EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

The following announcements were posted to the H-Net web site
between 2009-11-23 and 2009-11-25.

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# Category: Call for Papers
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Title: 2nd Global ConferenceVideogame Cultures and the Future of
Interactive Entertainment
Deadline: 2010-01-15
Description: 2nd Global Conference Video Game Cultures and the
Future of Interactive Entertainment Wednesday 7th July 2010
Friday 9th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine,
explore and critically engage with the issues and implications
c ...
Contact: vg2inter-disciplinary.net
URL:
www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-the-futu
re-of-interactive-entertainment/call-for-papers/
Announcement ID: 172133
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172133

Title: 5th Global ConferenceVisions of Humanity in Cybercultures,
Cyberspace and Science Fiction
Deadline: 2010-01-15
Description: 5th Global Conference Visions of Humanity in
Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction Sunday 11th July
2010 Tuesday 13th July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford, United
Kingdom Call for Papers This inter-disciplinary and
multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what it is to be
human and the natur ...
Contact: visions5inter-disciplinary.net
URL:
www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/call-fo
r-papers/
Announcement ID: 172163
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172163

Title: Call for Papers: "Making Networks, Making
History/Construire des rseaux, faire l'histoire." The 7th
annual McGill-Queens Graduate Conference in History to be held
12 & 13 March 2010 at McGill University in Montral, Qubec.
Location: Quebec
Deadline: 2010-01-15
Description: The concept of networks has recently come to be seen
as a crucial axiom for developing ideas in a wide range of
historical scholarship. This concept has been especially
important in a number of historical sub-disciplines, including,
but not limited to: the history of the book/printing history;
the d ...
Contact: mcgillgashgmail.com
Announcement ID: 172250
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172250

Title: Association of Art Historians Summer SymposiumHenry Moore
Institute, Leeds, 24 - 25 June 2010Architectural
ObjectsDiscussing Spatial Form Across Art Histories
Deadline: 2010-02-15
Description: Architectural Objects Discussing Spatial Form Across
Art Histories The 'spatial turn' in the history of art has had
a significant impact on the understanding of artistic practice
and the built environment, and the formal and political
complexities of space in a broader sense. This symposium
explores ...
Contact: laraeve8gmail.com
Announcement ID: 172179
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172179

Title: CFP - Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth
Century.
Deadline: 2009-12-15
Description: This interdisciplinary conference at the University
of Sheffield aims to bring together the different scholarly
ways of approaching the Victorian period and to examine their
points of crossover and divergence. From The Charge of the
Light Brigade to The White Mans Burden, from Honor Daumiers
lithogr ...
Contact: poetrypoliticspicturessheffield.ac.uk
URL: sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Announcement ID: 172210
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172210

Title: Call for Papers- SJSU Art History Department
Location: California
Deadline: 2010-02-01
Description: The Art History Department at San Jose State
University will host its 16th Annual Symposium on April 10,
2010. We are considering 20 minute papers from graduate and
advanced undergraduate students on various aspects of art,
architecture, and visual culture. You will be asked to submit a
250-word abs ...
Contact: dfeuerberggmail.com
Announcement ID: 172202
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172202

Title: Performatives after Deconstruction
Deadline: 2010-02-01
Description: Since Derrida, de Man and Miller first read Austin,
the encounter between deconstruction and the performative has
affected every discipline of the humanities (politics, law,
architecture, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical
theory, cultural studies, etc.). Analyses have multiplied and h
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# Category: Conference
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Title: Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies 7th
Annual PhD Symposium on Surrealism and Dissident Sexualities
Date: 2009-12-04
Description: Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its
Legacies(http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk) SEVENTH ANNUAL PhD
SYMPOSIUM SURREALISM AND DISSIDENT SEXUALITIES FRIDAY DECEMBER
4th 2009 SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS, UEA NORWICH 10.30
6.00 This event is FREE This one day symposium will explore how
Surrea ...
Contact: kmarowessex.ac.uk
Announcement ID: 172107
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172107

Title: (Auto)Mobility and Road Culture
Location: New Mexico
Date: 2010-02-10
Description: Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture
Association 31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
http://swtxpca.org/ Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Albuquerque, NM 87102 505.842.1234 The growing area
of (Auto)Mobility and Road Culture focuses on the cultural
significance ...
Contact: millsoxy.edu
Announcement ID: 172196
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172196

Title: Poetry, Politics, and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century @
University of Sheffield (26-27 March, 2010) - Registration now
open.
Date: 2010-03-26
Description: This interdisciplinary conference at the University
of Sheffield aims to bring together the different scholarly
ways of approaching the Victorian period and to examine their
points of crossover and divergence. From The Charge of the
Light Brigade to The White Mans Burden, from Honor Daumiers
lithogr ...
Contact: poetrypoliticspicturessheffield.ac.uk
URL: sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Announcement ID: 172211
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172211

Title: Imagining Astrology: Painted Schemes and Threads of the
Soul - A Two-Day International Academic Conference at the
University of Bristol, UK.
Date: 2010-04-24
Description: Astrology as a way of understanding the world has
woven its thread into cultures since Mesopotamian times. Along
with its technical descriptions of calculation and
interpretation, whether written on clay tablets or vellum,
using stylus, quill or printing press, it has also taken form
in sculpture, m ...
Contact: Sam.Barlowbristol.ac.uk
URL: www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/imaginingastrology
Announcement ID: 172259
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172259

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# Category: Publication
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Title: GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing, vol 2.3, "Color!"
now available online
Deadline: 2010-01-15
Description: COLOR! now available GLIMPSE journal vol 2.3, autumn
2009 http://www.glimpsejournal.com CONTENTS
Fluorescence in the
Garden, by Christie Marie Bielmeier Ordering Colors: A
multifaceted problem, by Dr. Rolf G. Kuehni, color scientist,
North Carolina State University;author of Color Space and Its
Divi ...
Contact: editorglimpsejournal.com
URL: www.glimpsejournal.com
Announcement ID: 172198
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172198

Title: Arthurian-Themed Comics Collection
Deadline: 2010-01-30
Description: In commemoration of the upcoming 75 anniversary of
PRINCE VALIANT, I am seeking brief proposals (apx. 200-500
words) for a collection of essays on comics (comic strips,
comic books, graphic novels, web comics, and adaptations into
other media) based on or inspired by the Arthurian tradition.
The col ...
Contact: Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Agesgmail.com
URL: PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.blogspot.com/
Announcement ID: 172169
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172169