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1) CONF: Museum Computer Network Conference 2009 - Nov. 11-14, 2009 (Portland, Oregon, U.S. and online) 2) CFP: "Museums and Restitution" - July 8-9, 2010 (Manchester, U.K.) 3) CFP: Patron-Initiated Collection Development for "Collection Management" journal 4) CFP: "Is Hip Hop History?" - Feb. 19-20, 2010 (New York, New York, U.S.) 5) CFP: "Mediated Memory" - Jan. 29, 2009 (Glasgow, Scotland) 6) Updated CFP: Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections panels/papers sought - Feb. 10-13, 2010 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.) 7) CFP: "Americans Divided and United"/OAH conference - March 17-20, 2011 (Houston, Texas, U.S.) 8) CFP: "Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada" - April 22-24, 2010 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 9) CFP: "Archival Travels/Traveling Archives" seminar - April 1-4, 2010 (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.) 10) CFP: History of Women's Health Conference - April 7, 2010 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) 11) CFP: International Journal of Motorcycle Studies Conference - June 3-6, 2010 (Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.) 12) CFP: "Frontiers, Barriers, Horizons. Re-examining the History and Memories of Migration" - Issue of "Conserveries memorielles" 13) CFP: Spaces of History / Histories of Space - April 30, 2010 (Berkeley, California, U.S.) 14) CFP: "The Task of the Curator" - May 14, 2010 (Santa Cruz, California, U.S.) *********** 1) CONF: Museum Computer Network Conference 2009 - Nov. 11-14, 2009 (Portland, Oregon, U.S. and online) Museum Computer Network Conference 2009 - on site and online With apologies for cross postings - There is still time to join the Museum Computer Network for its annual conference, November 11 through 14, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. Network with your colleagues in the Northwest's "Best Big City" and take part in a full range of programming spanning diverse aspects of technology and information work in the museum and cultural heritage environment today, and covering the topical theme of doing more with less. View the conference program and register online now at http://www.mcn.edu/conferences. Registrations are also accepted onsite at any point during the conference. NEW THIS YEAR - Online conferencing and session webcasts! Five selected MCN 2009 sessions will be webcast free of charge on the open Web. Access details will appear at http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2009online by Wednesday, 11/11/2009. If you like what you see, please consider joining MCN to support continuing access to these resources, or joining us in person at MCN 2010. We hope to see you in Portland and beyond! ------------ 2) CFP: "Museums and Restitution" - July 8-9, 2010 (Manchester, U.K.) Museums and Restitution University of Manchester 8-9 July 2010 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution 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 Deadline for submission: Friday 11th December 2009 ------------ 3) CFP: Patron-Initiated Collection Development for "Collection Management" journal We are seeking article proposals from colleagues at all kinds of libraries (all sizes of academic libraries, public libraries, and international libraries) about patron-initiated collection development such as experiences with allowing patron use or selection to drive acquisition of electronic books. Submissions that are accepted will be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection Management in 2010. Deadlines November 13, 2009: Submit a one-page abstract with the title and proposed article idea. Your full contact information may appear on a separate page, but please include your name, institution, and email address on the abstract page. December 4, 2009: Editors will notify authors whether proposals have been accepted. February 28, 2010: Submit completed article (10-25 double spaced pages). Please submit abstracts and address correspondence to Judy Nixon (jnixon@purdue.edu) with subject line: CM article proposal. Judy Nixon Education Librarian Purdue University Libraries (765) 494-6199 jnixon@purdue.edu Email: jnixon@purdue.edu ---------- 4) CFP: "Is Hip Hop History?" - Feb. 19-20, 2010 (New York, New York, U.S.) February 19-20, 2010 City College Center for Worker Education 25 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10004 Is Hip Hop History? Conference As the first hip-hop conference hosted by a worker education program, the City College Is Hip-Hop History? Conference aims to provide a forum that features the work of researchers, hip-hop industry practitioners, artists, and working adult students.The conference invites proposals that explore how conflicting standards and values by artists and others, challenge hip-hops viability as one of the U.S.’s most important popular cultural forms. We also invite papers that address hip-hops current and potential function among established academic disciplines (education, psychology, history, communication, the arts and social sciences), as well as the role of gender, class and race in assessing the wide range of meaning invested in its various elements. We expect that these bodies of work will appropriately engage and challenge prior scholarship and most importantly, represent the future direction of hip-hop. Paper, panel and roundtable proposals should be submitted in the form of 200-500 word abstracts. Interested participants should submit an abstract and bio. Abstracts must be 500 words or less, and they should include the title of the paper, a brief bio and description of your current work and interests, and contact information (name, institutional affiliation, department and e-mail address). All abstracts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document that includes double-spacing, 12 point Times New Roman font, and a header with your name and page numbers. Conference presentations will be approximately 30 minutes. Elena Romero The City College Center for Worker Education 25 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, New York 10004 Phone (212) 925-6625 x 258 Email: eromero@ccny.cuny.edu Visit the website at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe ----------- 5) CFP: "Mediated Memory" - Jan. 29, 2009 (Glasgow, Scotland) 'Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines‘ symposium Deadline for submission: 25 November 2009 ’Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines‘ symposium, 29 January 2010, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s “Beyond Text” programme for full announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171693 Current postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of papers and presentations for one of three panel discussions, each based on an element of the title: Monuments, Machines and Madeleines. The symposium hopes to examine these interconnected aspects of the mediation of memory through a variety of academic approaches, including – but not limited to – anthropology, archaeology, archival studies, art history, cultural studies and cultural theory, geography, history, linguistics, literary studies and criticism, psychology, the sciences, sociology and theology. See below for more detail about the purpose of each panel and suggested themes for submission. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be emailed to m5symposium@googlemail.com by 25th November 2009. Applicants should include their names, details of their institution and phase of study, and indicate for which panel they consider their paper most relevant. Panel 1: Monuments Suggested themes: • The postmodern memory institution • Processes of commissioning • Public and personal narratives of remembrance • Monuments as sites of identity • The archive as a site of power • Remembering and forgetting Panel 2: Machines • Duplication and distribution: the ephemerality of the digital • Machines as metaphors for memory • Capture and loss: the future limits of memory machines • The status of oral testimony • Authenticity: media as witness Panel 3: Madeleines • Psychology, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, Sensory and synaesthetic experience • Revelation and epiphany • Film, music, literature as memory trigger • Memories of place: architecture and landscape • Unintended and accidental sites of memory • Introspective recollection • The capture of sensory experience full announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171693 Tony Ross Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Email: m5symposium@googlemail.com ------------ 6) Updated CFP: Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections panels/papers sought - Feb. 10-13, 2010 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.) 30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association Call for Paper/Panel Proposals for the 31st Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association Feb 10-13, 2010 Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, New Mexico (330 Tijeras Ave. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, Phone: 505.842.1234, Fax: 1.505.766.6710). Proposals for individual presentations are being accepted for the Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections Area and related topics. We also seek proposals for entire panels as well as roundtable discussions concerning Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, and Collections. Some areas of consideration include, but are not limited to: • Collections/Collecting/Collectors/collectibles in popular culture • Collections in libraries, archives or museums • Collections/Collecting/Collectibles in Science Fiction and Fantasy • Personal Collections • Folk Art Collections and Collectibles • Collections and collectors in literature, film, theatre • The history of collecting • Early American collections and Americana • Collections of Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latina/o cultures(and others) • Private or public collections • The impulse to collect. • Collecting and political correctness. • Legal issues regarding collecting/collections. • The business of collecting - buying and selling, mediating value - the dealer, the picker, the agent. • The impact of the Internet (including eBay and like sites) on collecting. • Relationships between collectors and curators. • Collecting as community activity. • Collecting as scholarship. • Collectors' organizations (car clubs, stamp clubs, costume jewelry collectors' groups, etc.), their functions, their controversies. • What is an "authentic" collectible? • Collecting the immaterial (places, memories, people, websites, words, etc.) Scholars, artists, curators, and other professionals are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are welcome, with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. Please visit the organization website for more information about this conference. www.swtxpca.org Papers should be approximately 20 minutes long (8-10 pages) and should be original works of scholarship that have not been presented or published elsewhere. Proposals for entire panels should include 3-4 presentations/papers. Roundtables should be approximately 90 minutes long. Please send 200-250 word abstracts for papers, panels, and roundtables, to the Area Chair below, by December 15 2009: Kathrin Dodds Texas Tech University MS0002 Lubbock, TX 79409 806-742-2300 Email: kathrin.dodds@ttu.edu Visit the website at http://swtxpca.org/ ------------ 7) CFP: "Americans Divided and United"/OAH conference - March 17-20, 2011 (Houston, Texas, U.S.) 2011 OAH Annual Meeting Call for Presentations "Americans Divided and United: Multiple and Shifting Solidarities" Thursday, March 17 to Sunday March 20, 2011 Hilton Americas-Houston Call for Presentations With the theme of "Americans Divided and United: Multiple and Shifting Solidarities,” the Program Committee for the 2011 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Houston intends to present a wide-ranging program that will encourage critical discussion of the issues now driving the best scholarship in all subfields of United States history. The Committee invites proposals that cover any and all periods within the full chronological sweep of the American past, from pre-Columbian years to the twenty-first century, and the rich thematic diversity that has come to characterize contemporary American history writing and teaching. The program will feature sessions on the ways in which Americans have been separated from and united with one another in a variety of historical contexts, but the Committee welcomes proposals on topics beyond this year’s designated theme. The program aims to include public historians and independent scholars as well as those teaching at universities, colleges, community colleges, and secondary schools. In general, the program should reflect the full diversity of the OAH membership in the United States and abroad. Beginning October 1, 2009, the program committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with these and other issues and themes in American history. OAH welcomes teaching sessions, particularly those involving the audience as active participants or those that reflect collaborative partnerships among teachers, historians, and history educators at all levels. We urge presenters to continue the ongoing transition from simply reading papers to more actively "teaching" the topic of their sessions. Wherever possible, proposals should include presenters of both sexes and members of ethnic and racial minorities. OAH encourages more senior historians to present their own research, and welcomes debate on challenging and controversial issues. If you have questions about these policies, please email the OAH meetings department. Policies OAH policy prohibits individuals from participating in two consecutive annual meetings in the same role and limits individuals to appearing only once on the program in a given year. All participants must preregister for the meeting. Participants who specialize in American history and support themselves as American historians must be members of the OAH. Submission Procedure Proposals should be submitted electronically to the OAH Proposal System beginning October 1, 2009. Please read proposal system instructions before beginning your submission. Complete session proposals most often include a chair, participants, and, if applicable, one or two commentators. We welcome proposals for roundtables and workshops as well as for sessions with papers and comments. Chairs may double as commentators, and commentators may be omitted in order for the audience to serve in that role. Sessions with commentators should have no more than three paper presentations. All sessions should have substantial time allotted for audience questions and comments. We prefer to receive proposals for complete sessions but will consider individual paper proposals as well. All proposals must include the following information: 1) A complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and affiliation for each participant 2) An abstract of no more than 500 words for the session as a whole 3) A prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation; and 4) A vita of no more than 500 words for each participant The deadline for proposals is Thursday, February 25, 2010. 2011 Program Committee Manfred Berg, University of Heidelberg Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University Hasia Diner, New York University David Gutierrez, University of California San Diego Martha Jones, University of Michigan Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware, Cochair Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University, Cochair Jason Groth OAH Meetings Department 112 N. Bryan Ave. PO Box 5457 Bloomington, IN 47407-5457 (812)855-6685 (voice) (812)856-0696 (fax) Email: jason@oah.org ------------ 8) CFP: "Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada" - April 22-24, 2010 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada April 22-24, 2010 (Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2009) http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/ Over the past 40 years, the discipline of Museum Studies has grown beyond its foundational premise as the study of museum organization and management to become a field informed by interdisciplinarian approaches, pedagogies and techniques. Some have argued that Museum Studies has not only come of age, as an academic discipline it has moved into the mainstream. Yet for many, the very formulation of this discipline continues to be a subject of intense reflection and debate, while its relationship with the community of professional practitioners it intends to serve is complex. While much has been written on Museum Studies/Museology from the UK, US, Australian and European perspectives, less has been articulated about Canadian traditions in the field. Despite over four decades of formal academic training and almost two centuries of professional practices, there are no Canadian national journals, nor annual academic conferences dedicated to the subject of Museum Studies. Doubtless a Canadian museology exists, however the research of Canadian museum scholars continues to be diffused across regional, linguistic, and disciplinarian lines. The Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto marks its 40th anniversary with a conference that aims to create a forum for a nation-wide debate and critical examination of the academic discipline of Museum Studies in Canada in historical and contemporary contexts, and how this discipline registers within broader global traditions, pedagogies and practices. Robert R. Janes will be providing the keynote address on Thursday, April 22, 2010. **Instructions for submission of paper abstracts: We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers (8-10 pp) that address the field of Museum Studies in Canada, as academic discipline and in terms of the nature of research this field and its practitioners undertake. We welcome contributions from a wide range of viewpoints that interrogate the field of Museum Studies, its histories, epistemologies, theoretical underpinnings and practices. Acknowledging that the discipline is itself informed by a variety of other disciplines, we are interested in diverse methodological and subject-area approaches. Presentations may include analyses of case studies, historical overviews, and comparative frameworks, as well as theoretical articulations of and for museological practice. Possible trajectories of enquiry may arise from the following themes: · What is "Canadian" about Museum Studies in Canada? · National/regional traditions in the discipline of Museum Studies: its curriculum and research interests; · The relationship of Museum Studies to professional museum practice in Canada; · Citizenship and national museology; · Museology and Canadian cultural policy; · History and theory of Canadian museological practices; · Canadian museological theory and praxis in contemporary political context; · How Canadian museological practices respond to contemporary issues of citizenship, identity, community, and meaning-making. Please send a 300-word paper proposal and one-page C.V. to takingstockmuseumstudies@gmail.com no later than November 30, 2009. Please indicate "Taking Stock" in the subject box of your message, and include the title of your presentation and your institutional affiliation in your correspondence. Successful applicants will be notified in December 2009. Delegates who would like to participate in the event but who wish not to present are encouraged to contact Nina Boric at nina.boric@utoronto.ca (416.505.8009) to register their interest. Information is also available on the website http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/ Please feel free to post and/or share this call with interested others! [Apologies for cross-postings] ------------- 9) CFP: "Archival Travels/Traveling Archives" seminar - April 1-4, 2010 (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.) --Nov 13 Deadline, ACLA 2010: Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms •Seminar Organizer: Anne Kingsley, Northeastern U (an.kingsley@gmail.com); Aparna Mujumdar, Northeastern U (mujumdar.a@neu.edu) This seminar focuses on the relation between the archive and travel as represented or imagined in contemporary texts. The archive, defined by many contemporary critics by its etymological root as a “house of record,” suggests that we might explore its geography, the space and place in which the narratives of history and empire are recovered, named, classified, catalogued, measured, valued, processed and produced. The archive is an active site — traveled to and explored — exemplifying what Ann Stoler has recently coined as “ethnography in the archive.” Her use of the term ethnography and the examination of the anthropology of archival practice encourage the connection between archival practice and travel writing in which epistemological systems and classifications of culture, race, gender, and nationality are recorded, examined, mapped and produced. We are interested in these archival mappings as they are explored through contemporary literature, theory, film, and art. More so, we are especially interested in those papers that explore the challenges that emerging discussions of travel, migration, diaspora, creolization and cosmopolitanism pose to archival production, imagination, theory and practice. Topics might include, but are certainly not limited to • Geography of the Archive • Mapping the Archive • Archive as Installation/Exhibition • Gender, Identity and Place in the Archive • Global Literatures/Global Archives • Traveling Narrators and the Archive • Traveler as Archivalist • Archival travels • Archive and Empire • Postcolonial Archives • Writing Back to the Archive Proposals of 250 words can be submitted through the ACLA online site by November 13, 2009: http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php Please select the seminar title Archival Travels/Traveling Archives when submitting. Anne Kingsley Northeastern University Email: an.kingsley@gmail.com ------------ 10) CFP: History of Women's Health Conference - April 7, 2010 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) Extended deadline-- Call for Papers, History of Women's Health Conference, Pennsylvania Hospital The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will host its fifth annual History of Women’s Health Conference on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. We invite interested persons to send a one to two page proposal or abstract of your topic by Monday, November 16, 2009 for consideration. The History of Women’s Health Conference focuses on women’s health issues from the late 18th century to the present. This conference encourages interdisciplinary work. Special consideration this year will be given to topics that address women’s health and the urban environment. The 2010 conference will differ slightly from years past. We are pleased to join with the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with the International Council on Women’s Health Issues (ICOWHI). ICOWHI’s 18th Congress on women’s health issues, titled “Cities and Women’s Health: Global Perspectives” will take place April 7th to the 10th 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Hospital’s History of Women’s Health Conference will be a pre-conference elective for anyone attending the ICOWHI Congress. As always, the Pennsylvania Hospital History of Women’s Health Conference is open, free of charge, to anyone interested in the history or present state of women’s health. The fifth annual conference will begin at 7:30am with our keynote and conclude at noon. A continental breakfast will follow the keynote. A short tour of historic Pine Building will be offered at the conclusion of the conference. CEU’s will be offered again. For more on our collections or the history of Pennsylvania Hospital, please visit http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/ Please e-mail your one to two page proposals/abstracts to: Stacey C Peeples, Curator-Lead Archivist, Pennsylvania Hospital peepless@pahosp.com Stacey C Peeples Curator-Lead Archivist Pennsylvania Hospital 3 Pine East, 800 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 829-5434 (v) (215) 829-7155 (f) Email: peepless@pahosp.com Visit the website at http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc ------------ 11) CFP: International Journal of Motorcycle Studies Conference - June 3-6, 2010 (Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.) 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 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, June 3-6, 2010. IJMS is dedicated to the study and discussion of motorcycling culture in all its forms—from the experience of riding and racing to the history of the machine, the riders and design to the images of motorcycling and motorcyclists in film, advertising and literature. We welcome submissions on all areas related to the cultural phenomenon of motorcycling worldwide. We invite contributions from all members of the motorcycling community. Suggested topics include: • The motorcycle or riding in film, literature, art and music • The motorcycle as art • Motorcycle racing • Motorcycle history • The role of place/environment in motorcycling • Motorcycling and issues of safety and risk • Motorcycling and the law/legal issues • Motorcycle technology/design • Motorcycling and race, class, ethnicity, sexuality or gender • The psychology of the motorcycle, the motorcyclist and the ride • Motorcycle travel/tourism • Motorcycle rights and politics • The commodification of motorcycles, motorcycling and/or motorcyclists • Motorcycle clothing/fashion • Advertising/marketing of motorcycles, gear and motorcycle culture • Media representations of motorcycling • Other literary, anthropological, geographical, historical, sociological, political, economic/business or psychological perspectives of motorcycling culture In addition to traditional academic paper presentations, we encourage submissions using alternate forms, such as photographic exhibitions or multimedia presentations. Please respond to Lisa Garber (garber1903@gmail.com) with a biographical statement and an abstract of 150 words by January 15, 2010. Basic information about IJMS and the conference can be found at http://ijms.nova.edu Dr. Lisa Garber Email: garber@gmail.com Visit the website at http://ijms.nova.edu ----------- 12) CFP: "Frontiers, Barriers, Horizons. Re-examining the History and Memories of Migration" - Issue of "Conserveries memorielles" Frontiers, Barriers, Horizons. Re-examining the History and Memories of Migration Call for Papers Issue directed by Maria Neagu and Olivier Côté, Ph.D candidates in History at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. Evolving between a ‘here’ and an ‘elsewhere’, the migrant integrates into his experience the sensibilities of the society he left and those of the society which welcomes him. He can behave as an agent in his own life, as an observer or as a mediator, stuck between his point of departure and his final destination. As the product of diverse and complex experiences, the migrant is fascinated, inquisitive or very critical of his own perceptions, of his own boundaries, to the point of either idealizing or being violent towards the Other and the Self. For this reason, migrant memories and identities are reengineering the map of human exchanges. Rethinking the migrant experience in terms of frontiers, barriers and horizons, memory and history is part of an effort to better understand and renew a questioning, a problematization which has its roots in current events. With its interdisciplinary approach, this issue will examine human migrations in their complex historical trajectories, their social and economical implications, their identity, agency, and memorialization. Papers addressing the challenges of integration, identity markers and the migrant figure, the memory and the imagining of the migration process, as well as those focused on cross-cultural dialogues are strongly encouraged. We especially encourage scholars to submit papers that examine the dimension of memory in migrant stories (life stories, diaries, biographies), the construction of narrative identities (symbolic representations, images of Self and the Other), and the formation of sites of migrant identity or agency (ethnic streets and neighborhoods, cultural centers, commemorations, etc). This issue provides a unique forum for young scholars interested in topics related to migration. Scholars may draw inspiration from the following non-exhaustive, thematic list of topics, according to a synthetic, historicizing, sociocritic, microhistory, or “life story” perspective, in conjunction with any geographical areas: · Theoretical reflections on models of integration and “collectivity togetherness”; · History and historicity of migration; · Migration and human civilizations; · Causes, premises and reasons of migration; · Actors of migration (individuals, institutions, states); · The migration patterns (individual, economical and professional migration; family or chain migration, etc.); · Migratory systems, spaces, vectors and trajectories; · Migration as a cross-cultural dialogue between new opportunities and prevailing prejudices; · Memory markers in migrant groups; · “Places of origins” and “host societies”: migrant identity references; · Memory representations of the migrant and his past as a tool for coexistence or intolerance; · Sites of migrant identity or agency; · The role of institutions in integration and immigration policy; · Social representations of migration; · Migration as a catalyst for demographic changes and ethnic mixing; · The economics and geopolitics of migration; · Migration as a vehicle of development and social transformation; · Migration and Human Rights. Conserveries mémorielles is a peer reviewed e-journal, soon to be hosted by revues.org. We invite authors to submit proposals (250-words) and a short resume by December 1st 2009 to : migrationshorizons@yahoo.ca. Contributions will be accepted in French or English, should not exceed 10,000 words and should be sent before March 1st 2009. For more information, please visit the following website (in French): http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/histoire.memoire/revue.htm ------------- 13) CFP: Spaces of History / Histories of Space - April 30, 2010 (Berkeley, California, U.S.) "Spaces of History / Histories of Space: Emerging Approaches to the Study of the Built Environment" A Conference at the University of California at Berkeley on April 30, 2010 In the past three decades, a growing number of scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned their attention to space and to the built environment as a means of understanding historical processes. The writings of Lefebvre, Foucault, Gregory, Harvey, Soja, Latour and others have significantly reshaped the intellectual landscape across academic fields. Meanwhile, the subject matter and research methods of the history of architecture, landscapes and planning have become increasingly open to reassessment. Looking to survey and assess new approaches and analytical tools for studying the history of built spaces across a variety of scales and geographies, this conference will explore a range of questions pertaining to theory, methodology and pedagogy. How has the "spatial turn" in the humanities and social sciences transformed the ways in which history of the built environment is theorized and researched? How should we study a historical moment when certain types of evidence predominate? What are the potentials and biases in the use of particular research techniques and narrative forms? To what extent are these choices shaped by disciplinary knowledge? How might such interrogations help us conceive new pedagogies for design and planning? The conference is expected to attract a diverse group of scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the history of the built environment. Participation from graduate students and early career academics is especially welcome. Participants will present papers related to one of the following two tracks: 1. Interrogating Theories and Methodologies Papers in this track will explore how built spaces have been integrated into historical research in a variety of disciplines, or discuss the use of particular theoretical formulations that have become influential in studying the history of the built environment. We are especially interested in work that assesses the potentials and limits of research methods, such as ethnography and oral history, as well as the use of various types of archival evidence. 2. History as Pedagogy: Teaching and Practice Papers in this track will examine pedagogical approaches to history in design education and their implications for the making of the built environment, including professional practice. Topics of interest include the use of history as precedent, the construction of a survey course, the relationship between history teaching and the design studio, and other interdisciplinary approaches to historical research such as experimental art practice and other creative mediums. As part of the activities of this conference, we will be holding a special poster exhibition that explores the relationship between historical thinking and the making of the built environment. This exhibition especially welcomes the participation of graduate students in professional programs as well as advanced undergraduate students. For submission guidelines for posters, please refer to the conference website at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/conf/spacesofhistory2010. Applicants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short CV in Word format to Tiago Castela at tcastela@berkeley.edu and to Cecilia Chu at ceciliachu@berkeley.edu by January 8, 2010. Accepted participants will be notified by February 5, 2010. Authors of accepted proposals should submit a completed paper of no more than 10 pages that summarizes the main points of the presentation by April 2, 2010. This conference is organized by Tiago Castela, Cecilia Chu, Clare Robinson, Yael Allweil and Huey Ying Hsu. The event is jointly sponsored by the Draper Architectural History Research Endowment of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. For additional information about the conference, please contact the organizers at tcastela@berkeley.edu or ceciliachu@berkeley.edu, or visit the conference website at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/conf/spacesofhistory2010 . Cecilia Chu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture College of Environmental Design University of California, Berkeley ----------- 14) CFP: "The Task of the Curator" - May 14, 2010 (Santa Cruz, California, U.S.) The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) at UC-Santa Cruz brings together museum professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display. This year we are hosting a number of events related to the 2009-2010 research theme, "Critical Curations." We are pleased to welcome Griselda Pollock, Irit Rogoff, and Carolina Ponce de León for our annual Speaker Series. For more information about our organization and events, please visit: http://macs.ucsc.edu/ On May 14, 2010, our year of collaboration will culminate with a conference open to scholars from around the world. "The Task of the Curator" will explore the roles of curators in relation to how objects are displayed in museums and galleries, considering a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's theories of translation, brings attention to the often overlooked or naturalized labor of curators, which involves subtle but nonetheless transformative acts of framing and poetic interpretation. Presenters are encouraged to "look outside of the white box" toward new and alternative display methods. Proposals are due on February 5th, 2010 (instructions below). A PDF of our CFP and updated information can be found at: http://macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS Keynote Speaker: MARY NOOTER ROBERTS World Arts & Cultures, UCLA Panel Moderators: JAMES CLIFFORD History of Consciousness, UCSC JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ History of Art & Visual Culture, UCSC SHANNON JACKSON Performance Studies & Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley BETTI-SUE HERTZ Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Opening Remarks: LUCIAN GOMOLL History of Consciousness, UCSC Closing Remarks: LISSETTE OLIVARES History of Consciousness, UCSC SUBMISSIONS: Please send the following documents by Friday, February 5, 2010 via e-mail to: macs@ucsc.edu • 350-500 word abstract • Curriculum Vitae We welcome and encourage early submissions. Papers will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the deadline. Final Drafts will be due Friday, April 23, 2010 to macs@ucsc.edu POSSIBLE TOPICS: * Artist as Curator * Exhibition as Translation * Critical Histories of the Curator & Curatorial Practices * Contemporary Approaches to the Art/artifact Debate * Feminist/Queer Curating * Radical Curating, Curatorial Interventions * Marxist Museology, Archival Anarchy * Curating Performance and/or Performance Art * Para-Sites: Exhibiting in Alternative Spaces * New Media & Display Practices * Disciplining Objects in Museums & Galleries * Comparative Studies of Exhibitions * Strategies for Relaying Trauma in Museums & Galleries * New Approaches to the Archives * Collaboration and/or Curatorial Collectives * Producing Virtual Collections & Displays * Curating and Authorship * Reflections on Biennale Projects * Outsider Exhibition Proposals * Dramaturgy of Display, Experience-Driven Practices * Addressing Visitors, Imaginary Publics, Engaging Feedback * Curatorial Mistakes * Exhibitions & Pedagogy This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department at UC-Santa Cruz. Lucian Gomoll History of Consciousness University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Email: macs@ucsc.edu Visit the website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html -- 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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