2008-10-27

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:
http://www.h-net.org/announce/

H-Net assumes no liability for the accuracy of subsequent repostings of
this material, so please check them carefully.

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web sitebetween
2008-10-24 and 2008-10-31.

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Category: Call for Papers
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Title: CFP: "Feeling Photography" Oct 16-17, 2009 Location: Ontario
Date: 2009-01-15 Description: Feeling Photography: Call for Papers
October 16-17th 2009 University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada In
the 25 years since the publication of Victor Burgins critically
important collection Thinking Photography, scholars in both the
humanities and social sciences have turned their attention to ques ...
Contact: feelingphototorontophotoseminar.org Announcement ID: 164754
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164754

Title: Mosaic invites
submissions for a special issue on "Sculpture". Date: 2009-01-15
Description: Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of
literature invites submissions for a special issue on "Sculpture".
Material must be received by January 15, 2009. According to Hegel,
since it transforms mere stone or wood into the human figure,
sculpture constitutes the proper centre of classica ... Contact:
Mosaic_Journalumanitoba.ca URL: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic Announcement
ID: 164755 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164755

Title: 2009 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Conference -
Visual Culture Area Location: Louisiana Date: 2008-11-30 Description:
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Studies in Visual Culture 2009 Popular Culture
Association & American Culture Association Annual ConferenceApril 8 -
11, 2009New Orleans, Louisiana The Popular Culture Association and the
American Culture Association will hold their joint annual conference
at the New Orleans Marri ... Contact: royce.smithwichita.edu URL:
www.pcaaca.org/areas/visualculture.php Announcement ID: 164802
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164802

Title: Urban History Review--Special Issue: Immigrants and Cities Date:
2009-01-15
Description: Urban History Review, Special Theme IssueCall For Papers:
Immigrant Lives, Contested Cities, New Histories No great North
American city can be understood without being studied as a city of
immigrants, of newcomers and their children, as a destination of
myriad group and individual migration projects ... Contact:
cityimmigrantsgmail.com Announcement ID: 164816
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164816

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Category: Conference
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Title: KHI - Conference Programme Description: Programme information for
the international conference to be held at the Kunsthistorisches
Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, 6-9 November, 2008. Via
Giuseppe Giusti 3850121 FirenzeItalien INNENRAUM UND AUSSENRAUM:WIE
FORMT DER PLATZ DIE STADT?~ INSIDE OUT IN THE PIAZZA:SHAPING SPACE,
DEFINI ... Contact: atkinsonkhi.fi.it Announcement ID: 164624
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164624

Title: Technology and Desire - The Transgressive Art of Moving Images
Date: 2008-11-14
Description: The increasing interest in recent years in theories of
visuality and materiality has become central to the discussion of the
alterity of moving images throughout the genealogies of media. This
conference sets out to explore perceptual modalities of future
cinematic and digital forms of moving images ...
URL:kunstwissenschaften.hfg-karlsruhe.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=232&Itemid=58
Announcement ID: 164769
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164769

Title: International Conference The most important procedures in
preservation and state enhancement of historical textiles Date:
2008-11-24 Description: International Conference The most important
procedures in preservation and state enhancement of historical
textilesMonday 24 November 2008 Wednesday 26 November 2008, Zagreb,
Croatia Calling for application, papers or demonstrations:
application deadline for participation and delivery of abstracts i
... Contact: svujicich-r-z.hr, mbiscanh-r-z.hr
URL: www.h-r-z.hr
Announcement ID: 164722
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164722
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Category: Symposium
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Title: Study Day on Golden Age Seville at the J. Paul Getty Museum Date:
2009-02-24 Description: Golden Age Seville Study Day Tuesday, February
24, 2009 The J. Paul Getty Museum Museum Lecture Hall 1:00pm-7pm
Spanish Royal Sculptor Luisa Roldn dominated the world of polychrome
sculpture in late 17th-century Spain. This study day seeks to better
understand how she as both an artist and woman wor ... Contact:
malvarezgetty.edu Announcement ID: 164613
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164613
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Category: Fellowship
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Title: Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, France, 2009 Date: 2009-01-15
Description: Established in 2001 by the Terra Foundation for American
Art, the Terra Summer Residency in Giverny provides ten summer
fellowships to artists and scholars from the United States and Europe.
These annual fellowships are awarded to artists who have completed
their studies at Masters level and doctora ... Contact:
tsrterraamericanart.org URL: www.terraamericanart.org Announcement ID:
164551
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164551
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Category: Grant
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Title: UW Travel Grants Announcement Location: Wyoming Date: 2009-04-15
Description: The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming
is offering five travel grants to be used by scholars during 2009. The
grants are for up to $500 each and provide support for travel, food,
and lodging to carry out research using the American Heritage Center's
collections. Subject areas incl ... Contact: rewiguwyo.edu URL:
ahc.uwyo.edu/eduoutreach/travelgrants/default.htm Announcement ID: 164659
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164659
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Category: Website
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Title: Redesigned Website, Smarthistory.org, Wins Prestigious
International Award Description: AVICOM, the committee of the
International Council of Museums (ICOM), responsible for audiovisual,
image, sound and new technologies honored Smarthistory with their
highest award (gold) in the web category at its annual competition on
October 17, 2008 in Ottawa. Smarthistory.org is a free multimedia ...
Contact: drszuckergmail.com URL: smarthistory.org Announcement ID:
164781
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