 8 January 2010 Empowering Women: The Economic Imperative ** Expression of Interest from speakers now open** This international conference, hosted by The Womens College, is expected to attract over a hundred delegates and is open to everyone working, involve ... Contact: community@thewomenscollege.com.au URL: www.thewomenscollege.com.au/wew-2010-conference.php Announcement ID: 171745 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171745 Title: Update: 31st Annual Conference (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-13/10) Location: New Mexico Date: 2010-02-10 Description: Update CFP: 31st Annual Conference (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-13/10) Our 12/15/2009 Submission Deadline is rapidly approaching! Reduced registration rates in effect until 12/15/2009 Sign up available now for our train trip to the Georgia OKeefe Museum in Santa Fe. Join us in sunny Albuquerque! SW ... Contact: pcaacaswtx@sbcglobal.net URL: swtxpca.org Announcement ID: 171855 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171855 Title: RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt one-day symposium at Loughborough University School of Art and Design 17th February 2010 Date: 2010-02-17 Description: The Politicized Practice Research Group at Loughborough University School of Art and Design (LUSAD) is organising a free one-day symposium- RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt on WEDNESDAY 17th February 2010. RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt introduces a series of research initiatives that will examine the int ... Contact: g.whiteley@lboro.ac.uk URL: www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/Research/staff%20groups/Politicized%20Website/PPRG.html Announcement ID: 171918 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171918 Title: Advances in Efficient Utilization of Electrical Energy Date: 2010-03-05 Description: Objective and Theme of Conference Increasing social and industrial developments have resulted in the power sector becoming a most important component of the society. Hence development of power sector and efficient utilization of electrical energy is vital for economic progress. In todays world, all ... Contact: aeuee.conference@gmail.com URL: bvcoend.ac.in/ Announcement ID: 171848 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171848 Title: Intersectionality: Challenging Theory, Reframing Politics, Transforming Movements Location: California Date: 2010-03-11 Description: The faculty of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law encourage you to save the date for the 4th Annual CRS Symposium: "Intersectionality: Challenging Theory, Reframing Politics, Transforming Movements" March 11 - 13, 2010 UCLA School of Law Overview Since the publication of Kimberl ... Contact: crssymposium@law.ucla.edu URL: crsonline.law.ucla.edu/CRS_Program/Annual_Symposium/03.11.10 Announcement ID: 171951 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171951 Title: Transnational Feminist Responses and the Torture of Enemies(11/13/09; 04/01/10-04/04/10) Location: Louisiana Date: 2010-04-01 Description: Call for Papers American Comparative Literature Association Annual MeetingApril 1-4, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline for a 250 word paper proposal: 13 Nov. 2009 (to be submitted through the ACLA website at http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php) Transnational Feminist Responses and the Torture ... Contact: bdeb2@unl.edu Announcement ID: 171744 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171744 Title: The Security Council and Contested Territory - Contrasting Approaches, Contexts, and Manner of Implementation Date: 2010-04-08 Description: Conference Call The Security Council and Contested Territory - Contrasting Approaches, Contexts, and Manner of Implementation April 8 9, 2010 PSIR Department, http://www.psir.ncc.metu.edu.tr/postgrad/postgraduate.html Middle East Technical University-NCC This conference will assess Security Council ... Contact: hejahevalzelal@gmail.com Announcement ID: 171886 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171886 Title: 5th Annual James A. Rawley Graduate Student Conference in the HumanitiesApril 10, 2010 Location: Nebraska Date: 2010-04-10 Description: The Individual and Patterns of Change 5th Annual James A. Rawley Graduate Student Conference in the Humanities April 10, 2010 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Graduate Students' Association is proud to announce the fifth annual James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities. The study of the ... Contact: rawley@unlserve.unl.edu URL: rawleyconf.wordpress.com Announcement ID: 171894 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171894 Title: Korean War Conference - Christ Church Oxford Date: 2010-04-15 Description: Each Spring Christ Church holds a Special Interest Weekend, open to all, with a choice of themes. The Korean War was the first major conflict of the Cold War and the issues raised are far from settled. To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the war Professor Andrew Lambert (King's C ... Contact: rebecca.favell@chch.ox.ac.uk URL: www.chch.ox.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=775&Itemid=633 Announcement ID: 171791 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171791 Title: Environmental Change Conference - Christ Church Oxford Date: 2010-04-15 Description: Each Spring Christ Church holds a Special Interest Weekend, open to all, with a choice of themes. SCIENCE: Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts and Solutions Climate Change has been described as 'more dangerous than terrorism' and 'the only existential issue facing the world'. Few deny that the world i ... Contact: rebecca.favell@chch.ox.ac.uk URL: www.chch.ox.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=775&Itemid=633 Announcement ID: 171792 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171792 Title: CKS - the 4th International Scientific Session : "Challenges of the Knowledge Society" organized by "Nicolae Titulescu" University, Bucharest, Romania Date: 2010-04-23 Description: The main purpose of this International Scientific Session organized by Nicolae Titulescu University - Bucharest, Romania is to provide an opportunity to academicians, specialists and students also, in various social sciences and their related fields, all over the world, to meet and change their opin ... Contact: av.ldk.ro@gmail.com URL: www.univnt.ro/ro/sesiune_stiintifica/sesiune_stiintifica_2010.html Announcement ID: 171852 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171852 Title: ESF-LiU ConferenceViolations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Investigation and Prevention of Torture and Death in Custody Date: 2010-05-03 Description: Europe has unique mechanisms for the enforcement of human rights law and the prevention of violations. However, as the Council of Europes Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights stated the gap between standards on paper and the actual situation in Europe is striking. Prison visits of the Europea ... Contact: apiccolotto@esf.org URL: www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2010/confdetail318.html Announcement ID: 171821 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171821 Title: The Hermeneutics of Sikh Music (Raga) and Word (Shabad) Location: New York Date: 2010-05-21 Description: Is music a language? Is there meaning in music? Perhaps universal meaning given the popular platitude that music is the only universal language. Or is the meaning in music mediated by culture to such an extent that one is hard put to speak of universals? If the latter then does that imply a cultural ... Contact: apwinder@gmail.com URL: www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/HCLAS/REL/SIKH/sikh_hermeneutics_may2010.html Announcement ID: 171915 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171915 ###################################################################### # Category: Lecture ###################################################################### Title: Chilling Tales for an Autumn Afternoon Location: Connecticut Description: The Frederick Lee Lectures Co-sponsored by the Madison Historical Society and the Madison Beach & Recreation Department November 22, 2009 Chilling Tales for an Autumn Afternoon Jeanne Donato January 17, 2010 Roots and Routes of the Pequot War David Naumec and Kevin McBride, PhD. March 21, 2010 John ... Contact: contact@madisoncthistorical.org Announcement ID: 171799 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171799 Title: Prasenjit Duara, "Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective," Nov. 12 at UC Berkeley Location: California Date: 2009-11-12 Description: Nov. 12, 4:00 p.m., Heyns Room, UC Berkeley Faculty Club. Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore. "Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective" This talk will look at the last 30 years of reform in China in both a global, comparative perspect ... Contact: ccs@berkeley.edu URL: ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2009.11.12.html Announcement ID: 171775 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171775 Title: Mellon/White Science & Print Culture Workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Facsimile, Indiscernibility, and Images of the Copernican World." Location: Wisconsin Date: 2009-11-12 Description: Mellon/White Science & Print Culture Workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Daniel Selcer (Duquesne University) and Theresa Smith (Harvard University Library) Facsimile, Indiscernibility, and Images of the Copernican World November 12, 2009 @ 3:00 pm 4207 Helen C. White (SLIS Commons) A man ... Contact: printculture@slis.wisc.edu URL: slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/index.html Announcement ID: 171833 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171833 Title: Prasenjit Duara at UC Berkeley, Nov. 12: Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective Location: California Date: 2009-11-12 Description: Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor Humanities, National University of Singapore will give the Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 4:00 in the UC Berkeley Faculty Club. Title: Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Wen-hsin Yeh, UC Ber ... Contact: ccs@berkeley.edu URL: ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2009.11.12.html Announcement ID: 171847 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171847 Title: ICC at Sophia University Lecture Series with Dr Rogers Hollingsworth on "the Rise and Decline of Systems of Scientific Creativity" Date: 2009-11-26 Description: The Rise and Decline of Systems of Scientific Creativity J. Rogers Hollingsworth Professor Departments of History and Sociology University of Wisconsin http://history.wisc.edu/hollingsworth During the past 250 years, each powerful political, economic, and military state has tended to have the worlds ... Contact: diricc@sophia.ac.jp URL: icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/ Announcement ID: 171878 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171878 Title: Sculpture in Painting gallery discussions - The Henry Moore Institute & The National Gallery Date: 2009-12-14 Description: Sculpture in Painting gallery discussions Henry Moore Institute in collaboration with The National Gallery 14 December 6-8pm - National Gallery, London 15 December 2-4pm - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds These events have been programmed to coincide with the Henry Moore Institute's Sculpture in Paintin ... Contact: kirstie@henry-moore.ac.uk URL: www.henry-moore.ac.uk Announcement ID: 171868 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171868 ###################################################################### # Category: Seminar ###################################################################### Title: Sminaires VESPA 2009-10: Rencontres... Interactions, dfinitions, mthodes. INRS-UCS, Montreal Location: Quebec Description: Sminaires-Midi VESPA 2009-10: Rencontres Interactions, dfinitions, mthodes Un programme de rflexion et de discussion Tous les sminaires-midi auront lieu lINRS-UCS, 385, rue Sherbrooke Est, Montral Le Laboratoire Ville et ESPAces politiques (VESPA) (Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la Ville et les e ... Contact: julie-anne.boudreau@ucs.inrs.ca Announcement ID: 171786 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171786 Title: SEMINAIRE-MIDI 13 novembre: Quand Bruxelles et Montral se rencontrent autour de la lutte contre la sgrgation socio-spatiale. Location: Quebec Date: 2009-11-13 Description: Vendredi 13 novembre 2009 : 12h30-14h, l'INRS-UCS,385 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montral. "Quand Bruxelles et Montral se rencontrent autour de la lutte contre la sgrgation socio-spatiale. Enseignements de la comparaison de Cureghem et Parc-Extension" Muriel Sacco, Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Metices ... Contact: Muriel_Sacco@UCS.INRS.Ca Announcement ID: 171785 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171785 Title: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Bi-Monthly Seminar Series Location: Pennsylvania Date: 2009-11-18 Description: Speaker: Susan E, Hawkins, PhD, Project Manager: Historic Hospital Admission Records ProjectCentre for Local History Studies, Kingston University Title: Deconstructing Victorian Nurses: Using Prosopography to Uncover the Lives of 19th Century Nurses Abstract: The seminar will discuss a methodology f ... Contact: ehweiss@nursing.upenn.edu URL: www.nursing.upenn.edu/history Announcement ID: 171784 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171784 Title: Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History: Joshua Piker, November 18 Location: Illinois Date: 2009-11-18 Description: Wednesday November 18, 2009 5:30 7:00 p.m. Lying Together: The Imperial Implications of Cross-Cultural UntruthsJoshua Piker, University of Oklahoma Indians and Europeans regularly lied to each other. Our familiarity with that fact has, however, obscured a subset of lies that is worth examining in mo ... Contact: radkeh@newberry.org URL: www.newberry.org/scholl/eahsem09-10.html Announcement ID: 171797 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171797 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminar--Deism and the Founding of the United States Date: 2010-01-28 Description: During the 17th and 18th centuries, many freethinking Europeans embraced Deism, a theology that subjected religious truth to the authority of human reason. In colonial America, Deism found few adherents, but those who were attracted to it tended to be wealthy and educated, leaders in colonial societ ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171892 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171892 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminars--Rethinking Booker T. and W.E.B Date: 2010-02-04 Description: In one lesson plan after another Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois forever stand opposed. In the late nineteenth century both sought uplift for African Americans, but one believed it came through accommodation and manual training, while the other urged resistance and the liberal arts. Is that ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171896 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171896 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminars--The Role of the West in the Reunification of the US after the Civil War Date: 2010-02-10 Description: When we teach Reconstruction, we typically focus on the struggle to reunite the North and the South. But what of the West? What role did it play in national reunification? The late nineteenth century was the zenith of westward expansion. Western images dominated American culture. What did the wide-o ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171897 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171897 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminars--The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century Date: 2010-02-18 Description: The United States marked its 100th anniversary in 1876 with the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, a birthday party that celebrated mechanical progress. But in late nineteenth-century America, progress did not simply mean generating more horsepower. It meant cleaning up cities, reforming governm ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171898 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171898 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminar--Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs Date: 2010-02-23 Description: The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency founded to combat rural poverty. While it spent millions of dollars between 1935 and 1946 to improve the lives of poor farmers, it is remembered today for its documentary photography program. The photographs of rural America taken by FSA p ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171899 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171899 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminar--Walt Whitmans Civil War Poetry Date: 2010-03-18 Description: Walt Whitmans Civil War Poetry - An American Experience WorkshopReflecting on the Civil War in 1892, Walt Whitman concluded, The real war will never get in the books. But Whitman did try to bring the real war into his poems. An anti-slavery Democrat, who dressed the wounds of both Northern and South ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171900 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171900 Title: Live, Online Professional Development Seminar--Hamiltons America-Jeffersons America Date: 2010-03-24 Description: Hamiltons America-Jeffersons America - An American Experience WorkshopAlexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson offered distinct visions for the nation they were foundingone urban and industrial, the other rural and agrarian. In twenty-first- century America, a nation of cities and commerce, it is eas ... Contact: ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/index.htm Announcement ID: 171901 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171901 ###################################################################### # Category: Summer Program ###################################################################### Title: GHI Archival Summer Seminar 2010 Deadline: 2009-12-31 Description: German Historical Institute, Washington DC Archival Summer Seminar in Germany June 14-25, 2010 The Archival Summer Seminar, organized by the German Historical Institute, is a two-week program for advanced graduate students in German historical studies. The program trains participants to read old Ger ... Contact: prodoehl@ghi-dc.org URL: www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=279&Itemid=63 Announcement ID: 171803 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171803 Title: Mellon Summer Seminar for finishing Graduate Students in British History Location: New York Deadline: 2010-01-15 Description: With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Prof. Susan Pedersen will be offering a summer seminar, to be held at Columbia University from May 19-June 30, 2010, for graduate students in the process of completing dissertations in the field of Modern British, or British imperial, his ... Contact: sp2216@columbia.edu Announcement ID: 171740 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171740 Title: Announcing 2010 Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars for K-12 Educators Deadline: 2010-02-15 Description: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2010 SUMMER SEMINARS IN AMERICAN HISTORY K-12 history, social studies and English teachers are invited to apply to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2010 Summer Seminars. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the US and the UK, these one-week s ... Contact: seminars@gilderlehrman.org URL: /www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_overview.php Announcement ID: 171946 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171946 Title: Victorian Society in America 2010 Summer Schools Location: Rhode Island Deadline: 2010-03-01 Description: VSA Summer Schools - Studies in Architecture, Decorative & Fine Arts Design & Landscape Newport, Rhode Island June 4-13, 2010 Director: Richard Guy Wilson London, England July 10-25, 2010 Director: Ian Cox Full and partial scholarships available Applications available at Summer Schools link at www.v ... Contact: vsasummerschools@comcast.net Announcement ID: 171798 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171798 Title: NEH Summer Institute: Cultural Hybridities Deadline: 2010-03-02 Description: Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors July 4July 31, 2010 Barcelona (Spain) Applications are now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH Summer Institute, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. Th ... Contact: mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org URL: www.mediterraneanseminar.org Announcement ID: 171874 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171874 Title: NEH Interdisciplinary Institute for K-12 teachers on Music of Mozart Deadline: 2010-03-02 Description: Dr. Richard Benedum will direct an interdisciplinary institute, Mozarts Worlds: The German Operas, for 25 American school teachers. The institute, is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and will take place in Vienna, Austria, on June 21-July 15, 2010. Applicants should consult www ... Contact: amilliron@udayton.edu URL: www.udayton.edu/~nehinstitute2010 Announcement ID: 171945 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171945 ###################################################################### # Category: Symposium ###################################################################### Title: Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, "Equality, Difference, andthe Right to Live in the World." Location: Maryland Date: 2010-04-15 Description: We are pleased to announce that plans are well underway for the 2010Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, "Equality, Difference, andthe Right to Live in the World." Mark your calendar to attend theJacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium at the National Federation ofthe Blind Jernigan Institut ... Announcement ID: 171862 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171862 Title: Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia,China) Date: 2010-08-24 Description: Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia,China) In spite of the difficulties of the terrain, it seems that students of the social sciences, especiallyanthropologists and ethnographers, are increasingly developing research projects and carrying outfieldw ... Contact: pedram.khosronejad@st-andrews.ac.uk URL: www.easaonline.org/ Announcement ID: 171752 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171752 ###################################################################### # Category: Website ###################################################################### Title: Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television Description: Hi all, Welcome to a special theme week devoted to Dexter. This weeks In Media Res line-up: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ This week's curators are contributing to the forthcoming anthology Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television, to be published by I.B. Tauris in the spring of 2 ... Contact: asanto@odu.edu URL: mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ Announcement ID: 171728 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171728 Title: www.elmur.net a visual dialog. A website to learn about images from an analitical point of view. Description: elmur.net is a non-profit initiative. It is not only an internet site; it's also an audiovisual collective installation wishing to build a social dialogue through artistic creation. elmur.net is a creative experiment; it is a practical application of the educational capabilities of the audiovisual m ... Contact: info@elmur.net URL: www.elmur.net Announcement ID: 171793 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171793 Title: Enfilade: A Serial Newsletter for the Historians of 18th-C Art & Architecture Description: "Enfilade" is a serial newsletter sponsored by the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture (HECAA), an affiliate society of both the College Art Association (CAA) and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The site is updated almost daily with news on exhibitions, b ... Contact: CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com URL: enfilade18thc.wordpress.com/ Announcement ID: 171802 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171802 Title: World War II National Archive Color Naval Image Collection Description: We are pleased to announce the publishing of the complete World War II National Archive Color Naval image collection. This collection of over 7,000 images is organized by topic and we believe this is the first time it has been published in full to the internet. These pictures are all Royalty Free to ... Contact: webmaster@hisorylink101.com URL: www.historylink101.com/ww2_navy/archive/index.html Announcement ID: 171857 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171857 Title: PODCAST: Rorty and the Mirror of Nature Conference Institute of Philosophy London 6 November 2006 Description: In 1979 Richard Rorty published his magnum opus, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. The headlining ambition of the book is to complete a turn Rorty discerned in current analytic philosophy against a constellation of ideas informed by the assumption that Mind serves as the foundation of epistemic a ... Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk URL: backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/11/rorty-and-the-mirror-of-nature/ Announcement ID: 171866 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171866 Title: On the Human, a new website on the human experience Description: On the Human is a website with resources for teaching courses on human nature and hosts live discussions on what it means to be human. We invite teachers, scholars, and students to join in discussion (in our Forum ) with a community of humanists and scientists dedicated to improving our understandin ... Contact: pbarron@nationalhumanitiescenter.org URL: onthehuman.org/ Announcement ID: 171895 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171895 Title: PODCAST: Walter Benjamin & Bertolt Brecht: Story of a Friendship? Confernce held at Birkbeck College, London on 6 November 2009 Description: The English translation of Erdmut Wizislas formidable study Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship is published this Autumn by Libris. No-one has a better view of the much disputed relationship between these two figures than Erdmut Wizisla, director of Berlins Benjamin and Bre ... Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk URL: backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/11/walter-benjamin-bertolt-brecht-story-of-a-friendship/ Announcement ID: 171923 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171923 Title: IMR: Human Rights Theme Week [November 9-November 12] Description: Hi all, Welcome to a special theme week devoted to Human Rights [November 9-November 12]. This weeks In Media Res line-up: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ Monday November 9, 2009 Sameer Padania (WITNESS) Presents: "Ubiquitous Video, Local Humiliation and Networked Dignity" Tuesday Novem ... Contact: asanto@odu.edu URL: mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ Announcement ID: 171927 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171927 ###################################################################### # Category: Workshop ###################################################################### Title: History of Labor Intermediation. Institutions and Individual Ways of Finding Employment (19th and Early 20th Centuries)Workshop, Vienna (November 27th-28th, 2009) Date: 2009-11-27 Description: Questions of labor market and labor intermediation have been a political concern in most European countries as well as the USA and Canada since the late 19th century. In contemporary debates, public labor exchanges have been depicted as a tool to cope with the confusing complexity of labor markets a ... Contact: pow.wiso@univie.ac.at URL: pow.univie.ac.at Announcement ID: 171814 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171814 Title: Law & Humanities JuniorScholar Workshop Location: New York Registration Deadline: 2010-01-08 Description: Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University ofSouthern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School ofLaw invite submissions for the eighth meeting of the Law & Humanities JuniorScholar Workshop to be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles onJune 4 & 5, ... Contact: culture@law.columbia.edu URL: www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop Announcement ID: 171861 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171861 Title: New networking (EASA 2010): Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China)‏ Date: 2010-12-30 Description: In spite of the difficulties of the terrain, it seems that students of thesocial sciences, especiallyanthropologists and ethnographers, are increasingly developing research projectsand carrying out fieldwork on different aspects of modern and contemporarysocieties in the Middle East and Central Eura ... Contact: Email: pedram.khosronejad@st-andrews.ac.uk URL: www.easaonline.org/networks/ProposalMidEasCenEur.pdf Announcement ID: 171907 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171907 --
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