EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2007-09-17 and 2007-09-19.

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: Feminist Art @ Cultural Studies Assn NYC May 2008
Location: New York
Date: 2007-10-22
Description: Note: Please Reply To: kelly.dennisuconn.edu Call
for Papers Feminist Art The Visual Culture Division invites
submissions for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural
Studies Association (U.S.) to be held on the campus of NYU in
Greenwich Village, in New York City, May 22-24, 2008. Deadline:
Octobe ...
Contact: kelly.dennisuconn.edu
URL: www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm
Announcement ID: 158303
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158303

Title: Alfred Hitchcock (Southwest-Texas PCA/ACA Conference)
Location: New Mexico
Date: 2007-11-15
Description: Southwest-Texas Popular & American Culture
Associations 29th Annual Conference Albuquerque, NM February
13-16, 2008 Hyatt Regency Albuquerque 330 Tijeras Albuquerque,
NM 87102 Phone: 1.505.842.1234 Fax: 1.505.766.6710 Panels now
forming for presentations on the films and career of Alfred
Hitchcock. ...
Contact: jason.landrumselu.edu
URL: www.h-net.org/~swpca/
Announcement ID: 158339
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158339

Title: Representing Affect / Affecting Representation (Second
Annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies)
Location: Ohio
Date: 2008-01-17
Description: This is a call for graduate student papers on the
interchanges between affect and representation that engage this
nexus from a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives. In
Parables for the Virtual, Brian Massumi argues that belief has
waned for many, but not affect. If anything, our condition is
...
Contact: AffectAndRepresentationhotmail.com
Announcement ID: 158259
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158259

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# Category: Conference
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Title: "Judaism and Christian Art": The 3rd Lavy Colloquium at
Johns Hopkins University
Location: Maryland
Date: 2007-10-11
Description: 3rd Lavy Colloquium Judaism and Christian Art October
11-12, 2007 9AM-6PM The Smokler Center for Jewish Life, Harry
and Jeanette Weinberg Building 3109 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410.516.6625 Fax: 410.516.7586
E-mail: jewish.studiesjhu.edu
Web:http://web.jhu.edu/jewishstudies T
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Contact: jewish.studiesjhu.edu
URL: web.jhu.edu/jewishstudies
Announcement ID: 158289
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158289

Title: CITIES IN CONFLICT CONFERENCE - OCTOBER 18-19, 2007Alice
Kaplan Institute for the HumanitiesNorthwestern University
Location: Illinois
Date: 2007-10-18
Description: CITIES IN CONFLICT OCTOBER 18 - 19 2007 Alice Kaplan
Institute for the Humanities Northwestern University This
conference emerges from several themes explored in the New
Urban Cultures workshop sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute
for the through a grant from the Mellon Foundation. We aim to
prom ...
URL: www.asianandmiddleeast.northwestern.edu/citiesinconflict/
Announcement ID: 158307
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158307

Title: Blake in Contexts
Date: 2007-11-02
Description: The Swedenborg Society and Goldsmiths, University of
London, are holding a joint conference on Friday 2nd November
to celebrate William Blakes extraordinary achievements. Its aim
is to place Blake within a variety of historical, literary,
cultural and artistic contexts. Iain Sinclair and Arthur Vers
...
Contact: richardswedenborg.org.uk
URL: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/upcomingconferences021107.htm
Announcement ID: 158276
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158276

Title: 13. Fachtagung des Arbeitskreises Geschlechtergeschichte
der Frhen Neuzeit (AKGG-FNZ)
Date: 2007-11-08
Description: Seit Oktober 1994 trifft sich der Arbeitskreis
Geschlechtergeschichte der Frhen Neuzeit einmal jhrlich zu
einer Fachtagung in Stuttgart-Hohenheim. Die Treffen bieten
eine Plattform zur Prsentation und Diskussion aktueller
Forschungsarbeiten. Zugleich dienen sie dem
Informationsaustausch, der Vernetz ...
Contact: andrea.griesebnerunivie.ac.at
URL: www.uni-flensburg.de/akhfg/FNZ/akgg_fnz.html
Announcement ID: 158421
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158421

Title: Exploring New Media Worlds: Changing Technologies,
Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical
ContextAn international conference hosted by Texas A&M
University
Location: Texas
Date: 2008-02-29
Description: Exploring New Media Worlds: Changing Technologies,
Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical
Context An international conference hosted by Texas A&M
University, February 29 to March 2, 2008 Integrating fields of
study in a time of change; setting a new agenda for media
studies. Pa ...
Contact: mediaworldslibarts.tamu.edu
URL: comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds
Announcement ID: 158350
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158350

Title: Contested Cultural Heritage in a Global World
Location: Illinois
Date: 2008-04-24
Description: A major conference, "Contested Cultural Heritage," to
be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on
April 24-25, 2008, will feature keynote speaker Dr. Donny
George Youkhanna, former Director of the Iraq National Museum
and now Visiting Professor at the State University of New
York-Ston ...
Contact: slirishuiuc.edu
URL: ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/champ/5608
Announcement ID: 158313
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158313

Title: Discovering, Constructing, and Imagining the Other in the
Space Between: 1914-1945
Location: Illinois
Date: 2008-06-13
Description: Tenth Annual Conference of the Space Between Society
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus June 13-14, 2008
Keynote speaker: Jonathan Freedman University of Michigan
author of The Temple of Culture This conference addresses the
history, representation or self-representation, and
interpretations o ...
Contact: Phyllislnorthwestern.edu
Announcement ID: 158264
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158264

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# Category: Seminar
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Title: VITAL - The essence of performance
Date: 2007-11-20
Description: 20 - 21 November 2007 - Performance Dates, Chinese
Arts Centre, Manchester, UK 22 - 23 November 2007 - Conference
Dates, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK VITAL 07 Live
Artists Announced Vital 07 is a chance to experience the
powerful, yet fundamentally simple, emotional relationship
between the ...
Contact: artistschinese-arts-centre.org
URL: www.vitalfestival.org
Announcement ID: 158151
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158151

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# Category: Symposium
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Title: Why Sculpture, Why Here?
Date: 2007-10-05
Description: This forum will explore the global contexts of
contemporary sculptural practice, with artists originally from
Cuba, China, India, Japan and Nigeria giving short
presentations about their work. This will be a unique
opportunity to hear why artists from across the world continue
to find sculpture a re ...
URL: www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/10141.htm
Announcement ID: 158177
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158177

Title: Building Museums 2008
Location: District of Columbia
Date: 2008-02-28
Description: CALL FOR PROPOSALS Building Museums Symposium 2008
February 28-March 1, 2007 Washington, D.C. The Mid-Atlantic
Association of Museums (MAAM) is pleased to announce fourth
annual Building Museums Symposium in Washington, D.C., February
28-March 1, 2008. The event will be hosted at some of
Washingtons ...
Contact: danagreilgmail.com
URL: www.midatlanticmuseums.org/buildingmuseums.html
Announcement ID: 158422
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158422