EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2006-05-01 and 2006-05-08.
H-ArtHist selection.

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: Possibilities of Cultural Politics
Date: 2006-05-14
Description: In-Spire e-journal of post-graduate research
(www.in-spire.org) & Keele World Today Society (KWTS) are
pleased to announce an annual joint conference entitled
Possibilities of Cultural Politics on 30th May 2006 at Keele
University. We intend to (re) consider current and changing
perspectives of Cult ...
Contact: r.dasguptain-spire.org
URL: www.in-spire.org
Announcement ID: 150818
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150818

Title: Possibilities of Cultural Politics
Date: 2006-05-14
Description: In-Spire e-journal of post-graduate research
(www.in-spire.org) & Keele World Today Society (KWTS) are
pleased to announce an annual joint conference entitled
Possibilities of Cultural Politics on 30th May 2006 at Keele
University. We intend to (re) consider current and changing
perspectives of Cult ...
Contact: r.dasguptain-spire.org
URL: www.in-spire.org
Announcement ID: 150819
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150819
Title: UVA-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX
Location: Virginia
Date: 2006-06-10
Description: The University of Virginia's College at Wise
Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX, September 14-16, 2006 Call
for papers: The University of Virginias College at Wise
Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion
in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. The
conference wel ...
Contact: dls4vuvawise.edu
Announcement ID: 150792
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150792

Title: Researching the Colonial and Postcolonial
Date: 2006-06-30
Description: On 22-23 September 2006 the University of Bristol
will host the first in a series of Arts and Humanities Research
Council- supported workshops bringing together postgraduates
researching the colonial and postcolonial. This
interdisciplinary workshop is intended as a forum for
postgraduates to share ...
Contact: colonialpostcolonialgmail.com
Announcement ID: 150852
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150852

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# Category: Fellowship
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Title: Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars
Location: District of Columbia
Date: 2006-10-02
Description: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities 2007-2008 The
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing
the opening of its 2007-2008 Fellowship competition. The Center
awards approximately 20-25 academic year residential fellows
...
Contact: melaney.monrealwilsoncenter.org
URL: www.wilsoncenter.org
Announcement ID: 150853
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150853

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# Category: Lecture
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Title: The 9-11 Memorials at Ground Zero: Sacred Space and Public
Memory
Location: New York
Date: 2006-05-13
Description: Saturday, May 13, 2006, 11:00 am Ground Zero has
become a place of contending ideas about patriotic pride,
public and private mourning, and spiritual inspiration. We will
visit its eleven principal memorials and consider them as
sacred and public space, and sources of private grief and
memory. Tour ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150827
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150827

Title: WEB -
Location: New York
Date: 2006-05-15
Description: Art History Lecture: Stanley K. Abe "Looking East:
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lucy Truman
Aldrich and Chinese Art Collecting, 19101930." While the
Rockefeller family collected Asian art from the turn of the
century, the generation of John, Jr., Abby, and Lucy turned
that col ...
Contact: annekasiasoc.org
URL: www.asiasociety.org
Announcement ID: 150788
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150788

Title: Out of Fire and Valor: The Art of Memory
Location: New York
Date: 2006-05-18
Description: Thursday, May 18, 2006, 6:30 PM From the Revolution
to 9-11, New York has honored its heroes with civic and
community memorials, and tributes to its fighting regiments.
This treasure house of memory asks us to reflect on those who
gave their lives and those who remember them, and to consider
how eve ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150828
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150828

Title: NARA's Online Genealogical Resources
Location: New York
Date: 2006-05-24
Description: Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 3:00 PM The National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has many
underutilized genealogical resources. NARA Public Program
Specialist, Dorothy Dougherty, will discuss how to find your
family in federal records especially in NARA's online research
catalogs and other h ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150831
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150831

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# Category: Summer Program
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Title: May Bird Walk in Central Park's Ramble: Rain or Shine
Location: New York
Date: 2006-05-06
Description: Saturday May 6, 2006, 9:00 am Journey with artist
Alan Messer to some of his favorite landscape features in
Central Park's wooded Ramble, including the Gil and Tanner
Spring, discovering along the way both resident and migrating
birds. During Spring migration in May, delight in the colorful
warblers ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150823
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150823

Title: Pictures of the Past
Location: New York
Date: 2006-05-06
Description: Pictures of the Past Saturday, May 6, 2006, 2:00 -
4:00 pm Be among the first to visit the N-YHS exhibition Group
Dynamics: Scenes of Family Life in 19th Century America. Use
our materials, props and costume pieces to set up a scene and
create your own family portrait with crayons, paints or a digit
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URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150824
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150824

Title: Nature and the American Vision: Gallery Talk/Central Park
Walk
Location: New York
Date: 2006-06-03
Description: Saturday, June 3, 2006, 11:00 AM Keeping in mind
Alexander Pope's maxim, "All gardening is landscape painting,"
explore the living landscape of Central Park, designed by
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and its relationship to
the paintings of the Hudson River School. This program features
a ...
URL: www.nyhistory.org
Announcement ID: 150832
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150832