2005-11-23 - 2005-11-29

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET
[H-ArtHist selection]

For announcements in other fields see also
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2005-11-23 and 2005-11-29.

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: Proposal Deadline Extended -- American Cultures Conference
-- College of William & Mary
Location: Virginia
Date: 2005-12-09
Description: Call for Papers Navigating Networks: Relationships
and Belonging in a Connecting World Fifth Annual American
Cultures Conference, March 23-25, 2006 The College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Extended Deadline for
Paper/Panel Proposals: December 9, 2005 Today, the term
networks commonly ...
Contact: acconfwm.edu
URL: www.wm.edu/amst/acconf
Announcement ID: 148767
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148767

Title: CROSSING BOUNDARIES, SPANNING REGIONS: MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE,
GOODS AND IDEAS
Location: New York
Date: 2005-12-11
Description: The Center for International History invites graduate
students to submit individual proposals for a graduate student
conference, to be held at Columbia University on 10 March 2006.
The theme for this year's conference is "Crossing Boundaries,
Spanning Regions: Movements of People, Goods, and Ideas." ...
Contact: gc2154columbia.edu
Announcement ID: 148769
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148769

Title: Defining Spaces: Graduate Student Symposium
Location: Wisconsin
Date: 2005-12-15
Description: 19th Annual GAFIS Symposium UW-Madison March 30-April
1, 2006 (no foolin): The Graduate Association of French and
Italian Students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites
abstracts on the theme of defining spaces for its 19th annual
symposium. The symposium will be a space for students from m
...
Contact: gafis_symposiumyahoo.com
Announcement ID: 148764
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148764

Title: Catastrophe and Representation: FACS Journal CFP
Date: 2005-12-31
Description: FACS Literary Journal Florida Atlantic University
Comparative Studies Call for Papers Catastrophe and
Representation Images of catastrophe increasingly assault us
through the media. The world is reeling from the effects of war,
natural disasters, famine, and disease. Violence natural
and unnatural h ...
Contact: mschallefau.edu
Announcement ID: 148759
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148759

Title: FORWARD early modern social history symposium: 'Conflict
and Authority in Early Modern Britain'
Date: 2006-01-04
Description: The Forward early modern social history symposium
provides an opportunity for postgraduates and established
academics to discuss aspects of their research. Conflict and
Authority in Early Modern Britain aims to encourage
considerations of, and reasons behind, the many and varied
forms of conflict du ...
Contact: jenniejordan_forwardhotmail.com
Announcement ID: 148750
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148750

Title: CFP: Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives and Memories, Mexico
City, June 2006
Date: 2006-02-25
Description: Call for Papers: Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives
and Memories Mexico City, Universidad Pedaggica Nacional (UPN),
1 5 June 2006 Deadline: 15th of February 2006 The primary focus
of this inclusive and interdisciplinary conference organized by
Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City in cooperation with Mexico ...
Contact: infoenkidumagazine.com
URL: www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/intro_en.htm
Announcement ID: 148743
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148743

Title: Power and Image in Early Modern Europe: NYU Graduate
Student Conference
Location: New York
Date: 2006-03-24
Description: NYU Call for Papers: Power and Image in Early Modern
Europe Guy Debord has argued that, the spectacle inherits all
the weaknesses of the Western project which undertook to
comprehend activity in terms of seeing. In his 1967 study of
the role of image and spectacle in modern societies, The
Society of ...
Contact: igsa.conferencenyu.edu
Announcement ID: 148746
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148746

Title: Going Underground: Excavating the Subterranean City -- A
Call For Papers
Date: 2006-09-21
Description: Going Underground: Excavating the Subterranean City
CALL FOR PAPERS PLEASE CIRCULATE* APOLOGIES FOR
CROSS-POSTING An Interdisciplinary Workshop 21st 22nd September
2006 Co-organised by SURF, Salford University and Centre for
the Study of Cities and Regions, Geography Department, Durham
Univer ...
Contact: E-mail: p.allensalford.ac.uk
URL: www.surf.salford.ac.uk/Events/GoingUnderground.htm
Announcement ID: 148776
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148776

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# Category: Conference
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Title: Further Transactions of the BookA Conference at the Folger
Shakespeare Library
Location: District of Columbia
Date: 2006-03-09
Description: In recent decades, localized studies of the histories
of the book have proliferated and matured. Attention to the
effects of the transmission of knowledge in different media has
consequently influenced work in many scholarly fields. This
weekend conference carries forward the examinations of the 200
...
Contact: institutefolger.edu
URL: www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1724
Announcement ID: 148751
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148751

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Title: Call for Authors - World Empires
Date: 2006-02-01
Description: Editor of World Empires, a five-volume reference work
to be published by Facts on File, is seeking academic
contributors. This definitive work will include more than 150
empires covering all regions of the world and ranging in time
from ancient times to the present. Entries still remain
unassigned f ...
Contact: worldempireshistoryyahoo.com
Announcement ID: 148753
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148753

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Title: NEH Seminar at the State University at Buffalo, June 11-30:
"Negotiating Identities in Art, Literature, and Philosophy:
Cuban Americans and American Culture."
Location: New York
Date: 2006-06-11
Description: NEH Summer Seminar at the State University at
Buffalo, June 11-30: "Negotiating Identities in Art,
Literature, and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American
Culture." The Seminar will focus on two themes: First, how
Cuban Americans have enriched American culture with unique
contributions in art, lite ...
Contact: NEHseminar06gmail.com
URL: www.philosophy.buffalo.edu/NEH06
Announcement ID: 148748
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148748

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Title: Nouveau Blog sur les tats-Unis !
Location: Quebec
Description: Enfin un blog francophone touchant tous les aspects
de la socit amricaine. http://onclesam.blogspot.com/ "Ce blog
est conu pour permettre toute la communaut francophone de la
plante de discuter librement de tous les aspects dfinissant les
tats-Unis d'Amrique. Culture, Histoire, Politique, Littrature
...
Contact: scooby88hotmail.com
URL: onclesam.blogspot.com/
Announcement ID: 148742
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148742

Title: New Art History Journal
Description: e-maj issue 1 is now online e-maj is a new online
journal affiliated with the Melbourne Art Journal, published by
the Fine Arts Network (FAN) and edited by postgraduates in the
School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. It is dedicated to publi
...
Contact: emaj.editorsgmail.com
URL: www.melbourneartjournal.unimelb.edu.au/E-MAJ/index.htm
Announcement ID: 148766
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148766

Title: Introducing Eye Level: Smithsonian's first blog!
Date: 2005-11-28
Description: I'm excited to introduce Eye Level (eyelevel.si.edu),
the blog for the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Eye
Level presents an extraordinary collaboration among curators,
conservators, historians, enthusiasts, critics, designers, and
of course bloggers-all participants in the story of American
...
Contact: jgatessi.edu
URL: eyelevel.si.edu
Announcement ID: 148775
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148775