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EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET This index comprises all verified entries from H-Net's events database on the indicated dates. It has been sorted by type of event, not by content field. Users may print, post, or forward all or part of the index, or click on individual items to view and use the entire entry from the events site. H-Net assumes no liability for the accuracy of subsequent repostings of this material, so please check them carefully. To receive the digest by email, send the following command as the plain text of an email message addressed to listserv@h-net.msu.edu: subscribe h-announce yourname example: subscribe h-announce James Smith Please do not send events announcements to this list; instead, visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/ The following types of events are contained in this listing: Call for Papers Publication To skip down to the section listing calls for papers, for example, use the find feature of your mailer to look for: "Category: Call for Papers". The following 45 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2007-08-20 and 2007-08-21. ###################################################################### # Category: Call for Papers ###################################################################### Title: Transgressing the Frontier Film Issue Announcement, CFP - Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Description: Transgressing the Frontier Film Issue Announcement Call for Papers Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Vol. 7, No. 3 (2007) themed issue, "Transgressing the Frontier: Modernity, American Ideology, and Cinema," which can be found ... Contact: reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com URL: reconstruction.eserver.org Announcement ID: 157795 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157795 Title: Qui Parle: General Call for Papers Description: Qui Parle, produced at UC Berkeley since 1986 and published by Indiana University Press, is seeking articles for its upcoming issues. About the Journal: Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues ... Contact: quiparle@berkeley.edu URL: inscribe.iupress.org/loi/qui Announcement ID: 157826 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157826 Title: Challenging Cultures of Death Deadline: 2007-08-31 Description: The Center for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College Dublin, and the Institute for Feminism and Religion invite proposals for contributions to our forthcoming event: Challenging Cultures of Death: A cross-cultural dialogue imagining a political and symbolic world based on life not death: mercy ... Contact: oanderson@ideologiesofwar.com Announcement ID: 157739 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157739 Title: FEEGI CFP extended to September 1 Location: District of Columbia Deadline: 2007-09-01 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS FEEGI deadline extended to September 1 We invite paper proposals for the biennial conference of The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) to be held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC on February 22-23, 2008. Work that engages the theme of empire and ident ... Contact: kars@umbc.edu URL: feegi.org Announcement ID: 157803 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157803 Title: LCMRS CFP Reminder Location: Louisiana Deadline: 2007-09-01 Description: Reminder: Louisiana Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2007 annual meeting Loyola University New Orleans 26-28 October 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 2007 meeting of the Louisiana Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place at Loyola University New Orleans 26-28 October 20 ... Contact: jtsebast@loyno.edu Announcement ID: 157737 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157737 Title: Nebula 4.3 Deadline: 2007-09-03 Description: Nebula 4.2 is now available online and with unrestricted access at http://www.nobleworld.biz . The table of contents is listed below for your convenience. Our current call for papers follows the table of contents. Nebula is an online, peer-reviewed, academic periodical which is interested in all thi ... Contact: nebula@nobleworld.biz URL: www.nobleworld.biz Announcement ID: 157815 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157815 Title: 'E Pluribus Unum in Wartime' Conference Panel Date: 2007-09-07 Description: Papers are invited for panel 'E Pluribus Unum' in Wartime at European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference in Oslo, Norway, 9-12 May 2008. 1917-18 and 2003-8, among other periods, witness the invocation of e pluribus unum as a means of twinning the exercise of US national power with ... Contact: Jude.Davies@winchester.ac.uk URL: www.eaas.eu/newsletter/ASE58min.pdf Announcement ID: 157804 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157804 Title: Literature and the African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865 (2008 NeMLA) Location: New York Deadline: 2007-09-15 Description: In what ways did African colonization, and more particularly, the rhetoric and propaganda of the American Colonization Society (ACS), influence antebellum literature? This panel seeks to examine that question from a variety of perspectives: from that of the white philanthropists, in texts like Stowe ... Contact: jwebb16@slu.edu Announcement ID: 157750 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157750 Title: NeMLA: Queer Theory and Becoming Location: New York Deadline: 2007-09-15 Description: Queer Theory and Becoming NEMLA conference, Buffalo NY, April 10-13. This panel seeks to articulate what is at stake in the recent turn to time in feminist and queer thinking. We will not only discuss representations of queer time-the deviations, divagations, resistances, incoherencies, and perversi ... Contact: TUHKANENM@ecu.edu Announcement ID: 157788 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157788 Title: Gender and Modernity in Central Europe - Reminder Location: Ontario Deadline: 2007-09-15 Description: Gender and Modernity in Central Europe: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its Legacy Since the Austro-Hungarian Monarchys dissolution in 1918, its memory and legacy have been, by turns, suppressed, contested, and continuously re-evaluated in the countries emerging in its wake. This conference aims t ... Contact: jszapor@glendon.yorku.ca; agathas@uottawa.ca Announcement ID: 157792 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157792 Title: Roundtable: Image of Prostitute in Film and Popular Culture Location: New York Deadline: 2007-09-15 Description: Session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference in Buffalo, New York, April 10 - 13, 2008. Call for Papers. TOPIC: Image of the Prostitute in Film and Popular Culture Roundtable. The Oldest Profession: The Whys and Wherefores for the continued fascination of this subject in L ... Contact: pricet@mail.montclair.edu Announcement ID: 157740 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157740 Title: The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernity Location: New York Deadline: 2007-09-30 Description: "The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernity 39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 10-13, 2008 Buffalo, New York This panel proposes to examine the modernist cultural production of marginal territories falling outside the Paris-London-New York nexus ... Contact: etamalet@ucsd.edu URL: www.nemla.org Announcement ID: 157736 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157736 Title: Japan's Natural Legacies: Bodies and Landscapes Realized, Idealized, and PoisonedConference: October 1-5, 2008 Location: Montana Deadline: 2007-09-30 Description: Japan's Natural Legacies: Bodies and Landscapes Realized, Idealized, and Poisoned Goal of the Conference: Environmental awareness has been a latecomer, often unwelcome, in Japanese studies. The aim of this conference is nothing less than to shift debate in the field: to explore ways to integrate dis ... Contact: thomasjna@aol.com URL: www.montana.edu/history/index.php?s=conference Announcement ID: 157827 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157827 Title: Researching Scenarios: Drama Pedagogy for Foreign Language Learning (deadline extended to Oct 1, 07) Deadline: 2007-10-01 Description: Call for Papers: Extended Deadline until October 1, 2007 39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)April 10-13, 2008 in Buffalo, New York Recent years have shown an increased interest in drama pedagogy for foreign language learning. Drama pedagogy is a holistic teaching and lear ... Contact: evens@indiana.edu URL: www.indiana.edu/~germanic/faculty/even.html Announcement ID: 157816 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157816 Title: The Sopranos: A Wake Location: New York Deadline: 2007-10-01 Description: David Lavery, convener, Paul Levinson and Douglas L. Howard co-conveners, solicit your proposals for an academic conference on The Sopranos to be held at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York, May 23-25, 2008 (Memorial Day Weekend). Sponsored by Film and Television and the School of ... Contact: sopranos.wake_at_gmail.com. URL: davidlavery.net/Sopranos_Wake/ Announcement ID: 157818 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157818 Title: Edited Collection: Sporting Theatre(s) Deadline: 2007-10-01 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS: Edited Collection Sporting Theatre(s) The field of performance studies casts a wide net, incorporating the study of expressive culture in many forms, from ritual and play to politics and theatrealways with a special focus on performance as the object of analysis. This collection con ... Contact: christie.fox@usu.edu Announcement ID: 157820 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157820 Title: Appel de communications Location: Quebec Deadline: 2007-10-05 Description: A Bilingual (English/French) International Conference Workshop SHARING AUTHORITY: Building Community-University Alliances through Oral History, Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Call for Papers Concordia University, Montreal, Qubec, Canada Conference 7-10 February 2008 Deadline for Proposals: O ... Contact: shigh@alcor.concordia.ca URL: storytelling.concordia.ca Announcement ID: 157756 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157756 Title: Marriage in Contemporary American Literature, NeMLA, Buffalo, April 10-13. Location: New York Deadline: 2007-10-10 Description: Description for Calls for Papers During the twentieth century in the United States, numerous factors, including feminism, late capitalism, the increasing acceptance of interracial marriage and calls for legalizing gay marriage, as well as conservative backlashes against these movements, have profoun ... Contact: k.freeman@neu.edu Announcement ID: 157793 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157793 Title: GLOBAL REGGAE CONFERENCE UWI, MONA, 2008 Deadline: 2007-10-12 Description: "Global Reggae: Jamaican Popular Music A Yard and Abroad"February 18 - 24, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS The Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the West Indies, Mona announce an international conference on Global Reggae: Jamaican Popular Music A Yard and Ab ... Contact: donna.hope@uwimona.edu.jm Announcement ID: 157777 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157777 Title: 2008 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting Location: British Columbia Deadline: 2007-10-15 Description: The Programme Committee of the Canadian Historical Association invites proposals for panels and papers for its 2008 Annual Meeting which will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2-4, 2008. The themes for the 2008 conference are: childhood, youth, and ge ... Contact: cha2008@interchange.ubc.ca URL: www.cha-shc.ca Announcement ID: 157811 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157811 Title: ASCA International Workshop "Engaging Objects", Amsterdam, March 26-28, 2008 Deadline: 2007-10-31 Description: Engaging Objects ASCA International Workshop, Amsterdam, March 26-28, 2008 Things in the world, objects of art and of everyday use, have functioned as core referents in contemporary cultural theory. Since the linguistic turn, technological devices and philosophical texts, dirty windows, typewriter-e ... Contact: asca-fgw@uva.nl URL: www.hum.uva.nl/asca Announcement ID: 157830 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157830 Title: Geopolitics, Soft Power and Popular Culture in the Middle EastSpecial issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Deadline: 2007-11-01 Description: Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication on geopolitics, soft power; and popular culture in the Middle East. The purpose of this special issue is to tease out the implications of American-led public diplomacy in the Middle East that is often ch ... Contact: lina.khatib@rhul.ac.uk URL: www.brill.nl/mjcc Announcement ID: 157781 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157781 Title: Pacific Sociological Association: The Graduate School Experience: Applying and Surviving Location: Oregon Deadline: 2007-11-01 Description: Call for Papers: Pacific Sociological Association: The Graduate School Experience: Applying and Surviving 2008 PSA Meeting April 10th-13th, 2008 at the Marriott Hotel in Portland, OR. Presentation proposals are now being accepted for The Graduate School Experience: Applying and Surviving session of ... Contact: mpbarnes@berkeley.edu URL: www.pacificsoc.org/2006/06/2008_annual_mee.html Announcement ID: 157778 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157778 Title: Pacific Sociological Association: The Crossover: Hip-Hop, Commercialization and American Culture Location: Oregon Deadline: 2007-11-01 Description: Call for Papers: Pacific Sociological Association: The Crossover: Hip-Hop, Commercialization and American Culture 2008 PSA Meeting April 10th-13th, 2008 at the Marriott Hotel in Portland, OR. Presentation proposals are now being accepted for The Crossover: Hip-Hop, Commercialization and American Cul ... Contact: mpbarnes@berkeley.edu URL: www.pacificsoc.org/2006/06/2008_annual_mee.html Announcement ID: 157779 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157779 Title: PCA 2008 Mystery & Detective Fiction Area Location: California Deadline: 2007-11-01 Description: Mystery & Detective Fiction Section Popular Culture Association San Francisco March 19-22, 2008 Investigating a topic in mystery or detective fiction?Present your conclusions at the 2008 PCA Conference! We welcome proposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of mystery & detective fiction ... Contact: mrye@fdu.edu; waldron@coa.edu Announcement ID: 157833 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157833 Title: Popular Culture in the Age of Theodore RooseveltPopular Cullture Association Annual Meeting 2008 Location: California Deadline: 2007-11-09 Description: The Popular Culture in the Age of Theodore Roosevelt Area of the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting 2008, to be held at the San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, CA, March 19-22, is looking for papers in any area of American popular culture from the period 1880-1920. Send a title and 150 wo ... Contact: murphy@hanover.edu Announcement ID: 157805 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157805 Title: Adolescence in Film and Television (San Francisco; March 19-22, 2008) Location: California Deadline: 2007-11-09 Description: Call for Papers: Adolescence in Film and Television The Adolescence in Film and Television Area Chair of the American Culture Association seeks individual-paper proposals for presentation at the 2008 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, to be held ... Contact: krhart@plymouth.edu URL: pcaaca.org Announcement ID: 157831 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157831 Title: Literature and Science Location: California Deadline: 2007-11-09 Description: The Literature and Science Area of the American Culture Association invites submissions for the 2008 PCA/ACA National Conference, to be held in glorious San Francisco from March 19-22, 2008. Interpretive papers focusing on the representation or integration of science in specific literary texts are e ... Contact: robertsi@missouriwestern.edu URL: www.pcaaca.org/ Announcement ID: 157839 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157839 Title: Experimental Writing and Aesthetics Location: New Mexico Deadline: 2007-11-15 Description: Call for Papers: Experimental Writing and Aesthetics Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2007 Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 29th Annual Conference Albuquerque, NM, February 13-16, 2008 Hyatt Regency Albuquerque 330 Tijeras Albuquerque, NM 87102 Phone: 1.505.842.1234 Fax: 1.50 ... Contact: htribbey@ecok.edu URL: www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html Announcement ID: 157742 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157742 Title: call for contributions to volume on teaching adaptation studies Date: 2007-11-30 Description: Call for papers on teaching adaptation studies, designed for students and teachers at the under- and graduate levels in the field. The volume is designed to sum up the major theoretical and practical issues surrounding adaptation, but would also show these issues operating in practice. The volume pr ... Contact: dennis_cutchins@byu.edu, l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 157798 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157798 Title: Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Womens Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consciousness in the Era Black PowerSarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYFridaySaturday March 7-8, 2008 Location: New York Deadline: 2007-12-01 Description: Traditionally scholarship on the Black Power era has characterized this time of renewed cultural and political nationalism and activism as an almost exclusively male domain. This has begun to change. Not only have scholars uncovered a long tradition of black womens activism before and during the Bla ... Contact: tjames@slc.edu Announcement ID: 157819 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157819 Title: Hypervisibility II: Homosexualities in Contemporary Francophone Visual Cultures Deadline: 2007-12-01 Description: Bilingual conference. University of Stirling, GB June 25th - 27th 2008) Building on the interest and the success generated by Hypervisibility I (Montreal, June 2006), Hypervisibility II will take place from June 25th to 27th at the University of Stirling (GB). While maintaining a focus on the genera ... Contact: florian.grandena@uottawa.ca URL: www.communication.uottawa.ca/fra/profs/grandena.html Announcement ID: 157838 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157838 Title: Hindsight Graduate History Journal's Location: California Deadline: 2007-12-12 Description: Hindsight Graduate History Journal is now accepting article submissions for its second volume, to be published in Spring 2008. A peer-reviewed scholarly publication by and for graduate students, Hindsight is published once a year in the Department of History at California State University, Fresno. O ... Contact: sherzog2@csufresno.edu Announcement ID: 157770 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157770 Title: Zyklus und Prozess. Joseph Haydn und die Zeit (Cycle and Process: Joseph Haydn and Time) Deadline: 2007-12-15 Description: In daily experience, time is perceived either as repetition of the same (cycle) or as continuous, irreversable change (process). Music has, thanks to its quality of temporal existence, always had a special relation to time in tempo, meter, and rhythm. Furthermore, since Haydns day the perception of ... Contact: eybl@mdw.ac.at URL: www.erg.at/iatgm/ Announcement ID: 157802 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157802 Title: Race and Class Consciousness: Contradictions, Resolutions, and Reconciliation in the Ethical Consumption and Eco-Sustainability Movements Deadline: 2008-01-01 Description: Call for Papers for Book: Race and Class Consciousness: Contradictions, Resolutions, and Reconciliation in the Ethical Consumption and Eco-Sustainability Movements Edited by Amie Breeze Harper Abstract Deadline: Accepting abstracts until January 1, 2008 Full Chapter Deadline: September 1, 2008 Appro ... Contact: breezeharper@post.harvard.edu URL: www.breezeharper.com Announcement ID: 157753 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157753 Title: Forbidden Fruit: The censorship of literature and information for young people Date: 2008-01-07 Description: The conference will focus on the censorship of print, electronic and other literary and information resources for young people. You are invited to present an abstract for a presentation in either of the following formats: Reflective paper (approx 30 minutes plus discussion) A case study (approximate ... Contact: ebase@uce.ac.uk URL: www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/events.htm Announcement ID: 157786 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157786 Title: 3rd Annual Audrey-Beth Fitch Conference on Womens Studies The Other Side of Beauty: Impact on a Womans Sense of Self Location: Pennsylvania Date: 2008-01-15 Description: California University of Pennsylvania's Women's Studies Program is holding its third annual conference on March 27th, 2008. This years theme is The Other Side of Beauty: Impact on a Womans Sense of Self. Dr. Linda B. Hall, author of Mary, Mother, and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas, wi ... Contact: marak@cup.edu or mcclintock@cup.edu URL: www.cup.edu/academic/womens/index.jsp Announcement ID: 157767 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157767 Title: 1970s British Culture Deadline: 2008-01-31 Description: The School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at University of Portsmouth have been awarded a large research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to write the history of British visual culture in the 1970s. This is headed up by Professor Sue Harper. Part of the project is to run an inte ... Contact: Peri.Bradley@port.ac.uk URL: www.1970sproject Announcement ID: 157746 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157746 Title: Fourth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference Location: Illinois Deadline: 2008-02-15 Description: Fourth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola University Chicago April 26, 2008 The History Graduate Student Association of Loyola University Chicago invites colleagues in history and related ... Contact: sress@luc.edu URL: www.luc.edu/orgs/hgsa/ Announcement ID: 157812 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157812 Title: FEEGI Conference deadline extended Location: District of Columbia Deadline: 2008-09-01 Description: We invite paper proposals for the biennial conference of The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) to be held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC on February 22-23, 2008. FEEGI, an AHA affiliate, is an international organization of scholars dedicated to encouraging scholars ... Contact: kars@umbc.edu URL: feegi.org Announcement ID: 157785 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157785 ###################################################################### # Category: Publication ###################################################################### Title: Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) Description: Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites submissions for the fall 2007 edition of the journal. Please visit the journal at http://www.americanpopularculture.com to get a sense of the kinds of material we are interested in publishing. You can also view the submission ... Contact: editor@americanpopularculture.com URL: www.americanpopularculture.com Announcement ID: 157749 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157749 Title: Anglican and Episcopal History, Call for Submissions Description: Anglican and Episcopal History, the Quarterly Journal of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, invites submissions on any aspect of the history of the churches in the Anglican Communion. Submissions should generally run about 30 double-spaced pages. Please submit potential articles to the ... Contact: aeheditor@earthlink.net URL: www.hsec.us Announcement ID: 157841 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157841 Title: Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture Date: 2007-10-07 Description: Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture: Submissions are invited for a volume of essays that will address generational shifts in the cultural expressions of individual and national identity formation in Germany and in views on the German past. With the passage of time, major historical ev ... Contact: lcpfiste@gettysburg.edu Announcement ID: 157771 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157771 Title: The History of American Bestsellers Deadline: 2007-10-31 Description: We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume dedicated to the history of American bestsellers. We encourage a wide range of approaches, but chapters should be written in a style accessible to students and non-academic readers. In general we are soliciting chapters that focus on an individual bes ... Contact: thomas.smith@uea.ac.uk Announcement ID: 157761 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157761 Title: Proposed book on teaching adaptation studies Deadline: 2007-11-30 Description: Call for papers for proposed book on teaching adaptation studies. Contributions invited from teachers and practitioners at all levels from a variety of disciplines, particularly literature and film studied. Contributions can be of any length, although we would prefer a minimum of (8-10) A4 double-sp ... Contact: dennis_cutchins@byu.edu, l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com Announcement ID: 157791 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157791
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