EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

[ArtHist selection / Redaktionelle Auswahl H-ArtHist]

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: American Art in a Global Context
Location: District of Columbia
Date: 2006-01-15
Description: "American Art in a Global Context" September 28-30,
2006 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. The field
of American art history has turned away from the old paradigm
of "what is American about American art?" In tandem with
related disciplines, such as American studies, history, and
liter ...
Contact: SAAMSymposiumsi.edu.
URL: www.americanart.si.edu/education/opportunities-symposium.cfm
Announcement ID: 149254
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149254

Title: Taking Exception (Cornell grad conference, 1/20/06; 3/3/06
- 3/4/06)
Location: New York
Date: 2006-01-20
Description: CFP: "Taking Exception" Extended deadline
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, January 20, 2006. Cornell
University, March 3-4, 2006 Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Santa Ana,
Dartmouth The Cornell English Department's Graduate Student
Spring Conference is currently accepting abstracts for its
fifth annual ...
Contact: ascgrad-mailboxcornell.edu
Announcement ID: 149240
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149240

Title: Capturing the Cadaver: Photographs of the Dead
Location: New Jersey
Date: 2006-01-31
Description: Panel to be held at the 2006 conference of the WAPACC
Organization in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. The conference is
entitled "Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory." Please
submit abstracts of no more than 500 words for 20 minute
conference papers. Please make your arguement easily defined
wit ...
Contact: m-tetinorthwestern.edu
URL: www.aurorajournal.org/conference%20announcement%202006.htm
Announcement ID: 149222
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149222

Title: CFP: Productive and the Unproductive (Critical Sense; grad
journal; 1/31/06)
Date: 2006-01-31
Description: Utility, Excess, Value, Waste: Interrogating the
Productive and the Unproductive CRITICAL SENSE: A JOURNAL OF
POLITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY The difference between the
productive and the unproductive vexes us in the most banal and
daily ways: we use these terms to categorize not only our work,
but al ...
Contact: criticalsenselists.berkeley.edu
URL: criticalsense.berkeley.edu/current/callforpapers.htm
Announcement ID: 149280
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149280

Title: Graduate Conference CFP: Theory and After
Location: Ontario
Date: 2006-02-01
Description: Theory and After: Interdisciplinary Mediations
Conference hosted by the Graduate Students in Communication
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada April 7th, 2006 Keynote
Speaker: Leslie Regan Shade, Associate Professor, Concordia
University, President of the Canadian Communication Association
Communica ...
Contact: carleton_comm_conferencehotmail.com
Announcement ID: 149270
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149270

Title: Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies
Conference
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2006-03-31
Description: Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies
Conference at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, September
28-30, 2006 Hosted by Gordon College, Center for Christian
Studies and partially funded by the Lilly Foundation Endowment,
Inc. Conference Organizers: Brian Johnson, Ph.D. and Gregor Th
...
Contact: Christ-in-Culturesgordon.edu
URL: www.christ-in-cultures.com/
Announcement ID: 149241
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149241

Title: HELL IN THE MOVIES
Date: 2006-04-01
Description: Hell in the Movies. In anticipation of a forthcoming
anthology we are seeking papers on the subject of Hell in the
Movies. Hell can be what you make of it, but connect the
subject to the literal representation of Hell in film. Scholars
and writers of any discipline are welcome to weigh in on this
su ...
Contact: adam.cantormail.mcgill.ca
Announcement ID: 149245
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149245

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# Category: Conference
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Title: Gender and the City - London Conference for Canadian
Studies
Date: 2006-02-24
Description: Gender and the City a one day conference in Canadian
studies Friday 24 February 2006 Canada House, Trafalgar Square
Organized by London Conference for Canadian Studies Institute
of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the Americas
9:25 Welcoming remarks from the High Commission Session 1 ...
Contact: Christopher.Dummitt:sas.ac.uk
URL: www.americas.sas.ac.uk/events/gendercity.htm
Announcement ID: 149281
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149281

Title: CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS: IDEOLOGY, AESTHETICS,
POLITICS, Feb 16-17, 2006
Location: Texas
Date: 2006-04-13
Description: The conference "Contemporary Islamic Movements:
Ideology, Aesthetics, Politics" seeks to explore Islamic
thought, politics and social life through an interdisciplinary
approach.* The representation of Muslim life and Islam in
public and private forums leaves much to be desired in terms of
its depict ...
Contact: svhgreenmail.utexas.edu
URL: www.utexas.edu/cola/southasia/news/current/islamicdeologyconf/
Announcement ID: 149285
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149285

Title: CFP: Translating Islam: Cultures, Histories and the
Presentist Challenge3rd Duke-UNC Graduate Student Conference on
Islamic Studies
Location: North Carolina
Date: 2006-04-14
Description: In recent years there has been a growing interest in
the question of translation across the humanities and in the
social sciences. The linguistic and cultural turn that has
shaped the modern formation of interpretive studies currently
pushes toward further engagement with issues of translation,
name ...
Contact: cate.millsduke.edu
Announcement ID: 149256
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149256

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# Category: Fellowship
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Title: American Jewish Archives Fellowships
Date: 2006-03-18
Description: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish
Archives is inviting applications for its 2006-2007 Fellowship
Program. The Marcus Center's Fellowship Program provides
recipients with month long fellowships for research and writing
at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive
...
Contact: kproffitthuc.edu
URL: www.americanjewisharchives.org
Announcement ID: 149198
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149198

Title: University of Virginia Library Summer 2006 Lillian Gary
Taylor Visiting Fellowship in American Literature
Date: 2006-03-21
Description: The Mary and David Harrison Institute for American
History, Liturature, and Culture's Lillian Gary Taylor Visiting
Fellowship in America Literature, Summer 2006 The Mary and
David Harrison Institute of the University of Virginia Library
invites scholars working in the area of American literature to
...
Contact: egoodmanvirginia.edu
URL: www.lib.virginia.edu/harrison/
Announcement ID: 149205
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149205

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# Category: Grant
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Title: UW Travel Grants Announcement
Location: Wyoming
Date: 2006-04-16
Description: The American Heritage Center at the University of
Wyoming is offering five travel grants to be used by scholars
during 2006. The grants are for up to $500 each and provide
support for travel, food and lodging to carry out research
using the American Heritage Center's collections. Subject areas
inclu ...
Contact: rewiguwyo.edu
URL: ahc.uwyo.edu/eduoutreach/travelgrants/default.htm.
Announcement ID: 149243
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149243

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# Category: Lecture
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Title: Rural Images of America: Myth and Realities
Location: New York
Date: 2006-01-23
Description: Monday, January 23, 2006, 6:30 pm. Art historian Jay
Cantor will provide a perspective on the artistic myth of the
American landscape that existed among the romantic painters of
the Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society, 170
Central Park West 77th St by the B, C trains. For more inf ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 149234
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149234

Title: Vishakha N. Desai Love and Longing in Indian Art
Location: New York
Date: 2006-02-06
Description: From kings in their harems to Krishna dancing with
the milkmaids, lovers played a central role in Indian court
paintings from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Asia
Society President Vishakha N. Desai explores the fluid
relationship between gods, kings and lovers in Indian art.
Monday, February 6 ...
Contact: annekasiasoc.org
URL: www.asiasociety.org
Announcement ID: 149203
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149203

Title: Gardens Under Glass, A Natural History of Greenhouses
Location: New York
Date: 2006-02-13
Description: Monday, February 13, 2006, 6:30 pm. Associate Dean
Therese OMalley of the National Gallery of Art in Washington
D.C. will show how the evolution of greenhouses is vital to
botany, horticulture, and landscape design at the New-York
Historical Society, 170 Central Park West 77th St by the B, C
trains. ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 149235
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149235

Title: The Sanctified Landscape
Location: New York
Date: 2006-03-13
Description: Monday, March 13, 2006, 6:30 pm. Professor David
Schuyler of Franklin and Marshall College will discuss art,
literature, and the emergence of a preservationist ethos in the
Hudson Valley at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central
Park West 77th St by the B, C trains. For more information
contac ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 149236
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149236

Title: International Romanticism and the American Landscape
Location: New York
Date: 2006-04-03
Description: Monday, April 3, 2006, 6:30 pm. President of the
Foundation for Landscape Studies, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers will
show how American landscape architecture was part of an
important international trend-setting shift in garden and park
design at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park
West 77th ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 149237
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149237

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# Category: Prize
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Title: 40th Anniversary MESA Bulletin Cover Photo Contest!
Date: 2006-03-01
Description: Announcing an opportunity to have YOUR photograph
grace afront cover of the Middle East Studies Association
Bulletin,40/1(June, 2006) or 40/2 (December, 2006)! To enter
the contest: 1. Send an original photograph (one photo per
person, please), AND a single-page essay discussing the
significance of ...
Contact: bulletinnewpaltz.edu
URL: fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/welcome.htm
Announcement ID: 149221
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149221

Title: 2006 Carter Manny Award for Doctoral Research in
Architecture
Date: 2006-03-15
Description: The Carter Manny Award, an annual fellowship offered
by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts,
supports research for academic dissertations by promising
scholars whose doctoral projects focus on topics directly
concerned with architecture, the built environment, and other
arts ...
Contact: gfgrahamfoundation.org
URL: www.grahamfoundation.org
Announcement ID: 149271
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149271

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# Category: Seminar
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Title: The Newberry Library Seminarin Labor History
Location: Illinois
Date: 2006-01-13
Description: The Newberry Library Seminar in Labor History
Co-Sponsored by the History Department of the University of
Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and the
Labor and Working Class History Association Friday, January 13,
2006, 3:00-5:00pm The Newberry Library Breeding Rubber,
Breeding Worker ...
Contact: schollnewberry.org
Announcement ID: 149218
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149218

Title: The Massachusetts Historical Society announces the fifth
event in it's 2005-2006 season of The Immigration & Urban
History seminar series
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2006-01-26
Description: The Massachusetts Historical Society announces the
fifth event in its 2005-2006 season of the Immigration and
Urban History Seminars. Thursday, January 26, 2006 Stephen J.
Whitfield, Brandeis University Portraits of American Jewish
Culture Comment: Elisa New, Harvard University All seminars
take pla ...
Contact: svosemasshist.org
URL: www.masshist.org/events
Announcement ID: 149268
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149268

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# Category: Summer Program
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Title: Conflict Managements in the Balkans Program Summer 2006
Date: 2006-06-24
Description: The Conflict Management Program in the Balkans offers
an amazing opportunity to examine past conflicts and
consequences firsthand. This six-credit summer program is ideal
for students of international relations, political science,
Slavic studies, or anyone interested in peace and justice. The
Balkan ...
Contact: ryanacademic-solutions.com
URL: www.academic-solutions.com/slovenia/index_slo.htm
Announcement ID: 149248
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149248

Title: CJCR Summer School 2006:The Religious Roots of Contemporary
European Identity
Date: 2006-07-04
Description: CJCR Summer School 2006: The Religious Roots of
Contemporary European Identity Cambridge, Westminster College,
4-14 July 2006 The programme explores, both in theory and in
practice, the relationship between religion and contemporary
European identity. It focuses on the period after 1990, an era
whic ...
Contact: l.faltincjcr.cam.ac.uk
URL: www.cjcr.cam.ac.uk
Announcement ID: 149226
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149226

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# Category: Symposium
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Title: Symposium on American Identities: 1/29/06, Los Angeles
Location: California
Date: 2006-01-29
Description: We invite you, your colleagues, and your graduate
students to attend "At Home in Academia?" This exciting and
innovative interdisciplinary symposium will take place on
January 29, 2006, at the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion. "At Home in Academia?" is
a series ...
Contact: athomeajhs.org
URL: www.ajhs.org/athome
Announcement ID: 149260
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149260

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# Category: Website
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Title: Invitation to join the Working-Class Studies Association
Description: The Working-Class Studies Association brings together
scholars, students, teachers, activists, artists, and workers
who share an interest in working-class life, culture, history,
and politics. The WCSA connects you to an international network
that encourages interactions between labor historians and ...
Contact: sllinkonysu.edu
URL: www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/WCSA%20Brochure.pdf
Announcement ID: 149224
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149224

Title: Archives de sciences sociales des religions: the journal is
online
Description: Archives de sciences sociales des religions are a
CNRS journal created in 1956, and today published by the EHESS
press. The journal sets itself the objective of promoting a
comparative perspective covering both ancient and contemporary
religions of favouring cooperation between all social sciences
w ...
Contact: contactrevues.org
URL: assr.revues.org/
Announcement ID: 149246
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149246

Title: Histoire et Mesure: the journal is online.
Description: The objectives pursued by Histoire & mesure include
proposing tools and presentation of methods of statistical
treatment of information, making use of figures for measuring
historical phenomena and analysing processes. It aims at
developing a reflection on the content and relevance of data,
the cond ...
Contact: contactrevues.org
URL: histoiremesure.revues.org/
Announcement ID: 149247
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149247

Title: Medivales: the journal is online
Description: Mdivales publishes articles on all aspects of the
middle Ages: history, literature and linguistics but also law,
archaeology and history of art. Each issue contains a thematic
subject, often resulting from a seminar or teamwork,
coordinated by a specialist. Articles on the most diverse
subjects are ...
Contact: contactrevues.org
URL: medievales.revues.org/
Announcement ID: 149249
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149249

Title: Journal de la socite des americanistes: the journal is online
Description: Founded in 1896, the Journal de la socit des
amricanistes is a scientific journal with an international
reputation. Devoted to Amerindian societies and cultures,
considered in the totality of their history, JSA owes its
originality and its richness to a disciplinary openness that
leads to the encoun ...
Contact: contactrevues.org
URL: jsa.revues.org/
Announcement ID: 149250
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149250

Title: Exhibit 905 Launches Web Site: Art show Centre on Call
Centres.
Location: Ontario
Date: 2006-04-13
Description: [Oshawa, January 09, 2006] - Exhibit 905 announces
the launch of its new web site with the exhibition of Tally
Sheet Drawing Series. Automatic drawings by the artist, Lesa
Moriarity, were completed at her day-job at a Call Centre in
Toronto, ON, 2005. They reveal and inspire the politics,
humour, an ...
URL: www.exhibit905.info
Announcement ID: 149259
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=149259