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EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET Edited for H-SAWH This index comprises all verified entries from H-Net's events database on the indicated dates. It has been sorted by type of event, not by content field. Users may print, post, or forward all or part of the index, or click on individual items to view and use the entire entry from the events site. H-Net assumes no liability for the accuracy of subsequent repostings of this material, so please check them carefully. To receive the digest by email, send the following command as the plain text of an email message addressed to listserv@h-net.msu.edu: subscribe h-announce yourname example: subscribe h-announce James Smith Please do not send events announcements to this list; instead, visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/ The following types of events are contained in this listing: Call for Papers Conference Lecture Seminar Summer Program Symposium Website Workshop To skip down to the section listing calls for papers, for example, use the find feature of your mailer to look for: "Category: Call for Papers". The following 70 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2009-11-10 and 2009-11-12. ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### 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 ###################################################################### # Category: Seminar ###################################################################### 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: 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 ###################################################################### # Category: Website ###################################################################### 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
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