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1) CFP: (Re)Viewing History - July 5-9, 2010 (Perth, Australia) 2) CFP: "Publishing Local History" panelist for New England History Assn. conference - April 2010 3) CFP: "Museums and Restitution" - July 8-9, 2010 (Manchester, England) *********** 1) CFP: (Re)Viewing History - July 5-9, 2010 (Perth, Australia) Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Perth, Western Australia 5-9 July 2010 The AHA is seeking submissions of * individual papers (20 minute presentation plus 10 minutes for questions) * panels of three related papers preferably with a nominated chair * ‘1000 words in a picture’ - short papers (10 minute presentation time plus 5 minutes for questions) that interpret an image, artefact or place as an historical document. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2010 (Re)Viewing History ReViewing History invites historians to assess the state of History. What are the debates? What are the challenges? How are academic historians responding to challenges? The theme also invites discussion about popular interest in History as explored through films, literature and ‘reality’ documentaries. Do these modes challenge academic historians? There are many sub-themes and presenters are encouraged to consider their area of interest from the perspective of ReViewing History. As the conference coincides with NAIDOC Week, papers dealing with Indigenous issues are especially welcome. Sub-themes: Historical imagination History through literature and film History for children Teaching history in schools Biography Engagements with popular history Identities Memory as history Indigenous histories and Indigenous knowledge Colonial encounters Rural and agricultural history Place and history Heritage and history Historical archaeology Economic, business and industrial history Parochialism: Centre and periphery Transnational comparative history Historians and the law Emotions and emotional communities Intellectual disability and histories of insanity Bodies, sexuality, gender Health and medicine Histories of the family including adoption The AHA is for all historians, not just those whose research focus is Australian topics. Dr Jean Chetkovich University of Western Australia Phone: +61 8 6488 2143 Fax: +61 8 6488 1069 Email: jean.chetkovich@uwa.edu.au Visit the website at http://www.ahareviewinghistory.com/papers.html ------------ 2) CFP: "Publishing Local History" panelist for New England History Assn. conference - April 2010 Seeking NEHA Panelists - Publishing Local History CONFERENCE PANEL PROPOSAL Publishing Local History: The Future of History Journals New England History Association Salem State College, April 2010 (date tba) Seeking editors and others who would like to participate. I would love to see a panel or round table on scholarly publications with representatives from different state history journals, the Massachusetts Historical Review (published by the Mass. Historical Society), the New England Quarterly, and perhaps some of the New England focused presses such as the UMass Press and University Press of New England. As the editor of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts I am interested in talking about the dilemmas facing very small state history publications and the role we play in historical scholarship. If you’re interested, please send a 1 paragraph description of your proposal/ focus + brief CV to: Deadline Dec. 15, 2009 Editor Mara Dodge Historical Journal of Massachusetts c/o Westfield State College 577 Western Ave. Westfield, MA 01086 masshistoryjournal@wsc.ma.edu 413-572-5620 http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/ Editor Mara Dodge Historical Journal of Massachusetts c/o Westfield State College 577 Western Ave. Westfield, MA 01086 413-572-5620 http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/ Email: masshistoryjournal@wsc.ma.edu Visit the website at http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/ ---------- 3) CFP: "Museums and Restitution" - July 8-9, 2010 (Manchester, England) University of Manchester, 8-9 July 2010 Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference examining the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. Restitution is one of the most emotive and complex issues facing the museum world in the twenty first century. Its current high profile reflects changing global power relations and the increasingly vocal criticisms of the historical concentration of the world's heritage in the museums of the West. The 2002 Declaration of the Importance and Value of Universal Museums, which was signed by the directors of eighteen of the world's most powerful museums, pushed the subject to the forefront of debate as never before. Over recent years, the issue of restitution has taken on a new complexion with different processes emerging. We have seen an increasing emphasis on museums working with source communities, and with new forms of restitution other than object restitution - such as visual and knowledge restitution. The language of discussion too has changed, with the term 'reunification', for example, rather than 'repatriation' now often being used in relation to the Parthenon Marbles. The opening of New Acropolis Museum in Athens in June 2009 has added a further dimension to the debates. We are also seeing new countries gaining increasing prominence in restitution debates: for example, the official response from the government of the People's Republic of China to the Yves Saint Laurent auction of Chinese looted bronzes at Christie's in Paris in March 2009. This is a trend clearly set to continue. This conference will bring together museum professionals and academics from a wide range of fields (including museology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural policy) to share ideas on contemporary approaches to restitution from the viewpoint of museums. Possible themes • New museums, new developments • Visual, knowledge and digital repatriation • Authority and power: voices listened to, voices heard • Beyond ownership? Loans, travelling exhibitions, exchanges • Reflections on returns Please send a title and a short proposal of no more than 300 words and biographical details to Louise Tythacott louise.tythacott@manchester.ac.uk and Kostas Arvanitis kostas.arvanitis@manchester.ac.uk Louise Tythacott louise.tythacott@manchester.ac.uk and Kostas Arvanitis kostas.arvanitis@manchester.ac.uk Email: kostas.arvanitis@manchester.ac.uk Visit the website at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution/ -- H-Public To post to the list: H-PUBLIC@h-net.msu.edu Home page: www.h-net.org/~public sponsored by the National Council on Public History (www.ncph.org)
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