EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2008-09-16 and 2008-09-17.

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Title: The Parisian Press, actor in a heart of a town
Date: 2008-09-23
Description: Since 1830, newspapers had an important part in the
french capital, in a cultural, economic and social
(architecture, urbanism, reading, politician, journalists,
printers, salesmen...) point of view. This conference aim to
present different analysis. ...
Contact: pevenowanadoo.fr
URL: presse-paris.univ-paris1.fr/
Announcement ID: 163975
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163975

Title: Vulnerable Modernism
Date: 2008-10-24
Description: The erosion of public art since 1951 is the theme
being addressed: the largest collection of sculpture and
commemorative monuments in Britain is not well defined so the
aim is to stimulate efforts to protect, conserve and
communicate with a range of owners and users who need to be
aware of their cul ...
Contact: kirstiehenry-moore.ac.uk
URL: www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/
Announcement ID: 163998
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163998

Title: Wiederkehr und Verheissung - Dynamiken der Medialität in der
Zeitlichkeit, Zürich (31.10.2008 - 1.11.2008)
Date: 2008-10-31
Description: Das Interesse der Tagung grndet auf der Beobachtung,
dass zentrale abendlndische Zeitvorstellungen eine ihnen
innewohnende Medialitt aufweisen. So kommen etwa mit
Aristoteles und Augustinus zwei historische Positionen der
Zeittheorie in den Blick, in denen je unterschiedliche
zeitliche Paradigmen ve ...
Contact: bennowirzaccess.uzh.ch
URL: www.mediality.ch
Announcement ID: 163985
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163985

Title: Metamorphosis and the Migration of Forms: Exploring the
Sculptural Imagination in the Decorative Arts
Date: 2008-11-07
Description: This international conference will further explore
the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative arts it
accompanies our Autumn exhibition Taking Shape: Finding Culture
in the Decorative Arts. There will be two gallery sessions in
the exhibtion space and the following papers: Mimi Hellman,
Skidm ...
Contact: kirstiehenry-moore.ac.uk
URL: www.henry-moore.ac.uk
Announcement ID: 163999
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163999

Title: Battlegrounds States 2009: The Future
Location: Ohio
Date: 2009-02-26
Description: If, as philosopher and poet Paul Valry says, The
prophet is in the same boat as the historian, then why does the
future often remain alienated from the past and present? Why do
we envision the future as either utopic or dystopic? Why are
discussions of the future frequently limited to the realm of s
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Contact: battlegroundstatesgmail.com
URL: battlegroundstates.org
Announcement ID: 163944
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163944

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Title: Landmark Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Shows Since 1968
Date: 2008-10-10
Description: Landmark Exhibitions: contemporary art shows since
1968 brings together world-renowned artists, critics, curators,
museum directors and scholars to identify and analyse key
moments in the histories of exhibitions of the last forty
years. This two-day symposium argues that the exhibition, long
overlo ...
Contact: ahudekhotmail.com
URL: www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/15962.htm
Announcement ID: 163911
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163911