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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. 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 Symposium 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 34 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2009-11-03 and 2009-11-04. ###################################################################### # Category: Call for Papers ###################################################################### Title: Conference Announcement: Cultures of Indebtedness: Displacements of Value in Eastern Europe Deadline: 2009-11-25 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE: Cultures of Indebtedness: Displacements of Value in Eastern Europe January 22 23, 2010 New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study Bucharest, Romania Keynote speakers: Jane Guyer, Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University Alya Guseva, Associate Professor of ... Contact: narcistulbure@yahoo.com URL: www.nec.ro/fundatia/nec/culture_of_indebtness.htm. Announcement ID: 171458 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171458 Title: Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines symposium Deadline: 2009-11-25 Description: Call for Papers: Mediated Memory ****** 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 Councils Beyond Text programme Current post ... Contact: m5symposium@googlemail.com Announcement ID: 171693 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171693 Title: Interdisciplinary Conference on Eternal Time Location: Ontario Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: In todays goal-oriented, fast-paced and relentlessly changing world, the idea of eternal time seems to either have altogether disappeared or at the very least lost its currency. What then, if any, can we say to be the role and place of such a notion today? How and in what contexts can it be consider ... Contact: dhaverna@queensu.ca Announcement ID: 171604 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171604 Title: Significant Readings: Department of French Studies Graduate Assoc. Conference at Louisiana State University Location: Louisiana Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: Significant Readings: 4th Annual Department of French Studies Graduate Student Conference at Louisiana State University March 12-13, 2010 The 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, aims to explore the continued importance of ... Contact: frenchconference@gmail.com Announcement ID: 171638 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171638 Title: Rebecca Harding Davis Sessions at the American Literature Association's annual conference Location: California Deadline: 2009-12-15 Description: The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World will host two sessions at the annual conference of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 27-30, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero Center) in San Francisco, California. For further information about t ... Contact: mrenfroe@mtsu.edu Announcement ID: 171736 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171736 Title: Atrocity, Photography and War: An International Symposium Deadline: 2009-12-31 Description: This symposium will explore how photographic images of atrocities relate to the development of ideas about human rights, how they influence the memory of particular wars, and the ways they shape perceptions of conflict both at the time and later. It also encourages critical and historical engagement ... Contact: christina.twomey@arts.monash.edu.au Announcement ID: 171589 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171589 Title: 17th Annual North Dakota Historic Preservation Conference Location: North Dakota Deadline: 2010-01-11 Description: CALL FOR PROPOSALS/PAPERS: Preservation North Dakota invites proposals of presentations and sessions for the annual Historic Preservation Conference. Themed Partners in Preservation, the conference will be held in Dickinson, North Dakota, May 7-9, 2010. We invite a broad range of proposals that may ... Contact: wilkie@prairieplaces.org URL: prairieplaces.org Announcement ID: 171704 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171704 Title: The Union Makes Us Strong:Inspiration, Guidance, and Hope During Hard TimesPacific Northwest Labor History Association Annual Conference Location: Oregon Deadline: 2010-02-15 Description: Although the Pacific Northwest has had many historical encounters with economic downturns and hard times, the region also has a rich tradition of unionism, community organizing, and independent political action. It is this context that shapes the theme of the 2010 PNLHA conference. We especially en ... Contact: bussel@uoregon.edu URL: www.uoregon.edu/~lerc/ Announcement ID: 171739 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171739 Title: The Tenth International Symposium on Comparative LiteratureDecember 7-9, 2010 The Marginalized Deadline: 2010-02-28 Description: In a globalized world, which is, paradoxically, also a world of growing dissent, marginalized groups with diverse ideological mindsets are likely to emerge on various levels. Women find themselves at the periphery of an oppressive patriarchal society, ethnic groups endure diasporic mobility to flee ... Contact: cairosymposium@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 171607 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171607 Title: 2010 William Gilmore Simms Society Conference: Simms and the Crucible of Southern Literature Location: South Carolina Deadline: 2010-06-25 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS: William Gilmore Simms and the Crucible of Southern Culture The University Libraries of the University of South Carolina and the William Gilmore Simms Society invite all interested scholars to a conference exploring the life and works of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the antebel ... Contact: Meriwetn@mailbox.sc.edu URL: www.westga.edu/~simms/ Announcement ID: 171584 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171584 ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### Title: ANN: Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth Century Location: New York Description: Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long 18th Century This conference discusses the ways in which people and polities from the Americas, Europe, and Africa assumed, legitimized, rejected and interacted with various forms of authority in the long eighteenth century. This peri ... Contact: ahs4@nyu.edu URL: www.nyu.edu/pages/atlantic/Conference2010.html Announcement ID: 171644 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171644 Title: Darwin Celebration in Mexico: Darwin in Latin America, and Darwin: the Art of Doing Science. Description: The National University of Mexico (UNAM), the Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG), and El Colegio Nacional (Mxico) will host an international conference celebrating Charles Darwins bicentenary of birth and 150 years of the publication of the Origins of Species. The program ... Contact: ednasuarez@ciencias.unam.mx URL: www.biologia.unam.mx/biolevol/abe/darwin-symp-web.pdf Announcement ID: 171658 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171658 Title: PODCAST Professor Peregrine Horden Whats Wrong with Medieval Medicine?Royal Holloway History Department Research Seminar Series Description: Peregrine Horden Whats Wrong with Medieval Medicine? As the late great Roy Porter observed, we in the developed world have never have it so good. By any measure we have never been healthier. And yet we have also never been so anxious about our health, or so critical of modern medicinebiomedicine. We ... Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk URL: backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/peregrine-horden-whats-wrong-with-medieval-medicine/ Announcement ID: 171680 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171680 Title: PODCAST: 'Aesthetics and Subjectivity' ConferenceThe Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London21 October 2009 Description: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. But recent critics writing on the aesthetic argue such sentiments reduce artistic experience to relativism and commodification. Rather than merely absorbing beauty into subjectivity, such critics contend that art as art is deeply and dynamically dialec ... Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk URL: backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/aesthetics-and-subjectivity/ Announcement ID: 171681 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171681 Title: PODCAST: 'Contemporary Attitudes to the Holocaust' with Orlando Figes, Robert Eaglestone, Daniel Beer and Stephen Lovell Description: Professor Orlando Figes of Birkbeck, University of London will conduct a debate on contemporary attitudes to the Holocaust . In the West, by comparison with our attitudes towards the Holocaust, we are really quite insensitive to the repressions of the Stalinist regime. We are ignorant as well we kno ... Contact: r.wolf@rhul.ac.uk URL: backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/10/contemporary-attitudes-to-the-holocaust/ Announcement ID: 171689 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171689 Title: Frontiers, Regions, Identities: A European Project and its Agents (UWE, Bristol, Sat 31 Oct 2009) Date: 2009-10-31 Description: 'Frontiers, Regions, Identities' is a one-day conference hosted by the Regional History Centre, University of the West of England. The event marks the publication of 'Frontiers, Regions, Identities in Europe', a new book in the CLIOHRES network series (http://www.cliohres.net/books4/books.php?book=5 ... Contact: James5.Lee@uwe.ac.uk Announcement ID: 171564 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171564 Title: AAH New Voices: Art & Desire (University of York) 7th November 2009 Date: 2009-11-07 Description: New Voices 2009 Art and Desire 7 NOVEMBER 2009 University of York: A Student Members Committee event Keynote: Dr. James Boaden (University of York) The Convulsive Nursery: Surrealism, Childhood and Sexuality Desire is arguably the over-riding consideration in the study of art, for desire acts as the ... URL: www.aah.org.uk/page/2881 Announcement ID: 171591 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171591 Title: Great Lakes History Conference Events Location: Michigan Date: 2009-11-10 Description: Grand Valley State Universitys History Department presents the 34th Annual Great Lakes History Conference 2009 All conference events will be held at the Robert C. Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The evening events are free and open to the public. There is a reg ... Contact: stablers@gvsu.edu URL: www.gvsu.edu/history/ Announcement ID: 171738 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171738 Title: International ConferenceInternational Conference "Challenging the Concept of the 'Other': Jewish and German Culture in Weimar Germany", Jerusalem, November 16-18, 2009 Begins: 2009-11-16 Description: International Conference Challenging the Concept of the Other: Jewish and German Culture in Weimar Germany Monday-Wednesday, November, 16-18, 2009 at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem Academic Director: Dr. Karin Neuburger The conference aims at investigating the dynamic ... Contact: rosenzweig@vms.huji.ac.il URL: Rosenzweig.huji.ac.il Announcement ID: 171729 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171729 Title: Conference on Local Cosmopolitanisms, Southampton, November 21 - 22 Begins: 2009-11-21 Description: Dialogues across Boundaries: Debating Local Cosmopolitanisms21 22 November 2009 Position Papers: Neil Lazarus, Stephanie Newell and John Thieme With the Participation of Creative Writers Brian Chikwava and Deon Meyer Dialogues across Boundaries: Debating Local Cosmopolitanisms Historically, meanings ... Contact: R.Primorac@soton.ac.uk URL: www.soton.ac.uk/english/news/cosmopolitanisms_09.html Announcement ID: 171709 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171709 Title: The International Association of Law and Policy - Inaugural Conference Location: District of Columbia Date: 2009-12-02 Description: IALAP (International Law and Policy Association) holds its inaugural meeting, Impacting Law and Policy: American and International Frames at the National Education Association headquarters on December 2 -3, 2008. The IALAP invites all interested law and policy historians, scholars, analysts and acti ... Contact: ppreston@baystate.edu URL: www.ialap.org Announcement ID: 171737 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171737 Title: Humor Studies Caucus at the 2009 ASA Location: Texas Date: 2010-01-26 Description: The Humor Studies Caucus of the ASA works to support the critical study of all aspects of American humor at the annual American Studies meeting. Our goal is to create a network of scholars interested in the multidisciplinary study of American humor through a large number of approaches: material and ... Contact: wustert@gmail.com Announcement ID: 171742 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171742 Title: Interdisciplinary Arts Conference on HOPE: Uncertainty, Pluralism, and Innovation Date: 2010-03-27 Description: Interdisciplinary Arts Conference 2010 HOPE Uncertainty, Pluralism, and Innovation CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions on the topic of interest from all Faculty of Arts students, at both the Undergraduate and Graduate levels. Some related topics may be, but are not limited to: Human Rights; Global ... Contact: r.c.executive@gmail.com URL: www.religionandculturesociety.com Announcement ID: 171708 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171708 Title: Transnational Feminist Responses and the Torture of Enemies(11/13/09; 04/01/10-04/04/10) Location: Louisiana Begins: 2010-04-01 Description: Call for Papers American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting April 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/acla2010/) Transnational Feminist Responses and the Torture of En ... Contact: bdeb2@unl.edu Announcement ID: 171743 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171743 Title: Second Annual Graduate Conference on Literature and the Humanities at the University of Arkansas Location: Arkansas Date: 2010-04-09 Description: The University of Arkansas will be hosting its second annual graduate conference on literature and the humanities on April 9th and 10th, 2010. The conference seeks papers that deal with literature in relation to any aspect of the humanities: language, history, philosophy, etc. Panel proposals are en ... Contact: jmm010@uark.edu URL: www.uark.edu/studorg/gse/ Announcement ID: 171662 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171662 Title: 6th LIES: Literature in English Symposium Date: 2010-04-11 Description: FIRST CIRCULAR & CALL FOR PAPERS The School of English, at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań is happy to announce that on 11th April 2010 6th LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SYMPOSIUM (LIES 6) will be held The topic of the conference is: Empty Treasure chests dumped from departed ships: Re-mapping (pos ... Contact: kbronk@ifa.amu.edu.pl URL: department.englishliterature.googlepages.com/ Announcement ID: 171659 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171659 Title: International Conference (CFP): "The World and the 'Solidarity' Movement, 1980-1989" - Wroclaw, Poland Date: 2010-04-30 Description: Conference: The World and the "Solidarity" Movement, 1980-1989 Date: October 21-23, 2010 Location: Wroclaw, Poland Organizers: Institute of National Remembrance and University of Wroclaw Deadline for abstracts: March 30, 2010 When in August 1980 strikes broke out in Poland and Solidarity movement wa ... Contact: Anna.Piekarska@ipn.gov.pl URL: www.ipn.gov.pl/conference2010 Announcement ID: 171721 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171721 Title: 2nd PARIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, ECONOMY & SOCIETY Begins: 2010-07-21 Description: 2nd PARIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, ECONOMY & SOCIETYParis (France), Hotel Concorde La Fayette, 21-24 July 2010This Conference will be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers and industry repr ... Contact: Paris-Conference@analytrics.org URL: www.education-conferences.org Announcement ID: 171651 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171651 Title: Re-Greening Our Lives: towards Strengths Based Strategies Begins: 2010-11-25 Description: 25-28 November 2010 City of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Re Greening Our Lives towards Strengths Based Practices Conference Has the essential focus on three aspects of our living on this Planet. 1Population 2Environment and 3Human Services Central Concerns: 1Well being of human kind 2Environment cent ... Contact: chrismontgomery@optushome.com.au URL: www.strengthsbasedpractice.com.au Announcement ID: 171674 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171674 ###################################################################### # Category: Symposium ###################################################################### Title: Groupe Histoire des Organisations Internationales (GHOI) Description: The objective of this group is to federate students and scholars who have an interest in the history of International Organizations dispersed around Geneva. We give a significant voice to the archivists of international organizations, as they are an integral part of the group. The seminar we run thi ... URL: graduateinstitute.ch/history-politics/page7884.html Announcement ID: 171720 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171720 Title: A World Literature Feast in Krakow, Poland Begins: 2009-11-03 Description: Krakow Festival Office, Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation and Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University are pleased to announce the opening of the first edition of the Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival, scheduled for in Krakow, Poland, 3-7 November 2009. ... Contact: humanities.cracow@gmail.com URL: www.cash.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl Announcement ID: 171646 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171646 Title: Newberry Saturday Labor Symposium: Debating Lawrence Glickman's, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America Location: Illinois Date: 2009-11-14 Description: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM The Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall Saturday New Book Symposium: ConsumersThe Unknown Social MovementDebating Lawrence Glickman's, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Featuring author Lawrence Gli ... Contact: radkeh@newberry.org URL: www.newberry.org/scholl/LaborHistory09-10.html Announcement ID: 171637 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171637 Title: Newberry Saturday Labor Symposium: Debating Lawrence Glickman's, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Location: Illinois Date: 2009-11-14 Description: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM The Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall Saturday New Book Symposium: ConsumersThe Unknown Social MovementDebating Lawrence Glickman's, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Featuring author Lawrence Gli ... Contact: radkeh@newberry.org URL: www.newberry.org/scholl/LaborHistory09-10.html Announcement ID: 171706 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171706 Title: The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature Location: Indiana Begins: 2009-11-16 Description: The purpose of this symposium is to enrich our understanding of contemporary European literature by addressing how Muslim and Muslim-born writers address the place of Islam in their work. Thematically, we will use the word place in reference to its different meanings: location, role, status, etc. Wh ... Contact: nanovic@nd.edu URL: nanovic.nd.edu/events/2009/11/16/1433-conference-the-place-of-islam-in-contemporary-european-literature Announcement ID: 171700 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171700 --
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