EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2009-02-05 and 2009-02-06.

[H-ArtHist-Selection]

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: 4th International Conference on South Asian Popular Culture
Deadline: 2009-02-23
Description: SAPCs 4th meeting invites interdisciplinary
contributions from across subjects in the arts, humanities and
social sciences to engage with notions of popular culture.
'South Asian popular culture' is defined in a broad and
inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the
mass and new medi ...
Contact: rajinder.dudrahmanchester.ac.uk
URL: www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/sapcconference2009/
Announcement ID: 166735
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166735

Title: Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation
Deadline: 2009-02-27
Description: Call for Papers Conference: Science Fiction across
Media: Adaptation/Novelisation May 28-30, 2009 K.U. Leuven,
Belgium Keynote speakers: Andrew Butler, Ian Hunter, Peter
Verstraten, Peter Wright This conference wants to bring
together scholars from science fiction studies, adaptation
studies and lit ...
Contact: Thomas.VanParysarts.kuleuven.be
URL: www.arts.kuleuven.be/literary_studies/indexe.htm
Announcement ID: 166740
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166740

Title: Richard Nixon and the Making of Modern America
Deadline: 2009-03-23
Description: CALL FOR PAPERS The Rothermere American Institute,
University of Oxford, will host a one-day multidisciplinary
conference for postgraduates on Monday May 11th, 2009. We are
keen to receive proposals from postgraduates working in any
discipline within the field of American Studies, including
history, ...
Contact: karen.heathhistory.ox.ac.uk
URL: www.nixonconference.net
Announcement ID: 166681
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166681

Title: The Mediterranean Edition invites the submission of
articles for the Spring 2009 issue
Date: 2009-03-25
Description: The Mediterranean Edition invites the submission of
articles for the Spring 2009 issue. We are particularly
interested in 1) articles that explore the structural, social,
cultural, institutional, or political economic barriers to
media democratization. Example topics include: Media and
Conflict ...
Contact: mashoed.bailieemu.edu.tr
URL: globalmedia.emu.edu.tr
Announcement ID: 166639
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166639

Title: WOMEN WRITERS/ARTISTS AND TRAVELLING MODERNISMS
Deadline: 2009-03-30
Description: Papers are invited on women writers/artists and any
aspect of Modernism the conference WOMEN WRITERS/ARTISTS AND
TRAVELLING MODERNISMS. The conference will take place Thursday
and Friday, 4-5 June 2009, at The University of Queensland, St
Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. Already confirmed speakers includ
...
Contact: c.ferrieruq.edu.au
Announcement ID: 166714
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166714

Title: Enlightenment and Esotericism Ways into Modernity
Date: 2009-03-31
Description: Call for Papers Enlightenment and Esotericism Ways
into Modernity International Conference of the DFG Research
Group The Enlightenment in the referential Context of modern
Esotericism (Die Aufklrung im Bezugsfeld neuzeitlicher
Esoterik) Interdisciplinary Center for European Enlightenment
Studies Int ...
Contact: izeaizea.uni-halle.de
URL:
www.izea.uni-halle.de/forschergruppe/aktivitaeten/callforpapers2010_eng.
htm
Announcement ID: 166684
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166684

Title: CFP: The Post-American City
Location: Massachusetts
Deadline: 2009-03-31
Description: The New England American Studies Association invites
submissions of papers and panels on topics, both historic and
contemporary, related to The Post-American City. Our conference
(Oct. 16-18, 2009) site in Lowell, Massachusetts, looks back to
colonial and early national interactions of an emerging A ...
Contact: mbattenfeldwheelock.edu
URL: www.neasa.org
Announcement ID: 166767
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166767

Title: University of Toronto 2009 Darwin Conference:150 Years After
Origin of Species: biological, historical, and philosohical
perspectives
Location: Ontario
Deadline: 2009-04-15
Description: November 24, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the
publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species, and The
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto
are mountin ...
Contact: conference.ihpstutoronto.ca
URL: www.hps.utoronto,ca/darwin
Announcement ID: 166636
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166636

Title: Metamorphosing Dante
Deadline: 2009-04-30
Description: After almost seven centuries, Dante persists and even
seems to haunt the present. He has been used, rewritten, and
metamorphosed through manifold media and cultural productions.
This conference will investigate what so many authors, artists
and thinkers from such different artistic, political, geogr ...
Contact: danteici-berlin.org
URL: www.ici-berlin.org/projects/dante
Announcement ID: 166691
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166691

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# Category: Summer Program
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Title: Summer School at the University Zurich
Deadline: 2009-03-31
Description: The Institute for Art History introduces two new
programs for the fall of 2009: a specialized M.A. program
History of Art and Photography with Technical Studies and a
doctoral program Media History of the Arts. Both programs will
explore especially the aesthetic, epistemologic and political
meaning ...
Contact: mj.wasmerbluewin.ch
Announcement ID: 166750
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166750

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# Category: Workshop
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Title: Creating the Global Image Archive: A workshop on images and
their archives in cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary
contexts
Date: 2009-02-16
Description: Our experiences and practices of the image are
characterized by an ever-expanding circulation across
proliferating and ever more diverse circuits. Scholars,
artists, curators, and other practitioners have frequently
sought to understand these changes in the name of
globalization. Some have focused o ...
Contact: j.bajorekgold.ac.uk
URL: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/events.php
Announcement ID: 166758
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=166758