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June 24, 2008
Fulbright: Opportunities for Both Area and Non-Area Specialists to Lecture and/or Conduct Research
The Fulbright Scholar Program for Faculty and Professionals is offering a variety of opportunities for both area and non-area specialists to lecture, conduct research, or carry out both activities in the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia for academic year 2009-10. The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program offers awards that range from 2 to 10 months. Scholars may conduct research independently or in collaboration with host country colleagues. Applications are welcome from scholars in a broad range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Opportunities also exist for professionals in such fields as law, public administration, conflict resolution, journalism, library science, and education. While many awards specify project and host institution, there are a number of open "All Discipline" awards that allow candidates to propose their own projects and determine their host institution affiliation. Foreign language skills may be required for certain research projects, but lecturing awards are in English. The application deadline for 2009-10 is August 1, 2008. For general information about application requirements and staff contacts, visit the CIES Web site at www.cies.org.
The Fulbright-University of Warsaw Distinguished Chair in East European/Eurasian Studies is seeking specialists to lecture in East European, Russian and/or Eurasian studies at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels with possibilities for research. Special interest in 20th-century topics. Desired specializations include history, political science, culture and nationality issues. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and senior scholars with a significant publication and teaching record. For specific information about the chair, contact Maria Bettua, at mbettua@cies.iie.org, 202-686-6245 or Abby Greenwell, agreenwell@cies.iie.org or 202-686-6232. The application deadline is August 1, 2008. Visit the CIES Web site at www.cies.org for additional information.
Muriel Joffe, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Europe, East and North
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
TEL: 202-686-6249
E-mail: mjoffe@cies.iie.org
FAX: 202-362-3442
Posted by sjearlds at 08:35 AM
CfA: ECMI Internship Opportunities
The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg, Germany is soliciting applications for internship positions for the period October to December. The deadline for application is 30 June. For full details on internships and on application procedures, please see the following web page.
ECMI Internship Page
http://www.ecmi.de/rubrik/20/intern+positions/
Posted by sjearlds at 08:31 AM
Diaspora: Europe - A Continent of Immigration?
http://CALL FOR PAPERS ON "EUROPE - A CONTINENT OF IMMIGRATION? LEGAL
CHALLENGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN MIGRATION POLICY"
Please find below information on the 7th International Workshop for
Young Scholars (WISH) and its call for papers. The 7th WISH is intended to deal with the legal challenges of the European migration policy.
Contributions are invited on relevant topics identified by the applicant(including but not limited to the following):
Union Citizenship
* After Enlargement: Reception of New EU Citizens in the 'Old' Member
States.
* Intra-European Migration: A Variation or a Distinct Pattern of
International Migration?
* Union Citizenship (and its comparison with the status of third country
nationals): Cosmopolitan Model or Supranational Nation-Building?
Legal Status of Third Country Nationals
* Realising the Tampere Programme: 'Securisation' of a Rights-Based
Policy Approach?
* Ordre Public between Fundamental Freedoms and State Sovereignty.
* Transnational Migration Rights within the Single Market ('Blue Card',
Dir. 2003/109 EC)?
* Social Integration: National and European Approaches.
Paths of Legal Migration
* The Experience of Classical Immigration Countries: A Model for the
European Union?
* A European Challenge? Should Member States or the European Union
regulate the access of third country nationals.
* 'Brain Gain': Attracting Highly Qualified Migrants, Students and
Researchers.
* 'Brain Drain': The Perspective of Sending Countries; Interests and/or
Anxieties.
* Circular Migration: The Prospect of Mobility Partnerships.
Illegal Immigration & Return
* Controlling European Borders (incl. Frontex Agency).
* The Virtual Border: Proliferation of Migration Databases.
* Status of Sans-Papiers: Human Rights, Regularisations and their Limits.
* EU readmission (& visa facilitation) agreements with third countries.
* The role of organised crime in illegal immigration into the EU.
Refugees and Asylum
* Forced Migration: Dynamism and Limits of the Categorisation.
Evaluating the European Legislative Approach.
* Subsidiary Protection: Establishing a New Category.
* Dublin II: Burden Sharing or Illegal Refoulement?
* The Future Common European Asylum System: Beyond the Asylum Procedure,
Reception and Qualifications Directives.
Proposals may be submitted in either English or French.
Proposals should be submitted to Daniel Thym by 30th June 2008 at the latest
by e-mail:
daniel.thym@rewi.hu-berlin.de
or by mail:
Dr. Daniel Thym
Graduate Programme "Multilevel Constitutionalism"
Faculty of Law
Humboldt-University
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Germany
For further information please consult the Workshop website at
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ceric/colloques/rijc.htm
or contact: wish@grakov-berlin.eu
Posted by sjearlds at 08:22 AM
June 17, 2008
International Peace Research Institute Director
Deadline for applications is 31 August 2008.
The International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) is seeking to appoint a new Institute Director, to start 01 June 2009.
The Institute Director is responsible for the management of the Institute and reports to its Board. The Institute Director oversees the formulation and implementation of the Institute’s strategies for research and publication, staffing, finance and all other key activities.
The Institute Director should be fluent in oral and written English. Knowledge of a Scandinavian language is an advantage.
Please follow this link for more information about the position.
http://www.prio.no/About/Vacancies/?item=4
Agnete Schjønsby
Information Director
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
Tel: +47 22 54 77 10 / 90 57 15 03
Posted by sjearlds at 09:11 AM
History of Science, European History, MO
Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO
The Department of History and Political Science at Missouri University of Science & Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship for fall 2009 in the History of Science with a specialization in any area of European History (including Great Britain and Russia). Candidates must be prepared to teach survey courses in Western Civilization.
Candidates must have Ph.D. no later than August 15, 2009 and must provide evidence of excellence in teaching and scholarship.
Send letter of application, C.V., graduate transcript, three letters of reference, a teaching portfolio, and a sample of scholarship by December 1, 2008, to Human Resource Services, Reference #00037478 Missouri University of Science & Technology, 30 West 12th St ., Rolla, MO 65409-1050. Contact hrsinfo@mst.edu for assistance if needed.
Posted by sjearlds at 09:10 AM
Two-year Postgraduate Researcher (50%) for Computational Linguistics /Computer Science, Heidelberg
JOB OPENING
As part of the "Innovation Fonds for Frontier Research" (FRONTIER) of
the Excellence Initiative at the University of Heidelberg, the
Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for a two-year Postgraduate Researcher (50%)for Computational Linguistics / Computer Science.
The successful applicant will work within the project "Tracking America after 9/11: A Data-Driven Approach to Semantic "Imprints of Texts," coordinated by Noah Bubenhofer, Martin Klimke and
Joachim Scharloth, and develop the necessary applications for a
data-driven corpus analysis.
The applicant should have completed his/her studies in computational
linguistics or computer science and needs to have expertise in (at least some of) the following areas:
- large corpora
- statistics (multivariate data analysis)
- programming (perl or another scripting language)
- unix operating systems
- fluency in German and English
The applicant will work closely with specialists in linguistics, the
social sciences, and computer science.
The position is designed for 2 years and is the equivalent to
remunerated according to state employees salary scheme TV-L 13 (50%).
The start of the project is scheduled for August 1, 2008.
Further inquiries about the position should be directed to
bubenhofer@semtracks.com.
More information about the project can be found at www.semtracks.com.
Applicants are requested to submit their applications (cover letter, CV,
possible references) electronically to:
bubenhofer@semtracks.com
Review of applications will begin: *June 15, 2008*
The HCA is a central academic institution of the University of
Heidelberg, encouraging higher education, promoting advanced research,
and facilitating public debate. Ten disciplines provide the
institutional framework of the HCA, manifesting a concentration of
interdisciplinary expertise about the United States that is unique in
Europe.
Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais
Hauptstr. 120, 69120 Heidelberg
http://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/
The University of Heidelberg seeks to increase the number of female
employees in areas in which they are traditionally underrepresented.
Female applicants with the necessary qualifications are therefore
particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants with disabilities but
otherwise equal qualification will receive priority.
Posted by sjearlds at 09:07 AM
Germania Remembered 1500 - 2009, 11/19-20/2009, London
CONFERENCE
Germania Remembered 1500 - 2009
Thursday, 19 - Friday, 20 November 2009
Venue: Stewart House/Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Co-Ordinators: Dr Christina Lee and Dr Nicola McLelland (University
of Nottingham)
Call for Papers
2009 marks the two thousandth anniversary of the Battle of the
Teutoburger Wald ('Hermannsschlacht') when 'Hermann' (Arminius) and
the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci defeated the Roman forces. This
event is widely remembered in post-medieval sources, where it has
served as a template for a proud tradition of 'free Germania' for
writers and scholars in Germany and beyond. Ever since the
rediscovery of sources like Tacitus's Germania in the fifteenth
century, not just remembrance of the Teutoburger Wald, but also
subsequent rediscoveries and re-creations of the Germanic inheritance have been incorporated into the self-images of Germany and of other
countries. Such remembrances and reinventions have taken many
different forms, from uncritical praise (as seventeenth-century
cultural patriots' praise for the ancient Germanic language), to
Romantic medievalism, to biting satire (such as Heine's
'Nordsee' [1825]) and Nazi mythologizing.
The tradition of 'Germania' in German and other literatures and
cultures will be explored at a conference in 2009 at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. How is Germania - the peoples, customs and morals, language and literature, of ancient northern Europe - remembered and reinvented from 1500-2009? How do such remembrances and recreations help construct national or transnational identities, in Europe and beyond? We particularly invite comparative approaches, whether exploring continuities and discontinuities over time, or examining similarities and differences between individual writers, between discourse traditions, and/or in different countries.
Plenary papers:
Professor Roberta Frank and Professor Alexander Rehding will present
plenary lectures at the conference. Professor Frank has published
widely on medievalism, and is Marie Borroff Professor of English at
Yale University. Professor Rehding is at the Department of Music at
Harvard. His article 'The quest for the origins of music in Germany
ca. 1900' was awarded the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical
Association in 2001.
Conference strands:
1. Urtext, Ursprache? The Germanic inheritance in language history
and philology
2. Reinventing traditions: The recreated Germanic past in literature
and culture
3. Germania Historia: The Germanic past in history and philosophy
4. Stage and Screen: The Germanic past in theatre and film
Submission of Abstracts: Abstracts of 350 words should be emailed
(preferably as Word attachments) to both the organizers by 31 JANUARY 2009, indicating under which panel you wish to be considered:
Dr Christina Lee christina.lee@nottingham.ac.uk (School of English
Studies, University of Nottingham), and Dr Nicola McLelland
nicola.mclelland@nottingham.ac.uk (School of Modern Languages,
University of Nottingham)
The conference is sponsored by the Institute for Medieval Research
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medieval/index.php
Posted by sjearlds at 09:04 AM
Johann Mattheson als Vermittler und Initiator, 03/26-28/2009, Hamburg
Bei Interesse an einer Teilnahme erbitten wir die Einsendung eines
Themenvorschlages und einer kurzen, orientierenden Beschreibung bis
31. August 2008.
Tagung im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes
Johann Mattheson als Vermittler und Initiator. Wissenstransfer und
die Etablierung neuer Diskurse in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
Zeitraum: 26.-28. März 2009
Ort: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
Johann Mattheson spielte in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Verhandlung und Vermittlung von Wissen im
deutschsprachigen Raum. Er gilt in erster Linie als zentraler
Musiktheoretiker, seine musiktheoretischen Schriften sind jedoch
eingebettet in ein weit umfangreicheres Schrifttum. Es umfasst u.a.
Übersetzungen von Romanen und historischen Werken aus dem Englischen,
Französischen und Italienischen, philosophische und politische
Schriften sowie die Herausgabe von Zeitschriften. Dieses Schaffen
wird flankiert von einer reichen kompositorischen Produktion, die das
Verfassen und das Einrichten von Libretti einschließt.
Die Tagung, veranstaltet von den Universitäten Halle-Wittenberg
und Magdeburg in Zusammenarbeit mit der Staats- und
Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, will Mattheson in
der Gesamtheit seines schriftstellerischen Oeuvres und seines
kompositorischen Schaffens insbesondere für die Bühne in den Blick
nehmen. Im Vordergrund des Interesses steht die Vielfalt der
Wissensordnungen und Praktiken, an denen er teilhatte und die eine
wesentliche Grundlage seiner musiktheoretischen Neuansätze bilden.
Seine Opern und Opernbearbeitungen sollen in diesem Zusammenhang als
Dokumente des Transfers internationaler musikdramatischer Modelle und
als wesentliche Grundlagen der musikalischen Schriften verstanden
werden.
Die Referate der Tagung sollen sich folgenden Schwerpunkten
widmen, wobei stets ein direkter Bezug zu Mattheson bestehen sollte:
1) Vermittlung und Initiation neuer Diskurse
- die Etablierung eines kritischen bzw. 'räsonnierenden'
Zeitschriftenwesens
- Persistenz und Transformationen des 'galanten Diskurses'
- die Begründung eines eigenständigen (musik-)ästhetischen Diskurses
- Mattheson und die Entstehung der Empfindsamkeit in Deutschland
- Künstler-Biographik
2) Rezeption, Vermittlung und Diskussion philosophischer und
theologischer Strömungen
- theologische Kontroversen
- empiristische (Locke) und eklektische Philosophie (Thomasius)
- Erbauungsliteratur
- Mattheson und die Ästhetik in Deutschland vor Baumgarten
3) Vermittlung durch Übersetzung
- historisch-politische Schriften
- Matthesons Tätigkeit als Diplomat
- poetische Werke und Romane
4) Mattheson und die Oper: Sänger, Komponist, Bearbeiter, Apologet
- "vermischter Geschmack" bei Mattheson
- die Begründung des sensualistischen Ansatzes aus der Oper
- Mattheson als ?komponierender Diplomat??
- Mattheson als Verfasser, Übersetzer und Bearbeiter von Libretti
- Transformationen von Affekt und Rhetorik in Matthesons
Kompositionspraxis
- Pro und Contra einer ?aussterbenden Gattung?: Mattheson als
Verfechter der Oper
Geplant ist ein Zeitrahmen von je 30min pro Referat einschließlich
Diskussion.
Die Kosten für An- und Abreise sowie für drei Übernachtungen werden
vorbehaltlich der Bewilligung entsprechender Mittel übernommen.
Parallel zur Tagung findet im Foyer der Staats- und
Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg eine Ausstellung mit Exponaten aus
Matthesons Nachlass statt.
Bei Interesse an einer Teilnahme erbitten wir die Einsendung eines
Themenvorschlages und einer kurzen, orientierenden Beschreibung bis
31. August 2008 an:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Institut für Musik: Abteilung Musikwissenschaft
Hansjörg Drauschke
Kleine Marktstraße 7
06108 Halle (Saale)
hansjoerg.drauschke@musikwiss.uni-halle.de
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Institut für Germanistik
Dr. Dirk Rose
Zschokkestraße 32
39104 Magdeburg
dirk.rose@ovgu.de
Rückfragen auch unter:
+49-(0)345-5524558
+49-(0)391-6716591
Posted by sjearlds at 09:02 AM
European Yearbook of Minority Issues Vol. 7 (2008)
Call for submissions
to the European Yearbook of Minority Issues
Vol. 7 (2008)
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
General Editors: Arie Bloed, Rainer Hofmann, Joseph Marko, James Mayall, John Packer, Athanasia Spiliopoulou Akermark, Marc Weller
The European Yearbook of Minority Issues is a peer-reviewed publication that provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe at a high scholarly level. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to diversity and conflict management, international and domestic legal developments, as well as political and social changes and trends affecting minorities in Europe. Apart from providing a unique annual overview of minority issues for both scholars and practitioners in this field, the Yearbook will be an indispensable reference tool for libraries, research institute as well as governments and international organizations.
Types of submission:
General article:
General articles are analyses at high scholarly level from all social sciences of general questions relating to the protection of minorities, prefereably but not necessarily linked to developments, discussions or events that are taking place in the period under consideration, i.e. the year 2008. General articles are between 5.000 and 8.000 words long.
Focus article:
One focus in the forthcoming yearbook will be dedicated to the topic “Democracy and Minority Governance”. Authors are invited to submit contributions concerning the participation of minorities in democratic governance at national and in particular at regional and local level. Articles on economic participation of minorities are particularly welcome. Focus articles are between 5.000 and 8.000 words long.
Report on national developments:
Reports on national developments review developments of minority legislation and policy at domestic level in the period under consideration, i.e. in the year 2008. Authors are invited to submit English versions of discussed legislation. Reports are about 3.000 words long.
Book review:
Book reviews give a report about the book and engage in a critical intellectual assessment of the book’s contents. Book reviews are between 600 and 1.500 words long.
Procedure:
Authors interested to submit a general article, focus article or report of national developments submit an abstract of 200-300 words to the co-managing editors Emma Lantschner(emma.lantschner@eurac.edu) and Tim Dertwinkel (dertwinkel@ecmi.de). They will be informed in the course of two weeks, whether their proposal has been accepted or not. Submitted articles will be peer-reviewed. The final decision on the publication of the article will depend on the result of this process.
Deadlines:
- for submission of abstracts: 18 July 2008
- for general and focus articles: 3 October 2008
- for reports on national developments and book reviews: 5 December 2008
Posted by sjearlds at 09:01 AM
CFP: Worship, Liturgy and Music in Early Modern England. 09/08-08/2009, Durham
Worship, Liturgy and Music in Early Modern England. Durham, England, 8-9 September 2009.
An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council.
Main speakers:
Roger Bowers (Jesus College, Cambridge)
John Craig (Simon Fraser University)
Christopher Marsh (Queen's, Belfast)
Peter McCullough (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Bryan Spinks (Yale Divinity School)
We invite short twenty-minute communications on topics relevant to the
conference from historians, literary scholars, theologians,
musicologists and others.
Limited bursaries are available to assist postgraduate students.
For more information and booking, see
http://www.dur.ac.uk/worship.network/wlm/
Posted by sjearlds at 08:59 AM
SUNTA GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
($250 plus favorable consideration for publication)
The Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology
is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
competition. Students in anthropology MA and PhD programs are invited to submit papers pertaining to urban, national, and transnational/global anthropology and/or any of the areas of interest to SUNTA, including refugees and immigrants, poverty and homelessness, and space and place.
The winner to be announced at the 2008 AAA meetings will receive a $250 cash prize plus favorable consideration for publication in City and Society. The prize is not restricted to U.S. programs or U.S. residents. The prize is not restricted to SUNTA members or to those who have participated in SUNTA programming.
Guidelines: Papers should be submitted to Gautam Ghosh at
gghosh@sas.upenn.edu on or before August 1,2008. Submission by email is preferred but not required.
Papers (a) must draw on original ethnographic research and (b) cannot
have been previously published. Co-authored submissions are acceptable
provided all authors are graduate students; co-winners would share the
cash prize. Papers should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages
including notes, citations, etc. Formatting is flexible but authors
should be clear and consistent throughout.
Posted by sjearlds at 08:55 AM
Postdoc Scholarship, Erfurt, Germany
Commencing 1 November 2008 the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion program at the University of Erfurt will offer several Postdoctoral Scholarships.
1. Communication and Digital Media
2. a) Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Science
b) Monetary and Financial Economics
3. a) Literary Studies: Texts. Signs. Media.
b) Language and Mind
4. a) Transregional Area Studies
b) European Studies (Law, Economics, Social Sciences)
A total of one Postdoctoral Scholarship for Women will be offered.
Successful candidates will be able to work in an outstanding research
environment. They will profit from an innovative conception of mutual
team support and an intensive mentoring programme. With their research they will be integrated into cross-disciplinary research teams, and in this research-oriented environment will receive systematic preparation for either an academic or non-academic career. The research-oriented graduate training will be effectively supported by a corresponding program of study and further education.
Applicants for Scholarships must hold a PhD in one of the relevant core areas. Postdoctoral scholarships are €1,500 per month and run for a period of up to 3 years. Material and travel expenditures will also be paid. In Erfurt each scholar will have a workstation at his disposal. Scholars are requested to reside in Erfurt for the duration of their scholarship. Participation in seminars of the mentoring research teams is mandatory.
Deadline for applications is July 12th, 2008. Applications for
scholarships must include:
* an outline of the postdoctoral project (approx. 5 pages, with a clear delineation of the topic as well as the current state of research, method of approach and hypotheses; must also include a work schedule and projected date of completion)
* curriculum vitae
* a copy of the applicant's undergraduate degree (can be submitted later)
* A copy of the applicant's master's thesis or doctoral dissertation
* A letter of recommendation or evaluation from a university teacher
regarding the applicant's character and qualifications
Applications must include the applicant's choice of a research team.
Information about the individual research teams can be found on the
following pages:
1. Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (Graduate School of the
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/maxwe/ Max Weber Center, the
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/forum_religion/ Interdisciplinary Forum for
Religion and the http://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungszentrum-gotha/
Gotha Research Center),
2. http://www.uni-erfurt.de/kw/comdigmed/links.html Communication and
Digital Media
3. a)http://www.uni-erfurt.de/cereb/ Empirical Research in Economics
and Behavioral Science
b) http://www.uni-erfurt.de/moffo/e_start.htm Monetary and Financial
Economics
4. a) http://www.uni-erfurt.de/litwis/forum_english.htm Literary
Studies: Texts.Signs.Media
b) http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/fl&m/index.html Forum
Language and Mind
5. a) http://www.uni-erfurt.de/plattform-weltregionen/indexe.htm
Transregional Area Studies
b) http://www.uni-erfurt.de/offenes_europa/index2.htm European Studies (Law, Economics, Social Sciences)
Applications may be submitted to:
Erfurt University, Vizepräsidium für Forschung und wissenschaftlichen
Nachwuchs, Nordhäuser Str. 63, D-99084 Erfurt.
Applications must be submitted in writing and electronically.
vpf@uni-erfurt.de. The file must not exceed 2 MB.
Queries may be sent to Angelika Tetzel or Thomas Horstmann (
angelika.tetzel@uni-erfurt.de;
thomas.horstmann@uni-erfurt.de, Tel.
0361/737 5040).
Posted by sjearlds at 08:48 AM
June 03, 2008
Early Modern Parish Church, 04/06-08/2009, Oxford
The Early Modern Parish Church
Worcester College, Oxford, UK
6-8 April 2009
Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. This interdisciplinary conference will facilitate a better understanding of the evolution and importance of this religious building within communities across Europe during the confessional, economic, political and social changes of the early modern period.
To offer a 20 minute paper, please email an abstract and short CV to kjohnson@brookes.ac.uk
no later than 30 November 2008
The Early Modern Parish Church Conference
c/o Kathryn Johnson
Department of History,
Tonge Building,
Gipsy Lane Campus,
Headington,
OXFORD.
OX3 0BP
United Kingdom
Visit the website at http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/research/project/parishchurch_and_religiouslandscape/
Posted by sjearlds at 02:03 PM
Grieg in the European Context, 05/13-16/2009, Berlin
International Grieg Society (IGS) will meet in
Berlin, Uni der Künste, 13-16 May 2009.
The topic of the conference will be:
"GRIEG IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT"
Individual and common traits in the European artistic scene -
With emphasis on the period ca. 1880s to 1930s
The board of the IGS will welcome proposals for papers in historical musicology, analysis, pedagogy, presentations of projects etc within
the main theme of the meeting. Proposals must be sent our secretary, Ms. Monica Jangaard, director of the Grieg Museum, Troldhaugen, Bergen, before October 1. Young scholars may apply for a travel grant.
More detailed information is found on
http://www.griegsociety.org/default.asp?kat=462&id=4636&sp=1
Posted by sjearlds at 02:01 PM
Material & Visual Cultures of Dress in European Courts, Versailles, 06/04-06/2009
Material & Visual Cultures of Dress in European Courts
France
(1300-1815)- château de Versailles - 4-5-6 June 2009
An international symposium devoted to the material and visual cultures of dress in the European courts (1300-1815) will be held in Versailles between the 4th and the 6th of June 2009. At the same time a big exhibition on court costumes (17th-18th centuries) will be held at the Versailles Palace (spring 2009). The symposium will deal with topics related to clothing in European courts with a larger chronological time frame, from the end of the Middle Ages, when a « body of fashion » was established and when the courts began to expand. It ends with the last splendour of the French imperial court.
The symposium of Versailles will give the opportunity to survey the current state of research in this field, consider the evolutions between 1300 and 1815, compare the courts and grasp their mutual influences. The conference will be at the crossroads of several fields of research: the Court Studies that have shown the court to be a central site of power and culture; the history of material culture and consumption; lastly the fields of the culture of appearances and those of visual cultures.
The symposium looks at three topics:
• The royal and princely wardrobes in Europe (1300-1815)
• The pictures of the way of dressing at courts in Europe (1300-1815)
• The court dress put on stage: stage, screen, podium (20th-21st c.)
Isabelle Paresys
IRHiS Septentrion - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion
UMR 8529 - Université de Lille 3 / CNRS
Domaine universitaire du Pont de Bois- B.P. 60 149
59 659 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex
Email: isabelle.paresys@univ-lille3.fr
Visit the website at http://veticoursymposium2009.blogspot.com/
Posted by sjearlds at 01:58 PM
NEGOTIATING THE PAST:ON THE USES AND MISUSES OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
The 6th Annual Conference of the Louisiana Consortium
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE
October 25-26, 2008
Keynote Address by Professor Patrick Geary, UCLA:
"Ethnic Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past"
The 2008 meeting of the Louisiana Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on October 25th and 26th, 2008. Participants will conduct the 2008 consortium in a seminar structure, where they will workshop their pre-circulated scholarly papers. All scholars and interested parties are encouraged to attend.
We welcome paper proposals from all areas of medieval and Renaissance studies. We encourage the engagement of multiple methodologies, media, and disciplines.
Please send a 300-word abstract, along with current curriculum vitae, contact information and audio/visual requirements by September 1, 2008 to:
Sara Ritchey
Department of History
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
554 Griffin Hall
P.O. Box 42531
Lafayette, LA 70504
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