EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

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The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2007-02-13 and 2007-02-14.

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Title: Seeking panel for AHA paper
Date: 2007-02-15
Description: Seeking a panel or co-panelists for AHA 2008. My
paper focuses on the material culture of African-Americans and
the racial politics of fashion in the antebellum North. I am
particualrly interested in particular dress objects and the
politics of their display by African-Americans from 1800-1845.
Emai ...
Contact: brekkefas.harvard.edu
Announcement ID: 155465
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155465

Title: The Dynamics of Memory in the New Europe: National Memories
and the European Project
Date: 2007-02-28
Description: In 2007, the European Union celebrates the 50th
anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. The inaptness of the logo
marking the occasion, 'Together since 1957' highlights what can
be seen as one of the key obstacles to the emergence of a
European identity: the lack of a common hi/story. Whereas
collecti ...
Contact: william.nivenntu.ac.uk
Announcement ID: 155474
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155474

Title: Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts at Cardiff University -
Call for Papers
Date: 2007-03-16
Description: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference This
international conference is being organised by doctoral
students for doctoral students and will consider how concepts
of reading impact on different areas of research.
"Reading" is intended to be interpreted in a wide
sense, to include the re ...
Contact: readingconferencecardiff.ac.uk
URL: www.cardiff.ac.uk/readingconference
Announcement ID: 155398
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155398

Title: LIMINA: 'Strange Attractors: Unpredictable Combinations in
Historical and Cultural Contexts'
Date: 2007-03-26
Description: Strange Attractors: Unpredictable Combinations in
Historical and Cultural Contexts In chaos theory, strange
attractors can describe provisional patterns emerging from
chaos as terms are brought together in equations. Applied to
the humanities, the term ‘strange attractors’ not
only sugg ...
Contact: liminacyllene.uwa.edu.au
URL: www.arts.uwa.edu.au/limina
Announcement ID: 155485
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155485

Title: Remapping America: Shifts in Nationality, Citizenship, and
Community
Location: Indiana
Date: 2007-04-20
Description: The Purdue American Studies Program announces its
annual Symposium to be held April 20, 2007. This event is
graduate student-run and focuses on the presentation of
academic work by other graduate students. The Purdue American
Studies Symposium Committee invites papers from students of all
discipline ...
Contact: ewadepurdue.edu
URL: www.cla.purdue.edu/american-studies
Announcement ID: 155411
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155411

Title: Divulgation of the 1st National Meeting of Image Studies
Date: 2007-05-14
Description: Divulgation of the 1st National Meeting of Image
Studies We would like to divulgate the 1st National Meeting of
Image Studies, that will take place the 14th, 15th, and 16th of
May, at UEL (Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná -
Brasil). The site for inscription and the program: http://w ...
Contact: eneimagemuel.br
URL: www.uel.br/eventos/eneimagem/
Announcement ID: 155482
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155482

Title: African Architecture Today
Date: 2007-06-05
Description: African Architecture Today, a conference that will
explore the study and practice of architecture in Africa, will
take place at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana from 5 - 8 June, 2007.
Teachers, researchers, designers, students, and others with an
intere ...
Contact: africarchconfyahoo.com
URL: www.knust.edu.gh
Announcement ID: 155387
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155387

Title: Journeys of Expressions VI, Diaspora Community Festivals,
Cultural Events and Tourism
Date: 2007-10-04
Description: This conference, the sixth in our series which
focuses upon tourism and festivals, will bring together
international researchers working on the ways by which diaspora
community cultures as expressed, translated and consumed
through festivals, cultural events and tourism. Issues
addressed include: De ...
Contact: l.e.longleedsmet.ac.uk
URL: www.tourism-culture.com
Announcement ID: 155449
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155449

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Title: The Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity
Location: District of Columbia
Description: The Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and
DiversityQuestion, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural
Perspective The symposium will discuss the long lasting history
of interlinked garden traditions in the Middle East, since
Roman times, and in the Islamic world up to the present. It
will highlig ...
Contact: MaffryAdoaks.org.
URL: www.doaks.org/gal_2007_spring_symposium_synopsis.html
Announcement ID: 155400
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=155400