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November 17, 2009

Summer Study: The Falls of Rome, 06/28-07/30/2010, Rome

DEADLINE: March 2, 2010

NEH Summer Seminar: "The Falls of Rome"
American Academy in Rome, Italy
June 28 -July 30, 2010

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 other attempts to analyze the fall in terms of the political and military end of the Roman Empire, this seminar will focus on the capital of that empire, the city of Rome, in the late third to the seventh centuries. Through intensive study of texts and new archaeological remains, we will critically examine the reasons traditionally adduced for Rome’s fall - political and/or military crisis – and search for more complete definitions, and more complete explanations, of societal change.
The seminar is founded on interdisciplinary interactions, including the collaboration of the Seminar Director, Michele Renee Salzman, an historian, with the Associate Director, Kimberly Bowes, an archaeologist. All readings and seminar discussion will be in English. We welcome applicants from a wide variety of fields in the humanities.

Participants are chosen from university and college faculty who teach American post-secondary students. This includes faculty teaching abroad who teach American students. Applicants of all ranks and all levels of institution are welcome. In addition, two places are reserved for qualified advanced graduate students

For detailed information about the Seminar and the application go to the American Academy in Rome website,

http://www.aarome.org/other-ways-to-participate.php#program5

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 2, 2010.

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November 10, 2009

Fellowships: Humanities, UK

Deadline: January 15, 2010

IHR Mellon Fellowships for doctoral research in the humanities
Institute of Historical Research
University of London
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Fellowships are intended to help students registered as doctoral candidates at a North American university to:
1) work in original source materials in the humanities in the United Kingdom;
2) help doctoral candidates in the humanities to deepen their ability to develop knowledge from original sources;
3) provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed most helpfully in the future.

There are two types of Fellowship: Pre-dissertation and Dissertation. The Pre-dissertation Fellowship (stipend value USD $5,000) is offered for a maximum of 2 months and is intended to help candidates draw up and revise a dissertation proposal. Candidates must have completed their coursework and examinations prior to the start of the Fellowship. The Dissertation Fellowship (stipend value USD 25,000) is offered to candidates already working on their dissertation and who need to spend time in the United Kingdom to carry out archival research. These fellowships will run concurrently with the academic year (i.e. 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011).

The closing date for receipt of applications, and supporting documentation, is 15 January 2010. Further details and forms may be obtained by using the link below.
http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/prizes#mellon

This is a valuable opportunity for students who would benefit from carrying out work in original source materials held in the United Kingdom, but who otherwise might not be able to undertake such extensive research.

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November 06, 2009

Summer study: Warsaw

Collegium Civitas is now accepting applications from North American undergraduate and graduate students for the 2010 summer internships (June 1 – July 31). We partner with Warsaw-based organizations seeking ambitious, open-minded, and talented interns. Our unique program offers solid professional experience, optional summer school classes, and many cultural and social events. If you would like to spend summer 2010 in a dynamic and attractive city, and participate in an interesting and challenging internship, you’ve come to the right place. Explore the companies on our website, and drop us a line. If you do not see an institution matching your interests and abilities, we can help. A professional internship coordinated by Collegium Civitas will make next year’s summer a memorable experience. Internships are in English.

To ensure the quality of your experience, we work closely with your internship mentor at an organization of your choice. Our staff oversees your placement and progress. We match the expectations of both parties involved, and monitor the internship throughout its length. We invite you to peruse our website, and to read about other students’ experiences firsthand.

You do not have to speak Polish to be successful in Warsaw; all our partnering organizations speak English. While there are no requirements for our program’s participants to speak Polish, we teach it to all interested students to ensure they have greater access to Polish culture, and feel at home while in Warsaw. You can also gain extra academic credits while in the internship program. Collegium Civitas offers summer school courses in political science, history, sociology and cultural studies. In most cases, students in our internship program choose to enroll for academic credit, and we finalize the credits’ transfer.

Being a small, private university, Collegium is dedicated to the wellbeing and continuous support of its students. Join us for summer 2010, and become a member of our community. From the moment you express interest in our program ‘til your departure from Warsaw, we are here to provide support, counsel and company.

To learn more, you can visit our website http://www.civitas.edu.pl/internships and drop us an email with your questions at internships@collegium.edu.pl

We invite you as well to visit our US partner's web-site to learn more about the application process: http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/

Collegium Civitas
International Internship Team
internships@collegium.edu.pl

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CfP: Music and Minorities; Applied Ethnomusicology, 07/19-30/2010, Hanoi

Deadline: November 10, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Council for Traditional Music
Vietnamese Institute for Musicology
Hanoi, 19-30 July 2010
Perhaps for the first time in the history of the International Council for Traditional Music, two study groups are joining forces in organizing their respective symposia. This scholarly event will be hosted in Hanoi, Vietnam, by the Vietnamese Institute for Musicology (VIM) and its director Dr. Le Van Toan, who also will chair the local organizing committee. At VIM, the Study Group on Music and Minorities will meet from 19-24 July. The Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology will meet from 27-30 July. A joint session is planned on the World Heritage site Halong Bay for 25-26 July 2010.
Each symposium will feature three main themes and have its own program committee. Scholars are invited to send proposals for one of the symposia and are offered the opportunity to attend both, thereby contributing to the success of the whole event. Contributions are especially welcome from the Asia-Pacific region, and on the overarching themes of ethnomusicological practices of community engagement, dialogue, advocacy and sustainability.
Music and Minorities
Music and minorities in education
Education is widely recognized as a key tool in society building processes. This theme refers to both formal and informal education, past and present, in relation to the performing arts of minority populations. What are the experiences and potentials of educational dialogues between majorities and minorities, in various socio-cultural contexts?
"Other minorities": challenges and discourses
Broad definition of minorities within the study group, well-reflected in papers presented within the first decade of its existence, encompasses "groups of people distinguishable from the dominant group for cultural, ethnic, social, religious, or economic reasons." This theme's intention is to point to specific challenges and discourses that link music and minorities that are defined on the basis of gender, age, and health status.
The role of music in sustaining minority communities
Case studies from around the world have demonstrated that music and other performing arts can help to maintain minority cultures. How may the complex notion of "sustainability" be applied to the study of music and minorities?

We invite proposals for presentations in four basic formats, not excluding others. These are: individual papers, organized sessions, lecture demonstrations, and films.

Please submit an abstract of 250 words maximum and a short CV (in English language) to hemetek@mdw.ac.at (Music and Minorities) or eric.usner@gmail.com
(Applied Ethnomusicology) by 10 November 2009, in order to enable peer review by 15 December 2009.

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Fellowship: New Europe College, Bucharest

Deadline: February 1, 2010

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

NEW EUROPE COLLEGE FELLOWSHIPS
(the academic year of 2010-11)

New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, Romania - announces the competition for Fellowships for the academic year 2010-11.
The program targets young Romanian and international researchers/academics working in the fields of humanities and social studies. Applicants must be doctoral students, or hold a Ph.D. title.
Duration of the Fellowship: a) a full academic year (10 months, October through July) or (only for the international Fellows) b) a one-term fellowship (October through February, or March through July).

Location: New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania.
The Fellowship consists of a monthly stipend of 600 Euro (tax free), accommodation, international transportation to and from the home country of the Fellows at the beginning and the end of the Fellowship, as well as for season holidays. The Fellows who stay for the whole academic year are offered a one-month research trip abroad to an institution of their choice (2,600 Euro for transportation, accommodation, and per diem).
The Fellows are expected to work on their own projects and take part in the scientific events organized by the New Europe College. At the end of their Fellowship, each Fellow is expected to hand in a research paper reflecting the results of his/her work over the duration of the Fellowship. The papers will be included in a NEC publication.
Working languages: English, French, and German. A good command of English is desirable.

The deadline (the arrival date, not the mailing date) for the international candidates to submit the application both by regular mail and e-mail is February 1st, 2010. The applications will be evaluated by the Academic Board of the NEC. The applicants will be notified by e-mail and regular mail on the results of the evaluation process at the beginning of the month of March. The shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview organized at the NEC, in Bucharest, on April 9-10, 2010.
The application form, the instructions for the application and additional information on the New Europe College can be downloaded from www.nec.ro or requested by e-mail at applications@nec.ro. Contact person: Irina VAINOVSKI-MIHAI.

Mailing address: New Europe College, str. Plantelor 21, 023971 Bucharest, Romania
Tel. (+4) 021 307 9910, Fax: (+4) 021 327 0774

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CfP: Ethno-politics and Intervention in a Globalized world, 06/27-30/2010, Exeter

Deadline: January 29, 2010

Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies International Conference:
'Ethno-Politics and Intervention in a Globalized World'
27-30 June 2010
University of Exeter

Call for Papers
A cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary conference exploring the role of ethnicity and nationalism in the 21st century
Conference convenor: Professor Gareth Stansfield
Hardly a day goes by without a political or social manifestation of ethnicity crossing the headlines of international and national news. The conflict situations in Darfur, Iraq and Palestine; new state formations in the Balkans; issues of multiculturalism and security in Western cities; and the re-interpretation of historical memories and myths in places as far apart as Cornwall and Central Asia simultaneously point to the salience of ethnicity as a critical factor in today's complex world.
The Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS) is an exciting initiative which was established in 2007 following the award of a grant by the Leverhulme Trust to the University of Exeter. EXCEPS examines the role of ethnicity and nationalism in politics and conflict via a multi-disciplinary approach that brings together academics and practitioners from an array of fields. We will be holding our first international conference from 27-30 June 2010.
The conference will be organized around seven sub-themes covering different aspects of the theme of 'Ethno-Politics and Intervention in a Globalized World'. These sub-themes are:
Foreign Intervention in Ethnic and Ethno-National Conflicts
Regional Security Organisations and the Regulation of Violent Ethno-Political Conflict
Culture and Memory in Reconciliation Processes
Questioning Ethno-Politics: Diasporic Political Cultures, Subjectivities and Spaces
Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
Violent Radicalisation and Terrorism in the Ethno-Politicised World
Mechanisms for Managing Ethnic Conflict: Secession, Autonomy, Elections

For further information, please go to the EXCEPS conference website: http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/exceps/events/conference.html . Any questions can be directed to the sub-theme convenors. To submit a proposal for a paper or a panel, please send an abstract of maximum 500 words to
exceps-conference@exeter.ac.uk by 29 January 2010. Please indicate clearly in your application which sub-theme you would like it to be considered for. Successful applicants will be notified by 26 February 2010.

Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS)

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Stocker Road, University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4ND, United Kingdom

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CfP: Europe after the Lisbon Treaty, 05/21/2010, Skopje, Macedonia

Abstracts due Tuesday 22 December 2009

University American College Skopje is proud to initiate the fifth annual academic research conference on European integration

EUROPE AFTER THE LISBON TREATY
Friday 21 May 2010
Skopje, Macedonia

Call for papers

This inter- and multi-disciplinary one-day conference seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and its consequences for the future of European integration. The underlying assumption is that the Lisbon Treaty should be an important milestone of the EU institution-building in the years to come. It poses serious questions about the world's biggest economy and the most successful global paradigm of political integrations thus far.

Is Europe evolving into a federation of states as euro-sceptics persistently claim? What should be the contribution to the future shape of the organization by the various schools of thought and political orientations: so-called federalists, unionists and euro-sceptics, "wideners" and "deepeners", democrats and conservatives, liberals and greens. Could it become political and economic role-model for other regional organizations throughout the continents? Will Europe assume a bigger role in the world? Or the world affairs are to be decided largely within an emerging axe of power - G2, Washington and Beijing occupying the central spots? What will be the likely consequences of the Charter on Fundamental Rights which has not been accepted by all? The Lisbon Treaty broadens the scope of competencies of the European Parliament - the only EU institution enjoying direct electoral legitimacy. It also improves the EU's voting system, restructures EU external action services and creates a more permanent presidency of the European Council. The critical challenge now ought to be to make it all work.

As a hosting academic institution we aim to emphasise and explore the contribution that academia can make to catalyse an adequate response to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

Major issues to be addressed include:
- The impact of the Lisbon Treaty upon the procedural side of the European integrations, and upon the very substance of key European policies, as well.. What are the real, not only preferred, benefits from the Lisbon Treaty in streamlining common European efforts in key areas - economy, energy stability, human rights, and well-being of the people? What are the strong and weak points of the document, and the dormant loopholes in the ratified solutions?
- What are the potentials of the post-Lisbon EU in forging more efficient common response to financial and economic recession of similar proportions as the last one?
- The Lisbon Treaty has removed formal impediments to enlargement, but can it really consolidate the political will to support this process and avoid enlargement fatigue? What does it foretell about the course that candidate and potential candidate countries could eventually take? The Western Balkans as the last EU integrational dilemma or forerunner for further enlargement? The Republic of Macedonia's eventual contribution to the multiethnic and multicultural European code of conduct.
- Are documents or political rationale of the EU more important pre-requisites for accepting a full membership of Turkey or Ukraine and for establishing a common economic and energy area with the Russian Federation?
- Is it possible for a multilateral treaty dealing primarily with procedural and normative aspects to alleviate the democratic deficit of European institutions (Commission, Councils, Committees)?
- Can America and Europe in the multi-polar world become a genuine force for change, or remain an alliance for hegemony, as some would claim? What are the potentials for global cooperation of post-Lisbon Europe and the USA under the Democrats? Are they irreversibly drifting apart or coming together again?
- Input of common European security and defence policy in balancing the world order and providing stability and prosperity for the European citizens.
- Doing business in Europe after the Lisbon Treaty. Legal framework for monetary policies, competencies and the status of corporate managers, fiscal adjustments and economic nationalisms as a prevailing long-standing doctrine.
- International and domestic marketing, regional and across the ocean associations versus or together with the EU (OSCE, NATO, CEFTA, EFTA, NAFTA).
- Building the pan-European identity after the Lisbon Treaty (constitutional patriotism, effects of educational processes, blending of cultures and architectural styles, multilingual societies and states, European Chapter of Human Rights).
By tradition, key speakers and high level officials from the country and from abroad are invited to address the conference.
Abstracts due Tuesday 22 December 2009
Notification of acceptance Tuesday 19 January 2010
Papers due Tuesday 30 March 2010
Review feedback Tuesday 20 April 2010
Revised papers due Tuesday 18 May 2010
Conference date Friday 21 May 2010

For abstract & paper guidelines, conference programme and other updates please visit our web page: www.uacs.edu.mk/conference

Organising Committee:
Dr. Clarisse Molad, UACS Vice Dean, e-mail: molad@uacs.edu.mk
Dr. Stevo Pendarovski, e-mail: pendarovski@uacs.edu.mk
Dr. Ivan Dodovski, e-mail: dodovski@uacs.edu.mk

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CfP: Neuere Ansätze und Pers pektiven für die Auseinandersetzung mit Brecht, 02/12/2010, Ber lin

Bewerbungsschluss, 30.11.2009

CFP
Brecht-Perspektiven 2010 - Tagung junger WissenschaftlerInnen in Berlin
Berlin, 12.02.2010
"Alles schon gesagt?" Neuere Ansätze und Perspektiven für die Auseinandersetzung mit Brecht

Leitung und Moderation: Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann

Der internationale schwer zu übertreffende Bekanntheitsgrad Bertolt Brechts steht in eklatantem Widerspruch zur gegenwärtigen, oft wenig innovativen oder kaum noch vorhandenen Auseinandersetzung mit seinem Schaffen in der Forschung und auf dem Feld der Künste. Liegt das daran, dass bereits alles bekannt und gesagt ist? Oder sind die künstlerischen Antworten, die Brecht auf seine Zeit gab, heute obsolet? Wie und wo kann die wissenschaftliche oder künstlerische Neuentdeckung seiner Werke ansetzen? Welche aktuellen Forschungsprojekte befinden sich in Arbeit?

Die Tagung richtet sich im Besonderen an Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden, die eingeladen sind, ihre gegenwärtigen oder beabsichtigen Forschungsarbeiten mit Brecht-Schwerpunkt vorzustellen oder aber in ihren Beiträgen mögliche Perspektiven der Brecht-Forschung zu entwerfen. Erwünscht ist zudem die Gegenprobe: Was sind die Ursachen dafür, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit Brecht in den Hintergrund gerückt ist? Gibt es gewichtige Gründe, sich nicht mit Brecht zu beschäftigen?

Die Beiträge sollten eine Länge von 15-20 Minuten nicht überschreiten. Tagungssprache ist Deutsch. Die Tagung ist Teil der Brecht-Tage am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Berlin, die 2010 unter dem Motto "Bild und Bildkünste bei Brecht" (08.-12.2.2010) stehen. Geladene Referenten erhalten eine Pauschalvergütung von 150 Euro. Eine Publikation der besten Beiträge ist im geplanten Tagungsband zu den Brecht-Tagen 2010 vorgesehen.

Themenvorschläge (eine Seite) mit knappen Angaben zur Person bitte per Email bis zum 30.11.2009 an unten aufgeführte Adressen. Die Auswahl der ReferentInnen erfolgt wenige Tage nach Einsendungsschluss.

Leitung und Moderation
Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main;
Präsident der Internationalen Brecht-Gesellschaft)

Konzeptin und Organisation
Christian Hippe
Kontakt
christian.hippe@rz.hu-berlin.de
info@lfbrecht.de

Tagungsort
Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Berlin
Chausseestr. 125
10115 Berlin
www.lfbrecht.de

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Summer Study: International Trade and Development, WTO, 06/28-07/09/2010, Switzerland

Deadline: April 1, 2010

Summer Programme on the WTO, International Trade and Development 2010
Switzerland

The Summer Programme on the WTO, International Trade and Development provides participants with a unique opportunity to enter into the analysis and atmosphere of multilateral trade, just a few meters away from the WTO. The programme, delivered with the Graduate Institute Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, combines and integrates economic, legal and political analysis of international trade and development. Participants will benefit from input of negotiators, academics and issue-based activists, and will experience the field of international trade firsthand through visits to some of the prominent trade-related organisations and government missions located in Geneva.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Professionals keen to improve their knowledge on current major issues in international trade
Students at MA level or senior undergraduate level with an interest in international trade and related fields

DATE: JUNE 28 TO JULY 9, 2010

The Summer Programme on the WTO, International Trade and Development is a 2-week course from June 28 to July 9, 2010. The programme is designed as a whole but participants who wish to enrol for one week may do so.

Lectures and discussions will shed light on the following questions: the reasons why countries open their economies to trade and the reasons why they protect domestic industries, the means and pathways they use to either open or protect, what these considerations mean for the multilateral trading system and their implications for economic development. The programme will cover topics such as Trade in Manufactures, Trade in Services, Regionalism, Trade and Food Policy, the links between Trade and Development as well as the links between Trade and Climate Change.

Participation in the entire programme may be accepted for credit at other universities (6 ECTS credits; or the U.S. equivalent). All participants will receive a course certificate.

Tuition for attending the full programme is CHF 3500 (approximately USD 3250 or EUR 2300). Participation for one week only costs CHF 2000 (approximately USD 1850 or EUR 1300). Tuition does not include travel costs, accommodation or other living expenses in Geneva.

Applications include:
an application form
2 references

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

April 1, 2010

Email: summertrade@graduateinstitute.ch

Visit the website at http://graduateinstitute.ch/summer

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CfP Journal: Art Historiography

Journal of Art Historiography

This journal will publish its first issue on 31st December 2009 and will appear every six months thereafter. It intends to offer a focus for the study of art historiography. Its mission statement reads:

This journal exists to support and promote the study of the history of art historical writing. Much of this practice has been shaped by traditions inaugurated by Giorgio Vasari, Winckelmann and German academics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Consequent to the expansion of universities, museums and galleries, the field has evolved to include areas outside of its traditional boundaries.

There is a double danger that contemporary scholarship will forget its earlier legacy and that it will neglect the urgency and rigour with which those early debates were conducted. The earlier legacy remains embedded in 'normal' practice. More recent art history also stands in need of its own scrutiny. The journal is committed to studying art historical scholarship, in its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods.

This journal will ignore the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression 'art history' and allow and encourage the full range of enquiry that encompassed the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics now falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It will welcome contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation.

Besides articles, it will accept notes, reviews, letters and translations. It will be published every June and December and include both peer-reviewed and commissioned contributions.

The Editor invites submissions from interested scholars.

Email: richard.woodfield@ntlworld.com

Visit the website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/

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Blog: VfP: Kultur - Wissen - Narration, 06/23-26/2010, Graz

Deadline: December 31, 2009

KULTUR -- WISSEN -- NARRATION.
PERSPEKTIVEN TRANSDISZIPLINÄRER ERZÄHLFORSCHUNG FÜR DIE KULTURWISSENSCHAFTEN
Internationale Jahrestagung des Zentrums für Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Graz
23. bis 26. Juni 2010 an der Universität Graz

Call for Papers
Der so genannte "narrativist turn" in den Humanwissenschaften initiierte eine kritische Reflexion der narrativen Konstitution von Kultur(en) und sensibilisierte für die performative und wirklichkeitsstrukturierende Funktion des Erzählens. Die Tagung nimmt die im Zuge dieser narrativen Wende erzielten Ergebnisse der Erzählforschung zum Ausgangspunkt einer kritischen Revision und kulturtheoretischen Weiterentwicklung narratologischer Ansätze.

Meta-Narratologien
Gegenstand dieser Sektion bilden die Wissenschaftsgeschichte(n) der Narratologie(n) und die diese strukturierenden Präsuppositionen und Implikationen im Sinne einer selbstreflexiven Auseinandersetzung mit der narratologischen Theoriebildung und ihrem Methodenrepertoire.

Narrative des Wissens
Im Zentrum dieser Sektion stehen Fragen nach den Formen, Verfahren und Funktionen des Erzählens in den Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften. Neben Positionen der kritischen Meta-Historiographie und der Meta-Ethnographie sollen im Rahmen dieser Sektion vor allem selbstreflexive Perspektiven der Naturwissenschaften auf die narrative Verfasstheit von Wissen präsentiert werden.

Kulturen des Erzählens
Diese Sektion widmet sich der Praxis des Erzählens in der Literatur und Kunst, der Alltags- und Populärkultur. Anhand der Untersuchung von Narrativen in ihrer spezifischen (inter)medialen Realisierung sollen Fragen nach der Bedeutung des Erzählens für die De-/Konstruktion von Kultur(en) und Identität(en) ausgelotet werden. Im Unterschied zu den vorherrschenden Tendenzen in der klassischen Erzählforschung soll der Fokus auf den Ambivalenzen und Kontingenzen als zentralen Aspekten von Erzählungen liegen. Dadurch soll eine kulturtheoretische Profilierung narratologischer Ansätze erfolgen, die es erlaubt, jene Aspekte des Erzählens in den Blick zu nehmen, die sich in erzähltheoretischen Ansätzen strukturalistischer Provenienz der Systematisierung und taxonomischen Klassifizierung entziehen.

Konferenzsprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
Eine Tagungspublikation ist vorgesehen.
Reisekostenzuschüsse können nach Maßgabe der vorhandenen Mittel gewährt werden.
Abstracts mit bis zu 300 Worten (eine Seite DIN-A 4) sowie eine Kurzvita senden Sie bitte bis spätestens 31. Dezember 2009 an:
alexandra.strohmaier@uni-graz.at
Eine Rückmeldung erfolgt bis zum 31. Januar 2010.
Kontakt:
Dr. Alexandra Strohmaier
Universität Graz
Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaften
Mozartgasse 3/OG
A-8010 Graz
tel. + 43 316 380 8090
www.kulturwissenschaften.at

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November 05, 2009

VfP: Kultur - Wissen - Narration, 06/23-26/2010, Graz

Deadline: December 31, 2009

Eine Rückmeldung erfolgt bis zum 31. Januar 2010.

Kontakt:
Dr. Alexandra Strohmaier
Universität Graz
Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaften
Mozartgasse 3/OG
A-8010 Graz
tel. + 43 316 380 8090
www.kulturwissenschaften.at

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Summer Study: International Affairs and Multilateral Governance, 06/07-25/2010, Switzerland

Deadline: April 1, 2010

Summer Programme on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance 2010

Switzerland

The Summer Programme on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance provides participants with a unique opportunity to learn and think about major current issues in world politics and the resulting challenges for multilateral governance. The programme makes participants experience the world of multilateralism through direct interaction with diplomats, negotiators and activists and through visits to some of the prominent international organizations located in Geneva.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Students at MA level or senior undergraduate level with an interest in international affairs
Young professionals keen to improve their knowledge on current major issues in multilateralism, governance and international affairs

DURATION
This is a 3-week course from June 7 to June 25, 2010. Participants may enroll for the whole programme or for one or two weeks only.

KEY ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The summer programme explores key issues in international affairs with a substantive focus on the three following concentrations:
Global Public Goods: Health and Environment (week 1)
Security, Human Rights and Humanitarian Actions (week 2)
Global Migration, Cooperation and Development (week 3)

Participation in at least two weeks of the programme may be accepted for credit at other universities (6-9 ECTS credits; or the U.S. equivalent credits). All participants receive a course certificate.

Tuition costs for attending the full 3 weeks is CHF 3800 (approximately US$ 3500 and EUR 2500). Participation on a weekly basis costs CHF 1500 (approximately US$ 1400 and EUR 1000) per week. Tuition costs do not include travel costs to Geneva, nor accommodation or other living expenses in Geneva.

Applications include:
application form
2 references

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

April 1, 2010

Email: summeraffairs@graduateinstitute.ch

Visit the website at http://graduateinstitute.ch/summer

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CfP: European integration and the Cold War, 1945-1989, 04/15-16/2010, UK

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 18, 2009

University of Reading, United Kingdom
April 15-16, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS
The complete devastation of the European continent following six years of total war precipitated the early cooperation efforts of the immediate post-1945 period. Emerging security concerns and the lingering German question gave birth to the nascent institutions of the now European Union. Thus, the foundations of European integration and the development of the Cold War were inextricably linked.
Despite this simple claim, academic research on the question of European integration and the Cold War has apparently been less dynamic. Indeed, both have been treated as somehow unconnected and separate.
Our interest in this call for papers lies in correcting this apparent lacuna. Central to this are key research questions: how the Cold War was a ‘bookend’ for European integration; in what ways can we address the development of ‘Europe’s Cold War’; how has the legacy of the Cold War impacted enlargement negotiations since 1989? In doing so, the conference seeks to touch upon the following themes:
the German question, Hallstein Doctrine and Ostpolitik;
foundations/work of NATO; EDC and WEU;
transatlantic relations, networks and exchanges;
transnational relations between state and non-state actors;
communism and anti-communism;
post-war reconstruction and decolonisation;
impact of key dates of the Cold War as ‘turning points’ in integration history;
intellectuals exchanges and history;
international economy;
information policies, propaganda and intelligence;
the end of the Cold War and impact on enlargement;
impact of Cold War on European politics and identity; and
Eastern/Central Europe and European integration pre-1989

We particularly encourage applications from postgraduates, post-doctoral and early career academics. Applications by way of a maximum 500 word paper proposal should be sent to either of the following email addresses: Matthew Broad at m.e.broad@reading.ac.uk or Christian Salm at christian.salm@port.ac.uk

We envisage the publication of a selection of fully revised papers from the conference. Please note that there is no fee for the conference; however we are unable to provide any help with expenses for speakers.

The deadline for paper proposals is Friday 18 December 2009.

Visit the website at http://www.heirs-eu.org/

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CfP: Engaging Students in the Global Century, 03/19/2010, NY

Deadline: January 15, 2010

Engaging Students in the Global Century
NY Institute of Technology

Call for Papers
The New York Institute of Technology announces its sixth interdisciplinary conference, “Engaging Students in the Global Century.” Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to interpret the theme broadly for this one-day conference at NYiT's Columbus Circle campus on Friday, March 19, 2010.

The conference, as in past years, will draw scholars from around the country and world for panel discussions, featured speakers, and lively conversation. Keynote speakers, such as author Mark Kurlansky, sociologist Saskia Sassen, and historians Marta Gutman and Kenneth T. Jackson, have added to the depth of past conferences.

Possible themes for papers:
· Strategies and experiences related to incorporating Web 2.0 technologies, including Wikis, social networking sites, blogs, and virtual reality platforms, into the undergraduate classroom
· New ideas in instructional design and teaching strategies for online learning
· Plans for developing and implementing successful undergraduate research programs, particularly in the humanities and arts
· Addressing students as global citizens and creating community across global campuses
· Problems and solutions connected to collaborative learning
· Critiques and questions related to new technologies, intergenerational dynamics, or ethical concerns involved with 21st-century teaching and learning.

Please send a 500-word abstract and C.V. to Jennifer Griffiths at jgriff02@nyit.edu by January 15, 2010.

Jennifer Griffiths
NYiT, Manhattan Campus
1855 Broadway
NY NY 10023
212-261-1580

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CfP: European clerics and vernacular culture in the long nineteenth century, 07/09-10/2010, Amsterdam

Deadline: January 7, 2010

European clerics and vernacular culture in the long nineteenth century
July 8-10, 2010
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

Call for Papers

From Herder onwards, clerics were among the leading collectors of vernacular culture, and major contributors to ethnography in Europe and beyond. A roll-call of clerical folklorists would include such luminaries as Percy (England), Moe (Norway), Feilberg (Denmark), Hurt (Estonia), Hammershaimb (Faroes), Rhesa (Lithuania), Komitas Vardapet (Armenia), Halbertsma (Friesland), Cadic (Brittany), Webster (Basque country), Alcover (Catalonia), Moses Gaster (Romania and Jewish folklore) ...

The aim of this workshop is to establish what these clerical collectors had in common intellectually and institutionally. To what extent did their position in their communities influence their collecting practice? How did folklore feed into their wider pastoral concerns? The workshop also aims to uncover the relationships between them and the wider community of language scholars, folklorists and activists. Yet we also want to know why more clerics were not involved in collecting. Was there a general reluctance on the part of the classically trained to engage with the culture of the uneducated, or was there a more specific rejection of the echoes of paganism and hedonism associated with popular culture?

The workshop will take place at the University of Amsterdam, 8-10 July 2010. Those who wish to participate should send a short proposal (c. 300 words) and a short personal statement with details of institutional attachment, publications and current research (c. 150 words) to Anne Hilde van Baal at A.H.M.vanBaal@uva.nl, before 7 January 2010.

dr. Anne Hilde van Baal
SPIN - Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms
Spuistraat 134, room 309
1012 VB Amsterdam
phone: +31 20 5252450
Email: info@spinnet.eu
Visit the website at http://www.spinnet.eu

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CfP: MADE IN SWITZERLAND MYTHS, FUNCTIONS, REALITIES, 10/14-15/2010, Neuchatel

Deadline: December 15, 2009

MADE IN SWITZERLAND MYTHS, FUNCTIONS, REALITIES
University of Geneva, University of Neuchâtel
October 14-15, 2010

Call for Papers

The label Made in Switzerland has been carrying multiple values for a long time. In international trade it is a brand for high quality, constructed on the basis of a tradition of technological know-how and merchant aplomb. In international relations Switzerland presents itself as a promoter of “good-offices” and humanitarian concerns and therefore illustrates an example of neutrality and diplomatic mediation. As a nation state, Switzerland, being one of the oldest democracies in the world, it represents the model of a “political nation”, that demonstrates cohesion and stability despite linguistic and religious differences. In all domains the label Made in Switzerland conveys a specific image, which – for some – illustrates a normative ideal, whereas – for others – it symbolized a nation where profits, interests, and personal networks define moral standards.

A thorough, polysemous appreciation of the label Made in Switzerland has, to our knowledge, never been carried out, even though it appears to be a key, constituent element of the image and the reality of Switzerland. By holding this conference we want to encourage researchers to redress this deficiency. Made in Switzerland can be analyzed as a dispositive within any historical research specialization, including political, economic, social, military, and cultural history. However, we propose to go beyond a simple listing of the constituent elements of the label, in order to investigate the conditions of its emergence and perpetuation, its practical functioning, and to assess the relationship between the label and historical reality. We suggest to approach “the making of Made in Switzerland” from the following three perspectives.

MADE IN SWITZERLAND: A REALITY? - The first axis of analysis adopts a vision of Made in Switzerland as a possible reality. In this approach the conceptual discussion of the phrase is secondary to the study of its factual appearances in the history of Switzerland and the world.

CONSTRUCTION AND DIFFUSION OF THE MYTH - Made in Switzerland is not a given: it is socially constructed and constantly redefined according to specific historical conditions that must be closely examined

FABULA FABER – The two poles of Made in Switzerland are not independent. They stand in a reciprocal causal relationship.

For more information, see the Call for Papers: http://www.rih-info.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=8

Abstracts of 250 words must be submitted before December 15th 2009. The conference will be held on October 14th – 15th 2010 in Neuchâtel. We particularly encourage PhD students and young researchers to submit proposals.

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CfP: Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences, 03/26/2010, Grand Rapids

Deadline: November 30, 2009

Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Call for Papers

Accepting panel & paper proposals on any topic in the social sciences. Special interest in interdisciplinary studies and in studies that discuss/employ humanities and/or natural sciences with social sciences.

Conference: March 26, 2010 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Abstracts due: November 30, 2009. Send abstract to masalabstract@alma.edu

Section Leader/Chair: Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Ph.D., Oakland University (Michigan) | 248 854 8340 | bennettc@oakland.edu

Email: masalabstract@alma.edu

Visit the website at http://www.alma.edu/repository/michiganacademy/Interdis_Studies_in_Social_Science_Call_10.pdf

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Award: Berks Article Prize

Deadline: January 15, 2010

2009 Berks Article Prize Announcement

The Berkshire Conference announces its Article Prize, which carries with it a $500 award to the author. The prize is for an article in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America, published during 2009. Articles need not focus on women's history, and many past winners have not.

Entries may be submitted either by an author or by the journal. Journals are limited to three nominations. The deadline for submitting entries is January 15, 2010. Please be sure to send three xerox copies (or offprints) of the article. Do not send the entire journal in which the article appears. Jointly published articles are acceptable, as are articles that have appeared in collections, but only if they were published for the first time in 2009. They must not be reprints of articles published in previous years. Journals should indicated in a cover letter that they are submitting articles for the prize competition, and include a contact phone number and e-mail address at the journal. Authors should include contact information in a cover letter.

Please send three copies of the article to:
Elsa Barkeley-Brown
2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

The 2009 award will be announced in Summer 2010, and in a full-page advertisement in Perspectives, the newsletter of the American Historical Association. For more information on the article prize please contact Professor Barkeley-Brown via email at barkleyb@umd.edu

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Berlin's Imagined Geographies, New Orleans (13.11.2009)

Deadline: November 13, 2009

Berlin's Imagined Geographies
ACLA New Orleans, LA
April 01-04, 2010

From the beginning of its belated and rapid modernization and through the convulsions of its twentieth-century history, Berlin has been constituted, perhaps more than any other European metropolis, by permutations of competing mental topographies. This seminar proposes to explore these imagined geographies from the nineteenth century to the present. It takes as its starting point the axiom that Berlin exists in a perpetual dynamic of self-reinvention, and it proposes a diachronic, intermedial exploration of the imaginative impulses that have driven, and the aesthetic responses that have followed, this process.

To that end, we invite contributions that together attempt to map a broad historical and thematic range of the city's imagined geographies. Areas of inquiry might include: migrants, travelers, and sojourners; cosmopolitanism; Berlin and German/European identity; memory and forgetting; nostalgia and melancholy; theorization of urban space; intermedial perspectives; gendered geographies; technologies of modernization and urban space; and so on.

The Seminar will take place at the American Comparative Literature Association's 2010 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, held on April 1-4, 2010 (Thursday evening through Sunday noon). The ACLA's conferences have a distinctive structure in which papers are grouped into seminars that meet for two hours per day for the three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. To submit a paper proposal (250 words), please go to the ACLA submission website: http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php

Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 13, 2009

For inquiries, please contact seminar organizers David Darby, U of Western Ontario ddarby@uwo.ca and Maria Mayr, U of Western Ontario mmayr@uwo.ca

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CfP: Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Transatlantic Perspective, 1830-1954, 06/1--13/2010, Belgium

Deadline: November 15, 2009

Tales of Transit:
Narrative Migrant Spaces in Transatlantic Perspective, 1830-1954
Felix Archive
Antwerp, Belgium
10-13 June, 2010

http://webs.hogent.be/talesoftransit/

Call for papers

The period between 1830 and 1940 witnessed the most dramatic population movement in recorded history. Motivated by economic, religious and political upheavals, millions of migrants left their familiar homes in search of a better life, whereby the Atlantic functioned as one of the central thoroughfares. Many of these travelers left testimonies of their journeys, whether in written or oral form. Traditionally such narratives have been approached within the framework of either the source or the receiving societies, and consequently most research energy has been invested in the ways migrants managed or failed to adapt to new conditions, how they reconciled the often conflicting impressions of the new culture with the one they were born into. Studies of this kind often start from a preset agenda regarding the nature or development of a specific culture. In reaction to such restricted national or subnational perspectives, recent approaches in migration research and literary and cultural studies address no longer just the starting or end points of migration movements but also the diverse trajectories before and after the journey, as well as the role of corporations and agencies involved in oceanic travel. The aim of Tales of Transit is to bring together these new insights and methodologies and confront them with the rich but underexplored archive of transatlantic migrant narratives.

Transit places - docks, hotels, railway coaches, inspection offices, dormitories, churches, ship's decks, etc. - normally figure only marginally in migrant narratives. They are mentioned in passing, as a prelude or even in counterpoint to the new life that waits after the journey. Precisely because of this, these peripatetic places (both in a literal and a figurative sense) can help us to challenge received notions about migration as a form of one-way traffic whereby supposedly nothing is lost or gained along the way, and to reconceptualize it as a multicausal process. In view of the opening of the Red Star Line/People on the Move museum in Antwerp, Tales of Transit takes the city as its starting point to rethink transatlantic migration. We encourage contributions offering comparative perspectives on migrants traveling through well-known as well as lesser known ports in Europe, Africa and
the Americas. The focus may be broadened to include mainland cities functioning as nodal points for migration flows or border crossing points on the frontier between states or regions. Overall, the stress lies on how such liminal spaces are narrated or visualized: How vital are these sites or loci for the narrative? Do they affirm or rather subvert the migrants' aspirations and hopes? Does the perspective shift in accordance with the medium or audience expectations and, if so, in what ways?

Paper proposals in English of no more 300 words can be submitted to michael.boyden@hogent.be or liselotte.vandenbussche@hogent.be
by November 15, 2009.
The academic committee will evaluate the abstracts and send out notifications of acceptance by the end of November.
Each participant will be given 20 minutes to present, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. A selection of papers will be published in the
conference proceedings.

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CfP: Interdisciplinarity, 03/26-27/2010, IL

Deadline: January 11, 2010
Interdisciplinarity at MCLLM
Northern Illinois University in DeKalb

Call for Papers

The 18th annual Midwest Conference on Language, Literature, and Media (MCLLM) will be held March 26-27, 2010 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

Keynote speaker: Dr. George Lakoff, University of California-Berkeley, author of Metaphors We Live By (1980), Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (1987), Philosophy In The Flesh: the Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (1999), The Political Mind : Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008).

This year’s theme is Interdisciplinarity. Inspired by the application of Dr. Lakoff’s theories across various disciplines, the organizers encourage research at the points of disciplinary intersection that are becoming increasingly important in academia and our world at large.

We invite proposals for fifteen minute papers from scholars at all stages of their careers. Topics related to this year’s theme may include, but are not limited to, writing across the curriculum, linguistics and literature, cross-cultural film studies, technical communication, cognitive research and application, the construction of gender and ethnicity, language policy, and theories of knowledge creation; however, MCLLM also welcomes papers on all areas of language, literature, and media studies.
Individual or panel (three to four people) proposals are welcome.

Deadline for submission: January 11, 2010.

Please include a cover page with your name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.

Accepted contributions will be notified via e-mail by January 22, 2010.

Please submit your 250 word abstract as an attachment to mcllm@niu.edu

Department of English
Northern Illinois University
http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm/

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CfP: The Bible in the Iberian World

Deadline: July 25, 2010

The Bible in the Iberian World: Fundamentals of a Religious Melting Pot
Tartu, Estonia

Call for Papers

That the Iberian Peninsula represents a fundamental hub between Christianity, Judaism and Islam is common knowledge. However, theologians and historians have been studying these phenomena as isolated events and not as part of a much larger Iberian world characteristic, one that should be understood in terms of the broader Western thought.

This sessions’ goal, though experimental, is to provide a space of discussion for those of us who work with biblical themes in the context of the Iberian world, including not only the peninsular space, but also its colonial spaces, e.g., American, African and Asian places where Portuguese and Spaniards played an influential role starting in the Early Modern period. Moreover, the subjects to discuss are not limited nor to a particular time frame nor to a specific chronological period for this first phase.

Our initial objectives are to underline the importance of the Iberian world as a space of communication, or not, between the different religions of the Bible, of biblical interpretation, and how the Iberian world was prone to be influenced by the Bible.

For this year’s session, we would like to gather scholars with different backgrounds in order to enlighten the Iberian world’s biblical understanding and experience. Therefore, it is our goal to join in this session papers that deal not only with the interpretation of the sacred texts within the Iberian space, but also with how these peoples have lived their religiosity not just in the Iberian Peninsula but also in the colonies.

Maria Ana T. Valdez (Yale University)
Ricardo Muñoz Solla (Salamanca University)
Email: ana.valdez@yale.edu

Visit the website at http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=16&VolunteerUnitId=513

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CfP: The state of History, 07/05-09/2010, Perth

Deadline: March 31, 2010

Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference,
Perth, Western Australia
5-9 July 2010

Call for Papers

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, artifact or place as an historical document.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2010

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.

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

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CfP: Immigration and National Identity in British History, 01/18/2010, Oxford

Deadline: November 16, 2009

Immigration and National Identity in British History-Europe, Empire and Commonwealth
St. Antony's College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers

A Workshop sponsored by Hokkaido University in Japan will be held on 18th January 2010 at St Antony’s College, Universiy of Oxford.. Professor Wendey Webster (University of Central Lancashire), Professor Johannes-Dieter Steinert (University of Wolverhampton), Dr. Kathy Burrell will make a speech at this workshop.

Any paper which is related to immigration to Britain or British identity will be welcomed. The speakers are expected to pay their own cost of lunch. The workshop will open at 10:00 am and close at 17:00. Please send the abstract (about 200 words) and title of the presentation to hiromi.mizokami@sant.ox.ac.uk by 16th November 2009. You will get the result of review process on 30th November 2009.

British identity seems somewhat strange and elusive. What is “Britishness”? Can “Britishness” includes all identities of people living inside-, not only identities of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh, but ones of other people who have British nationality, Caribbean, Chinese and Indian etc. or is it something different from a simple mixture of these various identities? One of the reasons why the British identity is so elusive can be attributed to its history. The problem of how a country has dealt with immigration is one of useful indicators of how its national identity has been constructed or changed, because we can know who we are only by recognizing who we are not, and Britain is not the exception. Even considering the period since 20th century when the national identity had more significant meaning than before, the legal change on British nationality and immigration law shows how drastically the boundary of belonging to Britain has been fluctuated according to the change occurred within a century. It would be needless to say the British affiliation with EC and the enlargement of EU towards Eastern Europe also blurred the boundary of Britain.

This workshop will aim to consider the historical relationship between immigration to Britain and the national identity in Britain. While, as some studies point out, the problem of “race” which closely connected with imperial past, has some significant meaning in defining “Britishness”, particularly in postwar era, other historical factors, for example, the change in relation with Europe, also contributed to construct British identity. Taking an example of Britain, this workshop will consider how the historical context affects national identity of the time and the way immigrants, or aliens were treated.

Organizer: Hiromi Mizokami, a fellow of International Training Program for Young Scholars (The Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan), St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford

Hiromi Mizokami
St. Antony's College
62 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6JF
Email: hiromi.mizokami@sant.ox.ac.uk

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CfP: private support of the arts and culture

Deadline: November 30, 2009

Colloqium on public and private support of the arts and culture
Belgium

Call for Papers

An international master class organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Doctoral school of Human Sciences and CEMESO) addresses the research on public & private support of the arts/ culture in a variety of academic disciplines. PhD-students are invited to present their research. Prof. Dr. V. Kirchberg will be keynote lecturer and give feedback.

Important dates
30/11/09 deadline abstract
18/12/09 notification of acceptance
08/02/10 deadline paper / poster
08/02/10 deadline registration audience
25/02/10 master class

Please note that all participants should arrange their own transport and stay. They should pay a fee of €25 and register by http://rd-ir.vub.ac.be/en_GB/events. (also for more information).

Lien De Cang
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Communicational Sciences
Pleinlaan, 2
1050 Brussels
Email: ldecang@vub.ac.be
Visit the website at http://www.vub.ac.be/SCOM/cemeso

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CfP Journal: Global Studies Journal

global-e: Global Studies Journal

global-e: Global Studies Journal, welcomes submissions by scholars and practitioners in the field of global studies. We are soliciting essays of approximately 800-1000 words, the standard length for opinion pieces in most newspapers, magazines, and journals. Our aim is to provoke discussion and to provide commentators the opportunity to circulate their ideas in a new format.

Commentaries should focus on public issues, theoretical debates, methodological challenges, and curricular concerns in the field of global studies. Interested authors are welcome to email the global-e editors an inquiry or directly submit an essay for consideration.

All submissions will be reviewed for possible publication by the global-e editorial staff.

Email us at global.e.journal@gmail.com if you wish to submit an essay or make an enquiry.

Steve Witt
Associate Director
Center for Global Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
910 S. 5th, Room 303
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
Visit the website at http://global-ejournal.org/about/

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Job: Spanish, OH

Deadline: November 30, 2009
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Denison University, Ohio

The Department of Modern Languages at Denison University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective Fall 2010.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Transatlantic Studies with an emphasis on Colonial encounters, slavery, and the past. Commitment to teaching at the undergraduate level. Evidence of effective teaching required. Record or demonstrated potential for excellence in research and scholarly publication. Native or near-native fluency in Spanish and English.

Preference will be given to candidates who: a) have two or more years of teaching experience; b) can teach Spanish ; c) have historical and comparative approach.

Responsibilities: 3-2 teaching load; active research program resulting in scholarly publications; assisting in coordination of Spanish language courses, participation in departmental, university and community affairs (more information at http://www.denison.edu/offices/humanresources/employment_opportunities.html

To be assured full consideration, please apply at Denison’s web site https://employment.denison.edu by November 30, 2009. Position open until filled.

Denison is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.

Contact Info:

Website: http://www.denison.edu

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Fellowship: Center for Humanistic Inquiry, GA

Deadline: February 18, 2010

Junior/Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Emory University, Georgia

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University is accepting applications for three Junior/Post-Doctoral fellowships for an academic of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. The FCHI Fellows Program offers research opportunities to those trained in the humanities as traditionally defined and to others seriously interested in humanistic issues; research projects must be humanistic, but fellows may hold the Ph.D. in any discipline. We especially seek applicants and projects that will benefit from and contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the group of Fellows and the work of the FCHI.

Junior Fellows are scholars who, at the beginning of the fellowship year, will be at least three years beyond receipt of the Ph.D., and normally no more than ten (i.e., who received their Ph.D.s before Fall 2007). Post-Doctoral Fellows, who must have the Ph.D. in hand before submission of their applications, are awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than three years before application for the fellowships (the Ph.D. awarded between Fall 2007 and Fall 2009).

Besides being an active member of the Center’s intellectual agenda through the academic year, Fellows will be expected to offer an upper-level interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar on a subject of their choice during the spring of the fellowship year. Stipends of $40,000 will be offered to Junior and Post-Doctoral Fellows, along with a research budget of $2,000, shared office space in the Center, and library access. The deadline for submission of completed applications is February 18, 2010; awards will be announced in mid-April 2010.

Application forms and further information are available from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at 404-727-6424 or fchi@emory.edu, on the web at www.chi.emory.edu
or write to: FCHI, Emory University, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322.

Contact Info:

Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Emory University
1635 North Decatur Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: 404-727-6424
Fax: 404-727-1669

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Job: German History, DC

Deadline: November 30, 2009

Georgetown University - Associate Professor of Modern German History
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History
Washington, DC

The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University seeks to fill a tenure-line position in modern German history with an emphasis on the twentieth century. The search committee welcomes applications from candidates who are tenured, or tenurable, at the rank of Associate Professor. The appointment, which begins August 2010, is to the core faculty of the BMW Center for German and European Studies in SFS, with a joint appointment in the Department of History. The BMW Center fosters interdisciplinary scholarship in history, political science, economics, and cultural studies and is home to a distinguished master’s degree program. The Department of History offers two innovative master’s degrees as well as the Ph.D.

Candidates for the position should hold a Ph.D. in History and should have a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching. Additional research interests in European and comparative history are desirable. Teaching load is two courses per semester at the undergraduate and graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) levels.

Further information about SFS may be found at http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs

For information on the BMW Center and the Department of History, please visit www.cges.georgetown.edu and www.history.georgetown.edu

Candidates should provide a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of at least three scholarly references.

Applications for this position must be made via Georgetown’s online application management system at https://georgetownsfs.ats.profilestm.com

Faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Review of applications will begin November 30 and will continue until the position is filled.

Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

Queries about the position should be directed to Dr. Peter Dunkley, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, at dunkleyp@georgetown.edu

Contact Info:

Dr. Peter Dunkley, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
P.O. Box 571035
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1035
Website: http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs

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Job: Modern European History, TN

Deadline: December 1, 2009
Tennessee Technological University

Assistant Professor, Modern (post 1648) European History (excluding Britain and Russia)

PhD required by August 2010.

Must teach upper-division European history courses, and World or European survey or other general education humanities courses. Preference to applicants who otherwise best augment existing departmental specialties.

Submit a letter of application, a completed TTU faculty application form, a complete c.v., a copy of graduate transcripts, and three letters of reference.

Screening begins December 2009, position open until filled. AA/EEO

Contact Info:
Dr. Jeff Roberts
Box 5064, Department of History
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville TN 38505
Phone: 931-372-3365
Email: jjroberts@tntech.edu
Website: http://www.tntech.edu/hr/employment/jobs.html

Posted by agripley at 09:58 AM

Job: Economics, Italy

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 20, 2009
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow Positions in Economics

IMT seeks for highly qualified candidates in the following fields: Applied Economics, Applied Public Economics, International Economics, International Trade, Industrial Organization, Political Economy, Law and Economics, Health Economics, are invited to apply for Faculty Positions at the Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow level. Preference will be given to candidates oriented towards applied research and with a high degree of proficiency in the use of mathematical and statistical methods.

Preference will be given to candidates who have completed or are near completion of their Ph.D. degree, or candidates with experience in formal instruction at the graduate-level.

Assistant Professors and Post-Doctoral Fellows are usually appointed for a fixed term from one year up to three years. All contracts may be renewed once, for up to six years. Assistant Professors differ from Post-doctoral Fellows on the basis of experience, scientific curriculum and compensation. The remuneration package is competitive at the international level and includes generous research funds. Additional benefits may be negotiated with selected applicants.

IMT Assistant Professors and Post-Doctoral Fellows work closely with other young researchers, graduate students and senior researchers, and have a limited teaching load in the School graduate programs. The appointed persons are expected to conduct major research projects and publish in international journals.

Candidates may apply by simply filling out an online application form, available on IMT website, and uploading relevant additional documents, such as the CV and relevant publications in PDF format. In addition, IMT requires reference letters for each candidate.

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Contact Info:
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
e-mail. researchers.opening@imtlucca.it
Website: http://www.imtlucca.it/

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Job:History, VA

Deadline: January 2, 2010

Regent University - Full Time Tenure Track History Professor Position

The Department of Government, History and Criminal Justice in Regent University’s School of Undergraduate Studies is seeking candidates for a full-time, tenure-track position in History. Rank and specialty are open; the major is a new and growing major with offerings in American, European, and world history.

Minimum requirements for the faculty position include an earned Ph.D. in History, teaching experience, and a commitment to Christ-centered teaching and learning. The university seeks candidates who demonstrate strong commitment to excellence both in undergraduate teaching and in scholarship. Preferred: skill in curriculum design and facility with online instructional technology. Appointment will begin July 2010. Applications accepted until January 2, 2010.

Regent University does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, race, sex, color, or national or ethnic origin.

Applicants must subscribe to a statement of Christian faith. Candidates should visit: http://www.regent.edu/jobs_faculty to complete the online application.

Please forward a cover letter and current vita to:

Regent University
Donna Curtis, Faculty Recruitment Coordinator
1000 University Drive, RH 460
Virginia Beach, VA 23464-9800
Email: dcurtis@regent.edu
Website: http://www.regent.edu

Posted by agripley at 09:47 AM

Job: Honors Director, MD

Deadline: December 11, 2009

Honors Director, concurrent faculty and staff position
Helen P. Denit Honors Program, Office of the Provost
University of Baltimore

Main Category: World History
Secondary Categories: U.S. History
Psychology
Political Science/International Relations
Healthcare Management
Composition
Communication/Mass Communication

Regular exempt position with full benefits package
Full-time, 12-month, Concurrent Faculty and Staff Position; Expected July 1, 2010 Start Date
Resumes must be received by 12/11/09; Resume Review Begins 10/29/2009
Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications

The University of Baltimore welcomes applications for the position of Director of the Helen P. Denit Honors Program. The Director of the Honors Program holds concurrent appointments as a member of the faculty and as a member of the provost’s staff. The Director is expected to teach regularly in the Honors Program and to be its principal administrator. Responsibilities include scheduling Honors courses; recruiting, advising and tracking Honors students; working with other faculty who teach Honors courses or direct Honors projects; developing and coordinating cultural and social activities for Honors students; and administering an Honors scholarship fund.

The University of Baltimore’s Helen P. Denit Honors Program is dedicated to the academic and personal enrichment of its students, and its director will be responsible for expanding and enhancing existing operations in a collaborative environment and representing the Honors Program effectively to students, faculty, staff and the public.

The successful candidate must have teaching and administrative experience in a college or university setting and preferably demonstrated success in leading an Honors program or similar program promoting academic excellence. Appointment with tenure in possible; faculty rank and tenure status are negotiable, with options depending upon academic qualifications and experience.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Excellent communication skills, a terminal degree in a subject area in which courses are offered at UB, and at least three years of undergraduate teaching experience at a college or university are required. Priority will be given to candidates with two or more years of experience administering a college or university honors program (or a similar college program guiding exceptional undergraduate research and creative activities) and a record of excellence in teaching and mentoring students.

TO APPLY: Include your Vacancy Number 2010-022HNET on all correspondence and in your e-mail subject line. Submit resume and cover letter to hrresume@ubalt.edu
or mail to:
Human Resources
VA 2010-022HNET
University of Baltimore
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

UB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA Compliant Employer & Title IX Institution.

Web: http://www.ubalt.edu/hr

Posted by agripley at 09:39 AM

Job: Sociology, Canada

Deadline: November 20, 2009

St. Thomas University - Tenure-Track Position in Sociology

New Brunswick, Canada

The Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University, invites applications for an entry-level, tenure-track appointment, at the rank of assistant professor, to begin July 1, 2010 pending budgetary approval.

The successful candidate must have expertise in sociological theory and inequality in society and will be expected to teach Classical Theory, Modern Theory and a full-year course in Inequality in Society. Other areas of research and teaching interests are open.

A PhD or imminent completion is required. Applicants are to submit a curriculum vitae, samples of scholarly work, evidence of teaching effectiveness (teaching portfolio preferred), and arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to Dr. Sylvia Hale, Chair, Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University, Fredericton NB E3B 5G3.

Closing date: November 20, 2009, or when position is filled. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that their files, including letters of reference, are complete by this date.

Contact Info:

Dr. Sylvia Hale
Chair, Department of Sociolog
St. Thomas University
Fredericton NB E3B 5G3
Website: http://www.stu.ca

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Posted by agripley at 09:36 AM

November 03, 2009

Job: member sociology, cultural anthropology, WA

Deadline: January 20, 2010

Evergreen State College
A half-time faculty member sociology, cultural anthropology or a related field and strong interdisciplinary experience

Olympia, Washington

The Evergreen State College seeks a half-time faculty member with an academic background in sociology, cultural anthropology or a related field and strong interdisciplinary experience. We are interested in engaged social science particularly in relation to addressing contemporary challenges to social and environmental well-being at the community as well as global levels. Preference will be given to candidates who have a secondary specialization that can be illuminated through the disciplinary lenses of the social sciences.

This half-time position involves planning and team-teaching eight-credit interdisciplinary programs in our evening and weekend curriculum(www.evergreen.edu/ews). Excellent oral and interpersonal communication skills are required. In addition to enthusiasm for teaching, the candidate must have a willingness to collaborate with other faculty across a wide spectrum of disciplines in engaging, interdisciplinary programs. There is excellent potential for collaborative projects with faculty in the areas of humanities (art history, literature, theater and film, and writing), sciences (computer studies, ecology, and mathematics), and social sciences (business management, labor studies, and psychology) as well as the cross-over areas of public health and sustainability studies. Participation in the Evening and Weekend Studies Curriculum Planning Unit and other college-wide governance is required. The position will not convert to full-time status.

This is a half-time, Regular Faculty position, eligible for continuing appointment after two, three-year renewable contracts. All requirements for this position must be completed by the end of academic year 2009-10. Review of complete applications begins January 20, 2010 and will continue until finalists are selected.

Review our website for the complete job announcement and application process.

Contact Info:

The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Lib 2002
Olympia, WA 98505

Attn: Faculty Hiring
Email: facultyhiring@evergreen.edu
Phone: (360) 867-6861
Fax (360) 867-6794
Website: http://www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring

Posted by agripley at 04:09 PM

Job: Center for 21st Century Studies, WI

Center for 21st Century Studies - Editor

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,

The Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s interdisciplinary humanities research center, seeks an Editor (Assistant Director) who will write articles and coordinate, create and/or produce all Center publications. The Editor will manage, coordinate, and maintain development, outreach, and promotional activities for the Center. S/he will also provide curricular and research support for faculty, fellows, and graduate students. The Editor will maintain the Center website and manage, advise, and support the Center on all technical issues and activities.

A Masters Degree in the humanities, arts, social sciences, or related area, an understanding of research and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, two years minimum experience with publishing, excellent writing skills, and appropriate web experience required; experience as a publications editor, the ability to communicate and cooperate with authors, colleagues, faculty, students, and the public, as well as advancement, development, and/or grant writing background preferred. Must apply by November 13, 2009; for details and application procedures, see www.jobs.uwm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51084

Contact Info:

Kate Kramer
Center for 21st Century Studies
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
kkramer@uwm.edu
Website: http://www4.uwm.edu/21st/index.html

Posted by agripley at 04:07 PM

Job: Comparative Politics, AZ

Deadline: December 15, 2009
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics

Arizona State University

The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University seeks an assistant professor in comparative politics. Duties involve teaching at the undergraduate/graduate levels, engaging in scholarly activity, and providing service to school, community, and profession.

Required: Ph.D. in Political Science or related field by August 2010; evidence of successful teaching and research; expertise in any geographic region other than the Americas.

Send a letter of application, statements describing your research program and teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, two pieces of scholarship, and three letters of reference electronically to Jamie.Howell@asu.edu

Application deadline is December 15, 2009; if not filled, every other Monday thereafter until the search is closed.

Arizona State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that actively seeks diversity among applicants and promotes a diverse work force.

Contact Info:

Website: http://newcollege.asu.edu/jobs/

Posted by agripley at 02:59 PM

Job: Policy and Political History, MA

Deadline: December 1, 2009

Harvard Kennedy School - Tenure Track

Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government invites applications and nominations for a scholar whose research focuses on institutions, governance, or policy processes, especially in Europe, Latin America, or South Asia. Candidates whose work is comparative are particularly encouraged to apply, although we welcome applications from scholars whose research examines one nation or society but has significant comparative implications. We anticipate that the person appointed will be trained in political science, history, or sociology. This is a full time, multi-year appointment with the possibility of renewal or tenure that may be made at the level of assistant or untenured associate professor.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in hand by August 2010. Qualified women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, three letters of reference, and an article or chapter-length sample of writing to Professor Archon Fung, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 02138, by December 1, 2009.

Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

Contact Info:

Professor Archon Fung
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu

Posted by agripley at 02:58 PM

Job: Medieval and/or Renaissance Studies, NY

Deadline: December 1, 2009

ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN MEDIEVAL AND/OR RENAISSANCE STUDIES

The Gallatin School of Individualized Study
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University invites applications from scholars who focus on Medieval and/or Renaissance Studies, or Early Modern Studies, for the position of Assistant or beginning Associate Professor to commence on September 1, 2010. Candidates’ research may focus in either Medieval or Renaissance fields or both. We welcome applications from scholars in the many academic fields that make up these interdisciplinary specialties: History, Political Theory, Philosophy, Literature, History of Religion, and Intellectual History. We have special interest in European culture in the broad period from the early middle ages through the end of Early Modern Period and in its relation to Mediterranean Studies, to the Islamic World, to Africa, to Byzantine Culture, or to the native cultures of the Americas (scholars of first and early contact), and in scholars whose areas of teaching and research include the discourses of race and civilization forged in response to travel, colonization, and cultural contact. The ideal candidate will focus, as part of his or her research and teaching interests, on one or some of the major texts from the period—including primary texts in philosophy, literature, and politics—and be committed to teaching them in an undergraduate setting. The ideal candidate will also have a deep interest in interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, and in working closely with students in an individualized program.

Qualifications: PhD; a strong record of research and writing; demonstrated excellence in college-level teaching.

Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a writing sample (of up to 30 pages), three letters of recommendation, a statement of your teaching philosophy, and a brief description of three dream courses to: Liz Greene, Director of Human Resources, the Gallatin School, New York University, 715 Broadway, 8th floor, New York, NY 10003 or email to hr.gallatin@nyu.edu

The deadline to submit is December 1, 2009 (postmarked).

NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Contact Info:
Liz Greene, Director of Human Resources
the Gallatin School, New York University,
715 Broadway, 8th Floor,
New York, NY 10003

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Posted by agripley at 02:04 PM

October 30, 2009

Job: World History, 500-1650, NY

Deadline: December 15, 2009

Assistant Professor, World History, 500-1650
John jay College of criminal Justice/CUNY

The History Department of The John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in any subfield between 500 and 1650 for our new Global History major. Demonstrated scholarly achievement and excellence in teaching required. The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory in Global history as well as advanced courses and seminars based in her own interests and expertise. We are looking for a teacher with a clear commitment to diverse learners in an urban, public institution. Preliminary interviews will be held at the AHA meeting.
Located steps from Lincoln Center at the cultural heart of New York City, John Jay College, a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees and participates in the doctoral programs of the Graduate School of CUNY. The College is the largest Hispanic serving four-year college in the northeastern United States. Under the leadership of its fourth president, Jeremy Travis, the College is undergoing a transformation that includes unprecedented faculty hiring, new undergraduate majors and master’s programs, and a new 600,000 square foot building ready for occupancy in 2011. With so many changes underway, the college offers to its many new faculty the unusual opportunity to shape the future of their institution. Candidates are expected to bring enthusiasm and demonstrated commitment to teaching and to develop and maintain and active research and publication agenda.

PhD required for appointment to professorial title of Assistant Professor. Degree must be completed by Summer 2010.

To apply, please send a letter of application, c.v., dissertation chapter or scholarly article, 3 sample syllabi (at least one of a world history survey course); three letters of recommendation, and a teaching portfolio or substantial record of pedagogical excellence by 12/15/09 to:

Allison Kavey
Chair, History Departmen
445 W 59th St
New York, NY 10019
212 237-8827
akavey@jjay.cuny.edu

Posted by agripley at 02:46 PM

Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor, Modern European History

Deadline: February 12, 2010

Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor, Modern European History
Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania

Modern European. The Department of History at Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for a one-year position at the Visiting Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall 2010. The successful candidate will teach Nineteenth-Century Europe, Twentieth-Century Europe, and upper-level courses. Teaching load is 3/2. Ph.D. in hand; teaching experience required.

Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, teaching and research statements, and teaching evaluation forms to Maria Mitchell, Chair, Department of History, Franklin & Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003.

We will not accept application materials electronically.

Deadline for applications is February 12, 2010.

Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism.

EOE

Contact Info:

Dr. Maria Mitchell
Department of History
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
phone: 717-291-4241; fax: 717-358-4518
Website: http://www.fandm.edu/history.xml

Posted by agripley at 02:45 PM

Job: Early Modern Europe, MD

Deadline: December 1, 2009

Johns Hopkins University

Maryland
EARLY MODERN EUROPE, EXCLUDING BRITAIN

The Johns Hopkins University History Department seeks outstanding applicants for TWO positions in early modern European history, RANK OPEN, for appointment beginning July 1, 2010.

One position will be in early modern France, and one for a scholar of Europe and the wider world.

Please apply by sending a statement of research and teaching interests, a CV, and three reference letters to Chair, Early Modern European Search, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Dell House, 2850 N.Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.

Johns Hopkins is an AA/EOE and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates, including women and underrepresented minorities.

The deadline for receipt of applications is December 1, 2009.

Contact Info:

Chair, Early Modern European Search, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Dell House, 2850 N.Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Posted by agripley at 02:39 PM

Job: Cultural Anthropology, ME

College of the Atlantic - Cultural Anthropology Faculty
College of the Atalantic, Maine

College of the Atlantic seeks a full-time faculty member in Cultural Anthropology to teach a wide range of classes in anthropology and who is also able to teach courses in social theory. The area of geographic specialization is open. Courses are especially needed in: ethnography; research design and methods; social theory; and race/class/gender. The faculty seek a colleague who will help undergraduates understand and learn from the diversity of human cultures, and who can collaborate with other faculty to enhance the College’s curriculum in Human Ecology. The successful candidate will have a track record of teaching excellence, ethnographic fieldwork experience and the ability to train students in ethnography and a wide range of other research methods. Preference will be given to broadly trained candidates that have an interdisciplinary background or intellectual interests that require an understanding of multiple fields of study. Ph.D. in Anthropology or related field required.

Applicants should go to www.coa.edu/employment for a more detailed job description and instructions.

College of the Atlantic (COA) is a small, accredited, private college offering the B.A. and M.Phil. in Human Ecology. Faculty organization is non-departmental, and the college has a system of democratic self-governance. The College’s innovative curriculum includes: self-directed, interdisciplinary study; team teaching; involvement of undergraduates in research; and a commitment to prepare students to address social, political and environmental problems.

Applicants are encouraged to learn more about COA by visiting our web page, http://www.coa.edu

Send a cover letter, a statement of teaching philosophy, C.V., and the names and contact information for three professional references to: Cultural Anthropology, Attn: Barbara Carter (Search Coordinator), College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, ME 04609. Review of applications will begin December 4th, 2009, and continue until the position is filled.

Contact Info:
Barbara Carter, Search Coordinator
College of the Atlantic
105 Eden St.
Bar Harbor, ME 04609

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Posted by agripley at 02:37 PM

Job: Anthropology or History, UAE

Deadline: November 1, 2009
United Arab Emirates

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor - Anthropology or History
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Campus
United Arab Emirates

Zayed University, a premier university in the United Arab Emirates, is an innovative institution based on an international model of higher education. Over 700 faculty and staff serving 4,750 students across two main campuses - as well as satellite locations - in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the University prepares graduates to become leaders in government, business, civil society, and family life. The University expects its graduates to be fully bilingual in English and Arabic, proficient in the use of computing technology, and strong in quantitative and research skills. The language of business and instruction at the University is English.

Zayed University is fully accredited in the U.A.E. as well as by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in the U.S.A.

The United Arab Emirates is a progressive country known for its high standard of living and its safe and family-friendly environment.

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is a multidisciplinary department offering a degree in International Studies, with specializations in International Affairs and Culture and Society. It also offers a Minor in Literature.

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences on the Abu Dhabi campus invites applications for a full-time position in its International Studies program. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Anthropology or History and be able to teach interdisciplinary courses on political economy, intellectual history, and/or popular culture. Evidence of teaching ability and experience is important, including potential to supervise Capstone thesis projects. The teaching load will also include one or more courses in the Colloquy on Integrated Learning, the University's core curriculum.

A Ph.D. from a recognized university, evidence of effective teaching, willingness and commitment to teaching courses with common syllabi and learning outcomes in addition to delivering majors courses.

The University's benefits package is highly attractive, with competitive salaries free of tax in the United Arab Emirates, housing, a furniture allowance, annual vacation airline tickets for the employee and immediate family, educational subsidies for children and subsidized healthcare for the employee.

Please visit our Web site www.zu.ac.ae.

In addition to completing the online application form, attach a cover letter and a current CV, the names and contact details of three referees, a statement of undergraduate teaching philosophy, and a statement of scholarly and creative interests, particularly as they might apply to the Middle East, and as to how they might involve undergraduate students. If possible, also include student or departmental teaching evaluations. The review of applications will begin November 1, 2009 for placements in January or August 2010.

Contact Info:

Anushka Gehi
Recruitment & OD Officer
Zayed University
Dubai - UAE

Posted by agripley at 02:28 PM

CfP Yearbook : Kindertransport to Britain

Deadline: March 1, 2010
Call for Papers

The Kindertransport to Britain: New Developments in Research
edited by Andrea Hammel and Bea Lewkowicz

Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, volume 13

The Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies invites contributions to Volume 13 of the Yearbook, which is to appear in 2011.

The arrival and settlement of 10,000 unaccompanied children in Britain, today known as the Kindertransport, is one of the most eagerly debated events in the history of the emigration of refugees from National Socialism to Britain. Seventy years after the event, new resources for research have become available and there is widespread media and public interest in the Kindertransport itself and in the lives of the children who came to the UK with the Kindertransport. This volume of the Yearbook aims to present the more recent approaches to the study of the Kindertransport and will place them within a wider research context.

We would welcome proposals addressing the following topics:
The Kindertransport in British historiography
The Kindertransport in the media
The Kindertransport and family relations
The Kindertransport and the second generation
Careers and professions of former Kindertransportees
The Kindertransport and experiences of domestic work
The Kindertransport and the schooling of refugees
The Kindertransport and religion
The Kindertransport and experiences of abuse and neglect
The Kindertransport Reunion movement
The Kindertransport and oral history interviews and their use within the field
Autobiographical narratives by former Kindertransport members
Life history research of former Kindertransport members
Comparative research with other groups of child refugees/evacuees and migrants

If you wish to offer a contribution to this volume, please send a synopsis of around 300 words to Dr Andrea Hammel a.hammel@sussex.ac.uk
by email by 1 March 2010. If accepted, your paper will have to be submitted for peer review by 1 September 2010.

Jane Lewin
University of London School of Advanced Study
jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Posted by agripley at 02:27 PM

Prize: SCHMITT PRIZE IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Deadline: December 31, 2009

ISIH Charles Schmitt Prize Prize

ISIH CHARLES SCHMITT PRIZE IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor, the Istanbul Bilgi University, and Routledge, the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of the late Charles Schmitt to intellectual history. The prize is £500, £50 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s membership of ISIH with a subscription to Intellectual History Review. The paper awarded the prize will be published in Intellectual History Review.

Submissions will be accepted in any area of intellectual history, broadly construed, 1500 to the present, including the historiography of intellectual history. Because it is a condition of the award that the paper awarded the prize will be published in IHR submissions should not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. Eligibility is restricted to graduate students and those who have submitted their PhD within two years of the closing date of the prize.

The paper should be forwarded as an email attachment to: stephen.gaukroger@usyd.edu.au and to s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk

The email itself should state that the paper is being entered for the prize, and should confirm eligibility at the time of submission, as well as the availability of the paper for publication. The closing date for the prize is 31 December 2009, and the announcement of the award will be made in early 2010.

Stephen Clucas
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Phone: 020 7631 6075
Fax: 020 7631 6072

Posted by agripley at 02:26 PM

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Deadline: November 1, 2009

Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Opportunities for Scholars 2010-2011

The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Scholars from around the world come to the Institute to pursue their own research. Those chosen are offered membership for a set period and a stipend. The Institute provides access
to extensive resources including offices, libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some secretarial services.

Open to all fields of historical research, the School of Historical Studies' principal interests are the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, the history of art, the history of science, philosophy, modern international relations, and music studies.

Candidates of any nationality may apply for a single term or a full academic year. Residence in Princeton during term time is required. The only other obligation of Members is to pursue their own research. Ph.D. (or equivalent) and substantial publications are required.
Information and application forms may be found on the School's web site, www.hs.ias.edu

For more information, contact:

School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,

Einstein Dr., Princeton, N.J. 08540
E-mail address: mzelazny@ias.edu

Deadline: November 1 2009.

Posted by agripley at 02:23 PM

Job: Marketing and Sales, focus Eastern Europe, Germany

Deadline: November 4, 2009

Heilbronn University, an institution of higher education of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, seeks applicants to fill the position of Professor of Marketing and Sales, focus Eastern Europe.

The department of International Business started in 2007 an additional, fully funded bachelor program, focusing on business and intercultural issues in Eastern Europe
(www.hs-heilbronn.de/studiengaenge/ibo).

Applicants should have an academic background in Business Administration, scientific credentials (preferably PhD) and a minimum of 5 years of professional activity outside of academic institutions.

Candidates need to have experience of Marketing and/or Sales in Eastern European markets. Applicants should demonstrate excellence in teaching core and elective courses in International Marketing at the undergraduate and graduate level. They also should have a proven track record of research.. The language of instruction is predominantly English, but good German is also required. The teaching load consists of 16 weekly hours per semester plus supervision of theses; an equitable participation in research activities and administrative tasks is expected.

The position is a full professorship, tenured after three years of probation if the applicant is not older than 50 years at the start of employment, and paid according to the W2-scale. Ideally, work in Heilbronn should start March 1, 2010.

Those interested in applying for this faculty position (ref. 058-p-ibo) should send (1) a letter indicating their interest, (2) a current resume including job references, (3) a publication list, and (4) teaching evaluations by e-mail to rektorat@hs-heilbronn.de
or by mail to Hochschule Heilbronn, Rektorat, Max-Planck-Str. 39, D-74081 Heilbronn/Germany.

Applications close November 4, 2009.

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Posted by agripley at 02:18 PM

Job: history of modern Europe, EMU

Deadline: December 15, 2009
Tenure-track assistant professor in history of modern
Europe, Eastern Michigan University
The Department of History and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship beginning fall 2010 in the history of modern Europe. The successful candidate will teach upper division and graduate courses in the history of modern Germany, and introductory courses in Western civilization or world history. He or she also will have the opportunity to develop courses in his or her area of expertise.

Field of specialization is open, but preference will be given to those who study military history or who can otherwise expand the department's offerings in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Applicants who have completed the Ph.D. by August 31, 2010 are strongly preferred. All applications must be made online at https://www.emujobs.com. Posting #FA1030E.

Applications must include letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, graduate transcript, a sample of scholarly writing (a chapter or article), and three letters of recommendation. Any letters sent by dossier services and/or recommenders should be sent to the attention of the search chair at: 701 Pray-Harrold, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197.

Review of applications will begin December 15, 2009.

Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive metropolitan university with a diverse student body, located near Ann Arbor and Detroit. EMU is strongly committed to increasing diversity within its community and encourages women and members of minority groups to apply. AA/EOE.

Inquiries may be directed to the Department of History and Philosophy at 734-487-1018 or to Dr. Ron Delph at rdelph@emich.edu

Posted by agripley at 02:16 PM

CfP: Bi-Annual Conference of Contemporary History 2010, Vienna, 26-28.5.2010

Call for Papers

UPDATE! Perspectives of Contemporary History - Zeitgeschichtetage 2010

The Zeitgeschichtetage (the Bi-Annual Conference of Contemporary History) 2010 will take place from 26 May to 28 May 2010 at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien (the Institute of Contemporary History at Vienna University).

The main aim of the conference is to discuss and debate recent developments in contemporary history, identifying new themes and assessing the role and legitimacy of this field of historical research.

It is time to update and reassess these changes.

This event is designed to serve as an international forum for the exchange of ideas about on-going research. The conference will focus primarily on the implications of research in the field of contemporary history: to what extent does this type of research make a specific contribution to the interdisciplinary analysis of current developments, whether economic, social, scientific, cultural or political in terms of both national politics and geopolitics? Secondly, the conference will analyse the discipline of contemporary history itself. To what extent does contemporary history have a specific interpretative authority and can its claims to be relevant in terms of social policy and public debate be justified?

We hope to foster a dialogue with the artistic community which will result in new research perspectives and also to invite the general public to take part.

The organizers will group individual submissions into panels according to thematic criteria.

B) Submission of Papers

Papers may be submitted as individual submissions or as complete panels. In the latter case gender parity is desirable.

Special attention will be paid to the integration of younger generations of researchers and to their academic networking, as well as to European and/or international research cooperation.

How to submit:

• Submissions must be made electronically to www.univie.ac.at/zeitgeschichte/zeitgeschichtetage by 31 December 2009.
• Submission must include an 800 word abstract for each paper. In addition to this, panel submissions must include a 400 word description of the panel topic.
• Panel submissions must be related to one track only. (Panels are not admissible for Open Space).
• Individual submissions must either be related to one track or to Open Space.

Acceptance:

Acceptance of panels and individual submissions will be decided by the review committees appointed for each track according to a standardized point-awarding system. There are bonus points for submissions made by junior researchers and by scholars working outside Austria. In the case of panel submissions, care is to be taken to ensure a balanced composition with regard to gender and age. Abstracts will be judged according to the quality and the methodology of the papers and the degree of innovation of the topic. In the panels at least one paper should deal with a herstory or gender issue. Special attention will be paid to thematic coherence and to the interdisciplinarity of approach and methodology of the submitted panels. Female presenters will be preferred in cases of equal qualification.

C) Travel Bursaries

Travel bursaries will be made available courtesy of additional sponsors, most notably the Austrian Kulturforum, to enable colleagues from abroad for whom participation would involve prohibitive expenses to take part.

D) Contact

For more information see

http://www.univie.ac.at/zeitgeschichte/zeitgeschichtetage/

or contact

Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien
z.Hd. Linda Erker und Mag. Alexander Salzmann
Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
1090 Wien

Linda.Erker@univie.ac.at
Alexander.Salzmann@univie.ac.at

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CfP: Sechstes Internationales Symposium junger Goetheforscher, 2011, Weimar

Deadline: Januar 31, 2010

Sechstes ›Internationales Symposium junger Goetheforscher‹ (Weimar 2011)
Call for Papers
Am 15. Juni 2011 richtet die Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar zum sechsten Mal das ›Internationale Symposium junger Goetheforscher‹ aus. Als Auftakt zur viertägigen Hauptversammlung, an der mehrere
hundert Wissenschaftler aus aller Welt teilnehmen, hat sich das Symposium inzwischen fest etabliert. Es bietet talentierten Nachwuchswissenschaftlern die Möglichkeit, eigene Forschungsergebnisse einem internationalen Fachpublikum vorzustellen.
Wir möchten Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus dem In- und Ausland auffordern, sich für das Symposium zu bewerben.
Zu Konzeption und Ablauf: Ca. acht Goetheforscher aus dem In- und Ausland halten jeweils einen Vortrag von 30 Minuten. Im Anschluss $aran sollen 15minütige Diskussionsrunden die Möglichkeit bieten,
Fragen an den Referenten zu stellen oder bestimmte Aspekte kritisch zu vertiefen. Das Vortragsthema ist grundsätzlich freigestellt; es wird jedoch erwartet, dass es einer innovativen Fragestellung entspringt, die – auch bei methodischer Avanciertheit – für das Auditorium nachvollziehbar bleibt. Die Vortragssprache ist Deutsch. Damit die Referenten über das Kolloquium hinaus in intensiven Meinungsaustausch treten können, ist ein kleines Rahmenprogramm geplant. Die Kosten für Reise und Unterkunft übernimmt die Goethe- Gesellschaft, so dass auch die Teilnahme am Programm der anschließenden Hauptversammlung der Goethe-Gesellschaft möglich wird. Einige der gehaltenen Vorträge werden voraussichtlich im Goethe-Jahrbuch publiziert.
Zum Bewerberprofil: Die Referenten sollten sich in ihrem Projekt (Aufsatz, Dissertation, Habilitation) mit Aspekten von Goethes Werk oder Biographie befassen und bereits in fortgeschrittenem
Arbeitsstadium sein. Die Altersgrenze liegt bei 37 Jahren. Wie der Vorstand der Goethe-Gesellschaft mit Nachdruck betont, müssen die Exposés der Bewerber besonderen Ansprüchen genügen, d.h. deutlich
über dem wissenschaftlichen Durchschnitt liegen und neue Erkenntnisperspektiven für die Goethe-Forschung eröffnen. Selbstbewerbungen sind möglich. Da im März 2010 der Vorstand der
Goethe-Gesellschaft zusammentritt und einen ersten Bericht erwartet, sollten die Unterlagen bis Ende Januar an untenstehende Adresse geschickt werden. Die vollständige Bewerbung umfasst neben Angaben zu Person und Projekt ein ca. zweiseitiges Exposé, das die Grundlage der Auswahl bilden wird.
Unterlagen bitte bis zum 31. Januar 2010 direkt an beide Leiter des Symposiums:

Dr. Matthias Buschmeier
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Postfach 100131
33501 Bielefeld
E-Mail: mbuschmeier@uni-bielefeld.de

Marie Wokalek, M.A.
Fidicinstr. 33
D-10965 Berlin
E-Mail: mariewokalek@gmx.de; maryw@zedat.fu-berlin.de

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CFP- Encounters between the Caucasus and the West, 04/23-24/2010, Amsterdam

Deadline: December 15, 2009

Encounters between the Caucasus and the West: Image and Reality
Amsterdam
April 23-24, 2010

Call for Papers

Possibility to publish papers/proceedings of the conference in Amsterdam Contributions to the Study of the Caucasus.

Abstract (500 words) expected no later than December 15, 2009. Draft papers due: March 23, 2010; final version (7000 words): June 15, 2010.
More detailed information about style sheet, panels and programme and location will follow after abstracts are selected. You will receive reaction on abstracts by January 30th 2010. Estimated publication date Dec 2010/Jan 2011

Please send abstracts to dr F.J. Companjen (VU Amsterdam) at: caucasusconference@gmail.com

There seems to be a poor understanding of the Caucasus in the West and vice versa. The recent August 2008 war has made clear to Europe/the West that tensions in the Caucasus are a security threat. Better historical-cultural understanding of this region in the European neighbourhood is of vital importance. Stereotypical images of minorities and events, incorrect assumptions about societal institutions can cloud our relations. Images based on different conceptions of for instance institutions, freedom, law and security may lead to failure in developing effective policy.

Papers will be grouped into panels dealing with various sub themes such as historical encounters in expeditions, institutional and intercultural encounters at present, future imagined encounters, images on security issues... and of course your own creative interpretations of this theme.

Editors: Dr F.J. Companjen (VU Amsterdam) Dr L.K. Maracz (UVA) and Dr C.R.M.Versteegh (UVA)
Organizer: Dr. F.J. (Françoise) Companjen
http://www.fsw.vu.nl/en/departments/culture-organization-and-management/staff/companjen/caucasus.asp

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2010 Study Abroad Program in Florence

Montclair in Florence
2010 Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy

The Italian Program at Montclair State University is pleased to announce the dates for its six-week, study-abroad program in beautiful, Florence, Italy, May 15 - June 26, 2010. The program, Montclair in Florence, run in conjunction with Arizona State University, makes it possible for students to register for Italian language, culture, and literature courses at various levels. The program is economically priced and students from any university may apply. Please announce the program to your students at all levels.

The full program announcement, program application, and financial aid application can be found at:

http://www.montclair.edu/GlobalEd/studyabroad/summer/institutes/summerabroad/Florence/%20index.html

Dr. Del Principe, Director (delprinciped@mail.montclair.edu)

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CfP: Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics, Cluj, 25-27.6.2010

Deadline: December 7, 2009

“Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics”
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
June 25-27, 2010

Call for Papers:
Website:
Democratic politics worldwide are increasingly being conducted and re-configured through the domain of digital communications networks. The socio-technical developments, such as Web 2.0, facilitating these media-saturated public spheres are in little doubt. What is highly contested however is the interpretation of what these profound changes offer for democratic governance in the twenty-first century. At its heart is the recognition that these new media networks are themselves the crucial site for a historical confrontation between opposing political and/or business interests and discourses intent upon forging new forms of social relations.

We will address questions such as:
What new forms and relations of power are produced in the digital network society?
Who are the key social actors shaping the new public sphere and what are their respective strategies, framing, and repertoires of action?
What is the democratic potential of Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, blogging and twittering?
What empirical evidence do we have to understand and assess these developments?
How is networked democracy influencing new democratic societies?
What are its consequences for human rights, social sorting, migration, e-government, community politics, surveillance, protest, participation, culture, identity, mobilization, representation, nationalism, security, citizen journalism, trust, regulation, both exogenous and self-regulation and much more?

We invite papers from all disciplines which have addressed these topics.
The paper title, an abstract of up to 500 words, a short bio and contact details should be sent to Dan Mercea, Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, dmm505@york.ac.uk before 7 December 2009. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 January 2010.

For more details visit http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rics

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: 7 December 2009

Notifications of acceptance: 15 January 2010

Symposium: 25-27 June 2010

http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/index.php?page=networking-democracy

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CfP Essay: Material Culture of Color in the Early Modern World

Deadline: December 15, 2009
Essays for a book on the Material Culture of Color in the Early Modern World Publication

Andrea Feeser and Beth Fowkes Tobin are soliciting essays for a book on the material culture of color in the early modern world (14th - 18th centuries).

The book will examine the manufacture, trade, and/or use of pigment for dye, ink, and paint and ask questions about how these substances inform the cultural, social, and political histories of peoples and places in all parts of the globe. How do things that create or obtain color shape knowledge production, work life, burgeoning economies, government relations, and aesthetic experience? What types of resources-textual, material, visual-shed light on these operations, and how do they do so? The book will include essays that examine the objects and processes that vivified individual or multiple colors in the early modern world. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit their work.   

Topics of interest to the editors include the social and ideological significance of color as well as the technology and manufacture of specific pigments and dyes, and their circulation and consumption in the form of paint, dye, and cosmetics. Possible topics might include: artists' participation in the making of their own pigments as well as their use of color; the use of child labor in the production of colored book illustrations and prints; cosmetics and textiles in stage productions; the use of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in pigments for cosmetics and paint; textile manufacturing and the color trade between Europe and Asia; the production and consumption of dyes and pigments in East Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean World; the role of the empire in the production of organic and inorganic materials used in dyes and pigments; and the global circulation of specific pigments and dyes, such as indigo and vermilion.  

Abstracts of 300-500 words and short cv due on December 15, 2009 with the expectation that full-length essays will be due on June 15, 2010.

Please send copies of abstracts and cvs to both Feeser and Tobin at the following departmental addresses or email addresses. We will acknowledge receipt of your correspondence.

Andrea Feeser
Associate Professor of Art History
123 Lee Hall
Clemson Universit
Clemson, SC 29634
afeeser@clemson.edu

Beth Fowkes Tobin
Department of English
Arizona State University
PO Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Email: beth.tobin@asu.edu

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CfP: Der Adel Mitteleuropas in der Konfrontation mit den totalitaeren Regimes des 20. Jahrhunderts, 10/2010, Prague

Deadline: November 30, 2009

Konferenz: Der Adel Mitteleuropas in der Konfrontation mit den totalitären Regimes des 20. Jahrhunderts an.

Zdenek Hazdra, Jan Zupanic und Vaclav Horcicka
(Garanten der Konferenz)
Internationale wissenschaftliche Konferenz
Der Adel Mitteleuropas in der Konfrontation mit den totalitären Regimes des 20. Jahrhunderts
Veranstalter: Institut für das Studium der totalitären Regimes
Karlsuniversität Prag, Philosophische Fakultät
Veranstaltungsort: Hörsaal (Aula der Philosophischen Fakultät, Karlsuniversität Prag)
Termin: Oktober 2010
Verhandlungsprachen: Tschechisch, Slowakisch, Deutsch und Polnisch
Deadline: 30.11.2009
Garanten:
Mgr. Zdenek Hazdra (Institut für das Studium der totalitären Regimes)
Doc. PhDr. Jan Zupanic, PhD. (Philosophische Fakultät der Karlsuniversität Prag)
Doc. PhDr. Vaclav Horcicka, PhD. (Philosophische Fakultät der Karlsuniversität Prag)

Jahrhunderte lang spielte der Adel eine bedeutende Rolle in der Geschichte der europäischen Nationen. Obwohl er seinen Einfluss in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten zunehmend verlor und von seinen Machtpositionen vor den erstarkenden und an seine Stelle tretenden bürgerlichen Schichten zurückwich, blieb er bis heute ein gesellschaftlich- historisches Phänomen. Zwar ging er als eigenständiges sozial- politisches Organ unter, doch seine Vertreter, Träger altertümlicher Namen, erinnerten an die über Jahrhunderte hinweg geformten Staatstraditionen einzelner nationaler Gemeinschaften, denen ihre Vorfahren unzweifelhaft angehörten und mit denen sie ihre Schicksale teilten. Der Adelsstand ist ein lebendes Synonym für Tradition, Glaube, Geschichte und Kontinuität. Das 20. Jahrhundert jedoch brachte dem mitteleuropäischen Adel nicht nur das Ende seiner Existenz (de facto und de jure), sondern stellte ihn gleichzeitig vor verschiedene Herausforderungen. Er ist einerseits mit der Identitätssuche in der sich immer schneller wandelnden Welt und dem damit zusammenhängenden Kompromiss zwischen der Annahme der Werte der neuen, von bürgerlichen Bestandteilen gestalteten Gesellschaft sowie andererseits mit dem Streben nach Erhalt der alten, für die Adelswelt und Adelsmentalität typischen Werte verknüpft.

Im Rahmen der Konferenz sollen zu dem gegebenen Thema Experten aus der Tschechischen Republik, der Slowakei, aus Deutschland, Österreich und Polen sprechen. Auf diese Weise soll das so sehr notwendige Diskussionsmilieu entstehen, das zum Vergleich der Aufgaben und Schicksale des Adels in den einzelnen Staaten und nationalen Gemeinschaften Mitteleuropas während des Nazismus und Kommunismus führen wird. Die Konferenz ist für drei Tage geplant und wird im Oktober 2010 (das genaue Datum wird noch festgelegt) an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karlsuniversität in Prag stattfinden. Verhandlungsprachen werden Tschechisch, Slowakisch, Deutsch und Polnisch sein.Die vorgetragenen Beiträge werden anschließend in einem Sammelband herausgegeben. Die Organisatoren möchten sich daher an alle interessierten wissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitutionen und ihre Mitarbeiter, die sich mit der Adelsproblematik in der modernen Geschichte beschäftigen, mit dem Angebot zu wenden, an dieser wissenschaftlich- gesellschaftlichen Veranstaltung teilzunehmen. Falls Sie daran Interesse haben, senden Sie bitte eine kurz gefasste Annotation Ihres Beitrages und Ihre biographischen Angaben bis Ende
November 2009 an die E-Mail-Adresse: slechta2010@seznam.cz

Die Konferenzverhandlung sollte vor allem folgende Fragen betreffen:
Der Adel in der antinazistischen Widerstandsbewegung
Der Adel und seine Kollaboration mit dem Nazismus
Der Zerfall der Adelswelt -- Verstaatlichung, Nationalisierung und weitere Folgen des Zweiten Weltkrieges für den Adel in Mitteleuropa
Adel und Exil
Der Adel in der Konfrontation mit der kommunistischen Macht

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Summer Study: Germany

Deadline: January 31, 2010

UROP International in Aachen consist of three elements: the programme’s core, a research internship carried out in a research facility or lab at RWTH Aachen University, supervised by academic staff, research-related field trips, an intensive German language course, and leisure time activities to introduce students to German science, history and culture and get them in contact with German and international students.

Programme dates for 2010 are 24 May through 30 July, 2010. During the first two weeks, students will follow an intensive German language course of 20 hrs / week as well as an introduction to research (4 hrs /week). At the same time, the course is an introduction to German culture that familiarises students with life in Germany through a hands-on approach. Weeks 3 – 10 are settled around a research internship in a department of RWTH Aachen University. Students will continue to learn German twice a week while conducting their internship. Cultural and leisure time activities offered throughout the programme ensure the students’ integration and exposure to German culture and the international community on campus. Upon successful completion of the programme, students receive a certificate, stating the scope and content of their research as well as of the German language course.

Programme application deadline is the 31st of January each year. All application documents have to be handed in at that date.

Information for Students http://www.exzellenz.rwth-aachen.de/ca/k/srs/?lang=en

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CfP: History and Literary Journalism, 08/24-28/2010, Italy

Deadline: January 31, 2010

ESSE-10: History and Literary Journalism
Turin, Italy
August 24-28, 2010

Call for Papers
History and literary journalism are seemingly fraternal twins separated at birth: one seeking to recover the past, the other striving to capture the present, and both committed to preserving a "truth" for prosperity. Though they share a dogged belief in (re)presenting the facts of a given event, both vary in their conceptions of how that event should be documented. Historians believe that the passage of time and critical distance favors objectivity, whereas literary journalists advocate contemporaneous coverage through firsthand, immersive reporting. And yet, despite their differences, both mirror the other's creed: a literary journalist views history as it is happening, or has recently happened, in order to reconstruct the scenes of that event accurately, while a historian typically strips the event of its emotion and drama in pursuit of a more traditional journalistic representation of a past event.

This seminar proposes to study how and where literary journalism/journalists and history/historians cross disciplines and ideologies, and why academia still prefers that latter to the former as being a more faithful rendering of the past.

John Bak
Université Nancy 2
France
Email: john.bak@univ-nancy2.fr

Visit the website at http://fire.rettorato.unito.it/esse2010/public/doc/SEMINARS.pdf

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CfP: Changing Cultural Landscapes, 04/08-09/2010, France

Deadline: 2010-01-15

Representations/Re-presentations : Changing Cultural Landscapes
April 8-9, 2010
Maison des Langues, Université Stendhal, Grenoble 3
CEMRA : Cente d’Etudes sur les Modes de la Représentation Anglophone (EA 3016)

Call for Papers

This conference will broach the question of representation, applied notably to the domain of rewriting. The need to revisit and re-present the cultural landscapes of the past in order to rediscover their creative potential is undoubtedly one of the major characteristics of the postmodern period. This “crisis of representation”, as postmodernism has frequently been called, will be considered in three of its multiple expressions - theatrical, post-colonial and new gothic – whose very diversity is an indication of the theme’s interdisciplinary aspect. In each of these three areas, representations change over the centuries according to their individual specificity, yet the past is each time seen with a contemporary gaze, and thus reinvented. Within the context of a “changing cultural landscape” – namely, a later and inevitably altered period in time – the “original version” acts as a springboard which inspires the emergent representation. This common approach will serve as the pivotal focus for three workshops:

Theatre

The changing landscape of contemporary theatre and drama may also be linked to the role of science and scientific discovery at three different levels. Firstly, it may be noted that science (even hard science) can be seen to figure at the heart of recent works written by well-established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill or Tom Stoppard. Secondly, scientific discovery continues to influence the way plays are written. Although it could be argued that there has always been a link between the written text and the context and conditions of performance, science and technology have played an important role in forging new dramatic forms, notably through the influence of the cinema. Furthermore, 20th century scientific theory increasingly offers the theatre new ways of looking at the world by focusing precisely on the contribution made by the observer/spectator. Finally, the developments of science and technology have revolutionised staging, making possible new readings and interpretations of dramatic texts. The workshop devoted to the theatre will attempt to tackle these three aspects of contemporary theatre.

India

"God is Blue" Representation and changing cultural codes in India or the basic instability inherent in representation:“How do cultural codes impose order on experience?" is one of the questions raised by Foucault in The Order of Things. This workshop proposes to take up Foucault's question, and apply it to colonial and post-colonial discourse, with India as corpus. The question is all the more pertinent as image criticism rarely, if ever, acknowledges the historical instability of cultural perceptions. Yet cultural representations always mediate reality through the received ideas of the given historical period in which they are conceived. This workshop aims to examine image mutations as historical markers change. For example; if World War II is taken as a temporal marker, even the Christian God is not exempt from the notion of historical instability. To the contrary of the pre-war era, obsessed by fixed identities, categories, boundaries, the post-war period tends to be concerned with fluid identities and boundary crossing. Thus, one finds Rushdie's Bishop in Midnight's Children explaining to a bewildered priest how to deal with the colour problem: "important to build bridges, my son. Remember', thus spake the Bishop, 'God is love; and the Hindu love-god, Krishna, is always depicted with a blue skin."

Postmodern Gothic

Just as Gothic was originally the product of a specific context, its manifold contemporary mutations may be seen as reflecting a changing cultural landscape, the source of new fears and anxieties. The classic devices of Gothic emerge in new settings, both alienating and alienated, and find their expression in hybrid narrative forms which reveal a new “horror of textuality” (Botting, Gothic, 1996). Duplicity, uncertainty or dissolving boundaries, which have always lain at the core of Gothic, are more relevant than ever at a time when the uncanny becomes « a metaphor for a fundamentally unlivable modern condition.» (Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny : Essays in the Modern Unhomely, 1992). In addition, scientific and technological progress both feeds the postmodern Gothic imagination, and fosters new fears which continue to haunt narratives. The aim of this workshop is therefore to consider, in contemporary British literature, the multiple manifestations of this sense of unease: the ongoing and ever-renewed representations of the strange.

Please send your proposals (300-350 words) before 15th January 2010 to:

madhu.benoit@u-grenoble3.fr (India)
susan.blattes@u-grenoble3.fr (Theatre)
linda.carter@u-grenoble3.fr (Postmodern Gothic)

The conference will be followed by a publication.

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CfP Journal: Doomsday: Journal of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society

Deadline: December 20, 2009

Doomsday: Journal of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society
Call for Review Articles Call for Papers

Doomsday: Journal of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society seeks 1000-word reviews of the following scholarly works:
The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson, by Susan B. Egenolf
Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, by Daniela Garofalo
Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, by Jacques Khalip
Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835, ed. Beth Lau
Revolutions in Taste, 1773-1818: Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Romanticism, by Fiona Price
The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism, by Chenxi Tang
Shelley’s Music: Fantasy, Authority, and the Object Voice, by Paul. A. Vatalaro
The Unfamiliar Shelley, eds. Alan M. Weinberg and Timothy Webb

Please send letter of interest and vita to Dr. Shelley Rees at srees@usao.edu

Visit www.usao.edu/doomsday for more information about Doomsday.

Shelley Rees, Ph.D., Managing Editor
Doomsday: Journal of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society
USAO Dept of English
1727 W. Alabama
Chickasha, OK 73018
405.574.1244

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CfP: Museums and Restitution, 07/08-09/2010, UK

Deadline: December 11, 2009
Museums and Restitution

University of Manchester
July 8-9, 2010

Call for Papers

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

Visit the website at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution/

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CfP: Everyday Approaches to the Persecution of Jews of Greater Germany and the 'Protectorate', 11/18-20.2010, Berlin

Deadline: December 01, 2009

Everyday Approaches to the Persecution of Jews of Greater Germany and the ‚Protectorate’, 1941-45
Berlin
November 18-20, 2010
Call for Papers

We are seeking contributions for our conference “Everyday Approaches to the Persecution of Jews of Greater Germany and the Protectorate 1941-1945” to be held in Berlin, November 18-20, 2010. (This is a follow-up to the conference “From the ‘Forced Emigration’ to Deportation and Ghettoisation of the Jews from the Greater Germany”, held in Hamburg, May 2009, though we welcome new participants).

We invite papers on all aspects of the everyday life, broadly understood, of the Jewish population at the time. Suggested topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- compulsory Jewish bodies and umbrella organisations, both in countries of origin and the ghettos to which people from our area were deported (Theresienstadt, Łódź, Warsaw, Riga, Minsk, Lublin District)
- power hierarchies both within the ghettos themselves and in their relationship with external instances (Germans)
- the role of collection camps in the deportation process (for instance as liminal spaces)
- the impact of persecution on the communities’ social structures; how did the subject populations respond to the newly imposed uniform definitions of Jewishness? Or: how can we introduce the concept of class to the history of the Holocaust?
- Jewish reactions to the deportations, be they from home or from the ghettos; order of the deportations
- decisions to go into hiding: how did the preconditions vary from country to country?
- hybrid cases: ‘Mischlinge’, ‘Geltungsjuden’, mixed marriages and Christians who were marked as Jews, the organisation of their persecution and their perspective
- encounter of culturally and regionally diverse people in the ghettos (Czech, German and Austrian, and Ostjuden/Westjuden) – contact, perception, and integration

If you have any questions about the content or concept, don’t hesitate to contact us.

The event will involve about 20 to 25 speakers. Languages will be English and German without interpretation.
Date: November, 18-20, 2010
Place: Berlin, tentatively University of Toronto in Berlin
Please submit an abstract (1-2 pages) and your brief CV before December 1st to:
Anna Hájková, PhD. candidate, a.hajkova@utoronto.ca
Dr. Andrea Löw, loew@ifz-muenchen.de

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October 23, 2009

CFP: Marginalizing Centers, 02/05/2010, NY

Deadline: November 30, 2009

Marginalizing Centers
The Department of French at The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York
Annual Student Graduate Conference
February 5, 2010

Call for Papers

Keynote speaker: Professor Derek Schilling (Rutgers University)

In her work The World Republic of Letters, published in France in 1999, Pascale Casanova rethinks the notion of a world literary corpus in the light of two interdependent concepts: the center and the margin. In its textual representation the center seems to simultaneously create and impose a canonical model. The margin and the center offer geographical and literary platforms of questioning. Could the norm of a given time and place be the result of a construction? Could configurations of normativity and deviance shift in time and space? In this conference, we will investigate ways in which concepts of margin(s) and center(s) can be addressed: Is the Center inextricably bound to its margins? If so, in what ways can we interpret the relationships—spatial or conceptual— resulting from this interdependence?
We invite participants to discuss spaces and literary works in terms of centers and margins as they have been exposed and/or theorized in the domains of literature, theory, politics, history and art. How many centers can there be? What is the relationship between the center and its margin(s)? How flexible is this separation? Is there an identifiable boundary between center(s) and margin(s)?

Topics of exploration may include but are not limited to the following:
Oppositions: publishing companies and marginal(ized) writers. French/Francophone. Canonical/ Deviant
Re-centering margins: banlieues literatures. Interaction with Paris/Métropole.
Timeliness: Questions of anachronism. Histories / History. Literary movements construction
Marginalized sexualities in the construction of cultural and national identity
Marginalized spaces: Nation /regions/cities. Paris / Peripheries /Banlieue/Province.
Marginalized languages, dialects, patois: Parisian French and regional linguistic identities. Creole languages.
Marginalized communities within centers: nomads and borders.

Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to present a 15 minute paper addressing the topic of Marginalizing Centers. Abstracts of 300-400 words should be submitted to french.conf.cuny@gmail.com (Attn: “Graduate Conf”) no later than November 30th 2009. Papers may be in French or English.

The French program is located at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309

Steve Puig & Chadia Samadi-Chambers

Visit the website at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/French/index.html

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CfP: HOPE: Uncertainty, Pluralism, and Innovation, 04/02/2010, Ontario

Deadline: JANUARY 15th, 2010

Interdisciplinary Arts Conference on HOPE: Uncertainty, Pluralism, and Innovation Location: Ontario, Canada

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 Issues; Philosophy; Religion and Culture; The Environment; Politics; Psychology; Economics; Multiculturalsim; Visual Culture and Media; Academia

To be held on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Deadline for abstracts, artwork and photography is JANUARY 15th, 2010. Please submit to r.c.executive@gmail.com. For more details please visit our website at www.religionandculturesociety.com

Hosted By: Religion & Culture Society, Wilfrid Laurier University

Zabeen Khamisa
Email: r.c.executive@gmail.com

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October 20, 2009

Fellowship: Newberry Library, IL

Deadline: March 1, 2010

Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2010-2011
Illinois

The Newberry’s fellowships support humanities research in our collections. We promise remarkable collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and an array of scholarly and public programs.

Long-term fellowships support research and writing by post-doctoral scholars. Fellowship terms range from six to eleven months with stipends of up to $50,400. Deadline January 11, 2010.

Short-term fellowships enable Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral scholars from outside Chicago to gain access to study specific materials at the Newberry not readily available to them otherwise. Fellowship terms are usually one month with a stipend of $1600. NEW: We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member. Stipends are $1600 per month per fellow. Deadline: March 1, 2010.

The Newberry's collections concern the civilizations of western Europe and the Americas from the late middle ages to the twentieth century. Certain collections are internationally noted, including those containing materials on the following subjects:

European exploration and settlement of the Americas
The American West
Literature and history of the Midwest, especially the
Chicago Renaissance and Chicago journalism
Local history, family history, and genealogy
Native American histories and literatures
The Renaissance in Europe
French Revolutionary Era
Portuguese history
Brazilian history
British literature and history
History of cartography
History and theory of music
History of printing
Early philology and linguistics

Research and Education
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312.255.3666

Email: research@newberry.org

Visit the website at http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html

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CfP Journal: "Whatever Happened to Hajnal's Line"

Deadline: November 1, 2010

"Whatever Happened to Hajnal's Line. 'East-European' Family Patterns, Historical Context and New Developments"
A special issue of THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES

Call for papers

http://soci.ucalgary.ca/jcfs/

Guest editor: Cristina Bradatan (Texas Tech University)

THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES hereby invites contributions for a special issue on the topic: "'East-European' Family Patterns, Historical Context and New Developments"

More than forty years ago, John Hajnal introduced the notion of an 'European' pattern of marriage/ household, characterized by high age at marriage, women and men working as servants before marriage and establishing their own households upon marriage. He called this pattern 'European' for brevity, although it applies only to the Northwestern Europe, west of an imaginary line connecting 'Leningrad' (Saint Petersburg) to Trieste.

Interestingly enough, Hajnal's line followed quite closely the Iron Curtain, then dividing Europe into capitalist and socialist societies. As Churchill put it in a speech he gave at Westminster College, Missouri, in 1946, an iron curtain has descended after the World War II 'from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic'. Within a larger context of ideas, the 1950s - 1960s were the times when Rostov's theory of modernization was quite popular in the academic world. Hajnal's line brought to life the older Weberian idea that the West is somehow different (in this case, in terms of family formation patterns) and it might very well be that the other regions of the world would not follow a similar route, anytime soon, simply because their history followed a different path.

Although the notion of a 'Western' as opposed to 'Eastern' type of family is currently related to Hajnal's work, his research relied on the studies coming from the Cambridge Group for the Population History, and, in particular, from Peter Laslett and Peter Czap. Eastern European countries, falling East of the Hajnal's line, were characterized as having a non-European household formation system. The concept of an 'European pattern' of family formation remained popular over the years, to such an extent that even today a Google search returns more than 11,000 hits for this concept.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:
Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2010
This special issue is scheduled for 2012.
Please submit your contributions to: cristina.bradatan@ttu.edu (with "For JCFS issue" in the subject line). Please allow at least 4-6 months for the review process and editorial decisions. Receipt of materials will be confirmed by email in a matter of days.
All submissions should be in English.

When using e-mail, articles must be put into the MICROSOFT WORD format.
Include: a TITLE PAGE with your name, title of article, and affiliation with complete postal mailing address, telephone number, and email address. NO pdf files please. Manuscripts should be usually about 5000 words (20-30 pages), line spacing 1-1/2, text in Times Roman, font 12. It must have an English Abstract of about 250 words on a separate page.

For more information on manuscript preparation, please go to:
http://soci.ucalgary.ca/jcfs/welcome/submission-guidelines

We look forward to your submissions!

Cristina Bradatan
Guest Editor - Journal for Comparative Family Studies
Assistant professor of Sociology, Texas Tech University
http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/crbradat

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Posted by agripley at 10:31 AM

Job: sociology, cultural anthropology , WA

Deadline: January 20, 2010

Evergreen State College - A half-time faculty member sociology, cultural anthropology or a related field and strong interdisciplinary experience.

The position will not convert to full-time status.

Review our website for the complete job announcement and application process.

Contact Info:

The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Lib 2002
Olympia, WA 98505
Attn: Faculty Hiring
Email: facultyhiring@evergreen.edu
Phone: (360) 867-6861
Fax (360) 867-6794

Website: http://www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring

Posted by agripley at 10:29 AM

Job: Ctr. for 21st Century Studies - Editor, WI

Deadline: November 13, 2009

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ctr. for 21st Century Studies - Editor

Must apply by November 13, 2009; for details and application procedures, see www.jobs.uwm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51084

Contact Info:

Kate Kramer
Center for 21st Century Studies
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
kkramer@uwm.edu

Website: http://www4.uwm.edu/21st/index.html

Posted by agripley at 10:27 AM

Job: Policy and Political History, Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School - Tenure Track

Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

Contact Info:

Professor Archon Fung
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Stret
Cambridge, MA 02138

Website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu

Posted by agripley at 10:26 AM

Job: Spanish, Australia

Australian National University - Associate Lecturer/Lecturer in Spanish (2 positions) (A385-09LB)

The School of Language Studies within the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is seeking two lecturers to join the Spanish Program and play a significant role in teaching, scholarship and research.

The ANU is a research-intensive University, committed to the national provision of high-quality language education informed by research. The School of Language Studies is seeking suitably qualified and motivated individuals to join its Spanish Program. You will be enthusiastic about research-led teaching, have a proven capability in teaching Spanish language and studies along with curriculum development and education evaluation in a tertiary sector. You will conduct research in one or more of the following areas: Spanish Linguistics, Spanish or Latin American Literature or Cultural Studies, Language Teaching Methodology, Language Teaching Technology or Applied Linguistics.

Enquiries: Dr Daniel Martin, T: 02 6125 2730, E: Daniel.Martin@anu.edu.au

http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=908

Contact Info:

http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=908

Posted by agripley at 10:25 AM

October 19, 2009

Postdoc: Humanities, Tulane

Tulane University - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities

The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for a two-year contract, renewable annually, as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities beginning in August 2010. We expect to appoint two or three fellows for AY 2010-2011. Candidates must have received the PhD by June 30, 2010 and not before September 1, 2006. They must demonstrate successful teaching experience and an interesting and exciting research agenda. Fellows will be assigned to one of six departments within the School of Liberal Arts: Communication, English, French and Italian, History, Philosophy, or Spanish and Portuguese. Fellows will teach mid- and upper-level courses in their field of expertise, and these courses will be cross-listed with one or more of four interdisciplinary programs: African and African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, and Jewish Studies.

Applicants should provide a one-page summary of their dissertation and a few sample titles of courses they would teach. The teaching load will be one course per semester, with the remainder of the fellows’ time devoted to strengthening their research profiles. Fellows must be in residence at Tulane during the tenure of their fellowship.

Preference may be given to applicants who intend to make use of Tulane’s and New Orleans’ rich cultural and archival resources, such as the Amistad Research Center, the Hogan Jazz Archive, the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Public Library.

The stipend is $45,900 per year, with some funding also available for research and travel.

For more information on the School of Liberal Arts please visit the web site: http:// www.liberalarts.tulane.edu/

Send dossier including cover letter, curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Kevin Fox Gotham, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Liberal Arts, 102 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 by January 20, 2010.

Contact Info:

Dr. Kevin Fox Gotham
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
School of Liberal Arts, 102 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118
Website: http://history.tulane.edu

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Job: Modern Europe, IA

Drake University - Assistant Professor of History - Modern Europe

The History Department at Drake University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern European history. The department seeks candidates who are committed equally to teaching and scholarly activity. The individual will teach three courses each semester, participate in an innovative two semester global history course “Passages to the Modern World: 1500 to the Present,” and teach courses in her/his area of specialty. Preference may be given to candidates with primary expertise in France, Germany, and/or Russia.

Ability to teach race, class, and gender is also desirable. Ph.D. preferred, advanced ABDs will be considered.

Please send c.v., three letters of recommendation, teaching evaluations, and course syllabi to Matthew Esposito, Department of History, 2805 University Ave., Des Moines, IA 50311 by November 15.

E-mail inquiries to matthew.esposito@drake.edu

Drake University is an equal-opportunity employer, and actively seeks applicants who reflect the diversity of the nation.

Contact Info:

Matthew Esposito
Department of History
2805 University Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50311

Email inquiries and submissions to

matthew.esposito@drake.edu

Website: http://www.drake.edu/hr/employment/index.php

Posted by agripley at 01:49 PM

Job: Modern Europe. NC

Deadline: December 1, 2009

University of North Carolina - Greensboro - Assistant Professor, Modern Europe

Modern European History. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to begin in August 2010. The successful applicant will teach core courses in Modern European history (excluding Russia and France) at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and will develop specialized courses in his/her field(s) of expertise. We will look with interest on applicants whose work in Modern European history incorporates elements of colonialism / imperialism or lends itself to the practice of public history.

UNCG boasts a well-established M.A. program with a concentration in European history as well as a Ph.D. program in U.S. history, which includes a potential minor field in European history. Candidates must hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in History by August 1, 2010.

Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation by December 1, 2009, to Richard Barton, Chair, Modern Europe Search Committee, Department of History, 2129 MHRA Bldg., 1111 Spring Garden St., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, N.C., 27412.

Contact Info:

Richard Barton, Chair, Modern Europe Search Committee
Department of History
2129 MHRA Bldg., 1111 Spring Garden St. University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, N.C., 27412
Website: http://www.uncg.edu

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Job: Modern European History, NY

Deadline: December 1, 2009

Modern European History
CW Post, Long Island University
New York

Pending budgetary approval, the Department of History at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University is reopening its search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in modern European history. Area and period of specialization are open. The successful candidate will teach Western Civilization or thematic introductory courses as well as specialized courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidate should demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching and scholarly potential.

Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010. Candidates who wish to reactivate files sent last year should send a letter to that effect along with an updated CV.

For new applicants send: letter of application, curriculum vitae, and letters of recommendation to Chair, Department of History, CW Post Campus, Long Island University, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY 11548-1300.

Applications must be received by December 1, 2009. Interviews will be conducted at the AHA Meeting in San Diego in January 2010. Long Island University is an AA/EOE employer.

Contact Info:

Prof. Jeanie Attie
Chair, Department of History
C.W. Post, Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548

Website: http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/

Posted by agripley at 01:41 PM

Job: Modern Europe, WI

Deadline: November 20, 2009

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater - Modern Europe

The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor to teach introductory and upper-level courses in Modern European history, 1850 to the present, (excluding Britain). Research fields should complement existing faculty expertise and may include any specialization in Modern Continental European history. Teaching responsibilities will include a freshman-level modern world history course. Requirements include demonstrated excellence in teaching, a commitment to undergraduate education, and clear evidence of scholarly potential. More information about the History Department at UWW is available at: http://www.uww.edu/cls/departments/history/job_candidates/

Starting Date: August 23, 2010.

Preference will be given to candidates who have completed the requirements for the Ph. D. in history by August 2010. Advanced A.B.D. candidates may be considered.

A complete credential packet consists of a letter of application, statement of teaching philosophy, vita, three confidential letters of recommendation, and copies of official graduate transcripts. Electronic application materials are preferred. Submit complete application packet to:

historysearch@uww.edu

or via regular mail to Modern European History Search Committee, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 800 W.. Main Street, Whitewater, WI 53190-1790.

The committee will conduct preliminary interviews at the AHA Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., in early January 2010.

Applications received by November 20, 2009 are ensured full consideration.

Contact Info:

Modern European History Search Committee
Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
800 W. Main Street
Whitewater, WI 53190-1790
262-472-1103
262-472-5238 (fax)
historysearch@uww.edu (electronic submissions preferred)
Website: http://www.uww.edu/cls/departments/history/

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Posted by agripley at 01:36 PM

Job: Early Modern Europe, Johns Hopkins

Deadline: December 1, 2009

Johns Hopkins University - Early Modern Europe

EARLY MODERN EUROPE, EXCLUDING BRITAIN
The Johns Hopkins University History Department seeks outstanding applicants for TWO positions in early modern European history, RANK OPEN, for appointment beginning July 1, 2010.

One position will be in early modern France, and one for a scholar of Europe and the wider world.

Johns Hopkins is an AA/EOE and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates, including women and underrepresented minorities.

The deadline for receipt of applications is December 1, 2009.

Contact Info:

Chair, Early Modern European Search, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Dell House, 2850 N.Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Posted by agripley at 01:35 PM

Scholarhsip: Postgraduate, Australia

Deadline: October 30, 2009

Postgraduate Scholarships at La Trobe
Melbourne, Australia

From its inception, the History Program at La Trobe University has pursued innovative modes of teaching and engaged in path-breaking research projects, which have laid the basis for a strong postgraduate program. Current and former members of the History Program have won numerous prestigious awards and prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Boulton Prize, the Quincentennial Discovery Prize, the Douglas Adair Medal, the Gustavus Myers Award, the New South Wales Premier's History Prize, the UACES Prize for the Best Book in Contemporary European Studies and many others, for books as well as articles. La Trobe postgraduates have also won numerous prizes, most recently the Australian Historical Association's Biennial Serle Award (2008) and work in various Australian and international universities as well as outside academia.

The History Program offers research leadership and supervision for research Masters and Doctorates in American (including Latin America), Australian (including the Pacific) and European fields. Although expert in national histories and regions, La Trobe historians also focus on:

Australian history
Colonial and post-colonial studies
Transnational studies
Colonial and modern Indigenous studies on Australia, the Pacific, and the Americas
Modern studies on Britain, Europe and North America, including a special focus on imperialism
Landscape
(Auto)biographical writing
Religion and Spirituality studies
Feminist history including gender relations; sexuality; work
History of Art and culture in the US, Europe and Australia

We are actively committed to promoting an environment of scholarly achievement and supports students with supervision only by those with expertise in the field, a weekly postgraduate work-in-progress seminar, annual postgraduate conference, training workshops, research completion and publication incentives and an environment of staff-student collegiality through seminars, shared work spaces and common facilities.

Australian and New Zealand scholarship applicants must submit their forms to the Research and Graduate Studies Office and should contact the psotgraduate coordinator as well as a potential supervisor prior to applying. International scholarship applicants must submit their application to the International Programs Office. Please check scholarships pages for application dates and deadlines. Students may also apply for a range of grants and awards to help fund their studies including: research grants, publication awards and thesis completion awards.

Dr. Claudia Haake
Lecturer in History / Postgraduate Coordinator
History Program
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2054
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: c.haake@latrobe.edu.au
Visit the website at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/postgraduate.html

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CfP: Remembering Totalitarianism: The Redemption of Former Rule in the Built Environment, 06/17-20/2010, Portugal

Deadline: October 30, 2009

Call for papers: 1st International Meeting, European Architectural History
Network (EAHN)
June 17-20, 2010
Guimarães, Portugal
http://www.eahn2010.org/

Remembering Totalitarianism: The Redemption of Former Rule in the Built Environment

The practice of damnatio memoriae – the deletion of all traces of a previous ruler – dates to antiquity. There is no such simple approach, though, to the re-use or re-naming of such vestiges in the built environment. In the 20th and early 21st centuries – in the aftermath of right- and left-wing regimes of total rule, from Spain to Estonia – issues of preservation and commemoration, rather than erasure, have become lightning rods for political sentiment. Only in Germany are signs of terminated totalitarianism absolutely forbidden; alternatively, in France, the Vichy regime has been collectively swept under the rug perhaps even more effectively than by constitutional decree. But in numerous other post-fascist and post-communist settings, emblematic government buildings and monuments remained. These have sometimes been re-inscribed as counter-totalitarian, or more often treated as though they were unimportant, neutral signs of a defeated tyranny; and with the passing of living memory, new generations have indeed seen them as such.

Since 1989, however, in an increasing number of instances citizens have demanded the retention, even the honoring of constructions identified with their own past subjugation – from one point of view – or former glory and better rule than today’s – from another. In a post-totalitarian Europe, in other words, the meaning of politically charged buildings is up for grabs more than ever before. This session aims to present case studies to this effect, and beyond that, to develop a comparative framework for such studies. Can we consider the protection of relics of Italy’s fascist past – architectural and monumental, much in evidence and increasingly restored rather than demolished – as similar to the epic statuary and massive
architecture of the former Soviet bloc? Are there similarities in the motivations and mechanisms for such preservation, and even renewed political consecration? And if so, does this suggest that the rehabilitation of atrocious collective memory is sometimes preferable to the denial of such recollection altogether? Papers should address the delicate balance of selective collective memory in the built environment, but they need not be limited to modern or contemporary cases, nor to strictly national or governmental topics.

Please send paper proposals and short CVs by email to:

Prof. Mia Fuller, Italian Studies Department, University of California, 6303 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2620, USA, Fax number 1. 510. 642. 6220, Email: miafuller@gmail.com

Posted by agripley at 11:25 AM

CfPJournal : Political Communication, CEU PSJ

Deadline: for submissions: December 1, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
Vol. 5, Issue 2:
Political Communication

The Journal accepts now submissions for its issue on "Political Communication". We welcome contributions bearing on all aspects of Political Communication. These include but not limited to media and political socialization, the use of media in political campaigning and elections, the role of media in forming and shaping public opinion and their impact on political participation and political mobilization. We are equally interested in the interactions between media and different organizations such as interest groups, political parties and NGOs. The use of new media in general and the internet in particular in modern political communication is also of interests to the Journal.

The submitted articles should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Authors should clearly indicate at the time of submission if another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been/will be published elsewhere. For details regarding the submission format, check the "Guidelines for Authors" section http://www.personal.ceu.hu/PolSciJournal/guidelines.html

Authors should also include details of their institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information. Any acknowledgements should be included in a special footnote at the beginning of the text.

The Editorial Board
CEU Political Science Journal
www.ceu.hu/polscijournal
Nador ut. 9, 1051 Budapest,
Hungary

Posted by agripley at 10:07 AM

CfP: Multireligious Societies - Polarization, Co-Existence, Indifference, 08/04-06/2010, Norway

Deadline: November 1, 2009

The 20th Nordic Conference in Sociology of Religion will take place on August 4 - 6, 2010, at University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. The conference language is English, and we welcome warmly participants from within and outside the Nordic countries.

Job: Modern European History

Deadline: November 1, 2009

Stanford University/Department of History - Assistant Professor, Modern European History

The Department of History at Stanford University seeks an outstanding junior scholar for a tenure-track assistant professorship in modern European history (1800-present). The appointment begins September 1, 2010.

We welcome applicants from all fields, excluding Britain, France, and Russia. Candidates working on more than one region are invited to apply.

Deadline: November 1, 2009. Application materials must be submitted on-line via www.academicjobsonline.org/ajo

Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample (up to 50 pages).

Contact Info:

Academic Jobs Online
http://www.academicjobsonline.org/ajo

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Posted by agripley at 10:00 AM

Job: Roman history, CA

Deadline: November 15, 2009

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – ROMAN HISTORY

The Departments of Classics and History at the University of Southern California are conducting a multi-department search for a Roman historian at the rank of assistant or early-career associate professor. If junior in rank, the successful candidate will be expected to hold appointment in only one of the two participating departments. At the associate level, a joint appointment is a possibility. Candidates must have Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2010, and a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching and research. Ability to participate in interdisciplinary endeavors linking the study of the ancient world to other areas of intellectual inquiry desirable.

Send application materials, including cv, description of research interests, at least three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample (ca. 20-30 pages) to Roman History Search Committee, Department of Classics, THH 256, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0352, or electronically to Christine Shaw (shawc@usc.edu). USC strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Women and men, and members of all racial and ethnic groups are encouraged to apply. For full consideration materials must arrive no later than November 15, 2009.

Contact Info:
Christine Shaw
Department of Classics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0352
Website: http://college.usc.edu/clas/home/

Posted by agripley at 09:59 AM

Job: History of Modern Britain and British Africa, NY

Deadline: November 1, 2009

State University of New York - Brockport - Assistant Professor, History of Modern Britain and British Africa

Modern Britain and British Africa.

The History Department at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, seeks to fill a full-time tenure track position at the assistant professor rank beginning in August 2010.

Required qualifications: Ph.D. in History at the time of appointment, strong research program, ability to teach introductory modern world history and courses on Britain, modern Africa, and Europe at the upper division and MA levels.

Preferred qualifications: specialty in Modern British History with a research focus or second field in British Africa and graduate training in World History.

Initial review of applications begins Nov. 1 and continues to Dec. 15. We will interview at the AHA. Letter of application, c.v., writing sample, and statement of teaching philosophy should be submitted to www.brockportrecruit.org

Transcripts and three letters of recommendation should be sent to Dr. Anne Macpherson, History Department, The College at Brockport, 350 New Campus Drive., Brockport NY, 14420. AA/EOE.

Contact Info:
Dr. Anne Macpherson
History Department
The College at Brockport
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport NY, 14420
Email: amacpher@brockport.edu

Website: http://www.brockportrecruit.org

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