EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2006-04-21 and 2006-04-27

[selection H-ArtHist]

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: Propaganda / Mass Media in Cold War Europe
Date: 2006-06-15
Description: Propaganda and the Mass Media in the Making of Cold
War Europe An International Interdisciplinary Workshop School
of History and Archives University College Dublin 12/13 January
2007 Proposals for papers are requested for an
interdisciplinary workshop on Propaganda and the Mass Media in
the Making o ...
Contact: christoph.mullerucd.ie
Announcement ID: 150726
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150726

Title: Panel: "Brushing Up Against The Grain": Creative readings
(between the lines) of old Benjamin". Conference: "Walter
Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity", Sydney, August 17
- 19
Date: 2006-06-16
Description: Proposals for papers are invited for a panel at the
"Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity" conference
to be held in Sydney, August 17 - 19 Panel Title; "Brushing Up
Against The Grain": Creative readings (between the lines) of
old Benjamin. Chair; John Grech Panel Description Walter Benj
...
Contact: John.M.Grechuts.edu.au
Announcement ID: 150738
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150738

Title: CFP: Direct Cinema, Film and History Conference
Location: Texas
Date: 2006-07-30
Description: Call for Papers and Sessions: Direct Cinema THE
DOCUMENTARY TRADITION November 8-12, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org No conference on the documentary
tradition would be complete without a panel about the Direct
Cinema movement. Only recently acknowledged as specific to the
United States instead of an of ...
Contact: slzubewm.edu
URL: www.filmandhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150734
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150734

Title: Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern
France (1553-1715)
Location: New York
Date: 2006-07-14
Description: Call for Papers Fortune and Fatality: Performing the
Tragic in Early Modern France (1553-1715) The Graduate Center
of the City University of New York 20 October 2006 The
Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies
at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
invites p ...
Contact: dhosfordgc.cuny.edu
URL: web.gc.cuny.edu/French/events/tragedyconference.html
Announcement ID: 150695
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150695

Title: Night in the Italian Renaissance
Location: Florida
Date: 2006-05-12
Description: Night in the Italian Renaissance RSA, Miami, Florida
22-24 MARCH 2007 This panel will explore various aspects of how
night was understood, represented, defined, navigated,
legislated, resisted, and controlled in Italy in the middle
ages and Renaissance. All approachesincluding social, legal,
literar ...
Contact: atkinsonkhi.fi.it
Announcement ID: 150657
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150657

Title: Freiheit und Geschlecht Offene Beziehungen, Prekaere
Verhaeltnisse. Ringvorlesung Gendered Subjects VI
Date: 2006-05-25
Description: Freiheit und Geschlecht Offene Beziehungen, Prekaere
Verhaeltnisse. Ringvorlesung Gendered Subjects VI Unter dem
Stichwort Liberalisierung vollziehen die westlichen
Gesellschaften seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten eine
janusgesichtige Veraenderung: Einerseits werden Normen
zunehmend aufgeweicht und erm ...
Contact: marlen.bidwell-steinerunivie.ac.at
URL: www.univie.ac.at/gender
Announcement ID: 150671
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150671

Title: ISA-Northeast panel on "Visual representations and
International Relations" is looking for presenters
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2006-05-26
Description: We are looking for presenters for a panel on Visual
representations and international relations at the
International Studies Association-Northeast conference in
Boston, MA 9-11 November, 2006. Papers on any aspect of the
visual and its role in constituting IR or the ways in which
visual representati ...
Contact: pdixit05gmail.com
Announcement ID: 150650
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150650

Title: Sculpture and Display
Date: 2006-07-01
Description: This two-day international conference (planned for
Spring 2007) aims to bring together academics, curators,
architects, artists, designers and museum professionals to
discuss the role of sculpture and its display in the museum and
gallery. It aims to look above all at the reasons behind the
choices ...
Contact: ellenhenry-moore.ac.uk
URL: www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk
Announcement ID: 150662
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150662

Title: Film and History League Conference Dallas Nov 2006
Location: Texas
Date: 2006-07-25
Description: Call for Papers on the Canadian Documentary
Experience 2006 Film and History League Conference The
Documentary Tradition: Canadas Cinematic Identity
www.filmandhistory.org AREA: Canadian Documentary Film and
Docudramas John Grierson (National Film Board of Canadas first
commissioner and an advocate ...
Contact: rsmithtru.ca
Announcement ID: 150688
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150688

Title: Arts & Humanities: Future Challenges & New Horizons
Location: Florida
Date: 2007-01-03
Description: www.worldconferences.org Call for Papers and Poster
Presentations What: Arts and Humanities World Conference Where:
Miami Beach, Florida, USA When: January 3-5, 2007 Who:
Academics, Students, Politicians, NGOs,Municipal, State, and
Federal Leaders, Public Servants, Administrators Presentations,
disc ...
Contact: worldconferencesyahoo.com
URL: www.worldconferences.org
Announcement ID: 150666
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150666

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Title: CIRM 2006: Destinations and Locations - Exploring the
Multiple Identities of Place
Date: 2006-05-08
Description: CIRM 2006: Destinations and Locations: Exploring the
Multiple Identities of Place Manchester Metropolitan University
Business School September 6th and 7th, 2006 Submissions are
invited from academics and practitioners in marketing,
retailing, planning, regeneration, place management and
geography fo ...
Contact: d.bennisonmmu.ac.uk
URL: www.business.mmu.ac.uk/cirm
Announcement ID: 150730
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150730

Title: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men
Location: Maryland
Date: 2006-07-26
Description: REGISTER NOW for Attending to Early Modern Women-and
MenNovember 9-11, 2006 Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
http://www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw6/
What may scholars learn about
early modern women by focusing on men? What may we learn about
early mode ...
Contact: crbsumd.edu
URL: www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw6
Announcement ID: 150711
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150711

Title: Gender Myths, Gender Meanings: Gender in Asia
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2006-04-29
Description: This graduate student conference on gender in Asia is
open to the public, and all events will be held at the
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University, 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 18 (the auditorium). The
keynote speech, "Gender and Region," by Tani Barlow will be
delivere ...
Contact: foulksfas.harvard.edu
Announcement ID: 150701
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150701

Title: Carola Giedion-Welcker Conference
Date: 2006-06-09
Description: Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) is the author of
one of the first extensive and fully illustrated books on
modern sculpture, Modern Plastic Art: Elements of Reality,
Volume and Disintegration (1937) later revised as Contemporary
Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space (1954). This
symposium e ...
Contact: ellenhenry-moore.ac.uk
URL: www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk
Announcement ID: 150661
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150661

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Title: Symposium: The Abstract Edge: Robert Davidson and
Contemporary Aboriginal Arts Practice
Location: Quebec
Date: 2006-05-26
Description: Organized in conjunction with the Department of Art
History, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University and the
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in
Canadian Art, it will bring together artists, curators and
academics from across Canada to discuss Aboriginal contemporary
art. KEY ...
Contact: infomccord.mcgill.ca
URL: www.mccord-museum.qc.ca
Announcement ID: 150729
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150729

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Title: Digital Art Photography Defined
Date: 2006-06-21
Description: From business Web sites to adding color to the home,
the need to create attractive photographs has become an
essential part of the digital world. In the art world, digital
photographs are making their way from scrapbook collages to
prototypes for sculpture. The just-released book "Digital Art
Photog ...
Contact: matthewbamaol.com
URL: digitalartphotographyfordummies.blogspot.com/
Announcement ID: 150670
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150670

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# Category: Workshop
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Title: Film and Human Rights -The University of the Madres of
Plaza de Mayo - Term Abroad
Date: 2006-07-24
Description: The Martin Buber Institute (NY), and the University
of the Association of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Buenos
Aires, Argentina) invite, students, faculty and activists to
join us in Argentina for a series of workshops and seminars on
Film, Photography and Human Rights/ Social Justice. The program
in ...
Contact: hunemartinbuberinstitute.org
URL: www.culture-and-ecology.com
Announcement ID: 150699
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150699