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2013-08-08 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:28:40 -0400 From: Peter Knupfer, H-ANNOUNCE <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> Reply-To: H-NET Distribution List for News and Announcements <H-ANNOUNCE@H-NET.MSU.EDU> To: H-ANNOUNCE@H-NET.MSU.EDU From: H-Net Announcements <announce@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:00:02 -0400 Subject: H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2013-08-07 - 2013-08-08 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: Lecture Seminar Summer Program Website 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 29 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2013-08-07 and 2013-08-08. ######################################## # Category: Lecture ######################################## Title: seeking guest speaker for conference in Harrisburg, PA, early April Location: Pennsylvania Date: 2013-08-31 Description: The next NeMLA (Northeastern Modern Language Association) conference will take place 3 - 6 Apr. in Harrisburg, PA. I am seeking a guest speaker to address the Contingent, Adjunct, Independent, and Two-Year (CAITY) Caucus and larger membership on issues of relevance to contingent faculty, esp. in lit ... Contact: bastet801@att.net Announcement ID: 205661 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205661 Title: Annual History Lecture 2013 Date: 2013-09-10 Description: The Annual History Lecture is one of the History Council of NSWs flagship events. First held in 1996, it was inaugurated by the History Council of NSW to underline the importance of history to current issues and concerns. In this address Chris Masters reflects on how effectively and insufficiently j ... Contact: admin@historycouncilnsw.org.au URL: historycouncilnsw.org.au/history/post/annual-history-lecture-2013/ Announcement ID: 205551 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205551 Title: Lecture: The Color Revolution Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds Location: Delaware Date: 2013-09-12 Description: Lecture: The Color Revolution Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds Thursday, September 12, 2013 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Soda House at the Hagley Library Hagley Museum and Library will welcome renowned author Dr. Regina Lee Blaszczyk on September 12 to speak about the relationship between color and com ... Contact: clockman@hagley.org URL: www.hagley.org/node/137 Announcement ID: 205720 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205720 Title: Epistemological Imperialism and Mass Violence in World History Location: California Date: 2013-10-25 Description: Epistemological Imperialism and Mass Violence in World History: The Wiriyamu Massacre of 1972 Examined Three years before it exited Mozambique as its imperial ruler, Portugals colonial army massacred nearly 400 civilians in Wiriyamu. Portugal initially denied the carnage and then admitted it - not i ... Contact: ddodd@csub.edu Announcement ID: 205689 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205689 Title: Exceptional Forests: Forest governance and state structure in Georgia Date: 2013-11-07 Description: The last several decades have seen drastic shifts toward decentralization in systems of managing forested areas around the planet. Such patterns have transferred control of significant areas of land from the hands of states to those of the private sector. This global forest tenure transitionhas invo ... URL: www.arisc.org Announcement ID: 205657 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205657 Title: Hagley Museum and Library Lecture Location: Delaware Date: 2013-12-06 Description: Dr. Erik Rau, Hagley director of library services, discusses how early generations of the du Pont family celebrated the holidays. Holiday refreshments provided. The lecture is free. Reservations requested, call (302) 658-2400. Use Hagleys Buck Road entrance off Route 100. 7 p.m. Dec. 6. ... Announcement ID: 205685 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205685 ######################################## # Category: Seminar ######################################## Title: ILA webinar: Secrets of Effective Student Leadership Programs Date: 2013-08-13 Description: What makes a leadership program successful? Which strategies are most effective with millennials? Jason Connell will address these questions and more by sharing his findings gleaned from four years of research on student leadership programs across 100 institutions and thousands of students. Learning ... Contact: mgoldberg@ila-net.org URL: www.ila-net.org/Webinars/archive/JConnell.html Announcement ID: 205674 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205674 Title: Technical study of the Willem van de Velde drawings: exploring workshop practices and techniques in seventeenth-century marine art Date: 2013-09-05 Description: In the seventeenth century the Willem Van de Veldes, father and son, worked together as marine draftsmen for the Dutch government and the English Court, leaving one of the largest legacies of drawings from the Dutch Golden Age. They drew at sea and in the studio, combining traditional drawing method ... Contact: ldejager@rmg.co.uk URL: www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/conferences-and-seminars/ Announcement ID: 205563 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205563 Title: Newberry Seminar in American Indian Studies: "Traveling Through Indian Countries" Location: Illinois Date: 2013-09-11 Description: "Traveling Through Indian Countries" Sarah Keyes, University of California, Berkeley Contemporary maps of the overland trail tend to lay the routes across present-day state borders. Embracing these anachronistic boundaries deflects attention from the defining feature of the overland trail, namely, t ... Contact: mcnickle@newberry.org URL: www.newberry.org/09112013-traveling-through-indian-countries Announcement ID: 205564 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205564 Title: The Fifth Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas and the Wisdom of Jesus Location: Tennessee Date: 2013-10-18 Description: A regional Jesus Seminar on the Road program that brings religious studies scholars into conversation with members of the public. Join us and learn more about the diversity of early Christianity and the historical Jesus! Oct 18 7:30-9pm, and Oct 19 9:30am-4pm. Event location: First Presbyterian Chur ... Contact: events@westarinstitute.org URL: www.westarinstitute.org/events/jesus-seminar-on-the-road/ Announcement ID: 205350 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205350 Title: Newberry Seminar in American Indian Studies: "Native Studies Criteria For Assessing Candidates" Location: Illinois Date: 2013-10-23 Description: When Native Studies as a discipline was first launched in 1969, it was a movement to indigenize a space within the academy. After mainstream universities initial rush to initiate Native Studies programs, indigenizing a space, even after four decades, has proven difficult. Since Native Studies addres ... Contact: mcnickle@newberry.org URL: www.newberry.org/10232013-native-studies-criteria-assessing-candidates Announcement ID: 205570 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205570 Title: Newberry Seminar in American Indian Studies: "Villages Built Close Together: How Town Identities Determined Native Nations in the Revolutionary Great Lakes" Location: Illinois Date: 2013-10-30 Description: While scholars generally assume that villages and tribes ordered Indian Country in the past, there are few community studies to either support or challenge this view. Reconstructing local life along the Wabash Valley through maps, language, and ethnobotany illustrates how people (Miami, Shawnee, and ... Contact: mcnickle@newberry.org URL: www.newberry.org/10302013-villages-built-close-together Announcement ID: 205571 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205571 Title: The Social World of Early Christianity Location: California Date: 2013-11-01 Description: A regional Jesus Seminar on the Road program that brings religious studies scholars into conversation with members of the public. Join us and learn more about the world of early Christianity and the historical Jesus! The myth of Christian origins maintains that early Christianity was a unity, a lovi ... Contact: events@westarinstitute.org URL: www.westarinstitute.org/events/the-social-world-of-early-christianity-2/ Announcement ID: 205351 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205351 Title: Auschwitz Jewish Center Program for Students Abroad Date: 2013-11-07 Description: Fall 2013 Auschwitz Jewish Center Program for Students Abroad (AJC PSA) Applications are now open here for the AJC PSA, a long-weekend program in Krakw for students studying overseas. The program, which includes a scholarly visit to Oświęcim/Auschwitz, provides an academic environment thro ... URL: www.mjhnyc.org/AJC_PSA_Fall2013.pdf Announcement ID: 205491 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205491 Title: Deadline Approaching: Assessing The US Constitution:Twenty-First-Century Responses to Eighteenth-Century Assumptions Location: District of Columbia Date: 2013-11-07 Description: PROGRAM CONTENT: The United States Constitution was drafted at least in part under the sway of particular conceptions of government and politics (putting entirely to one side the role that out-and-out political bargaining played at the Philadelphia Convention). This seminar will examine some of thes ... Announcement ID: 205591 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205591 Title: Reframing Christian Beginnings and Christian Scriptures Location: Michigan Date: 2013-11-08 Description: A regional Jesus Seminar on the Road program that brings religious studies scholars into conversation with members of the public. Join us and learn more about the world of early Christianity and it's diversity. Nov 8 &:30-9pm, and Nov 9 9:30am-4pm Event location: First Baptist Church 201 S. Jackson ... Contact: events@westarinstitute.org URL: www.westarinstitute.org/events/reframing-christian-beginnings-and-christian-scriptures/ Announcement ID: 205352 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205352 Title: Reframing Christian Scriptures: How Newly Discovered Texts Open Up the Past and Future Location: Pennsylvania Date: 2013-11-15 Description: A regional Jesus Seminar on the Road program that brings religious studies scholars into conversation with members of the public. Join us and learn more about the world of early Christianity and its diversity. Nov 15 7:30-9pm, and Nov 16 9:30am-4pm Event location: Unitarian Universalist Church of th ... Contact: events@westarinstitute.org URL: www.westarinstitute.org/events/reframing-christian-scriptures/ Announcement ID: 205354 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205354 ######################################## # Category: Summer Program ######################################## Title: Historians and the Mediterranean Today Date: 2013-09-01 Description: The Summer School, titled "Historians and the Mediterranean. Today" will take place in Procida, Naples, Italy, from October 1 to 5 2013, in the Conservatorio delle Orfane, one of the seats of the Universit degli Studi di Napoli LOrientale, and will involve a series of seminarsand workshops held by i ... Contact: summerprocida@gmail.com URL: www.unior.it/ateneo/view_news/5467/1036/1/1-5-ottobre-2013-viii-edizione-summer-school-procida-l-impresa-culturale-nel-mediterraneo-storici-e-mediterraneo-oggi.html Announcement ID: 205552 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205552 Title: promote study opportunities in Lithuania,Russia,Ukraine,Belarus,china,Georgia Location: Arizona Date: 2015-08-31 Description: We are looking for institutions or individuals who would like to promote study opportunities in Lithuania,Russia,Ukraine,Belarus,china,Georgia and attract students from their home country to study in Lithuania,Russia,Ukraine,Belarus,china,Georgia.What does Ban-Company do? Informs pupils and students ... Contact: generalsecretarysiu@gmail.com URL: www.comestudyinukraine.com Announcement ID: 205542 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205542 ######################################## # Category: Website ######################################## Title: Center for Art and Thought Launches New Website and Commissioned Work Location: California Date: 2013-11-07 Description: Deception Pass: New Commissioned Work by Kat Larson Online August 1 The Seattle-based artist's video piece is one of 40 works by artists and scholars in the curated exhibition, "Sea, Land Air: Migration and Labor," on CA+T's new website. DAVIS, CA (August 1, 2013) -- The Center for Art and Thought ( ... Contact: pr@centerforartandthought.org URL: www.centerforartandthought.org/ Announcement ID: 205581 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205581 Title: Research and Project Management - Social Collaboration Date: 2013-11-07 Description: Hi there, BCSocial would like to offer your academic brains the chance to pool your resources, and collaborate socially. For this reason, we're offering free use of the BCSocial collaboration platform to H-Net users... Small teams under 5 users will incur no fees. Check us out at http://www.linkedin ... Contact: tom@bcsocial.com URL: www.bcsocial.com/web Announcement ID: 205643 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205643 Title: Using Southern Cultures in the Classroom Location: North Carolina Date: 2013-11-07 Description: Scholars and students can access all 20 years of Southern Cultures materials for free through Project Muse. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/] With scholarly and thoughtful treatment of popular subjects, including the Civil War, Civil Rights, Art & Photography, Food, Music, Politics, ... Contact: ayse@unc.edu URL: www.southerncultures.org Announcement ID: 205691 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205691 Title: Jiwar Creation and Society Date: 2013-11-07 Description: Jiwar Creation and Society. Barcelona International Residence for Artists and Researchers in Urban Creativity is glad to present her website. Researchers are invited to spend their residence in Jiwar from September 2013! ... Contact: info@jiwarbarcelona.com URL: www.jiwarbarcelona.com Announcement ID: 205682 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205682 Title: APPLY NOW for e-learning course: Bridging the Great Divide: the Jewish-Muslim Encounter Date: 2013-11-15 Description: The Woolf Institute (Cambridge), in partnership with the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, is delighted to announce that the e-learning course, Bridging the Great Divide: The Jewish-Muslim Encounter, will be offered again in 2014. Never has there been a greate ... Contact: eth22@cam.ac.uk URL: www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/courses/ Announcement ID: 205592 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205592 ######################################## # Category: Workshop ######################################## Title: APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THROUGH AUGUST 24, 2013 Location: Illinois Date: 2013-08-24 Description: 2013Applications will be accepted from scholars in the social sciences and law through August 24, 2013, for the first Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property. The program, co-sponsored by IIT Chicago-Kents Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property (CESIP) and the U.S. Pate ... Contact: cguerrin@kentlaw.iit.edu URL: www.kentlaw.iit.edu/institutes-centers/center-for-empirical-studies-of-intellectual-property/events Announcement ID: 205579 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205579 Title: International Commedia dell'Arte workshop Date: 2013-08-31 Description: La Vivandire organizes a one week International Commedia dell'Arte workshop for actors, artists, teachers, students and variety artists on all levels. The actor, director, educator Alberto Nason, known for its expertise in Commedia dell'arte, will lead this intensive workshop. The course will concen ... Contact: contact@vivandiere.fr URL: www.schauspiel.de/termine.asp?w=67 Announcement ID: 205609 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205609 Title: Northwestern University Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop Location: Illinois Date: 2013-11-07 Description: The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, assisted by generous support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, is proud to host the upcoming Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop at Northwestern University, from August 5-16, 2013. The workshop is dedicated to supporting and building scholar ... Contact: emilyvanburen2012@u.northwestern.edu URL: sites.weinberg.northwestern.edu/dh/ Announcement ID: 205567 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205567 Title: The World of China from Confucius to Deng Xiaoping: philosophy, history, and culture Location: Oklahoma Date: 2013-11-07 Description: The University of Central Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, the Confucius Institute at the University of Oklahoma, and the Asian Studies Development Program affiliated with the East West Center, University of Hawaii invite teachers, scholars, and university students interested in the philosophy, his ... Contact: jsheetznguyen@uco.edu URL: ouci.publishpath.com/world-of-china-workshop Announcement ID: 205569 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205569 Title: CPPR-ACE Winter School 2014 on Public Policy Research Methods: Call for Applications Date: 2014-01-10 Description: CPPR calls for applications for its prestigious global programme, the CPPR-ACE Winter School on Public Policy Research Methods scheduled in the month of January 2014. ABOUT THE PROGRAMME: CPPR-ACE Winter School 2013 is a unique global programme aimed at researchers exposing them to the nuances of re ... Contact: winterschool@cppr.in Announcement ID: 205525 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205525 -- -- --
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