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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: Conference Lecture Seminar Symposium Workshop 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 35 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2007-08-28 and 2007-08-30. ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### Title: Graduate History Conference at the University of Colorado on September 8 Location: Colorado Date: 2007-09-08 Description: The graduate students of the University of Colorado at Boulder History Department cordially invite you to attend the 2007 Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference (RMIHC), which will be held on campus September 8th in the Wolf Law Building from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. RMIHC showcases graduate ... Contact: rmihc@colorado.edu URL: www.colorado.edu/Conferences/RMIHC Announcement ID: 157976 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157976 Title: International conference on sovereignty. Date: 2007-09-10 Description: NEW WORLDS, NEW SOVEREIGNTIES CONFERENCE. Melbourne, Australia. December 10th to 14th 2007. www.newsovereignties.org CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS (not a call for papers) Weve had a wonderful response to our call for papers. A distinguished and varied group of international speakers will address the confere ... Contact: newworlds@newsovereignties.org URL: www.newsovereignties.org Announcement ID: 157776 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157776 Title: International Conference on Canadas Mission in International Conference on Canadas Mission in Afghanistan Location: Quebec Date: 2007-09-19 Description: International Conference on Canadas Mission in Afghanistan Le Canada face au dfi afghan Montral, September 19-21, 2007 The Research Group in International Security and its partners are proud to announce the much anticipated International Conference on Canadas mission in Afghanistan. Experts from aro ... Contact: alexandre.carette@umontreal.ca URL: www.cerium.ca/article4767.html Announcement ID: 157979 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157979 Title: ARCHIVES FEVER: THE 2ND ANNUAL LOS ANGELES ARCHIVES BAZAAR Location: California Date: 2007-09-29 Description: ARCHIVES FEVER: THE 2ND ANNUAL LOS ANGELES ARCHIVES BAZAAR Students, teachers, historians, and local history enthusiasts will find a treasure trove of L.A. history at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar. Presented by L.A. as Subject, a research collective hosted by the USC Libraries, the Baza ... Contact: gvestrad@usc.edu URL: www.usc.edu/arc/lasubject Announcement ID: 157865 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157865 Title: The West and Beyond: Historians Past, Present, Future A Western Canadian Studies Conference Location: Alberta Date: 2007-10-01 Description: This conference will inaugurate a new version of the Western Canadian Studies conferences, which in the 1970s and 1980s helped generate energy and vitality in the field through bi-annual rendezvous. The conference is an opportunity to 1) reflect on and assess the writing and teaching of historians o ... Contact: wchc@ualberta.ca Announcement ID: 157769 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157769 Title: The Politics of Religion-Making Location: New York Date: 2007-10-04 Description: This international conference, featuring Talal Asad, Jose Casanova, Hent de Vries, and Tomoko Masuzawa as keynote speakers, aims to create a forum for discussing historical and contemporary politics of religion-making. Broadly conceived, the term "religion-making" refers to the ways in which religio ... Contact: hofculctr@hofstra.edu URL: www.hofstra.edu/PDF/Cul_RelReg6.pdf Announcement ID: 157934 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157934 Title: Philippine History ConferenceConstructing and Deconstructing Resistance in the Philippines: Centennial Legacies of Macario Sakay Location: Michigan Date: 2007-10-13 Description: Philippine History Conference Constructing and Deconstructing Resistance in the Philippines: Centennial Legacies of Macario Sakay Saturday 13 October 2007 Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI The organizers hope that a wide range of papers relating to Philippine history w ... Contact: ottevaer@msu.edu Announcement ID: 157918 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157918 Title: CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: MAKING OUR HISTORY AVAILABLE - A CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION Location: California Date: 2007-10-19 Description: CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: MAKING OUR HISTORY AVAILABLE - A CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION Riverside Convention Center Friday, October 19, 2007 9am-5pm This conference will celebrate the creation of the California Digital Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu), a free digital resource ... Contact: newspapercon@cbsrstar.ucr.edu Announcement ID: 157909 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157909 Title: Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians Location: Tennessee Date: 2007-10-24 Description: The Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians 25th Anniversary Conference and Annual Meeting will be held Oct. 24-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference will consist of paper sessions, a plenary session, and walking tours on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday evening, Dr. Kenneth Jackson wi ... Contact: tara.mielnik@nashville.gov URL: www.sesah.org Announcement ID: 157864 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157864 Title: The 25th Anniversary of Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Conference _The Industrial North: The Future of Jobs, Productivity and Community Location: Pennsylvania Date: 2007-10-25 Description: The 25th Anniversary of Indiana University of PAs Industry and Society Conference: The Industrial North: The Future of Jobs, Productivity and Community October 25, 2007 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, Pennsylvania Twenty five years ago a group of Indiana University of PA professors and g ... Contact: jdoc@iup.edu Announcement ID: 157908 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157908 Title: History on the Grand: First Annual Local and Public History Symposium Location: Ontario Date: 2007-10-27 Description: The City of Cambridge Archives Board invites you to join them on Saturday October 27th, 2007 for History on the Grand, a one-day local history symposium being held at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Downtown Cambridge, Ontario. We invite members of the academic community, histor ... Contact: quantrellj@city.cambridge.on.ca URL: www.city.cambridge.on.ca Announcement ID: 157882 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157882 Title: 2008 Hawaii Global Conference on Business and Finance Location: Hawaii Date: 2007-11-12 Description: The 2008 Global Conferences on Business and Finance (GCBF) will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki, Honolulu Hawaii. Theoretical, applied and empirical papers in all areas of business, finance, marketing, management, accounting, MIS, public administration, economics, tourism, entrepreneurship, statisti ... Contact: submissions@theibfr.com URL: www.theibfr.com/hawaii.htm Announcement ID: 157910 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157910 Title: International Conference on Religious Culture & Gender Ethics Date: 2007-11-24 Description: The idea that men are superior to women or women are inferior to men prevails in the doctrine and ritual action of most religions around the world, which makes religious groups become a tremendous obstacle in the process of constructing a society with gender equality. Therefore, it is really imperat ... Contact: hong.shi@msa.hinet.net URL: www.awker.com/ethics/gender/gender-eng.htm Announcement ID: 157894 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157894 Title: Registration for the conference When the Soldiers Return is now open Date: 2007-11-28 Description: Registration for the conference When the Soldiers Return is now open. The conference is to be held at the University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, 28-30 November 2007. This conference will bring together scholars investigating the legacy of war, its effects on the broader society and culture, and ... Contact: soldiersreturn@uq.edu.au URL: www.uq.edu.au/hprc/soldiersreturn Announcement ID: 157945 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157945 Title: Observing and Assessing the Preschool Learner Conference Location: New York Date: 2007-11-30 Description: Observing and Assessing the Preschool Learner Conference November 30 - December 1, 2007 With increased public attention on the importance of the early childhood years and the No Child Left Behind Legislation comes the need for screening and diagnosis, assessment for curriculum planning, intervention ... Contact: ceoi_mail@tc.edu URL: continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/ Announcement ID: 157960 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157960 Title: 2008 Costa Rica Global Conference on Business and Finance Date: 2008-03-21 Description: The 2008 Global Conferences on Business and Finance (GCBF) will be held at the Ramada Plaza Herradura, San Jose Costa Rica. Theoretical, applied and empirical papers in all areas of business, finance, marketing, management, accounting, MIS, public administration, economics, tourism, entrepreneurship ... Contact: submissions@theibfr.com URL: www.theibfr.com/costarica08.htm Announcement ID: 157911 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157911 Title: The Other in Second Temple Judaism: A Conference in Honor of John J. Collins, hosted by Amherst College on April 4th and 5th, 2008. Longtime colleagues and students of Professor Collins will explore a topic that embraces many of the issues and are Location: Massachusetts Date: 2008-04-04 Description: Conference Program The Other in Second Temple Judaism: A Conference in Honor of John J. Collins April 4 and 5, 2008 Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall Amherst College, Amherst , MA Friday, April 4, 2008--7:30 p.m. Keynote Address Carol Newsom, Emory University Gods Other: The Intractable Problem of t ... Contact: dldix@amherst.edu URL: www.cswebtech.com/samples/conference/conference.html Announcement ID: 157994 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157994 ###################################################################### # Category: Lecture ###################################################################### Title: Lecture: "Robert Rogers: War & Society on the Early American Frontier" by Lt. Col. John Grenier, Ph.D. Location: Mississippi Date: 2007-09-18 Description: Dr. Grenier will speak on Major Robert Rogers and his military service in the eighteenth century British Atlantic world. Grenier will use Rogers' life story as a lens to look at the complexities surrounding the changing nature of the empire in the era of the French and Indian War and the American Re ... Contact: kyle.zelner@usm.edu URL: www.usm.edu/history/index.php Announcement ID: 157925 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157925 Title: Richard S. Wells Lecture at the University of North Carolina Greensboro Location: North Carolina Date: 2007-10-11 Description: Christopher Leslie Brown, Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University, will present the Richard S. Wells Lecture at the University of North Carolina Greensboro on October 11, 2007. The title of Professor Brown's lecture is "American Liberty, British Antislavery." The lecture will take place ... Contact: ccbolton@uncg.edu Announcement ID: 157861 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157861 Title: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Location: New York Date: 2007-10-26 Description: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs October 26, 27, 28, 2007 and November 10, 2007 This exciting offering focuses on designing engaging, rigorous, and creative interdisciplinary curriculum. Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs will work with teachers and administrators of K-12 classrooms and colle ... Contact: ceoi_mail@tc.edu URL: continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/ Announcement ID: 157961 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157961 ###################################################################### # Category: Seminar ###################################################################### Title: Immigration and Urban History Seminar Location: Massachusetts Date: 2007-09-20 Description: 2007 Thursday, September 20, Nazli Kibria, Boston University, Becoming Muslim American: Identity Struggles of Bangladeshis in the U.S. Comment: Rajini Srikanth, University of MassachusettsBoston Thursday, October 25, Paul Schmitz, Boston University, Only in New York: Italian Immigration, Urban Cultu ... Contact: seminars@masshist.org URL: www.masshist.org/events/bsiuh.cfm Announcement ID: 157896 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157896 Title: Holocaust and Human Behavior Online Seminar for Educators Date: 2007-09-20 Description: Once again this coming fall, Facing History and Ourselves will be offering our 8-week facilitated online seminar (formerly "online course"), "Holocaust and Human Behavior." Fall seminar dates: --September 20, 2007 - November 15, 2007, or, --October 4, 2007 - December 5, 2007. Information and applica ... Contact: beth_healey@facing.org URL: www.facinghistory.org/onlineseminar Announcement ID: 157902 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157902 Title: Early American History Seminar Schedule Location: Massachusetts Date: 2007-10-04 Description: Boston Area Early American History Seminar The Boston Area Early American History Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society provides a forum to discuss all aspects of North American history and culture from the first English colonization to the Civil War. Each seminar meeting revolves around t ... URL: www.masshist.org/events/beahs.cfm Announcement ID: 157808 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157808 Title: Radical Aesthetics in Education Location: New York Date: 2007-10-19 Description: Radical Aesthetics in Education October 19, 20, 26, 27, 2007 Led by John Baldacchino & Matt Carlin This is a course of study that continues in the footsteps of Walter Benjamins struggle against fascisms aesthetization of politics proposing instead the politicisation of the aesthetic. More than that, ... Contact: ceoi_mail@tc.edu URL: continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/ Announcement ID: 157958 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157958 Title: Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History at High Point University, 2-3 November 2007 Location: North Carolina Date: 2007-11-02 Description: The Projection and Limitations of Imperial Powers is the theme for the 2007 Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History at High Point University, 2-3 November 2007. The seminar is open to the public. Special hotel rates are available for attendees. For more information visit the website: www.h ... Contact: fschneid@highpoint.edu URL: www.highpoint.edu/conferences/rothenberg Announcement ID: 157969 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157969 ###################################################################### # Category: Symposium ###################################################################### Title: SymposiumEco Urbanity towards the well mannered built environment07.-08.09.2007 cSUR - Centre of Sustainable Urban Regeneration, University of Tokyo Date: 2007-09-07 Description: The eco-urbanity symposium is conceived as a brainstorming workshop. The Symposium brings together a group of experts, leading academics and practitioners from Australia, China, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom, who are active in various dis ... Contact: darko@csur.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp URL: csur.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ecourbanity/index.html Announcement ID: 157955 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157955 Title: Saint-Gaudens Symposium & Film Premiere, September 7 Location: District of Columbia Date: 2007-09-07 Description: Saint-Gaudens Symposium and Film Premiere. A series of lectures on Gilded Age sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens are scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 7 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. They are followed by the Washington premiere at 5 p.m. of the film ... Contact: SAAMSymposium@si.edu URL: AmericanArt.si.edu/2007_symposium Announcement ID: 157920 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157920 Title: 1968 - Forty Years On Date: 2007-09-14 Description: Postgraduate students and early career researchers are invited to present papers at a symposium to mark the fortieth anniversary of 1968. This event will be held in Melbourne, Australia on Friday 8 February 2008 at the School of Graduate Studies in the University of Melbourne. Interested contributer ... Contact: eras@arts.monash.edu.au URL: www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras Announcement ID: 157890 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157890 Title: Symposium: Canada's Security Interests - The Lessons of History Location: Ontario Date: 2007-09-26 Description: CALL FOR PAPERS 10th ANNUAL CDAI GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM Canadas Security Interests The Lessons of History 26-27 October 2007 Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada The 10th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDAI) in colla ... Contact: projectofficer@cda-cdai.ca URL: www.cda-cdai.ca Announcement ID: 157874 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157874 Title: Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape SymposiumRecent Issues in Italian Garden Studies,Sources, Methods and Theoretical PerspectivesA symposium in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Instituteand Dumbarton OaksOctober 19-20, 2007 Location: District of Columbia Date: 2007-10-19 Description: Abstract Debates about the supposed unity of the Italian Garden have opened new directions of research. The symposium, Recent Issues in Italian Garden Studies; Sources, Methods and Theoretical Perspectives, takes stock of scholarly developments since the publications of the Dumbarton Oaks colloquium ... Contact: landscape@doaks.org URL: www.doaks.org/gal_2008_symposium_synopsis.html Announcement ID: 157884 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157884 Title: Dealing with the Dead: History, Medicine, Ethics & Law Date: 2007-11-15 Description: This symposium draws together medical scientists, historians, legal scholars, anthropologists and museum practitioners to examine the use and abuse of human remains. In light of recent controversies, papers will deal with the ethical use of the dead in medical science, the collection of tissues and ... Contact: h.macdonald@unimelb.edu.au URL: www.historical-studies.unimelb.edu.au/dealingwiththedead Announcement ID: 157912 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157912 ###################################################################### # Category: Workshop ###################################################################### Title: Competitive Advantages of Women in Leadership: Irrefutable Rules of Legitimate Power Location: New York Date: 2007-11-09 Description: Competitive Advantages of Women in Leadership: Irrefutable Rules of Legitimate Power November 9 & 10, 2007 Women often have untapped and unrecognized yet extensive strengths as leaders. They also share specific challenges. This interactive program offers an opportunity to learn tools and techniques ... Contact: ceoi_mail@tc.edu URL: continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/ Announcement ID: 157964 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157964 Title: Conversations Across Culture: Community Arts Education, Exploring Possibilities Location: New York Date: 2007-11-09 Description: Conversations Across Culture: Community Arts Education, Exploring Possibilities November 9 & 10, 2007 In recent years we have seen a rapid growth in the development of Community Arts programming in after-school and out-of-school settings. In response, The Program in Art and Art Education at Teachers ... Contact: ceoi_mail@tc.edu URL: continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/ Announcement ID: 157965 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157965
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