EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2008-04-14 and 2008-04-18.

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: Call for Papers (Area: Subculture)
Location: Ohio
Date: 2008-04-30
Description: Call for Papers (Area: Subculture) Topics for this
panel should deal with the area of subcultural expression in
music, cinema, or other "popular" forms of expressions which
operate on the fringes of society, whether aesthetically,
politically, or philosophically. Deadline for abstract
submissions (A ...
Contact: youngs21msu.edu
Announcement ID: 161944
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161944

Title: Short Moving Images
Date: 2008-05-01
Description: IN SHORT JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS The University of
Miami is currently accepting submissions for its new peer
reviewed online journal devoted to the study of short moving
images. The journal has been created to construct a scholarly
response to recent media developments in viral videos and forms
of r ...
Contact: inshortjournalgmail.com
Announcement ID: 161845
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161845

Title: Seeking Conference Papers on Paper/Modernism
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2008-05-05
Description: PAPIER/PAPEL/CARTA For the upcoming Modernist Studies
Association (Nashville, November 2008), I am seeking proposals
for a panel that examines paper as a global medium of
modernism. How did the (venerable, changing, ubiquitous) medium
shape modernist experiment in the early twentieth century?
Recycl ...
Contact: zemgulysumich.edu
URL: www.vanderbilt.edu/msax/
Announcement ID: 161919
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161919

Title: 30th Congress of the German art historical association
Date: 2008-05-15
Description: Call for papers 30th Congress of the German art
historical association. The conference will take place at the
University of Marburg, Germany from the 25th to 29th March
2009. Conference languages are: German (main language),
english, italian, french. Deadline for applications: 15th May
2008. ------- ...
Contact: infokunsthistoriker.org
URL: www.kunsthistorikertag.de
Announcement ID: 161848
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161848

Title: MESDA Conference on American Material Culture
Location: North Carolina
Date: 2008-05-16
Description: CALL FOR PAPERS MESDA CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN MATERIAL
CULTURE October 9, 10 and 11, 2008 The Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts presents its sixth biennial conference for
recent research in early American material culture and
decorative arts on October 9 - 11, 2008 The conference provides
a ma ...
Contact: sgantoldsalem.org
Announcement ID: 161943
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161943

Title: CFP: Conference on the Role and Works of Piero Gazzola
(1908-1979)
Date: 2008-05-23
Description: The City of Verona and the Veneto Region are
promoting an international conference to celebrate the role and
works of Piero Gazzola (1908-1979), on the occasion of the
centenary of his birth year. The conference will take place in
Verona on November 28-29, 2008. This initiative is meant to
give due ...
Contact: centenario.gazzolacomune.verona.it
URL: www.centenario.gazzola.comune.verona.it
Announcement ID: 161856
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161856

Title: CFP: Visual Culture & Digital Media
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2008-06-15
Description: CFP: Visual Culture and Digital Media The Northeast
Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) will hold its
annual conference on October 31-November 1 on the campus of the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA. The
Visual Culture and Digital Media area of NEPCA seeks paper an
...
Contact: clercs1southernct.edu
URL: users.wpi.edu/~jphanlan/NEPCA.html
Announcement ID: 161840
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161840

Title: CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL IMAGEN Y APARIENCIA/INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE IMAGE AND APPEARANCE
Date: 2008-06-15
Description: Manners and behaviour, facial expressions, gestures,
clothes, ornaments, the house were they live, their circle of
people, the animals and objects that surround them. They all
offer glimpses into the every day life of people from the
Ancient Regime to our days. They tell us about the social
structur ...
Contact: mperezsaum.es
URL: www.um.es/imagenyapariencia
Announcement ID: 161859
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161859

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Title: Collective Biography Conference
Deadline: 2008-04-25
Description: This will be a multi-disciplinary conference,
covering any aspect of collective or group life writing. Paper
proposals on any aspect of this theme, such as networks;
families; artistic, political or academic groups; communities;
institutional history and prosopography, are welcomed. Papers
may be on ...
Contact: paul.pickeringanu.edu.au
URL: rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/collectivebiography/index.php
Announcement ID: 161928
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161928

Title: Rethinking Late Style
Date: 2008-08-21
Description: This conference will be the second part of two
conferences, the first to be held at Kings College, London in
2007 convened by Gordon McMullan and Sam Smiles. The aim is to
bring together scholars in the fields of art, music,
literature, film and architecture to debate the subject of late
style and a ...
Contact: roger.hillmananu.edu.au
URL: rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/rethinkinglatestyle/index.php
Announcement ID: 161929
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161929

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# Category: Symposium
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Title: Rediscovering Color: New Perspectives on Polychrome
Sculpture
Location: California
Begins: 2008-05-02
Description: This symposium, presented in conjunction with the
exhibition "The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from
Antiquity to the Present" (on view at the Getty Villa March
6June 23, 2008), brings together an international group of
scholars and conservators to explore conceptual and technical
issues as ...
Contact: VillaProgramsgetty.edu
URL: www.getty.edu/visit/events/rediscovering_color_symposium.html
Announcement ID: 161857
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161857

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# Category: Summer Program
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Title: Summer Program at Bregenz Austria (Vorarlberg Architecture
Institute)
Date: 2008-07-21
Description: ANTIPODIUM ON US. About patterns and properties.
Cultural Insights into Architecture in Vorarlberg (Austria)
Summer Program: Palais Thurn & Taxis Bregenz, 20.07 07.09.2008
In 2008 as part of the long-term study project ANTIPODIUM, the
Vorarlberg Architecture Institute offers summer workshopsin
Brege ...
Contact: sircartugraz.at
URL: antipodium.at/
Announcement ID: 161954
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161954

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# Category: Website
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Title: hprints.org: An e-print archive for the arts and humanities
Description: Hprints.org is an Open Access archive aiming at
making scholarly documents from the Arts and Humanities area
publicly available to the widest possible audience. The archive
is now open for submission and browsing (as of spring 2008).
The archive aims at being a direct tool for scientific
communicati ...
Contact: helphprints.org
URL: www.hprints.org
Announcement ID: 161989
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161989