2007-09-26 - 2007-09-27

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

This index comprises selected entries from H-Net's events database
on the indicated dates. For further entries see:
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The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2007-09-26 and 2007-09-27.

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Title: Design and Consumer Culture in Post War America
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2007-10-21
Description: Award-winning author Regina Blaszczyk will examine
how creative industries imagine their consumers and then design
products that meet their customers' aesthetic expectations.
Guided tours of the exhibit "Raymond Loewy: Designs for a
Consumer Culture" will be offered. Lecture and exhibit at the
Natio ...
Contact: localhistorymfh.org
URL: www.mfh.org
Announcement ID: 158610
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158610

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Title: Meanings of Modernity in Central Europe: An International
Symposium
Location: New York
Date: 2007-11-08
Description: This two-day symposium will be held at the New York
Public Library, South Court Auditorium from Thursday, November
8 through Saturday, November 10, 2007. The symposium addresses
the framework for modernism in the region covered by the German
and Austro-Hungarian empires and their successor states, f ...
Contact: ecroningc.cuny.edu
URL: www.hgcea.org/nHGCEANews27.htm
Announcement ID: 158551
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158551

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Title: Atlantic History Seminar November Workshop
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2007-11-03
Description: The Casta Paintings, Theories of Human Diversity, and
the Inferiority of Life in America November 3, 2007 Harvard
University A Workshop of the International Seminar on the
History of the Atlantic World This one-day Workshop will
concentrate on the widespread theoretical discussions and
bitter disput ...
Contact: pdenaultfas.harvard.edu
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/casta.html
Announcement ID: 158582
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158582