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Editor's Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2009-11-04 - 2009-11-05
Author's Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2009-11-04 - 2009-11-05
Date Written: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:00:01 -0500
Date Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:48 -0500
The following 21 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2009-11-04 and 2009-11-05.

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# Category: Call for Papers
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    Title: Reminder - CFP: Games and Game Culture (SW/TX PCA/ACA
       Conference, Feb. 10-13 2010)
    Location: New Mexico
    Deadline: 2009-12-15
    Description: This is just a reminder that the deadline for
       proposals on game and game culture topics is 12/15/2009 .
       Please see the CFP below for more information. Cheers, Judd
       Ruggill Arizona State University CFP: Games and Game Culture
       Computer Culture Area 31st Annual SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference
       February 10-13,  ...
    Contact: jruggill@asu.edu
    Announcement ID: 171768
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171768

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# Category: Lecture
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    Title: New Security Challenges Speaker Series 2009/10University of
       Sussex
    Description: The School of Global Studies and the Department of
       Law have set up the New Security Challenges Speaker Series,
       which will bring to Sussex University key academic experts and
       practitioners in the broad field of international security in
       order to share multi-disciplinary insights into the
       complexities ...
    Contact: s.catignani@sussex.ac.uk
    Announcement ID: 171639
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171639

    Title: DRAKE LAW SCHOOL TO HOST DEBATE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND
       RELIGIOUS LIBERTY EXEMPTIONS
    Location: Iowa
    Date: 2009-11-17
    Description: Drake University Law School will host a debate
       between two scholars on "Religious Liberty Exemptions and
       Same-Sex Marriage" on Tuesday, Nov. 17. The debate, which will
       begin at 3 p.m. in room 213 of Cartwright Hall, 2621 Carpenter
       Ave., will feature: Nan D. Hunter, professor of law at
       Georgetown Uni ...
    Contact: lauren.bartusek@drake.edu
    URL: www.law.drake.edu/centers/conLaw/
    Announcement ID: 171698
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171698

    Title: Jose Moya, "Transnationalism From Below: Anarchism in the
       Atlantic World, 1880-1914."Thursday November 19 @ 6pm at the
       New School, NYC
    Location: New York
    Date: 2009-11-19
    Description: Jose Moya, "Transnationalism From Below: Anarchism in
       the Atlantic World, 1880-1914." November 19th at 6pm. History,
       New School for Social Research & Lang College 80 Fifth Avenue,
       Fifth Floor, Room 529 Jos Moya, professor (Barnard), taught
       Latin American history at UCLA for seventeen years and direc
       ...
    Contact: history@newschool.edu
    Announcement ID: 171766
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171766

    Title: The Sixth Dame Elizabeth Hill Memorial Lecture
    Date: 2009-11-26
    Description: The Sixth Dame Elizabeth Hill Memorial Lecture
       (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge) 26th
       November, 5:15pm at The Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre,
       Clare College Memorial Court Professor Richard Taruskin
       (University of California, Berkeley), "Suicide Notes, Faked
       Memoirs, Toast ...
    Contact: slavon@hermes.cam.ac.uk
    URL: www.mml.cam.ac.uk:16080/slavonic/news/
    Announcement ID: 171753
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171753

    Title: Ernest Gimson and the Inspiration of William Morris
    Location: New York
    Date: 2009-12-10
    Description: "Ernest Gimson and the Inspiration of William Morris"
       Lecture by Mary Greensted Thursday, 10 December 2009 6 p. m.
       The Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY Sponsored by
       the William Morris Society in the United States, the American
       Friends of Arts and Crafts in Chipping Campden, the Grolier ...
    Contact: marksl@udel.edu
    URL: www.morrissociety.org
    Announcement ID: 171629
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171629

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# Category: Seminar
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    Title: Town Creek Indian Mound hosts free American Indian heritage
       movies throughout November
    Location: North Carolina
    Date: 2009-11-01
    Description: To commemorate November as American Indian Heritage
       Month, Town Creek Indian Mound will present the Movies at the
       Mound Series on four Sunday afternoons throughout the month. On
       November 1, 8, 15 and 22, visitors will have the opportunity to
       watch films that give insight into the culture of American ...
    Contact: towncreek@ncdcr.gov
    URL: www.nchistoricsites.org
    Announcement ID: 171611
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171611

    Title: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of
       Nursing Bi-Monthly Seminar Series
    Location: Pennsylvania
    Date: 2009-11-11
    Description: Speaker: James Colgrove, PhD, MPH Associate
       Professor, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
       Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health Title: The
       Coercive Hand, the Beneficent Hand: What the History of
       Compulsory Vaccination Can Tell Us About HPV Vaccine Mandates
       Abstract: Th ...
    Contact: ehweiss@nursing.upenn.edu
    URL: www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/Pages/default.aspx
    Announcement ID: 171630
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171630

    Title: Newberry Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies: Eve
       Mayer and Kristin Hoganson, November 12
    Location: Illinois
    Date: 2009-11-12
    Description: Thursday, November 12, 5:00 - 7:00PM "Ours in Blood
       and Sympathy": The Great Basin and Pacific Expansionism Eve
       Mayer, Harvard University My paper examines Mormon expansionism
       into Hawaii in the context of a competitive nineteenth-century
       religious marketplace. I argue that mid-nineteenth-century Ha
       ...
    Contact: radkeh@newberry.org
    URL: www.newberry.org/scholl/borderlands09-10.html
    Announcement ID: 171731
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171731

    Title: Newberry Library Seminar on Women and Gender: Elizabeth
       Collins and Nicolaas Mink, November 13
    Location: Illinois
    Date: 2009-11-13
    Description: Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:005:00 p.m. Targeting
       Women in the 1950s Commentator: Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Loyola
       University An Odd, Emotional Girl: How Psychological Profiling
       and Gender Shaped Security Risk Assessment Elizabeth Collins,
       Triton College This paper explores the case of Marcia Harrison,
       ...
    Contact: radkeh@newberry.org
    URL: www.newberry.org/scholl/womgen09-10.html
    Announcement ID: 171705
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171705

    Title: NEH Summer Seminar: "The Falls of Rome." Call for
       Participants
    Deadline: 2010-03-02
    Description: The NEH Summer Seminar, The Falls of Rome: The
       Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity will take place at
       the American Academy in Rome from 28 June through 30 July 2010.
       This seminar will focus on a topic that is fundamental to the
       study of antiquity; What does it mean to say Rome fell? Unlike
       oth ...
    Contact: kdb48@cornell.edu
    URL: www.aarome.org/other-ways-to-participate.php#program5
    Announcement ID: 171688
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171688

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    Title: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and
       Pedagogy
    Description: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship
       and Pedagogy special issue: Teaching Performance Spring/Summer
       2009 Transformations, a journal that invites college teachers
       to take pedagogy seriously as a topic of scholarly writing, is
       pleased to announce the publication of a special issue, Te ...
    Contact: transformations@njcu.edu
    URL: web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/Content/default.asp
    Announcement ID: 171625
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171625

    Title: History of Rape: A Bibliography
    Description: The bibliography provides information on writings
       dealing with the history of rape, including sexual child abuse,
       sexual harassment, sexual molestation, child prostitution,
       forced prostitution, sexual slavery, sexual(ized) violence. The
       bibliography is intended to be a systematic bibliography. It ai
       ...
    URL: www.archive.org/details/HistoryOfRapeABibliography
    Announcement ID: 171683
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171683

    Title: IMR: Dexter Theme Week [November 2-November 6]
    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: 171727
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171727

    Title: PODCAST:David Hardiman  The Future of Subaltern
       StudiesResearch Network South Asia Royal Holloway University of
       London
    Description: Prof. David Hardiman from the University of Warwick
       will speak about the past, present and future of the Subaltern
       Studies collective. He was a founding member of the group back
       in the 1980s and has authored several important monographs
       dealing with subaltern histories, politics and cultures in Guja
       ...
    Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
    URL:
backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/david-hardiman-the-future-of-subaltern-studies/
    Announcement ID: 171747
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171747

    Title: PODCAST: The Dis/Order of Things: Predisciplinarity After
       FoucaultBirkbeck College 25 October 2009
    Description: The Dis/Order of Things: Predisciplinarity After
       FoucaultBirkbeck College 25 October 2009 This interdisciplinary
       research workshop brings together postgraduates, academics from
       different fields, and curators to think about Enlightenment
       Objects and discuss questions of disciplinarity in the wake of
       ...
    Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
    URL:
backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/the-disorder-of-things-predisciplinarity-after-foucault/
    Announcement ID: 171748
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171748

    Title: PODCAST:Professor Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway)
       Place-making, Identity and Islam: the struggle to
       create a mosque in London worthy of the tradition of Islam
       and worthy of the capital of the British Empire, 1910-1944.
    Description: Professor Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway)
       Place-making, Identity and Islam: the Struggle to Create a
       mosque in London worthy of the tradition of Islam and worthy
       of the capital of the British Empire, 1910-1944. Post 9/11
       and 7/7, the mosque, as a socially dynamic and influential
       multi-purpose commun ...
    Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
    URL:
backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/humayun-ansari-place-making-identity-and-islam-the-struggle-to-create-a-mosque-in-london-worthy-of-the-tradition-of-islam-and-worthy-of-the-capital-of-the-british-empire-1910-1944/
    Announcement ID: 171749
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171749

    Title: PODCAST:Jason Gaiger (OU)  - Can there be a universal
       theory of images?
    Description: Jason Gaiger (OU) - Can there be a universal theory
       of images? One of the leading proponents of the new discipline
       of Bildwissenschaft, Lambert Wiesing, has identified the
       philosophical interest in the concept of an image with the
       tendency towards a universal theory of images, arguing that
       this requ ...
    Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk
    URL:
backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/jason-gaiger-can-there-be-a-universal-theory-of-images/
    Announcement ID: 171750
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171750

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    Title: Historic Birthplace Re-opening after Fire Damage
       Restoration
    Location: North Carolina
    Date: 2009-11-01
    Description: The Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace State
       Historic Site near Fremont, N.C., is holding a celebration on
       Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1-5 p.m. to mark the re-opening of the
       former Governors boyhood home for tours. The historic house
       suffered significant damage in a fire on Jan. 24, 2008, and has
       been c ...
    Contact: aycock@ncdcr.gov
    URL: www.nchistoricsites.org
    Announcement ID: 171609
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171609

    Title: The Varlik Tax Affair in Turkey
    Date: 2009-11-11
    Description: THE HELLENIC HISTORY FOUNDATION HAS THE HONOUR TO
       INVITE YOU TO THE BOOK LAUNCH OF KONSTANDINOS KIOURKTSOGLOY'S
       DIARY: _THE EXILED ERZURUM - ASHKALE 1943_  AND TO THE
       AVANT-PREMIERE OF THE DOCUMENTARY "THE EXILED "OF K. LEGAKI
       (MUSIC BY ELENI KARAINDROY) AT NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER VAS.
       KONSTAN ...
    Contact: info@idisme.gr
    URL: www.idisme.gr
    Announcement ID: 171596
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171596

    Title: 'Research Training in Old Chinese: History and
       Historiography', University of Cambridge, U.K., 24-28 March
       2010
    Registration Deadline: 2010-02-05
    Description: We invite applications from graduate students and
       post-doctoral researchers of any level to participate in a
       workshop, Research Training in Old Chinese: History and
       Historiography. It will be the third in a series of five
       workshops designed to address different thematic areas of
       pre-imperial and imp ...
    Contact: ms527@cam.ac.uk
    Announcement ID: 171598
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171598

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