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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
College of the Atlantic is committed to academic excellence, cultural diversity, and multicultural education. COA is an AA/EEO employer. Applications are especially encouraged from persons who would enhance the ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity of the College.
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.
Heilbronn University is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified women, minorities and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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
A) Tracks
The panels will be divided into five thematic networks (tracks):
1. Contemporary History, Politics, Science and Economics
This track will focus on the interrelationship between politics, economics and scientific developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. Challenges for state actors and institutions arising from the increasing participation of international actors and from changes in civil society will be discussed in the light of current approaches which are being pursued in political history, as well as those resulting from the recent paradigm shift in economic history. In particular, we hope to stimulate ideas on which fresh and alternative perspectives in contemporary history can develop from these new historical methodologies.
In addition, our aim is to highlight the impact of scientific knowledge on all sectors of society as a key structural feature of modernity and to show the impact of its diverse forms. Technological, medical and scientific findings have influenced and shaped both political and economic processes, as well as the conduct of everyday life in the 20th century, to an unprecedented extent. This is particularly in evidence during phases of social transition. The interaction between political and economic spheres and a number of scientific and scholarly disciplines will also be discussed in relation to the production, consolidation and adaptation of gender stereotypes.
2. Contemporary History, Interpretation, Hegemony
History has a significant contribution to make to the formation of political identities and provides, therefore, material for political controversies. Where does this leave research in contemporary history? What roles does research assign to social groups that have been discriminated against on the basis of gender, origin or religion? In what ways should or could research contribute to alleviating those forms of discrimination? In public debates historians are usually accorded a comprehensive status as experts. In this way they play an active role in the struggle for hegemony and ‘moral capital’. This is clearly contradicted by the self-perception of historians in general whose self-confidence and trust in the relevance of their discipline has not yet recovered from structuralist critique. What goods can contemporary historians actually ‘deliver’ and for whom? Relatively little attention has been devoted to date to the appropriation of both research results and the research effort itself by civil society. What experiences have been made to date that we can draw on, which questions arise, not only regarding research itself, but also its popularisation and its exploitation for the benefit of society? What forms of public-mediation work in the field of contemporary history have proved effective? What forms have failed to deliver?
3. Contemporary History and Culture
The differentiation of research in contemporary history since the so-called ‘Cultural Turn’ has increasingly resulted in directing attention at both material and symbolic aspects of cultural practices. In the context of contemporary history, the historical interactions between elite and popular cultures and the effects and the reception of media formations will be explored, as well as issues concerning public debates and cultural codes. Priority will be given to the question of those actors who are invariably identifiable according to attributes based on class, ‘race’ and gender and of their specific subjectivation techniques and and the action potentially inherent in their everyday lives. As ‘historical perceptions’ originate above all from material and symbolic pictures, a consideration of visual culture in the analysis of the sources is becoming increasingly more important.
For the track ‘Contemporary History and Culture’, the methodologies employed by Oral History in the study of everyday life are crucial, as is the use of audiovisual media, film and photography. This relates to the ‘Visual Turn’ and/or ‘Visual History’ and its effects on the historical construction of identities, and, last but not least, the ‘Spatial Turn’ in the exploration of architecture and power structures of lived-in spaces.
Special interest will be given to contributions dealing with these (and related) topics that pay consideration to an analysis of the gender dimension.
4. Contemporary History Between National and Transnational perspectives
At the beginning of the 21st century the political and societal significance of international networks and global interdependencies is more in evidence than ever. This is reflected in a methodological shift within historical studies, which increasingly strive to transcend the still dominant nationally defined perspectives in favour of transnational relationships and frames of reference. What are the difficulties that confront contemporary history’s attempts to reconstruct such transfer processes? What contribution can the most recent transnational and comparative research approaches make to the exploration of topics that have hitherto been dealt with almost exclusively in national terms, such as topics of everyday history, of the
research on violence, dictatorship, herstory and gender issues? Which are the most important issues of transnational history which should be prioritized?
In the light of the growing importance of transnational perspectives, questions concerning the different stages and the consequences of scientific and cultural transfers and such topics as migration as a catalyst of supra-regional processes of exchange are demanding more and more attention. What impact do transnational processes have in different parts of the world on politics, culture and the economy and how do they affect different population groups, social relationships and family networks? This makes contributions focusing on national heroines/heroes and victims, or on myths and traditions before the backdrop of growing international networking, especially welcome.
5. Free Submissions (Open Space)
Composition of the panels:
• Each panel will consist of three speakers.
• Commentators may either be suggested by the submitters themselves or chosen from a list provided by the organisation committee. Chairs are nominated by the organisation committee.
• A maximum of two researchers per panel belonging to one and the same institution is acceptable.
• Submissions characterized by sensitivity to gender issues both as regards to contents and personnel are especially welcome.
Structure of the panels:
Presentation of papers: 20 minutes per paper. Commentary: 10 minutes. Final discussion: 20 minutes..
Conference languages: German and English. Each panel will be conducted in either German or English.
Posted by agripley at 02:01 PM
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
Posted by agripley at 01:57 PM
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
We invite you to think of encounters in terms of images and reality, not only in the static sense of stereotypes of Asia and the West, or between minorities within the region, but rather in the dynamic meaning of shifting images in particular circumstances. Think of images projected into the future: a vision, an imagined diverse community, future scenario's. Think of images based on different basic societal and governmental assumptions. Contributions can focus on various levels and domains of encounters: individual, group, organizational, diplomatic, civil-military, environmental, energy, etc. How do various parties and actors envision the North and/or South Caucasus in relation to western policy? The encounters and images could be discussed against the background of Eastern Partnership policy, foreign policy, OSCE, NATO, NGO-donor relations, IDP's, Turkey and the EU.
We encourage a dynamic approach to images also, because the reality of geo-political relations after the collapse of the Soviet Union and after the August war 2008, affected images of one's self and of neighbours and western partners. As a buffer zone in transition the Caucasus stands betwixt and between Asia and the West, between tradition and modernity, between Christianity and Islam, between socialism and capitalism. Some claim that national identities in the Caucasus are shifting towards Asia or towards Europe. On the other hand people construct different images and identities: conglomerate,
diasporic, transnational, multiple, engendering different kinds of encounters, global, intercultural, interethnic.
Finally, existing images and stereotypes have been constructed over centuries of publications and films/documentaries, starting with expeditions to and from the Caucasus. Scientists have travelled to and from the Caucasus writing about their encounters and some even reflecting on their identity and values. In modern times the scientific encounters also entail theoretical encounters such as the more traditional, primordial understanding of image and identity versus the constructionist mode.
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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:
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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
Speakers include:
W. Lance Bennett http://depts.washington.edu/bennett/about.html, University of Washington, USA
Bruce Bimber http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/bimber/, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Donatella Della Porta http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/PoliticalAndSocialSciences/People/Professors/Profiles/todump/bioDellaporta.aspx, European University Institute, Italy
William H. Dutton http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=1, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Brian Loader http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/about/s_load.htm, University of York, UK
Rodica Mocan http://www.plaxo.com/directory/profile/141734557021/4e737db5/Rodica/Mocan, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
The event is supported by the Center for Political Analysis http://www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/en/index.html, the European Studies Department http://www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/en/ (Babeş-Bolyai University), the Science and Technology Studies Unit http://www.york.ac.uk/res/satsu/, and the Department of Sociology http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/degrees/resscitech.htm (University of York)
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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
Im Laufe des "kurzen", aber an Ereignissen buchstäblich übersättigten 20. Jahrhunderts zogen zwei totalitäre Regimes durch den Raum Mitteleuropas. In die direkte Konfrontation mit dem Nazismus und Kommunismus gerieten auch Mitglieder der Adelsgeschlechter. Die geplante Konferenz soll deshalb einen Beitrag zur Erkenntnis der bisher nicht vollständig verarbeiteten Problematik im mitteleuropäischen Rahmen leisten, neue Erkenntnisse über Verhältnisse, Einstellungen und Verhalten des Adels gegenüber den beiden totalitären Regimes, über seinen Aufruhr oder Widerwillen gegen Nazismus oder Kommunismus und seine daraus resultierende Verfolgung bringen. Jenseits der Aufmerksamkeit blieb jedoch auch nicht die andere Seite der Münze, d.h. Kollaboration und Sympathisieren des Adels mit Totalitarismen, insbesondere mit dem Nazismus. Es gibt zwar eine Reihe von Studien zu diesem Thema, viele Arbeiten entstanden jedoch bisher isoliert und ohne den notwendigen Zusammenhang. Diese internationale interdisziplinäre Konferenz soll bisherige Forschungsergebnisse miteinander konfrontieren und Perspektiven der weiteren Forschung aufzeigen.
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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
With the beginning of mass deportations in October 1941, the situation of the Central European Jews took a dramatic turn for the worse. Many of the aspects of what followed connected with the perpetrators, their politics and actions have been extensively researched. Particularly in the western historiography of the Holocaust, however, the victims’ perspective and experience long seemed irrelevant. It is precisely that perspective we want bring into analytical focus, by asking about the experience, inner organisation, reactions and life-changes of those marked by the Nazis as Jews.
Our aim is twofold: First, to follow the victims’ trajectories from the onset of deportations through to liberation; secondly, to do so paying particular attention to the level of everyday experience. Territorially, we focus on Greater Germany (Germany, Austria and the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia). A comparative approach between German, Austrian and Czech Jews’ experience will enable us to trace the range and underlying patterns of victims’ reactions within a reasonably homogenous community, and at the same time to analyse the factors prompting variations in Nazi policies. In addition, we would like to underline that when examining society in extremis, it is crucial to avoid easy moral categories of “good” and “bad” behaviour, and instead to ask about factors and consequences of human behaviour.
Methodologically, the workshop seeks contributions that explicitly operate within the paradigm of social history. We want to understand what society looks like when subjected to extreme persecution, and what remains of pre-war norms. In particular, how can we write the Alltagsgeschichte of a persecuted society? How do people’s self-perception change? How do they interpret their new situation and what behavioural strategies do they then develop? How do they react to and negotiate their own ‘social death’ (Marion Kaplan) – in what way do they internalize their own new low value? In this context, we expressly want to identify appropriate ways of deploying the category of gender (which we explicitly want to understand beyond women’s history).
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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
Posted by agripley at 02:09 PM
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
Posted by agripley at 02:08 PM
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
Posted by agripley at 10:41 AM
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
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
In the meantime, however, a series of political, social and economic changes affected Eastern Europe and the whole notion of a Western versus Eastern type of household/family seems to have taken a different path. First, in his earliest article on the topic (1965), Hajnal defined this pattern as unstable, since he saw the post-WWII Europe as moving toward an earlier age at (and high rates of) marriage. Secondly, studies on Eastern European countries initially excluded from the 'European' marriage group yielded unexpected results. Multi-generation households are a rarity in these countries (Botev, 1990) and age at marriage presents high variation between different regions of Eastern Europe (Sklar,1974), making it difficult to simply divide Europe into an 'European' and 'Non-European' type of household. Thirdly, Ruggles (2009) using data from 97 historical and contemporary censuses, argues that, when variables such as demographic structure and level of agricultural employment are taken into account, the 'Western' family pattern does not
seem to be an exceptional case anymore.
This special issue proposes a discussion of the validity of an 'Eastern' versus 'Western' type of family as a distinct analytic category in family studies in Europe. Specifically, we seek to address, among others, the following questions:
- How useful is this distinction nowadays within the European context?
- Does history continue to play an important role in shaping the household and family characteristics in Eastern as opposed to Western Europe?
- Is there (has ever been) an Eastern European pattern of family?
- Do countries from Eastern Europe have a common family pattern?
- How are they different from the Western European ones?
- How does history shape family systems in Eastern Europe?
- How have the post-1990s changes affected the family ties in these countries?
- How relevant is Hajnal's line today?
Rather than separate case studies, a comparative (in terms of time span, between countries of the region or in comparison with other regions) and
interdisciplinary perspective is preferred.
For the purposes of this special issue, Eastern Europe is considered to include Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and former Yugoslavian countries.
MAIN headings should be UPPER-CASE, bold lettering and centered. Sub-Headings are in bold and lower-case. Subset headings in Italics, not bold.Any 'Notes' must be Endnotes, placed at the end of the text on a separate page.
Each Table, or Figure, must be camera ready, or done on a laser printer, very clear, each on a separate page at the very end of the entire manuscript after the references, etc. Always indicate at the exact place within the text where it is to go, i.e., "Table 2 about here," "Figure 1 about here". (Note: Publishing done only in black/white.)
REFERENCES: Each listed reference must be cited within the text, and vice versa. Single spaced, no indentations, with one blank line between each reference listed. Follow the American Psychological Association (APA) reference style guide (except follow #3 above as your Footnote example). For information on APA Editorial Style, please go to www.apastyle.org
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 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 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
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 10:27 AM
Job: Policy and Political History, Harvard
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 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
Tulane University is a privately endowed institution located in New Orleans, one of the world's unique urban centers. The University holds membership in the Association of American Universities and is a Carnegie Extensive Research University. Tulane is composed of nine academic divisions and home to over ten thousand graduate and undergraduate students. The School of Liberal Arts provides undergraduate students with an outstanding education in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts, developing skills of analysis, research, and written and oral expression that will serve them in their chosen profession. Students work closely with faculty who are distinguished research scholars or creative artists and who are eager to engage students in their work.
Tulane University is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. All eligible candidates are invited to apply for position vacancies as appropriate.
Posted by agripley at 03:30 PM
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
UNCG Greensboro is especially proud of the diversity of its student body, and we seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for this position, including women and members of minority groups. We are an EEO/AA employer with a strong commitment to increasing faculty diversity.
Posted by agripley at 01:46 PM
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/
Founded in 1868, UW-Whitewater is a premier regional university with an enrollment of 10,500 students in 43 undergraduate majors and 13 master's degree programs. It offers high-quality career-oriented programs integrated with a model general education curriculum. UW-Whitewater is part of the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System. Located in a community of 12,000 residents near the scenic Kettle Moraine State Forest in southeastern Wisconsin, Whitewater is within convenient driving distance to the metropolitan areas of Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, and actively seeks and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and all veterans. Names of applicants may be disclosed unless requested otherwise. Names of finalists will be released.
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.
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 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
Posted by agripley at 11:45 AM
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
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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.
Read more on the conference website:
This website will soon be updated with information on accomodation, registration and so on.
Conference theme: MULTIRELIGIOUS SOCIETIES - POLARIZATION, CO-EXISTENCE, INDIFFERENCE
Keynote speakers:
James A. Beckford, University of Warwick (emeritus): The Return of Public Religion? A Critical Assessment of a Popular Claim
Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston: Transnationality and Religion in Immigrant Congregations: The Global Impact
Effie Fokas, London School of Economics: Islam in Europe - Macro-level Debates and Micro-level Adaptations to Religious Plurality
Ole Riis, University of Agder: Religious Pluralism and Intolerance in the Nordic Countries
For the organizers,
Pål Repstad,
Professor in Sociology of Religion.
University of Agder, Service box 422, N-4604 Kristiansand, Norway.
Tel. Work +47 38 14 15 54, Mob. +47 97 65 76 47.
Pal.Repstad@uia.no
Posted by agripley at 10:06 AM
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
Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of and applicants from women and members of minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research and teaching missions.
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
Posted by agripley at 09:54 AM
October 16, 2009
CfP: Hate Speech / Hassrede, 01/29-30/2010, Mainz
Deadline: December 31, 2009
Call for Papers
Interdisziplinärer Workshop an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
"Hate Speech/Hassrede"
Termin: 29./30. Januar 2010
Ort: Fakultätssaal, Philosophicum
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Jörg Meibauer (Deutsches Institut) und Prof. Dr. Ruth Zimmerling (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) in Zusammenarbeit mit SOCUM und dem Mainzer Medieninstitut e.V.
Hate Speech/Hassrede ist jede menschliche Kommunikation, die dazu dient, andere Bevölkerungsgruppen oder deren Mitglieder herabzusetzen oder zu beleidigen. Oft werden dabei Wörter (wie z.B. spic, boche, Kanake) benutzt, die der Verunglimpfung von Minderheiten oder dem Ausdruck von Hass gegenüber anderen Völkern dienen (,ethnic slur terms', Ethnopaulismen). Diese Wörter sind zu Recht als "Wörter, die verwunden" bezeichnet worden (Delgado, Richard/Stefancic, Jean (2004): Understanding Words that Wound. Boulder: Westview Press). Hassrede kann sich richten gegen Personen oder Gruppen mit bestimmten Eigenschaften wie Rassenzugehörigkeit, Religionszugehörigkeit, Geschlecht, sexuelle Orientierung, Nationalität, sozialer Status, Gesundheit und Aussehen. Hassrede kann direkt oder indirekt sein, verdeckt oder offen, gestützt oder nicht gestützt durch Autorität und Macht, begleitet oder nicht begleitet von Gewalt. Für demokratische Gesellschaften stellt sich die Frage nach der Toleranz der Hassrede, erscheint sie doch einerseits durch das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung gedeckt zu sein, andererseits durch das Verbot der Diskriminierung unakzeptabel zu sein. In diesem Workshop streben wir eine breite Diskussion der Hassrede an. Forschungsfragen, zu denen wir Beiträge erhoffen, könnten sein:
. Welche Arten der Hassrede gibt es in den Sprachen der Welt? Gehört die Beleidigungsbedeutung zur wörtlichen Bedeutung von Hassausdrücken oder entsteht sie erst im Redekontext?
. Soll eine demokratisch verfasste Gesellschaft Hassrede tolerieren oder verfolgen?
. Wie gehen verschiedene Rechtssysteme mit der Hassrede um?
. Wie werden mit Hassrede soziale Mehrheit oder Minderheiten konstituiert? Welchen Beitrag leistet die Hassrede bei der Herstellung und Aufhebung von Differenzen?
. Welche Mechanismen des Ausdrucks von Hass werden von den hassenden oder gehassten Bevölkerungsgruppen oder Individuen lizenziert oder gerechtfertigt? Wie entwickeln sich diese Mechanismen in einer historischen Perspektive?
. Wie wird Hass in den verschiedenen Medien ausgedrückt, bekämpft oder reflektiert? Gibt es eine mediale Sensitivität für Hassrede?
. Welche Rolle spielt die Hassrede in Literatur, Film, Musik, bildender Kunst?
. Wie wird Hassrede in der Kindheit erlernt? Verhalten sich die Geschlechter unterschiedlich? Wie reagieren Instanzen der Erziehung wie die Familie oder die Schule auf Hassrede?
. Welche Motive oder Emotionen verbinden sich mit Hassrede?
Wir bitten um Einreichung von Abstracts (nicht länger als eine Seite) bis zum 31. Dezember 2009 an meibauer@uni.mainz.de
und zimmerling@politik.uni-mainz.de
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CfP: Central Europe, 04/15-17/2010, Columbia
Deadline: Nov. 4, 2009
Call for Papers: Association for the Study of Nationalities 2010 Convention
The CENTRAL EUROPE SECTION of the 15th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) invites applications from historians of Germany and German speaking lands. Last year's conference featured papers on the following German topics: ethnic tensions in Upper Silesia, Austrian nationalism, postcolonialism in German cinema, and Polish German reconciliation after World War II. The convention takes place every year at Columbia University, and this year meets 15-17 April 2010. The proposal deadline for papers or panels is Nov. 4, 2009. Those with interest in serving as discussants may also contact the ASN.
The full call for papers can be found at http://www.nationalities.org
Posted by agripley at 04:29 PM
CfP Journal: Revolve-Magazine
Call for Contributors: REVOLVE
REVOLVE is a Mediterranean magazine pushing for positive change around the sea. Within the context of North-South relations, we aim to provide constructive content to advance new ways of viewing international politics, opening investment opportunities, promoting emerging artists, and debating unresolved hot-spots. Revolve is therefore more than just another magazine: we aspire to become a growing network of involved citizens and interested companies that share a common goal around the sea and beyond.
We are looking for positively-oriented and motivated contributors to provide the content for the different regions around the Mediterranean: South Europe, the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East. We are particularly interested in the latest developments in energy, politics, and the arts. Please send this on to your colleagues and do not hesitate to send in proposals to promote a project, product, person or place around the Med and beyond.
Stuart Reigeluth
Editor, Revolve
stuart@revolve-magazine.com
www.revolve-magazine.com
Posted by agripley at 04:28 PM
CfP: Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, April in Vienna, June in Istanbul
Deadline: November 30, 2009
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre - Seraglios and Harems in Theatre, Opera, and Poetry from the Earliest Theatrical Sources to Lord Byron's Don Juan
Don Juan Archiv Wien, Wien; Austrian Cultural Forum, Istanbul
The historical importance of the Ottoman Empire's presence in Europe is highlighted by its frequent appearance in theatre. The aim of the annual series of symposia, alternately hosted in Vienna and Istanbul, is to explore, on the one hand, the various performative expressions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Turkish/Ottoman culture and diplomacy on European theatre stages, and on the other hand, the appearance of European theatre and opera in the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman attitude towards Europe.
Don Juan Archiv Wien invites you to submit abstracts and participate in a series of symposia entitled "Ottoman Empire and European Theatre" by sharing your achievements in the fields of theatre, cultural, and performance studies. Following in the footsteps of conferences in 2008 entitled "The Age of Sultan Selim III and Mozart (1756-1808)", and in 2009, "The Time of Joseph Haydn - From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)", the topic for 2010 is
SERAGLIOS AND HAREMS in Theatre, Opera, and Poetry from the Earliest Theatrical Sources to Lord Byron's Don Juan (1819-1824)
For more information, see http://www.donjuanarchiv.at/verlag/symposia/symposia-2010.html
DATES AND VENUES
- Vienna, Austria: 23-24 April 2010 at the UNESCO ITI, Türkenstraße 19, A-1090 Vienna
- Istanbul, Turkey: 10-11 June 2010 at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Yeniköy, TR-34464 Istanbul
Sessions on Friebert will be held in Vienna, sessions on Byron in Istanbul. The location of all other sessions will be announced in due course.
TOPICS FOR PAPERS
We invite papers on the Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, with especial focus on seraglios and harems. Possible topics include the following:
- Lord Byron's Don Juan and the portrayal of the seraglio and harem
- Travelogues from the Ottoman Empire and the description of the Seraglio by Lady Mary Montague or others
- The earliest "seraglio" interpretations in theatre, ballet, or opera
-Descriptions of the seraglio on stage, including costumes, stage designs, etc.
- "The capture" on stage in theatre, ballet, or opera
- Everyday life in the harem as represented in theatre, ballet, or opera
- Abduction from the seraglio depicted in theatre, ballet, or opera (excluding Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail)
- Palace vs. harem: facts and illusions in architecture, garden, entertainment, clothes
- Joseph Friebert's Das Serail
Scholars and artists who wish to present papers are invited to submit proposals containing the following:
- A one-page abstract of the proposed paper naming the presenter(s);
- Contact information, including name, title, position, university or institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone, fax, and email;
and
- A 75-100-word bio of the presenter(s), including recent publications.
Please submit proposals to: symposium@donjuanarchiv.at
The official language of the symposia is English. Each presentation should last thirty minutes (plus fifteen minutes for discussion). Papers presented will be published in a subsequent publication.
Deadline for submission of proposals: November 30, 2009
For updated program and further information please contact:
Don Juan Archiv Wien, Goethegasse 1, A-1010 Vienna; phone: +43-1-2365605
fax: +43-1-2365605-25
e-mail: symposium@donjuanarchiv.at
web: www.donjuanarchiv.at/verlag/symposia.html
Note: Investigations about the seraglio should avoid discussion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail ('Abduction from the Seraglio'), as the content of this opera has been the subject of a variety of publications and was extensively discussed at our symposia in 2008 and 2009. We prefer to concentrate on material and topics that have been less thoroughly researched, and particularly welcome new findings.
Organiser
Don Juan Archiv Wien, in cooperation with the UNESCO International Theatre Institute in Vienna, and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Istanbul
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Job: European History, Seoul
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
The Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) seeks qualified candidates for non tenure-track positions(the contract will be renewed every 2 years upon evaluation) beginning in the academic year 2010.
Candidates are expected to teach up to nine credits per semester in undergraduate/graduate courses and invited at the Assistant Professor level in the following area:
European History (This course is expected to render the students knowledge of the important historical events & ideas in socio-cultural history of Europe): For more information
sondnhn@skku.edu (Dean of The University College)
Candidates must have the ability to teach effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and must have Ph.D or Ph.D. in hand expected by the time of the appointment.
Sungkyunkwan is synonymous with both tradition and innovation in education. The literal meaning of the University's name is 'an institution for building a harmonious society' of perfected human
beings. The University's faculties of more than 1,000 are committed to quality teaching and research, offering students a challenging environment for intellectual and personal growth. Based on a highly
successful partnership with Samsung who has generously funded several core initiatives, the University has been rapidly developing and prospering.
The yearly salary is USD 35,000 - USD 40,000 or over USD 40,000 and is negotiable depending on the previous educational background and work experience. Salary will be paid in Korean Won with the exchange value of 1,100 KWN/USD.
International guest house provided for 2 years or housing subsidiary (540 USD monthly - Approx. 600,000 KWN)medical insurance, annuity, paid vacation (summer/ winter).
Qualified candidates should submit a letter of intent, curriculum vita(describe applying position on the top of CV), statements of teaching philosophy and teaching interests, evidence of teaching
potential, letters of recommendation from two different references, and a copy of students' lecture evaluation (if possible) to both the chairman of the department (e-mail described above) and the
office of faculty affairs(fainsa@skku.edu).
Anticipated Starting Date: March or September 1, 2010
Sungkyunkwan University(http://www.skku.edu
Posted by agripley at 04:24 PM
Postdoc: Sustainable Societies, FL
University of South Florida Postdoctoral Scholars
Social Sciences and Humanities, 2010-11
Sustainable Societies
The University of South Florida has embarked on an ambitious program to enhance its rising stature as a pre-eminent research university with state, national and global impact, and position itself for membership in the Association of American Universities through: (1) Expanding world-class interdisciplinary research, creative and scholarly endeavors; (2) promoting globally competitive programs in teaching and research; (3) expanding local and global engagement initiatives to strengthen sustainable and healthy communities; and (4) enhancing revenue through external support. Details are available in the USF Strategic Plan http://www.ods.usf.edu/plans/strategic/
As part of this initiative, the University of South Florida is pleased to announce the second year of its Postdoctoral Scholars program in the social sciences and humanities. The over-arching theme for this year's scholars is Sustainable Societies: Building social, cultural, and environmental capital in a globalized world. Potential themes include (but are not limited to) population movements; communication, technology, and information issues; cultural diasporas; health, economic, educational, and environmental disparities; ethnicity, gender, aging; cultural heritage and identity; sustainable development; ethics; or security issues. Specific research and geographical areas are open, and applicants may be considering both past and contemporary questions.
Five postdoctoral scholarships will be awarded in the 2010-11 academic year with appointments beginning August 7th 2010. Appointments are for full time employment (40 hours per week) and are renewable for an additional academic year subject to satisfactory progress. The salary is $40,000 per year and the University contributes to a health insurance program for postdoctoral scholars and their dependents (up to $5,000). Support for travel to academic conferences will also be available. Scholars will be responsible for relocation and housing expenses.
Letters of application and supporting material should include the following:
1. A cover letter stating your interest in the Postdoctoral Scholarship.
Provide details on (i) how your research and teaching expertise would contribute to the theme of Sustainable Societies: Building social, cultural, and environmental capital in a globalized world and the goals and aspirations of the USF Strategic Plan; (ii) the department or departments with which you would like to be affiliated; (iii) teaching experience and courses that you would like to offer; and (iv) your long-term goals.
2. A curriculum vitae.
3. Two letters of reference.
4. Scanned copies of up to three of your published papers/scholarly works or book chapters (maximum of 3).
5. Scanned copies of current academic transcript from all degree awarding institutions.**
Send all application materials to:
The USF Graduate School at postdoc@grad.usf.edu
Application review will begin on November 15
Final application submission deadline November 30
**Original transcripts will need to be mailed by those individuals who receive formal offers.
The University of South Florida is one of the nation's top 63 public research universities and one of 39 community engaged public universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching. USF was awarded more than $380 million in research contracts and grants last year. The university is authorized to provide 224 degrees at the undergraduate, graduate, specialist and doctoral levels, including the doctor of medicine. The University has a $1.6 billion annual budget, an annual economic impact of $3.2 billion, and serves more than 47,000 students on campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and at USF Polytechnic. USF is a member of the Big East Athletic Conference.
Selection Criteria
1. Strength of research/creative scholarship record and demonstrated promise of a successful academic career.
2. Research and teaching experience in Sustainable Societies: Building social, cultural, and environmental capital in a globalized world aligned with the goals of the USF Strategic Plan especially interdisciplinary inquiry, global initiatives and community engagement.
3. Teaching experience and contributions that fit within USF programs.
Postdoctoral Scholars will: (i) contribute to one or more of the priority goals of the strategic plan; (ii) work closely with distinguished faculty; (iii) participate in interdisciplinary and programmatic seminar series; (iv) teach one course each semester; (v) continue to build an independent research record and engage in publishing refereed articles and creative scholarship; and (vi) seek external funding.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree in one of the following disciplines: Anthropology, Communication, English, Geography, Government and International Affairs, History, Philosophy, Sociology or an affiliated program, earned no earlier than 2007. Candidates who will have successfully defended their dissertations by May 1, 2010 will also be considered, however the doctoral degree must have been conferred prior to the first day of employment. Note: applicants must have received their doctoral degree from an institution other than the University of South Florida.
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CfP: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN , 06/09-12/2011, MA
Deadline: March 1, 2010
THE BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN
“GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”
June 9-12, 2011
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011.
2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was first celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of “Generations” reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related questions such as:
• How have women’s generative experiences – from production and reproduction to creativity and alliance building – varied across time and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by contemporaries and scholars alike?
• What are the politics of “generation”? Who is encouraged? Who is condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?
• Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to re-inscribe national/regional/racial boundaries?
• What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as these fields and their practitioners mature?
To encourage transnational discussions, panels will be principally organized along thematic rather than national lines and therefore proposals will be vetted by a transnational group of scholars with expertise in a particular thematic, rather than geographic, field.
For more information about the procedure for submitting proposals visit the Berkshire Conference web page, www.berksconference.org
The process for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed substantially from previous years, so please read the instructions carefully.
Email: lovett@history.umass.edu
Visit the website at http://www.berksconference.org
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CfP: Scholarly Networks in the British Empire, 07/05-06/2010, Oxford
Deadline: December 31, 2009
Scholarly Networks in the British Empire - transnational & imperial connections after 1850
Oxford
Call for Papers
This two-day workshop, to be held 5-6 July 2010 in Wadham College, Oxford, will consider the relationships that existed between scholars and universities located in different parts of Britain, the Empire and the world in the years after 1850. By examining the historical lineages of these networks, it seeks to develop a critical understanding of the processes that helped to shape the varied topographies of today’s entangled scholarly community.
In recent years historians of various persuasions have taken a renewed interest in questions of empire. Despite differences in focus and approach, they have been particularly concerned with the material, human and discursive connections that they have seen as straddling global and imperial geographies and as helping to produce identities and power structures both within Britain and outside it. Scholars have increasingly thought about human and material networks as sites for investigation. However, despite a large body of material concerned with science and empire, and significant research addressing universities in national and European contexts, very little has been written by imperial historians about universities and academics. Neither, despite a shift since the 1960s to consideration of the social and cultural history of education, have educational historians considered the imperial dimensions of British academia. This is especially surprising given that the world of academia serves as a particularly interesting site for the exploration of networks. On the one hand rooted in particular regional communities and, on the other, also home to a mobile elite who dealt in the global currency of ideas, the universities of the British Empire were institutions that explicitly sought to bridge local and imperial cultures. This workshop will provide a forum to investigate the nature and extent of the transnational and imperial connections both of these universities, and of those who worked in them.
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes can be submitted to Tamson Pietsch (tamson.pietsch@new.ox.ac.uk) before 31 December 2009. They should include a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a short CV and should indicate which of the four themes will be examined. For more information including the full Call For Papers visit http://sites.google.com/site/scholarlynetworks
Tamson Pietsch
University of Oxford
New College, OX1 3BN
Papers from a variety of disciplinary and geographic perspectives addressing the following themes are sought:
* Institutions : What was the impact of formal and informal networks on the foundation and development of universities in Britain and the Empire?
* Disciplines : What role did imperial and international connections play in shaping the emergence and development of disciplinary communities, their nature and operation?
* Scholars : What importance did scholarly networks hold for individual scholars: who were they and how was their scholarship, their careers and their self conception influenced and affected by their participation in scholarly networks?
* Nations : To what extent to scholarly networks help construct national communities and identities?
Posted by agripley at 04:16 PM
CFP: "International Society and its Discontents, 03/12-13/2010, Harvard
Deadline: November 20, 2009
"International Society and its Discontents”.
Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
March 12-13, 2010
Call for Papers
The term “international society” is widely used in academic and political parlance. Yet it remains relatively unexamined as a historical concept in its own right. ConIH aims to promote the conceptual analysis of “international society” as well as studies of its intellectual, political, legal, economic, religious, social, and cultural history.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to, international athletic competitions, international lawyers, the cultural and social life of international governmental, non-governmental, and inter-governmental institutions, international health initiatives, or human rights. We also hope to treat the threats to international society: agents of international social disorder, organized crime, terrorism, protectionism, and other barriers to the creation and maintenance of international cooperation and exchange. Papers on the history of international relations that address classic subjects such as war, peace, and diplomacy that cast light on the idea of international society are also welcome. We especially encourage papers treating these questions in periods prior to the twentieth century.
Steffen Rimner
Email: srimner@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/call.htm
Posted by agripley at 03:27 PM
CfP: The Relevance of Encounters with Strangers for Historical Consciousness, nd, Germany
Deadline: November 10, 2009-11-10
The Relevance of Encounters with Strangers for Historical Consciousness. From the Early Modern Period to the End of the Long 19th Century.
Germany
Call for Papers
Since Georg Simmel's famous definition of the stranger as a migrating person "who comes today and stays tomorrow" many studies on sociology, history, literature, culture and philosophy have deepened our knowledge of description and meaning of the stranger. Today, one has to add with Rudolf Stichweh's observation that the stranger is also someone "who maybe, but only maybe, continues to migrate the day after tomorrow". For a long time, early modern society has been depicted as mainly immobile and cohesive. A closer look, however, reveals that encounters with strangers was an everyday, though not trivial, experience well before the mass migrations of the 20th century. The Mongolians who invaded Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages influenced Europe as strangers, as did the Turks from the 16th century as well as foreign traders and religious exiles. Conversely, many people from Europe moved into foreign countries, observed the people whom they found "strange" and experienced first hand what it means to be a stranger. Explorers and conquerors, commissioned by European monarchs, collected such experiences, as did missionaries or the many emigrants. These processes have been intensely but not yet exhaustively explored.
These encounters with strangers, whether firsthand or imparted by media, were not without impact on the historical consciousness of both the migrants and the permanent residents. The international and interdisciplinary colloquy at the Institute of European History in Mainz will pursue this aggregate of themes by exploring the consequences of the experiences of and with strangers for historical consciousness: What did the encounter with immigrating strangers mean for the historical consciousness of a society, and its political, social, religious and moral orientation over time? How did the historical consciousness of a group of emigrants or immigrants change when they were in a new country? What were the consequences of the "discovery" of new countries and cultures for the historical consciousness in Europe and in what ways did non-European historical consciousness change by contact with migrating Europeans?
These questions will be treated under three headings: The Stranger in One's Own Country (immigration), The Stranger in Another's Country (emigration) and The Perception of Strangers in Foreign Countries. Genuine historiography can be addressed, as well as historical concepts and interpretations of history. The colloquium is organised by the research group "Change of values and historical consciousness" of the Institute of European History in Mainz. Conference languages will be German and English. Expenses for travel and accommodation will be paid by the Institute of European History.
We are looking forward to proposals by researchers of all historical disciplines such as history, church and religious history, ethnology, studies of literature, and art history. Please submit an exposé of not more than 3000 characters, a short CV and, if extant, a list of publications before 10 November 2009. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us.
Visit the website at http://www.ieg-mainz.de
Topics could be:
1. The Stranger in One's Own Country (some of the topics could be treated under the second heading as well, by looking at it from the other group's perspective)
• German/English etc. historiography on Huguenots
• Christianized Africans/Asians etc. visiting Europe in the long 19th century
• The integration of the arrival of Europeans in the historical consciousness of non-European cultures (China, Japan, Latin America)
• Polish people in the Ruhr Area
• Turks in the Balkans
• Russians in Poland
• Englishmen in Ireland
• Finns in Russia
2. The Stranger in Another's Country
• Historiography of religious exiles
• Historical consciousness of emigrants, for instance to the Americas, in the 19th century
• The encounter of colonial rulers, traders and missionaries with non-European cultures
• Modifications of the historical consciousness in Europe by the socially or religiously motivated emigration of certain groups
3. The Perception of Strangers in Foreign Countries
• Modifications of the historical consciousness in Europe by the "discovery" of non-European countries and cultures
• The encounter of different groups of migrants in a third country
• The depiction of strangers in literature or fine arts, related to history
• The meaning of non-European cultures for European historiography/philosophy of history (for instance Max Weber)
PD Dr. Bettina Braun
Institut für Europäische Geschichte
Abt. Universalgeschichte
Alte Universitätsstr. 19
55116 Mainz
Tel.: 06131/3939364
Email: braun@ieg-mainz.de
Dr. Judith Becker
Institut für Europäische Geschichte
Abt. Abendländische Religionsgeschichte
Alte Universitätsstr. 19
55116 Mainz
Tel.: 06131/3939359
Email: becker@ieg-mainz.de
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CfP: Power and Struggle, 03/ 05-06/ 2010, AL
Deadline: November 02
Graduate History Conference on Power and Struggle!
University of Alabama
Call for Papers
The Department of History at The University of Alabama is pleased to announce its Second Annual Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle, to be held at the UA campus on March 5-6, 2010. The conference will include a keynote speaker addressing the conference theme, with a reception following. Graduate students nationwide are invited to submit proposals that engage the conference theme by examining power relations in all historical fields and time periods.
The conference theme addresses new approaches of historical analysis that focus on the relationship between struggle and power. We encourage students to address instances in which people have struggled to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. We seek proposals employing innovative approaches and interdisciplinary research. Particular attention will be given to papers developing comparative perspectives and utilizing multi-archival research bases. Possible topics may include but are not limited to histories of
Power in institutions, society, and religion
Struggle in cultural expression, social relationships, and belief systems
Power in discourse on gender, race, and class
Struggle against labels in nationalism, ethnicity, sub-culture, or sexual identity
Power in traditional structures such as politics, diplomacy, imperialism, and war
Struggle in resistance such as crime, protest, liberation, and revolution
Single papers should include a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV of the presenter. Full-panel proposals will not be accepted. All submissions should be sent in Word format via email to the committee using ghaconference@gmail.com.
The deadline for proposal submission is November 2, 2009. Final papers should be submitted to commentators by February 1, 2010. For more information please email the committee at ghaconference@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://bama.ua.edu/~gha/conference.html
University of Alabama Graduates Student History Conference Committee:
Megan Bever, Co-Chair mlbever@crimson.ua.edu
Colin Chapell, Co-Chair cbchapell@crimson.ua.edu
Kerry M. Cohen kmcohen@crimson.ua.edu
Michele L. Cooper mlcooper@crimson.ua.edu
Posted by agripley at 03:20 PM
CfP: 60 years since the end of the Civil war in Greece- causes and consequences, 12/2009, Skopje
The Institute of National History, Republic of Macedonia in cooperation with The Association of the children refugees from the Aegean part of Macedonia are going to organize international scientific symposium under the title "60 years since the end of the Civil war in Greece- causes and consequences"
We invite you to participate in the international scientific symposium under the title "60 years since the end of the Civil war in Greece- causes and consequences", organized by the Institute of National History and The United association of the Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia.
The scientific symposium will be held in December, 2009 (You will be additionally informed for the precise date and time).
The expenses regarding the accommodation and the meals are undertaken by the organizers.
Your papers should be written and presented in Macedonian or English language.
Please send your papers and the application form not later than November 1st, 2009 to the secretaryof the Organization committee, M. A. Teon Dzingo, Institute of National History, Republic of Macedonia, phone +389 2 3114 078, mob. +389 71 364 346 or via e-mail: tdzingo@yahoo.com .
Posted by agripley at 03:19 PM
CfP: Romanian Studies, 02/05-06/2010, IN
Deadline: December 11, 2009
Romanian Studies Conference
February 5 and 6, 2010
Indiana University
In February 2010, Indiana University's Romanian Studies Organization will host the third annual interdisciplinary Romanian Studies Conference for graduate students and recent PhDs in the humanities and social sciences. We are delighted to announce that Daniel Chirot, Job and Gerturd Tamaki Professor of International Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle, will deliver the keynote address "Ideology and the Tragic Twentieth Century in Romania."
We welcome paper proposals from graduate students and recent PhDs on any topic related to Romania, Moldova, or the Romanian diaspora in any discipline or methodology, including but not limited to history, political science, economics, international relations, anthropology, literature, sociology, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. Especially encouraged are papers that take an interdisciplinary approach. Small travel grants may be available to aid student travel to and from the conference.
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with your contact information to RomSO@indiana.edu by Friday, December 11, 2009. We will be pre-circulating the papers so that our commentators can provide more extensive feedback. Therefore, if your paper is selected we ask that you submit a complete paper by Friday, January 15, 2010.
Any other inquiries about the conference may be directed to the Indiana University Romanian Studies Organization at RomSO@indiana.edu or to Alex Tipei at atipei@indiana.edu
Posted by agripley at 03:18 PM
CfP: Approaching "happiness" in German contexts, 02/26-28/2010, VA
Deadline: December 17, 2009
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Corcoran Department of History of the University of Virginia present
The 17th Annual German Graduate Studies Conference
An die Freude: Approaching "happiness" in German contexts
February 26-28, 2010
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
We have all heard of "the pursuit of happiness", "all's well that ends well", and "Shiny Happy People". Happiness is treated as an allegedly on-demand commodity, but in our age of financial and environmental crises, it seems increasingly out of reach. What do we mean when we speak about happiness? Does it exist? Or is it merely a word, a metaphor for an ineffable desire?
Recent and past studies on love, melancholy, and anguish often overshadow scholarly explorations of happiness. This conference investigates conceptions and functions of happiness in German and German-related contexts, posing questions such as these: Does happiness play a role in cultural production? Is it a poetic, social or political construct? Does happiness have its own logic? Is its structure teleological or dialectical? In the history of our and other nations, what has happiness meant? Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
happiness and happenstance
play as happiness
happiness in crisis
psychoanalysis and happiness
mania and depression
genealogy/histories of happiness
pursuit of happiness
"die laughing"
happy endings
happy-go-lucky figures
Glücksfall/ Glücksfälle
"Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen"
aesthetics of happiness
happiness and semiotics
Freude, Glück = happiness?
happiness as financial well being
well-wishing (Glückwünsche)
happiness and fate
religious ecstasy as happiness
Elysium and Schlaraffenland
Glückseligkeit
happiness and gender
Keynote speaker to be announced. Papers will be selected based on compatibility. Presentations in German/English should be no longer than 20 minutes. UVA graduate students will offer accommodations. Limited travel grants may be awarded. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by December 17, 2009 to the conference organizers.
contact: Gabriel Cooper - Conference Director - uvaconference2010@gmail.com
University of Virginia German Department
521 New Cabell Hall, P.O. Box 400125
VA 22904-4125
Charlottesville
434-924-6700
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October 08, 2009
CfP Journal: Publications of the English Goethe Society
Deadline: January 13, 2010
CFP: Publications of the English Goethe Society now accepting unsolicited submissions
The editors of the Publications of the English Goethe Society - Professors Matthew Bell (King's College London), Susanne Kord (University College London) and W. Daniel Wilson (Royal Holloway, University of London) - are delighted to announce that the journal will now include unsolicited articles. Articles may be published in either English or German.
The English Goethe Society was founded in 1886, making it the oldest learned society in the UK dedicated to things German, and the second-oldest Goethe society in the world. In expanding the publication schedule of PEGS to three issues a year, the Society has opened the journal to high-quality unsolicited articles, which will be evaluated by blind peer review. The subject areas covered by PEGS are:
Goethe's life and works and their immediate context;
the literature and culture of 18th- and early 19th-century German-speaking lands; responses to or reception of that literature and culture both outside and within Germany up to the present day.
The deadline for articles to appear in the next issue of the journal is 13 Jan. 2010.
We will normally provide a response on submitted articles within three months and publication within a year. For details on submission requirements see http://www.englishgoethesociety.org/PEGSSubmissions.html
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/modern-languages/staff/wilson.html
Posted by agripley at 03:50 PM
CfP articles: Propaganda and the First World War, Brill
I have been contacted by Julian Deahl at Brill to edit a collection on propaganda and the First World War. Brill is planning a series of handbooks to coincide with the centennial of the war. The edition is not intended to be a retrospective, but rather to highlight the latest research in the field.
This is a call for contributors. We are especially interested in transnational comparisons. Here are some possible themes that Julian and I have worked out. We are more than open to suggestions for themes that we have overlooked.
Censorship and the war
Presenting the war in the Colonies and Neutral Countries
1. Near East
2. Africa
3. Far East
4. The Commonwealth
5. Neutral Countries
6. The United States
Propaganda perspectives
Possible chapters:
1. Gendering the war
2. Domestic Mobilization
3. Justifications for fighting/the "Will to Fight"
4. The war in occupied territory
5. Keeping Russia in the war
6. Culture (Art/Music/Literature) and propaganda
7. Propaganda and the Peace(s) [Versailles, Brest-Litovsk,...]
8. Recording Victory and Defeat: Frontline reporting and the military
9. Propaganda and peace movements
The items above are not meant to be exhaustive, nor are we committed to having all of them in the volume. They are simply examples of the types of contributions that would be appropriate for the volume as we have conceived it. The language of the volume will be English, but there is some money for translating (possibly three chapters).
Once enough potential contributors have signed on to the project, Julian and I will create a proposal for a contract. Once the contract is in hand, contributors would have 14-18 months to complete their contribution. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Troy Paddock
Southern CT State University
paddockt1@southernct.edu
Posted by agripley at 03:49 PM
CfP: Congress on World and Global History: Connections and Comparisons, 04/11-14/2011, London
Deadline: February 28, 2010
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
Third European Congress on World and Global History
London School of Economics & Political Science
11-14 April 2011,
Call for Panels
Recent decades have seen the re-emergence and, on an unprecedented scale, the further development of various interacting strands of world, global and trans-national history, all sharing the aim of transcending national historiographies. Connections and comparisons have been central to these intellectual enterprises. The third European Congress on World and Global History, to be held in London at the LSE in April 2011, provides an opportunity for sustained reflection on these themes.
We invite proposals for panels examining comparisons, connections and entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives involved will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, international organizations, oceans as spaces of sustained interaction between communities from different continents, the experience and consequences of migration, periods of ‘de globalization’ and ‘globalization’, and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. Not least, we encourage critical reflection on the methodological and conceptual issues involved in comparative, transnational and entangled histories: whether in general, or in relation to specific areas of historical inquiry, from religions to real wages, from diasporas to epistemic communities. We look forward to contributions from scholars in various disciplines, based both in Europe and around the world. Conference languages will be English, French and German.
Proposals: We invite proposals for panels comprising 3-6 participants. In addition to the names, affiliations and email and snailmail addresses of the participants, proposals should include titles and abstracts of the panel as a whole (200-600 words) and of each individual paper (100-300 words).
Please note that, at this stage, it is only proposals for panels, rather than for isolated papers, that are sought. However, panel proposers are welcome to leave one or two spaces for further papers. After the Steering Committee has selected panels, in April 2010, there will be a second Call, inviting proposals for individual papers to take up any vacant slots in the already-accepted panels.
All LSE meeting rooms have Powerpoint facilities. When the time comes, it is hoped that all papers will be posted in advance on the congress webpage.
Submission: all proposals must be received by 28 February 2010. They should be submitted as email attachments to Katja Naumann at: headquarters@eniugh.org
28 April 2010: Date by which proposers will be notified of the outcome. A Call for Papers will be issued, inviting proposals for individual papers, mainly to complete panels already accepted. October 2010: Congress registration and reservation of accommodation opens (through the congress website). It will be possible to reserve accommodation to suit different needs and pockets, in a range of hotels and in a LSE hall of residence.
Inquiries: at this stage inquiries about the conference may be sent to Katja Naumann (as above) or to Gareth Austin, Department of Economic History, LSE (g.m.austin@lse.ac.uk), who chairs the ENIUGH Steering Committee and the LSE local arrangements committee.
For more information on ENIUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please: visit http://www.eniugh.org/
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CfP: British Identity and the Other British Isles, 06/24-25/2010, UK
Deadline: January 25, 2010
Conference: British Identity and the Other British Isles,
The Academy for the Study of Britishness, University of Huddersfield, UK
24-25 June 2010
Call for papers
As issues of nationalism, identity, and what it means to be ‘British’ continue to affect the cultural and political landscape of Britain itself, its impact on the islands that share (or have shared) a cultural heritage with the United Kingdom has become new ground for academics. The Academy for the Study of Britishness at the University of Huddersfield welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers from academics, postgraduate students, independent scholars, and other professionals to present at its ‘British identity and ‘the other British isles’’ conference on 24-25 June 2010.
The conference will bring together research from a range of disciplines in order to explore issues of Britishness within island culture and society. Papers are welcomed on the identities, cultures, history, heritage, and society of any island/islands which share a cultural heritage with Britain. This includes islands within the ‘British archipelago’ and around the world. The focus of the conference is on smaller islands, and those whose relationships with Britain and Britishness have been often neglected in academic study. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
The culture and identity of The Isle of Man, The Channel Islands, Orkney and the Shetlands, The Scilly Isles, Anglesey, The Hebrides, Malta, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Singapore, The Falklands, The British West Indies and other ‘British’ islands.
Britishness and the island(s) in wartime
Relationships between the island(s) and Westminster/the Monarchy.
Britishness within the commemoration and celebration of identity.
Britishness in island government and administration.
The impact of Britishness (or Englishness) on the local language and culture
Tourism
Devolution and nationalism within the island(s).
Proposals for 20-minute papers should be no more than 200 words and should include a one-page CV. The deadline for submission is January 25th.
For further details or an informal discussion, contact the organisers: Daniel Travers (d.travers@hud.ac.uk)
or Jodie Matthews(j.matthews@hud.ac.uk).
Visit the website at http://www2.hud.ac.uk/asb/identity_and_other_british_isles.php
Posted by agripley at 03:22 PM
CfP: Researching Transnational Spaces, Cross-Border Diffusion,and Transnational Histories, 04/22-23/2010, Germany
Deadline: December 30, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Methodological Nationalism
Researching Transnational Spaces, Cross-Border Diffusion, and Transnational Histories
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
22 - 23 April 2010
Bielefeld University, Germany
The criticism of methodological nationalism has opened up new ways to conduct research on global and transnational dynamics. Nowadays, the common methodological statement is that societal spaces cannot be regarded as equal to territorial spaces. Prominent methodological proposals are suggested by the global ethnography approach, the cosmopolitan theory, and the transnational approach. While the first combines large-scale ethnography with detailed examinations of everyday life, the second proposes to conduct research simultaneously on different spatial scales, such as global, transnational, national, and local dimensions. And the third, the transnational approach, refers to relational concepts of spatiality. Thus, this conference will link debates on new methodological approaches with the discussion of problematic issues within empirical research on global and transnational transformations.
Website: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/cfp_transantional.pdf
Email: devrimsel.nergiz@uni-bielefeld.de
Posted by agripley at 03:18 PM
CfP: Sects and Sexuality: Issues of Division and Diversity, 02/19-20/2010, FL
Deadline: December 01, 2009
FSU Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium
Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy
Sects and Sexuality: Issues of Division and Diversity
February 19-21, 2010
Tallahassee, Florida
Call for papers
We encourage submissions from graduate students in all levels and fields with interdisciplinary interest in the study of Religion and Philosophy. We also welcome a variety of methods and approaches, particularly in regards to (1) Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy; (2) American Religious History; (3) Religions of Western Antiquity; (4) History and Ethnography of Religions (specializing in Asian, African, Mediterranean, and Western European Religions); and (5) Philosophy dealing with Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited, to: Celibacy and Asceticism, Issues of Inclusion and Exclusion, Notions of the Forbidden, Sectarian Conflicts, and Community Identities.
Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length and will receive faculty responses at the conclusion of each panel. The Leo F. Sandon Award will be given for the best paper of the symposium.
Proposal submissions are due December 1, 2009, and should consist of an abstract (up to 800 words) including a list of key terms for review and a CV. Final papers must be submitted by January 15, 2010.
Proposals should be emailed to Brooke Sherrard fsugradsymposium@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://religion.fsu.edu/index.html
Posted by agripley at 03:14 PM
CfP: Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology, 06/23-25/2010, Madrid
Deadline: November 15, 2009
Interdisciplinary Conference of AHLiST
Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
June 23-25, 2010
Deadline for proposal submissions: November 15, 2009
The 2010 conference theme is “deciphering”, with all its possible referents, including: Do we decipher digits, codes, data, words, texts, images, symbols, natural phenomena, and scientific results? How do we decipher them? By using whatever available: Logic, systematic decoding, scientific knowledge, technological sophistication or anything else?
We invite panels and individual papers on these or related topics, but will give full consideration to any proposal within AHLiST’s scope.
For suggested topics, see http://www.nebrija.es/~cmalagon/Mmedis/CFP.html
Submission Guidelines:
Please propose individual papers or panels, and indicate whether you are willing to moderate a panel. Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome.
To propose a paper or a panel, please fill out and submit the Conference COVER SHEET:
http://www.nebrija.es/~cmalagon/Mmedis/COVER_SHEET.pdf
Each presentation will be limited to 15-20 minutes (about eight double-spaced pages).
If you are proposing a panel, please include the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long.
The conference committee requests the submission of COVER SHEET as an attachment sent to:
Song No, PhD
Director of The 2010 Interdisciplinary Conference of AHLiST
sno1@purdue.edu or ahlist1@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2009. All presenters must be members of the Association by conference time.
More information about the 2010 Interdisciplinary Conference of AHLiST: http://www.nebrija.es/~cmalagon/Mmedis/CFP.html
Visit the website at http://www.mmedis.com
JHLiST (Journal of History, Literature, Science and Technology)
Only conference participants will be invited to submit an article (20-page long) for publication. The official publication of the Association is The Journal of History, Literature, Science and Technology (JHLiST), devoted to the research and investigation pertaining to the theories and practices of science, technology, medicine, history and literature. The journal explores the multidisciplinary “consilience,” the linkage of science and humanities to create insights into human endeavors. The JHLiST is a professionally produced, edited, and peer-reviewed academic journal.
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October 06, 2009
CfP: Everyday History Approaches to the Persecution of Jews of Greater Germany and the Protectorate, 1941-45, 11/18-20/2010, Berlin
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Call for Papers
"Everyday History Approaches to the Persecution of Jews of Greater Germany and the Protectorate, 1941-45"
November, 18-20, 2010
Berlin, tentatively University of Toronto in Berlin
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).
With the beginning of mass deportations in October 1941, the situation of the Central European Jews took a dramatic turn for the worse. Many of the aspects of what followed connected with the perpetrators, their politics and actions have been extensively researched. Particularly in the western historiography of the Holocaust, however, the victims' perspective and experience long seemed irrelevant. It is precisely that perspective we want bring into analytical focus, by asking about the experience, inner organisation, reactions and life-changes of those marked by the Nazis as Jews.
Our aim is twofold: First, to follow the victims' trajectories from the onset of deportations through to liberation; secondly, to do so paying particular attention to the level of everyday experience. Territorially, we focus on Greater Germany (Germany, Austria and the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia). A comparative approach between German, Austrian and Czech Jews' experience will enable us to trace the range and underlying patterns of victims' reactions within a reasonably homogenous community, and at the same time to analyse the factors prompting variations in Nazi policies. In addition, we would like to underline that when examining society in extremis, it is crucial to avoid easy moral categories of "good" and "bad" behaviour, and instead to ask about factors and consequences of human behaviour.
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, Lódz, 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
Methodologically, the workshop seeks contributions that explicitly operate within the paradigm of social history. We want to understand what society looks like when subjected to extreme persecution, and what remains of pre-war norms. In particular, how can we write the Alltagsgeschichte of a persecuted society? How do people's self-perception change? How do they interpret their new situation and what behavioural strategies do they then develop? How do they react to and negotiate their own 'social death' (Marion Kaplan) -- in what way do they internalize their own new low value? In this context, we expressly want to identify appropriate ways of deploying the category of gender (which we explicitly want to understand beyond women's history).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
Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Anna Hájková (University of Toronto), Andrea Löw (Edition Judenverfolgung/Institute for Contemporary History)
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CfP: Market Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the Enlarging European Union, 04/18-25/2010, Dubrovnik
Please find attached info and the link: http://www.pravo.hr/EJP/DU2010
Market Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the Enlarging European Union
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Organiser: Jean Monnet Chair of European Public Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
The Seminar is aimed for:
undergraduate and graduate students of law
doctoral students and researchers
junior public servants
A limited number of travel and subsistance grants will be offered to participants presenting a research paper. Deadline for submission of abstracts (500 words) is January 15, 2010. Selected candidates will be invited to submit the paper in Dubrovnik. Deserving contributions will be published in the Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy http://www.cyelp.com/
Paper proposals should be sent by e-mail to the following address: ejp@pravo.hr
Deadlines:
submission of paper proposals: January 15, 2010
submission of papers: April 10, 2010
submission of final papers for publication: June 15, 2010
registration (without paper - limited number of places): please send a motivation letter
Posted by agripley at 10:02 AM
CFP: Hanns Eisler, 04/19-20/2010, London
Deadline: November 25, 2009
International Conference: Hanns Eisler
Institute of Musical Research, University of London April 19-20, 2010
Call for Papers
We welcome submission of papers on the work of Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), widely regarded as one of Schoenberg's most talented pupils and a pioneer of applied music during the Weimar Republic. As an exile from Nazi Germany, Eisler spent most of the 1930s and in Denmark, England and finally the USA before returning to Europe to take up residency in the newly-founded German Democratic Republic.
The conference, probably one of the first on Eisler to be held in the English speaking world, has two broadly-based themes:
Eisler and England;
topics of general interest related to the work of Eisler.
Proposals for papers are now invited. Papers should be of 20 minutes duration, and the proposal should be presented as an abstract of not more than 250 words. Please submit by email, in an attachment including your full name, contact details and (if applicable) your affiliation, to the IMR Administrator Mrs Valerie James, at music@sas.ac.uk
Proposals will be anonymised before consideration by the conference convenors.
DEADLINE for proposals: 5pm (GMT), 25 November 2009 Results Announced: mid-December 2009 Preliminary Programme: mid-December 2009
Conference convenors: Erik Levi (Royal Holloway University of London), Albrecht Dümling (International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin) and Michael Haas (Jewish Museum, Vienna)
Keynote speaker: Professor David Blake, University of York
Posted by agripley at 09:59 AM
Call for Papers - 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
June 2 - 5, 2010
Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA
Submission Deadline: January 22, 2010
(Submit well in advance of the above deadline if you wish to take advantage of our new Early Bird Rate. See website for details.)
Sponsored by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Web address: http://www.hicsocial.org
Email address: social@hicsocial.org
The 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from June 2 (Wednesday) to June 5 (Saturday), 2010 at the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social sciences related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
Submitting a Proposal:
You may submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see: http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm
To be removed from this list, please click the following link: http://www.hicsocial.org/index.php/list-manager/ or copy and paste the link into any web browser.
Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
P.O. Box 75023
Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 542-4986
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: social@hicsocial.org
Website: www.hicsocial.org
Topic Areas (All Areas of Social Sciences are Invited):
*Anthropology
*Area Studies (African, American, Asian, European, Hispanic, Islamic, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Russian, and all other cultural and ethnic studies)
*Communication
*Economics
*Education
*Energy Alternatives
*Ethnic Studies/International Studies
*Geography
*History
*International Relations
*Journalism
*New Urbanism
*Political Science
*Preservation and Green Urbanism
*Psychology
*Public Administration
*Social Work
*Sociology
*Sustainable Development
*Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
*Urban and Regional Planning
*Women’s studies
*Other Areas of Social Science
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas
Posted by agripley at 09:56 AM
Internship: Chronicle of Higher Education
Deadline: 4 p.m. on Friday, October 9, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers three internship sessions each year: winter/spring, summer, and fall.
The paper is currently seeking interns for the winter/spring 2010 session, which will begin in January. The Chronicle is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to maintaining a diverse work force. The internships are full-time in our Washington, D.C., office and will last till late May. In addition to a $500 weekly stipend, academic credit can often be arranged. Three interns will be hired; we are looking for both undergraduates and recent graduates.
In addition, The Chronicle is offering a Diversity Internship to give current undergraduates and recent college graduates the opportunity to gain professional experience at the No. 1 source for news about higher education. The program aims to help bring greater diversity to the field of journalism by reaching out to students who are members of minority groups underrepresented in the industry. Applicants for this internship must have a strong interest in pursuing a career in journalism, and should note on their application that they are applying for The Chronicle of Higher Education's Diversity Internship.
All of the interns will have the same primary responsibilities: reporting and writing daily news articles for The Chronicle's Web site (which usually appear subsequently in print), contributing brief features to the "Short Subjects" section, writing news articles for other sections of the newspaper, and doing research for special projects. There is very little grunt work. Interns who prove themselves as reporters and writers are often asked to write full-length features.
The Chronicle places a premium on reporting that is accurate and writing that shines. All writing, including that done by staff reporters, is carefully edited. Interns typically leave with a set of strong, varied clips.
Requirements: Experience writing for publication, either at a student newspaper or a professional publication, is required. Candidates with previous internships and deadline-reporting experience are preferred. Applications must be received by 4 p.m. on Friday, October 9, 2009. Applications that are late, e-mailed, or faxed will not be considered.
Applicants should send a cover letter; résumé with telephone, e-mail, and postal contact information; and a maximum of five varied and impressive clips to:
Beth McMurtrie
Internship Coordinator
The Chronicle of Higher Education
1255 23rd Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
NO TELEPHONE CALLS OR E-MAIL INQUIRIES, PLEASE
Semifinalists are generally called within three weeks of the application deadline, and all applicants are notified by postcard when the search is completed, usually within seven weeks. Candidates who are concerned about whether their application was received should use a mailing service that offers "delivery confirmation." Because of the volume of applications, we cannot be expected to respond to individual status requests. Those who violate that request will be referred back to this page.
Posted by agripley at 09:55 AM
CfP: Thinking the human in the era of Enlightenment , 07/07/2010, Canberra
Deadline: November 27, 2009.
Thinking the human in the era of Enlightenment
Australia
2010-07-07
The three day conference ‘Thinking the human in the era of Enlightenment’ is an attempt to think through the enabling possibilities and discursive functions of the concept ‘humanity’ and its associated terms (L’Homme, Menschlichkeit, Humanität) during the long eighteenth century. It seeks to illuminate both the role that conceptions of the human played in the politics and culture of the period and the legacy those conceptions bequeathed to subsequent generations.
We invite papers that historicise Enlightenment conceptions of humanity from diverse perspectives, including but by no means restricted to the philosophy of history, anthropology, cosmopolitanism and its critics, natural and international law, theories of human difference and the ‘contact zones’ of travel and colonialism. We also invite papers which address the manner in which those conceptions were manifested, and contested, within a range of social and cultural spaces – from philosophy, to state policy, to the creative arts, and from Europe to the wider world. Themes for 20 minute papers might include, but are not limited to:
nature and culture
theories of historical progress or decline in the long eighteenth century
language theory in the long eighteenth century
theories of sexual difference and gender roles in the long eighteenth century
nationalism and cosmopolitanism
conceptions of human rights
the representation of human identity and difference
the impact of cross-cultural contact on theories of humanity and vice versa
the natural and the supernatural
legacies of the Enlightenment.
Please send a title, 300 word abstract and short biography to thinkingthehuman@gmail.com by Friday 27 November 2009.
Visit the website at http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2010/THEE/index.php
Posted by agripley at 09:53 AM
CfP Journal: Humanicus
Call for Papers - HUMANICUS (www.humanicus.org)
The online academic journal HUMANICUS is now accepting papers for its next issue (#4). The deadline is the end of the year.
Please follow the instructions for contributors at www.humanicus.org
Humanicus is an academic journal (ISSN 1803-7836) concentrating on social sciences, humanities and philosophy. The journal has been dubbed a publication of importance by the Czech National Library.
Essays that can be classified as belonging to any social science are accepted for review and potential publishing. For now, we are accepting works in following areas:
Linguistics (general linguistics, English studies, Serbo-Croatian studies, Swedish studies, Chinese studies);
Culture studies (sometimes referred to as culturology) and anthropology; Sociology; Philosophy; Bioethics; Holocaust studies.
As the number of our reviewers grows, so will the count of the areas for which we accept essays.
Humanicus publishes articles in several languages (English, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Mandarin). However, we would like to stress that the main language of the journal is English, and the authors are encouraged to try to submit in English as often as possible. In the case of the author's command of English not being adequately good, he or she should submit in one of the abovementioned languages.
We also encourage young authors, even students, to submit essays. Student essays will be published in the Student Section.
Reviews of books, articles or any type of academic/artistic work are also accepted for publishing.
Humanicus is an electronic journal. The newest issue will always be downloadable in a .pdf format from this address, for free, as it is the opinion of the editor and the reviewing board that academic education should be available to all, not only to those with a deep pocket.
Posted by agripley at 09:51 AM
Fellowship: Auschwitz Jewish Center
Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program - Call for Applications Location: New York, Poland
Applications are now available to postgraduate students for a three and a half week advanced study travel program on the Holocaust and Jewish life in Poland through the Auschwitz Jewish Center in summer 2010.
After a brief orientation in New York City, the Fellows travel in Poland for three weeks, during which time they visit Krakow, Warsaw, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), and Lodz. The Fellows will also be taken on a study trip throughout southeast Poland to explore the area’s rich Jewish heritage and meet with local Jewish and non-Jewish leaders to learn about pre-war Jewish life, life under the Nazi occupation and Communism, as well as about the status of the Jewish community in Poland today. In Oświęcim, the Fellows attend an intensive program at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum where they tour the camps, study the history of Jewish, Roma, and Polish inmates, and learn how to use the archives, collections, publications, and educational departments. The Fellows engage in sessions with Polish and German students, which hope to dispel societal stereotypes and prejudices, while at the same time promoting the creation of lasting cross-cultural relationships.
Upon returning home, each Fellow will complete an article for the Auschwitz Jewish Center E-Newsletter reflecting on their experience. It is the goal of the program that Fellows incorporate the lessons they have learned into their intellectual, personal, and professional lives in a significant way.
The program dates are currently tentative, but the program begins in the last week of June.
Applications are available at http://ajcf.org/auschwitz-jewish-center-fellows:-a-bridge-to-history
Shiri B. Sandler
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Phone: 646.437.4276
Fax: 646.437.4281
www.mjhnyc.org
Email: ssandler@mjhnyc.org
Posted by agripley at 09:50 AM
Prize: Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Deadline: November 16, 2009
The Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) is pleased to announce the 2010 Emerging Scholars Award.
The work of emerging scholars represents the promise and long-term future of interdisciplinary scholarship in 19th-century studies. In recognition of the excellent publications of this constituency of emerging scholars, this award recognizes an outstanding article or essay published within five years of the author's doctorate. Entries can be from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long 19th century (the French Revolution to World War I), must be published in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and must be by a single author. Submission of essays that are interdisciplinary is especially encouraged.
Entrants must be within five years of having received a doctorate or other terminal professional degree, and must have less than seven years of experience either in an academic career, or as a post-terminal-degree independent scholar or practicing professional.
Only articles physically published between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009 (even if the citation date of the journal is different) are eligible for the 2010 Emerging Scholar Award. Articles published in any scholarly journal, including on-line journals, or in edited volumes of essays are eligible and may be submitted either by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays. In any given year, an applicant may submit more than one article for this award.
The winning article will be selected by a committee of nineteenth-century scholars representing diverse disciplines. Articles submitted to the NCSA Article Prize competition are ineligible for the Emerging Scholars Award.
The winner will receive $500 to be presented at the 31st Annual NCSA Conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” in Tampa, Florida, March 11-13, 2010. Prize recipients need not be members of the NCSA, but are encouraged to attend the conference to receive the award.
Deadline for submission is November 16, 2009
Send three off-prints or photocopies of published articles/essays to the committee chair: Dr. Maria K. Bachman / Department of English / Coastal Carolina University / P.O Box 261954 / Conway, SC 29528-6054. (Electronic submissions will not be accepted.) Please note that applicants must verify date of actual publication for eligibility and provide an email address so that receipt of their submissions may be acknowledged.
Address all questions to mbachman@coastal.edu
Dr. Maria K. Bachman
Coastal Carolina University
P.O Box 261954 Conway, SC 29528-6054.
NCSA Article Prize
The Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) is pleased to announce the 2010 Article Prize, which recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long 19th century (French Revolution to World War I). The winner will receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the 31st Annual NCSA Conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” in Tampa, Florida, March 11-13, 2010.
Articles published between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009 are eligible for consideration for the 2010 prize and may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays. The submission of essays that take an interdisciplinary approach is especially encouraged. The winning article will be selected by a committee of NCSA scholars representing diverse disciplines.
Send three photocopies of published articles/essays, including the publication’s name/volume/date etc. to the chair of the committee at the following address: Dr. Deborah Maltby, Department of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 436 Lucas Hall, One University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121.
Questions may be addressed to Dr. Maltby at maltbyd@umsl.edu
Applicants must verify date of actual publication for eligibility and provide an email address so that receipt of their submissions may be acknowledged. One entry per scholar or publisher is allowed annually.. Essays written in part or entirely in a language other than English must be accompanied by English translations.
Deadline for submission is November 16, 2009
Dr. Deborah Maltby
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 436 Lucas Hall, One University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121.
Email: mbachman@coastal.edu. maltbyd@umsl.edu
Posted by agripley at 09:45 AM
Fellowship: Early Modern religious history, UK
Deadline: December 4, 2009
St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute
James K. Cameron Faculty Fellowship 2010-11
United Kingdom
This Fellowship is open to any colleague in a faculty post with research interests in the field of Early Modern religious history. It covers the cost of accommodation for a semester in St Andrews (in a University-owned apartment) together with the costs of transportation to and from St Andrews from the holder’s normal place of work.
The Fellowship carries no teaching duties, though the Fellow is expected to take place in the normal seminar life of the Institute for the duration of his or her stay in St Andrews.
Candidates should apply by submitting to the Director a curriculum vitae, together with the names of two academic referees and a plan of work for the proposed tenure of the Fellowship. Closing date: 4th December 2009.
The Fellowship may be taken during either semester of the academic year 2010-11 (September to December or February to May).
Director
Institute for Reformation Studies
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9AL
Phone: 00 44 1334 462909
Email: bmh6@st-andrews.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/reformation
Posted by agripley at 09:44 AM
Job: Ancient/Medieval World, KS
Deadline: November 15, 2009
Benedictine College - Assistant Professor, Ancient/Medieval
The Department of History has an opening for an Assistant Professor of the Ancient/Medieval World beginning in August 2010. This is a tenure-track position, Ph.D. in appropriate field required. The successful candidate will be a historian who demonstrates a strong commitment and enthusiasm for student-centered undergraduate teaching at all levels and is able to teach a broad range of classes in both the ancient/classical world and the medieval world. The ideal candidate will support the educational mission of Benedictine College, a Catholic, Benedictine, residential, liberal arts institution In Atchison, KS, located within 1 hour of Kansas City. Teaching load is 4 courses per semester, which includes two sections of World History to 1648.
Please send application letter, statement of teaching philosophy, CV, evidence of teaching excellence, a sample syallabi from a freshman survey course, and 3 letters of reference to Ms. Julia Glancy, Administrative Assistant, Benedictine College, 1020 N. 2nd Street, Atchison, KS, 66002. Benedictine College is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
The search will close November 15, 2009. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position has been filled.
Contact Info:
Ms. Julia Glancy, Administrative Assistant, Benedictine College, 1020 N. 2nd Street, Atchison 66002
Posted by agripley at 09:41 AM
Job: Ancient/Medievel European History, OR
Deadline: November 15, 2009
University of Portland - Assistant Professor
The University of Portland invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in ancient and medieval European history to begin August 2010. The Department of History is interested in a colleague who specializes in the Mediterranean world before circa 1300. Candidate will be expected to teach the first half of the Western Civilization survey as well as upper-division undergraduate courses in Ancient and Medieval European history. Excellence in undergraduate teaching, ongoing scholarly development, and service to the department and to the university community are expected for promotion and tenure. Support of the University's mission as a Catholic comprehensive university is expected. Ph.D. must be in hand by time of appointment. Demonstrated evidence of superior teaching ability is expected.
Applicants should submit a cover letter, c.v., graduate transcripts, at least three letters of recommendation, and supporting materials to Elise Moentmann, Ph.D., Ancient/Medieval Search, Department of History, University of Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR, 97203.
AA/EOE.
Contact Info:
Elise M. Moentmann
Chair, Department of History
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203
Website: http://www.up.edu
Posted by agripley at 09:40 AM
Job: Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean World, NV
Deadline: November 15, 2009
University of Nevada - Reno - Assistant Professor
Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean World. The History Department at the University of Nevada, Reno invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure-track position in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, beginning August 2010. Preference will be given to candidates whose works are interdisciplinary or comparative, cross geographical or cultural borders, and/or examine connections between medieval Europe and the Mediterranean World, such as Byzantine or Islamic culture. The successful candidate will participate in a broad curriculum of introductory and upper-division courses (in specialty), teach graduate seminars, and participate in Core Humanities, an interdisciplinary program taught from primary sources. Strong evidence of research potential and teaching promise is required. Ph.D. must be completed by July 1, 2010.
Candidates must submit electronically a letter of application (that includes a discussion of teaching philosophy and research interests) and a C.V. Send three confidential letters of recommendation and a writing sample directly to Prof. Kevin Stevens, Search Committee Chair, Mail Stop 308, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0037. Apply online www.unrsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=54166
Applications received by November 15, 2009, will receive full consideration.. The department will interview candidates at the AHA annual meeting in San Diego. AA/EEO.
Contact Info:
Dr. Kevin Stevens
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of History
Mail Stop 0308
Reno, NV 89557-0308
Website: http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/
Posted by agripley at 09:36 AM
Job: humanities and the allied social sciences, Harvard
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Harvard University - Postdoctoral Fellow, humanities and allied sciences
The Humanities Center at Harvard University is accepting applications for its 2010-11 postdoctoral fellowship program. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. after May 2007. Applicants without the Ph.D. must demonstrate that they will receive the Ph.D. in or before June 2010.
Fellowships will be awarded to support projects that share the Center’s commitment to interdisciplinarity and internationalism. The Center welcomes applications from all fields within the humanities and the allied social sciences. In addition to participating in seminars and other Humanities Center programs, fellows will teach one course in a Harvard department.
Applications are due by December 1, 2009. Please visit our website for further information and instructions, www.fas.harvard.edu/humcentr
Contact Info:
Shannon Greaney
Humanities Center at Harvard
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Posted by agripley at 09:35 AM
Job: Modern Europe/Russian/Soviet History, WI
Deadline: November 20, 2009
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.
Secondary Categories: Russian/Soviet History
German History
European Studies
Founded in 1868, UW-Whitewater is a premier regional university with an enrollment of 10,500 students in 43 undergraduate majors and 13 master’s degree programs. It offers high-quality career-oriented programs integrated with a model general education curriculum. UW-Whitewater is part of the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System. Located in a community of 12,000 residents near the scenic Kettle Moraine State Forest in southeastern Wisconsin, Whitewater is within convenient driving distance to the metropolitan areas of Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago.
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
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/
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, and actively seeks and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and all veterans. Names of applicants may be disclosed unless requested otherwise. Names of finalists will be released.
Posted by agripley at 09:18 AM
Job: Modern European History, Toronto
Deadline: November 15, 2009
The Department of Humanities of the University of Toronto Scarborough invites applications for a tenure stream position at the level of assistant professor in modern (post-1750) continental European history (Britain, Eastern Europe and Russia are excluded) to begin July 1, 2010. Applicants should have a completed Ph.D. and demonstrated excellence in teaching and research.
The successful candidate will draw upon, develop, and expand the discipline's present strengths in one or more of social, cultural, intellectual, comparative and transnational history as well as histories of gender, race, empire/ colonialism and nationalism. S/he will be responsible for the development of a range of undergraduate courses, including a theme course in world history to be taught occasionally, will be a full member of the integrated Graduate History Department of the University of Toronto, including the supervision of masters and doctoral theses, and will collaborate with colleagues on relevant trans-disciplinary programs and initiatives. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
UTSC is a research-intensive institution with an interdisciplinary commitment and a multicultural student body speaking a wide range of languages. The university offers the opportunity to teach, conduct research and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. Additional information on the Department can be found at http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/index.html and on the Graduate Department of History at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/graduate/index.html
Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online at http://www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty.htm (Job Number 0900755; Internet Explorer and PC recommended). Please ensure that you include a letter of application, a current curriculum vitae, a writing sample and teaching materials as well as a syllabus for a modern European survey course (either nineteenth or twentieth century) taught in a twelve-week term.. We encourage applicants to combine PDF or MS Word documents in one or two files. If you are unable to apply online (or alternatively have large documents to send), please submit your application and other materials to Professor William R. Bowen, Chair, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto ON, M1C 1A4, Canada, HistorySearch@utsc.utoronto.ca
Applicants should also ask three referees to email letters directly to the Department.
The closing date for applications is November 15, 2009.
Contact Info:
Professor William R. Bowen
Chair, Department of Humanities
University of Toronto Scarborough
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Website: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/index.html
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and particularly welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Posted by agripley at 09:16 AM
Job: Byzantine/Christian East Mediterranean History, U-W Madison
Deadline: November 18, 2009
Open-rank appointment in Byzantine/Christian East Mediterranean History
The Department of History at the UW-Madison invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track or tenured faculty position to hold the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professorship in the history of the Byzantine Empire or the medieval Christian eastern Mediterranean. We expect the successful candidate to begin her or his appointment in August 2010. The department encourages applications from candidates at all ranks, from beginning assistant through full professor.
Applicants should hold a doctorate or anticipate its completion by the time of the appointment. The department seeks candidates demonstrating exceptional promise or distinction in both teaching and research. The successful applicant will be expected to teach undergraduate surveys, specialized upper-division courses and graduate seminars in the history of the region during the late-antique and medieval periods, including a survey course or courses in the history of the Byzantine empire. We are particularly interested in candidates who will actively participate in the development of our department’s program in medieval history, as well as maintaining Wisconsin’s longstanding strength in the history of the Byzantine era.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and paper copy of a writing sample of approximately 50 pages, and three letters of recommendation to Ms. Nicole Hauge, Byzantine/Christian East Mediterranean History Search Committee, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3211 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706-1405. If the writing sample forms part of a larger book manuscript or dissertation, please include an abstract and table of contents or a statement of how the writing sample fits in with the larger project. For full consideration applications must be received by November 18, 2009.
Contact Info:
Ms. Nicole Hauge
Byzantine/Christian East Mediterranean History Search Committee
Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3211 Mosse Humanities Building
455 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1405
Website: http://www.history.wisc.edu
Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in San Diego. The UW-Madison is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community. Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. A criminal background check may be required prior to employment
Posted by agripley at 09:13 AM
CfP: Exploring Cultural Perspectives, 05/02-06/2010, Halifax
Deadline: December 01, 2009
Exploring Cultural Perspectives Conference
Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
May 02-06, 2010
Call for Papers
The Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax is pleased to host the International Cultural Research Network’s Exploring Cultural Perspectives Conference Halifax 2009. Rather than diluting broader themes, the ICRN Annual Conference selects particular strategic foci to explore and allow for the collegial objectives of the Network to be achieved. ICRN’s Exploring Cultural Perspectives Conference: Halifax 2010 (May 2-6) has designated its focus under five key themes:
1.Childhood and Youth;
2.Education;
3.Terrorism/Counter Terrorism/Genocide;
4.Human Rights;
5.Health.
ICRN draws upon current international research within these themes. To maintain a high quality of participation, our five member Abstract Review Committee, all experts in the field, review all submissions using a double blind process. ICRN is highly competitive and seeks to represent leading research within the academic community so paper/workshops are limited to a maximum of 70 over the five day conference. Maximum engagement is ensured as ICRN schedules extend one-hour individual presentations that offer all participants an opportunity to engage with contemporary researchers, invites discussion of relevant experiences and participation in achieving some practical solutions. It is anticipated that international and cross-disciplinary future collaborations will be established through the concluding plenary session.
The accepted papers will be eligible for publication following the conference.
Visit the website at http://www.icrn.ca
Posted by agripley at 09:12 AM
CfP: Women and Humanities, 03/26-27/2010, VA
Deadline: January 25, 2010
Virginia Humanities Conference
Women and Humanities Location
Mary Baldwin College, Virginia
March 26-27, 2010
Call for Papers
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nikki Giovanni
The Virginia Humanities Conference invites proposals for individual papers or complete panel sessions, electronic/multimedia presentations or performances related to humanities disciplines that address the theme “Women and Humanities”. (Humanities disciplines include, but are not limited to: art, art history, cultural studies, communication, history, literature, music, performing arts, visual arts, philosophy and religion.)
Women have participated in the humanities for centuries. Whether scholarship was produced by women or by men about women, women continue to play an integral role in our understanding of the human condition. This conference hopes to promote intellectual exchange between scholars, educators, museum curators, librarians and all of those interested in women and the humanities. We are pleased that Dr. Nikki Giovanni will present the keynote address at an opening banquet that participants will not soon forget.
Proposals should not be longer than one page. The individual paper proposal should include a title, the name of the participant(s) and her/his affiliation, and an abstract of the presentation that discusses the sources used and the significance of the topic presented. Proposals for complete panel sessions, presentations, etc. should include a description of the overall session, as well as a separate description for each individual presentation in the panel that follows the guidelines noted above for individual paper proposals.
Submit all proposals by email to:
Amy Tillerson-Brown, Ph.D.
Mary Baldwin College
103 Carpenter Academic Building
Staunton, VA 24401
Email: atillers@mbc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.vahumanitiesconference.org/upcoming.htm
Posted by agripley at 09:07 AM
Blogs: CfP: VOICES AND VISIONS, 03/06/2010, MD
Deadline: December 01, 2009
College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group
ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2010
“VOICES AND VISIONS”
6 March 2010
Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD
Call for Papers
Keynote Speaker: SciFi Author Andy Duncan,
Professor of English at Frostburg State University
This year’s conference invokes eye and ear as we consider the themes of voices and visions. We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that contemplate these themes both within the discipline of English and in other areas of the humanities. We encourage interdisciplinary papers and panels. Proposals may broadly interpret the conference themes along (but not confined to) the following lines:
Ancestral voices and future visions
Envisioning pedagogies
Voicing dissent
Ethnic and gendered voices
Composing voices
Visionaries and bardic voices
Vox populi/marginalized voices
Television and cybernetic voices
Indigenous/exogenous voices
“I hear you”/“I see what you mean”
Please email your paper abstracts (of 500 words or less) or panel proposals by Dec. 1 to LDipaula@towson.edu, Lauren DiPaula, Program Committee Chair, (410) 704-3347.
Acceptance letters will be sent out in mid-January. A conference registration/CEA-MAG membership fee of $40 ($30 for adjunct instructors and $20 for graduate students) will be required when you mail in your registration for the conference in the spring of 2010.
Other questions about the conference may be directed to Michael Eckert, CEA-MAG President, at Mike.Eckert@montgomerycollege.edu (301) 251-7414. Paper Proposals should include the following information:
Name
Institutional affiliation (if applicable; graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to compete for $50 prize for best grad student paper)
Mailing address (including zip code)
Phone number
E-mail address
Title for the proposed presentation
Abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the conference should be limited to 15 minutes)
A-V needs, if any
Special needs, if any.
Posted by agripley at 09:04 AM
CfP: Political and literary morphologies of the nation in Europe, 02/19/2010, UK
Deadline: November 27, 2009
National identities, nationhoods and nationalisms: political and literary morphologies of the nation in Europe
A one-day interdisciplinary conference for early-career researchers
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Friday 19 February 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS For individuals, communities or other subsidiaries nation, nationhood and nationalism are subject to a variety of morphologies. While normally associated with conservative political terrain, such concepts are interiorized, adapted, mutated, discarded, or internally disputed in multiple ways across many ideological divides.
Evidence of these morphologies is to be found in political, literary, philosophical and other discourses, providing contexts in which debates unfold concerning customs, laws, religions, languages, generations, regions, and micro-cultures.
They underpin controversies over the relationship of the individual to the collective.
They are woven into the tensions that affect the relationship between ethnic and racial groups and universalist notions of humanity or human rights.
They are especially crucial in the context of war, becoming fixed or mutating according to a variety of pressures.
They inspire both anti-Semitic and anti-clerical propaganda.
They inform reaction to emerging identities in the era of postcolonialism and in the context of an ever-expanding European Union.
They reach not only into the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, but also back to pre-revolutionary Europe, and even concern the Middle Ages which prove a rich source of national or international paradigms in the modern period.
The aim of this conference will be to bring together especially early-career researchers for one day to dialogue on these and related themes.
Keynote speakers: Professor Brian Jenkins (Leeds) and Professor Mary Bryden (Reading)
Post-doctoral researchers, postgraduate students and other interested researchers in French, German and Italian Studies are invited to submit proposals for this conference (200 words max.) by 27th November 2009 to Dr Brian Sudlow: b.j.sudlow@rdg.ac.uk
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October 02, 2009
CfP: Victorian Literature and Science
Deadline: November 01, 2009
Call for Papers: Victorian Literature and Science
The second issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Ian Henderson (King’s College London), seeks to showcase new research into the connections between Victorian literature and the sciences. Since the publication of Gillian Beer’s seminal Darwin’s Plots(1983), the study of Victorian science and literature as interrelated cultural practices has risen to be one of the largest and most dynamic fields within Victorian Studies. We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words that investigate the ways in which scientific disciplines, debates, practices and venues shaped the Victorian cultural imagination. A prize of £50 will be awarded to the best paper submitted. We reserve the right to withhold the prize.
Topics might include but are not limited to:
The shared forms, aesthetics and poetics of literary and scientific discourses
Victorian literature and nineteenth-century popular scientific entertainment
Gendered scientific practices in Victorian literature and culture
Science as a form of political / social critique in Victorian literature
Literary criticism and science in the Victorian period
Victorian culture and the imperial sciences
Literary and scientific modes of ordering knowledge
Affect and emotion in Victorian literature and science
We are also inviting postgraduates to present their research to a non-specialist readership by submitting short articles of circa 2000 words for our outreach page, Victorian Wire. The CfP and more details about the outreach project can be found on Victorian Wire. We are offering a prize of £25 to the best short article submitted. We reserve the right to withhold the prize.
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines as set out here. The deadline for submissions to our next issue is November 1 2009.
Email: victoriannetwork@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn
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Postdoc: Research Associate, Kent, UK
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
The Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) seek to appoint two Research Associates for up to two years for a project on Religious Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations (UN). For half of the contracted time, one candidate will carry out fieldwork at the UN in New York and the other at the UN in Geneva. The other half of the time for both RAs will be spent in the UK at the University of Kent, where each research associate will be given office space. The successful candidates will hold a PhD or equivalent in a relevant discipline and have demonstrated interview and survey skills.
Fluency in English is required; fluency in French would be an advantage, but is not required. The closing date for applications is October 15, 2009.
The appointments will begin November 1, 2009.
To see the full announcement:
http://jobs.kent.ac.uk/fe/tpl_kent01.asp?s=MbkMjPUrEcTFkHhTcz&jobid=31402,2334656995&key=4427105&c=877615141534&pagestamp=seoeechtgkbreelmav
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October 01, 2009
Postdoc: Global Thought,Columbia University
Priority Deadline: November 1, 2009
The post-doctoral fellowship of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University brings together an innovative group of interdisciplinary researchers from around the world. The Fellowship gives emerging scholars the opportunity to work with distinguished faculty and provides a space for collaborative research and publication. Global Thought encourages interdisciplinary, transnational research under three broad themes: Secularism and Diversity, Global Governance, and Poverty and Inequality. Past fellows have researched topics including the local socio-economic consequences of global policy, the historical roots of identity, and the evolution of transnational and international political structures. Scholars from any discipline may apply, provided that they successfully indicate how their work will contribute to Global Thought's research themes. Up to four fellowship spots are available for the academic year beginning August 1, 2010. The term of the fellowship is two calendar years, beginning August 1, 2010 and ending July 31, 2012.
CGT Post-doc fellowship Application Requirements Fellows are expected to:
Teach or assist with one undergraduate or graduate course, either of their own design or as specified by the Committee. When teaching, fellows are required to hold weekly office hours.
Participate in planning and execution of research workshops and symposia.
Present their individual research projects.
Eligibility International applicants are encouraged to apply. If selected, Columbia University will sponsor the appropriate visa.
Benefits - An annual salary of $55,000, which includes health insurance and other standard benefits. - Access to Columbia University libraries and computer resources. - Shared office space. - Eligibility for additional funding for special research projects. - Eligibility to apply for campus housing.
Application Deadlines: Priority Deadline: November 1, 2009 ($30 application fee) General Deadline: November 15, 2009 ($50 application fee) The application fee may be waived at the discretion of the selection committee.
To apply: 1. Complete the Application online at http://cgt.columbia.edu/form/
All questions may be directed to: cgt.postdoc@gmail.com
For more information please visit our website:
http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/opportunities/post_doctoral_fellowship1/
Committee on Global Thought Columbia University 2960 Broadway MC 5780 New York, NY 10027 cgtmail@gmail.com
http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/opportunities/post_doctoral_fellowship1/
More information on the Committee on Global Thought may be found at http://cgt.columbia.edu/
Candidates will be considered only if:
They received their first doctorate from a recognized university no earlier than August 1, 2005 (Those who have not completed their degree at the time of application must provide a statement from an adviser citing the expected date of completion.)
They do not hold or have not held a tenure or tenure-track position.
They can fluently speak, publish, and teach in English.
They submit an original research proposal.
Upload the following documents: 1. Curriculum Vitae 2. Cover Letter 3. Research proposal -not to exceed 1500 words; -The description should include the background, nature, importance, specific objectives, and methodology of the proposed research project 4. Writing Sample - not to exceed 20 double spaced pages - preferably an
article or research paper published in a scholarly journal - topic should be pertinent to the proposed research project - no books will be accepted By Postal Mail or Email 5. Three letters of reference. 6. Application fee ($30 by November 1 or $50 by November 15) a) Payment by credit card: Download payment form at http://cgt.columbia.edu
Scan form and email to cgt.postdoc@columbia.edu or send to our office via postal mail. b)Payment by Check or money order made payable to Columbia University, send via postal mail. All postal mail may be sent to Committee on Global Thought Columbia University 440 Riverside Dr. New York, NY 10027 attn: post-doc search.
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Job: ERIO Administrative Officer
ERIO European Roma Information Office is seeking Administrative Officer
The Associate will provide critical administrative assistance including, but not limited to, maintaining extensive files, contact lists and databases; maintaining communication among ERIO domestic and international network members and providing substantive, logistical and administrative assistance to ERIO staff ; retrieving and responding to requests for information, and event planning; preparing and formatting midterm and annual financial reports, montly financial status and assisting in shaping the annual budget; recording departmental finances and book-keeping; assisting with research, electronic clipping, wires, and translations; preparing for and taking minutes at meetings; assisting with board and general assembly matters; assisting with special events, drafting and editing correspondence and other documents; assisting with travel arrangements and follow-up; assisting in recruitment and coordinating interns; word processing; photocopying; filing; faxing; answering phones; processing incoming mail; and other assigned tasks.
Qualifications:
The candidate must be self motivated, extremely well-organized, collegial, and able to function under pressure and handle numerous tasks simultaneously. S/he must be willing to take initiative, prioritize with minimal supervision, and work independently as well as function as a member of a team. Strong interest in Roma and European human rights and anti-discrimination policies as well as a degree in Social Sciences or International Relations, and/or relevant regional or thematic study or experience are highly desirable. The candidate must have office/administration experience, demonstrated organizational skills, and excellent computer skills. The candidate must have excellent written and spoken skills in English and French; fluency in other languages and especailly in Romanes is a plus.
Salary and Benefits:
ERIO seeks outstanding candidates and offers competitive compensation and generous employer-paid benefits.
Send your CV to ivan.ivanov@erionet.org
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CfP: Religion in Disputes, 20/27029/2010, Germany
Deadline: December 15, 2009
Religion in Disputes
27 - 29 October 2010
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
CALL FOR PAPERS
At this conference we will explore the role of religion, religious authorities, and religious law in processes of disputing and dispute management, that is, in processes of conflicts in which claims and counterclaims are being contested, as well as in dispute prevention. Throughout the world, the nomo-sphere seems to be changing and this includes, on the one hand, an increase in rights discourses, and on the other hand, a mounting reliance on morality, religion, and religiosity as normative orientations.
Current research traditions on disputes and religion have generated important insights into the role of religion in disputes. The issue of religion in dispute management deserves a more general reflection and analysis beyond the context of religious courts, cultural defence, and the ethno-religious conflicts that receive the most prominent coverage in both the mass media and scientific literature. This is important for several reasons. One is that we cannot properly understand disputing behaviour if we relegate the role of religion in dispute management to religious courts and otherwise focus on secular modes of dispute management without considering the potential role of religion. Furthermore, we do not understand the role of religion and religiosity in society if we do not consider their role in dispute management. And finally, there is a more political consideration. The tendency to connect religion with violence in the domain of dispute management might become a self-fulfilling prophecy. A broader perspective on the role of religion in dispute management might help mitigate this process. During the conference we intend to look into the ways in which religion affects scale dimensions of disputes, up-scaling or downsizing disputes. We also hope to engender insight in how the changing role of religion affects plural legal constellations. We take a broad conception of religion that not only encompasses the large world religions but also includes cognitive and normative schemes of meaning for understanding human existence and the world and involves an ontological and perhaps cosmological order by which the visible world is interpreted in the light of a general (sacred, spiritual) design beyond the visible world.
Organisers: Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Martin Ramstedt, Bertram Turner
Please submit an abstract by 15th December 2009 at the latest to:
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, kbenda@eth.mpg.de
Franz von Benda-Beckmann, fbenda@eth.mpg.de
Selection from responses will be made until end of December 2009.
We will go back to some of the classic issues of dispute management but address them from a new perspective. We also hope to discuss themes that have only emerged more recently. Themes for discussion include the following, but these should be seen as a mere indication of the possible range of issues to discuss:
1. Religion as schemes of meaning: transformations in disputing processes
We invite participants to look at religious factors that might play a role in the process of transformation, beginning with the emergence of a grievance to the phase following the final decision. This includes the kind of sanctions that are involved and the way final decisions are or are not being carried out. It also includes the ways causation is constructed and blame is ascribed. And we invite contributions about underlying notions of justice, truth, purity, virtue, sin, forgiving and repentance, and of reconciliation and harmony, and the role these play in processes of disputing. We also invite contributions that look at the choosing behaviour of persons and institutions involved in dispute management among available fora and idioms. We are particularly interested in the question of how global legal processes affect these dynamics, either as a reaction against or in line with newly imported
modes of dispute management and discourses about rights, justice, and a religious life.
2. Religion, social stratification, and disputes
An important question is, whether the choice for religious arguments, religious law, or a religious authority or institution is class, gender, and age dependent. Under what conditions does reference to religion work in favour of low status persons and under which circumstances does reference to religious norms and religiosity benefit the powerful? And is it used to underline class or gender differences?
3. Disputes and religious identification
We are interested in how these options might affect the identity formation of disputants. The question is how disputing processes figure in the recursive links between religiously inspired identification processes within the disputing process itself, the public discourses and the media, and the individual life histories of disputing parties. We are in particularly interested in the trans-local and transnational processes of mobilising solidarity along religious lines as part of the process of identification.
4. Constitutive relationship between disputing processes and public discourse on religion
What are the mutually constitutive processes that occur between general public discourses and dispute management and between dispute management and changes in plural legal orders? Do changes in disputing behaviour reflect changes in the constellation of power relations and legitimising narratives in which state institutions, supra-state organisations, and other societal (civil society) organisations are engaged?
5. Violence and religion in dispute management
We invite participants to reflect on the ways religion serves to either encourage the use of violence, or, alternatively, to mitigate and prevent the use of violence in disputes. Besides, we are interested in the question to what extent violence may be used, by the state or by others, to suppress the emergence or eruption of religious disputes. And thirdly, we invite contributions on religious modes of dispute management for dealing with past violence, either by perpetrators, as a way to circumvent criminal procedures, or as a more general way of bringing perpetrators and victims together to come to terms with a violent past for which the judicial system cannot provide appropriate procedures.
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CfP Journal: Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects
Deadline: March 15, 2010
Issue 4 “Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects”
Ontario, Canada
It has been suggested by performance scholar Phelan that, “‘the equation of performance with empowerment and visibility with liberation is ‘a meeting of profound romance and deep violence’” (in Kruger 2005: 782). At the same time, as has been noted by artists and theorists from a wide range of disciplines, performance represents an important oppositional, revolutionary and transformative public forum through which people respond to forms of political, economic, and social/cultural domination.
In commemoration of this year’s passing of Augusto Boal, the editors of Issue 4 “Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects” invite scholars and artists whose work deals with the theatricality of power, corporealities of structural violence, and sensory regimes to contribute to a dialogue related to the potentiality of theatre and performance as a critical social practice applied to broad artistic, political and cultural contexts. The editors welcome pieces that engage with the politics of performance practices, broadly conceived within and beyond the theatre, as well as those submissions that address performance as a mode of analysis.
Papers, interviews, reviews, and artistic works that wish to be considered for publication should be emailed to guest Editors Dr. Michelle Bigenho mlbSS@hampshire.edu Hampshire College and Dr. Alberto Guevara aguevara@yorku.ca York University. Style and submission guidelines can be accessed and downloaded at http://www.yorku.ca/intent/submissions.html
Submission deadline: March 15th, 2010.
Visit the website at http://www.yorku.ca/intent
Performance and politics intersect in the staging and contestation of gendered, sexualized, racialized, colonial, neo-colonial, local, national, and global hierarchies and inequalities. Performativity, as emerging from linguistic theories and then interpreted by Judith Butler (1993) in relation to gendered identities, involves the iteration of acts, the embodiment of those acts, and the historical processes of exclusion that already shape those embodied acts. But iteration too can be turned on its head. Since social roles and power relations can be reproduced and challenged in their enactment, performance can be both liberating and tyrannical. As such the potentiality of performance as a social practice and as a scholarly framework can only emerge in a close consideration of the culturally and socially constructed world of, what scholar Diana Taylor (1991) has called, “the politics of theatricality,” where the past, the present, the future, the “real” and the imagined become common referents for performers and their audiences in particular spaces. Performance as a form of analysis may carry a theatrically-based Western bias of the not real (Schieffelin 1998), but it also works productively against any easy disciplining of the arts (Taylor 2003: 26).
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The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship/ The Woodrow Wilson Disseration Fellowship in Women's Studies
The Charlottw W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (www.woodrow.org/newcombe) support the final year of dissertation work for PhD Candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Eligible proposals have religious or ethical values as a central concern, and are relevant to the solution of contemporary religious, cultural or human rights questions. Please note that this year the stipend for the Newcombe Fellowship has been raised to $25,000 for a twelve month period of dissertation writing. Deadline for this award is November 15, 2009.
The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies (www.woodrow.org/womens-studies) offer awards for candidates doing original and significant research about gender that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. Deadline for this award is October 11, 2009.
For more information, contact Susan Billmaier at 609-452-7007 ext.310 or billmaier@woodrow.org
Mailing Address:
PO Box 5281
Princeton, NJ 08543-5281
Street Address:
5 Vaughn Street, Suite 300
Princeton, NJ 08540-6313
Tel: 609.452.7007
Fax: 609.452.0066
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Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships are designed to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Eligibility Requirements:
- US Citizen or national
- Planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level
Stipends and Allowances
- Predoctoral - $20,000 to the fellow, institutional allowance of $2000 for three years.
- Dissertation - $21,000 for one year
- Postdoctoral - $40,000 for one year, $1,500 employing institution allowance, to be matched by employing institution.
Awardees have expenses paid to attend one Conference of Ford Fellows.
Approximately 40 predoctoral, 20 dissertation, and 18 postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies
Deadlines
Predoctoral – November 2, 2009
Dissertation – November 9, 2009
Postdoctoral – November 9, 2009
For further information and applications, contact:
Fellowship Office
National Research Council of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street, NW, K576
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 1-202-334-2872
Fax: 1-202-334-3419
E-mail: infofell@nas.edu
http://national-academies.org/fellowships
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CfP Journal: Journal of Germanic Linguistics
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Special issue of Journal of Germanic Linguistics: Germanic Languages and Migration in North America
Call for Papers
In contrast to most European countries, the United States and Canada have historically been portrayed as immigrant nations, yet there exists much current debate on the challenges and benefits of migration and multilingualism. Taking the socially and spatially situated nature of language as the point of departure, this special issue seeks to advance research on the topic of language and migration by unpacking the concepts of language, migration and place. Contributions focusing on the spoken and written Germanic language varieties used by people in North America, as well as the diversity of migration experiences and multiple understandings of senses of place as they relate to global flows in the past and present, are invited. Papers that draw on insights from sociolinguistics, social anthropology and cultural geography are especially welcome, as interdisciplinary approaches encourage us to reflect on the parameters influencing how we conduct research on the topic of language and migration.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts of 8000 words is 15 January 2010. Papers will be anonymously refereed, in line with JGL policy, and the special issue is scheduled for publication in March 2011. Please contact the guest editor, Kristine Horner (University of Leeds) for further details: k.horner@leeds.ac.uk
Kristine Horner
Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
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CfP: Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century, 05/30/2010, 09/10-11/2010 UK
Deadline: November 30, 2009
THE PATRIOTISM OF THE EXPATRIATES.
Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century
United Kingdom
Call for Papers
A common feature of several European national movements of the nineteenth century was their development outside the territorial space of the state or states they aimed at creating. National consciousness was often developed and elaborated within the circles of diaspora intellectuals and patriots living in exile. The aim of the conference is to explore the role intellectual and revolutionary diasporas played in creating, disseminating and negotiating ideas, and in producing shared values, principles and discursive patterns among patriots of different national origins. It seeks to study how ideas are shaped, how they circulate, and the contribution that diasporas themselves gave to the main ideological currents advocating change in the post-revolutionary world: patriotism, republicanism, liberalism, etc. It will focus on the interaction between the intellectual communities of the European and Mediterranean centres and these diasporas, as well as contacts and exchanges between different diasporas. It hopes to look not only at displaced intellectuals from Europe and the Mediterranean, but also at those coming to these regions from other continents. By looking at trans-national exchanges and trans-national civil societies, it seeks to de-nationalize the study of national consciousness, encourage comparative analysis and study the connections, relations and exchanges between different intellectual traditions and currents. It is hoped that the conference will represent an opportunity to discuss, question and revise some of the theoretical frameworks used by historiography to explore and interpret the circulation of ideas between Europe, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, and that it will provide an opportunity to improve our understanding of the intellectual and cultural dynamics facilitated by the cross-border and cross national encounters.
The conference will be held in two parts:
a) A one-day workshop to be held in Nicosia (University of Nicosia).
Date : 30 May 2010
b) A two-day conference to be held in London (Queen Mary College, University of London) Date : 10-11 September 2010
Dr. Maurizio Isabella, Hist. Dept., Queen Mary College, University of London
Mile End Road, London EI 4NS, UK
Dr Konstantina Zanou, University of Nicosia, Cyrpus, czanou@gmail.com
Email: m.isabella@qmul.ac.uk, czanou@gmail.com
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CfP: Untitled: What's in a Name?, 04/15-17/2010, Glasgow
Deadline: November 09, 2009
Untitled: What's in a Name?
Student Session
Association of Art Historians Annual Conference
University of Glasgow 15-17th April 2010
Call for Papers
As art historians, critics, and researchers we are surrounded by titles, names, and classifications. Names secure and give substance to our critical operations; but names can also constrain investigation if one relies on given solutions without reassessing historical objects and methods.
But what happens when the title is questionable, anachronistic, or purposely absented? From collaborative works that lack designated authors to the untitled work, the enquiring viewer is prematurely left alone to fill in the blanks ¨C a productive insecurity in the face of that which cannot be named, grasped, or conveyed that leaks into, and has an impact upon, the doing and teaching of art and its histories. We would like to invite papers on naming as a activity shared by art historians, critics, curators, and artists; thereby also addressing questions of authority, validity, critique, and resistance that become integral to the act of giving ¨C or retracting ¨C titles. Possible areas of enquiry can include: measuring the name: navigating classification and reconfiguring value; the untitled work as a site of frustration, opportunity, and challenge; the function of names and classifications in reception, historiography, and methodology; legitimising nomenclature: claiming and re©\claiming the utility of art and history; and choosing names and choosing sides: the vocabulary of cross©\disciplinary studies.
With this session, we hope to open up a space for critical reflection on the work of art history, wherein the validity and function of the name/title must be constantly kept in check, while navigating research through identification and classification that we see ourselves reconfiguring.
If you would like to offer a paper, please contact the session convenor directly (Catriona McAra c.mcara.1@research.gla.ac.uk) providing an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 250 words, your name and institutional affiliation (if any) by 9th November 2009.
Visit the website at http://www.aah.org.uk/photos/Annual%20Conference%202010.pdf
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Post-graduation Forum for Music and Dance Studies, 12/04-05/2009, Portugal
Deadline: October 22, 2009
Call for Papers
Post-in-progress: 1st International Post-graduation Forum for Music and Dance Studies – Aveiro, Portugal December 2009
The Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Music and Dance Studies (INET-md) and Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, are pleased to host POSTIP an international scientific meeting open to all post-graduation students in music and dance.
Post-in-progress will be held in Aveiro, Portugal, from Friday 4 to Saturday 5 December 2009 and aims to create a debate and presentation space for scientific research within the following INET-md research sub-themes:
• Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies
• Western Art Music from the Perspective of Cultural Studies
• Ethnochoreology and Cultural Studies on Dance
• Creation, Theory and Music Technologies
• Performance Studies
Visit the website at http://cms.ua.pt/postip/
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CfP Journal: Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies
You can find the 'Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies', which is a fully peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal at:
http://www.criticalglobalisation.com/
We are looking for full articles (up to 10,000 words) and polemics (short articles up to 5000 words) for our next issue on 'Globalisation and War'.
Published contributions will be available free online and included within our limited-run print edition.
Didem Buhari Gulmez
Associate Editor, JCGS
Royal Holloway, University of London
Email: m.d.buhari@rhul.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.criticalglobalisation.com
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CfP Journal: Infinity
New peer-review graduate and young professionals journal on war and peace
Infinity Journal is switching to the peer-review process and will focus on the topics of war and peace, and all of the issues in between - from humanitarianism to terrorism. The peer-review process begins after Volume 1 ends, which will be in February 2010. Those interested in submitting to Infinity Journal (peer-review) can begin submitting papers now. Visit the site for more details or contact Adam for more information, including submission guidelines.
There will also be a $1,000 award for best piece.
This is for those wishing to publish in a peer-reviewed journal.
Adam Stahl
Executive Director
Email: adam@infinityjournal.com
Visit the website at http://www.infinityjournal.com
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CfP Journal: Red River Valley Historical Journal
Call for Articles - Red River Valley Historical Journal
The Red River Valley Historical Journal (RRVHJ) invites the submission of articles for publication in upcoming issues. Articles are solicited on any historical topic, era, or geographic region of the world. The RRVHJ publishes articles of general interest to the academy.
Articles should be 8,000-9,000 words in length. Authors are required to send two typed, double-spaced copies of the manuscript to the address below. A self-addressed, stamped envelope should be included if the manuscript is to be returned. The author's name, mailing address, email address and telephone number should appear on the title page and nowhere else in the manuscript. Notes should appear as endnotes using the Chicago Manual of Style. Once the manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors will be required to provide the RRVHJ an electronic copy in WordPerfect or Word’s Rich Text Format (RTF).
For inquiries on articles, please contact the editor:
Vernon L. Williams, Ph.D., Editor
Red River Valley Historical Journal
ACU Box 28130
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, Texas 79699-8130
(325) 280-3399
vwilliams@acu.edu
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Job: EU Foreign and Security Policy, Boston
Deadline: October 30, 2009
Tenure-track Assistant Professor
International Relations: EU Foreign and Security Policy.
The Department of International Relations at Boston University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, with a specialization in European Union (EU) Foreign and Security Policy (pending budgetary approval). Knowledge of European foreign policy, defense and security policy, and trans-Atlantic relations required.
Candidate should have a research and publication agenda that focuses on the major players in security and defense (e.g., the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) and/or on other sub-regions (e.g., Central and Eastern Europe), expertise in terrorism, non-traditional risks, human rights, and/or asylum policy. Position requires commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching, as well as research. Publications and teaching experience required. Ph.D. must be completed by the time of appointment.
Please submit curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, samples of written work, and three current letters of recommendation to: Chair, European Union Search Committee, Department of International Relations, Boston University, 152 Bay State Road, Boston, Massachusetts 02215. Applications must be received no later than October 30, 2009.
Boston University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.
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