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Oct. 16) Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008 EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET [In keeping with our usual practice, the items below have been culled from several recent H-NET announcement postings, with an eye toward topics that might conceivably be of interest to our list membership. - Ed.] ###################################################################### # Category: Call for Papers ###################################################################### Title: Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe Date: 2009-01-31 Description: The conference aims at postgraduates from different disciplines working on the interplay between politics and gender in early modern Europe. While both, gender and politics, have often been the subject of conferences and discussions, the relationship between them and the inclusion of gender in the s ... Contact: genderandpolitics2009@hotmail.co.uk Announcement ID: 164526 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164526 Title: BODY IN HISTORY & HISTORIES OF THE BODY Location: Quebec Date: 2009-03-06 Description: BODY IN HISTORY & HISTORIES OF THE BODY (University of Montreal, March 6-8 2009) The study of the human body, and the interest it has aroused in historians, has taken many forms. Scholars have studied the subject in a wide variety of ways including the history of anatomy, of gesture and its rhetoric ... Contact: isabelle.chartier@colloque17-18.ca URL: www.colloque17-18.ca Announcement ID: 164525 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164525 Title: Caspar Walter Rauh. Zeitzeuge und Phantast Date: 2009-03-15 Description: Tagung: Caspar Walter Rauh. Zeitzeuge und Phantast Ort und Zeit: Dr.-Martin-Luther-Haus, Waaggasse, 95326 Kulmbach; 8.-9. Mai 2009 Veranstalter: Evangelischen Bildungswerk Kulmbach / Thurnau e.V. Wissenschaftliche Leitung und Organisation: Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (Department of German, ... Contact: h.schmidthannisa@nuigalway.ie Announcement ID: 164541 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164541 Title: CFP: Bodies in Motion - The University of Rhode Island's Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Location: Rhode Island Date: 2009-03-28 Description: "Bodies in Motion" The University of Rhode Islands Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. Saturday, March 28th, 2009. Submission Deadline, Friday, November 28th, 2008. Across academic disciplines, "bodies" animal, epistemological, textual, or otherwise defy singular definition and elude ... Contact: gradcon@etal.uri.edu Announcement ID: 164486 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164486 Title: 2009 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting Location: Florida Date: 2009-01-09 Description: Florida Conference of Historians The Florida Conference of Historians invites proposals for its 49th annual meeting February 27 & 28, 2009 hosted by Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. The Program Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, complete panels and roundtable di ... Contact: mepple@fgcu.edu URL: fch.fiu.edu/ Announcement ID: 164510 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164510 Title: 2009 Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium Location: Florida Date: 2008-12-01 Description: The Florida State University Department of Religion is pleased to announce its eighth annual Graduate Student Symposium, to be held Feb 20-22, 2009. Graduate students are invited to submit proposals that engage this year's theme, "Identity, Boundaries, and Movement in Religion". Topics may include b ... Contact: fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com Announcement ID: 164547 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164547 Title: the joint conference on migration, border, and the nation-state Location: Texas Date: 2009-04-09 Description: CFP: Migration, Border, and the Nation-State (4/9-4/11/09) The 2009 Joint Conference on Migration, Border, and the Nation-State co-hosted by Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Program and the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies April 9-11, 2009 at Tex ... Contact: yuan.shu@ttu.edu URL: english.ttu.edu/complit/ Announcement ID: 164540 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164540 ###################################################################### # Category: Conference ###################################################################### Title: Symbolik in Zeiten von Krise und gesellschaftlichem Umbruch Date: 2008-10-23 Description: For the last eight years the interdisciplinary research group (Graduiertenkolleg) Gesellschaftliche Symbolik im Mittelalter focused on analysing pre-modern cultures from the Early Middle Ages to the end of the Holy Roman Empire with an emphasis on various aspects of social symbolism. According to th ... Contact: natalie.krentz@uni-muenster.de URL: www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/Grad/ Announcement ID: 164597 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164597 Title: Visual Representations of the Unemployed Description: The unemployed are one of the most stereotyped social groups in modern society, depicted as dangerous criminals, lazy loafers, prey for political demagogues, completely apathetic, happy scroungers or demoralized and desperate individuals. These stereotypes have been peddled in visual as well as lite ... Contact: m.reiss@ex.ac.uk URL: www.huss.ex.ac.uk/history/conferences/index.php Announcement ID: 164221 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164221 Title: Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Political Violence Location: Louisiana Description: Conference at the Tulane University, New Orleans (LA) Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Political Violence October 23 - 26, 2008 Conveners: Carola Dietze (GHI Washington), Mareika Knig (GHI Paris), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London), Claudia Verhoeven (George Mason Unive ... Contact: dietze@ghi-dc.org URL: www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=421&Itemid=240 Announcement ID: 164380 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164380 Title: Grad Student History of Capitalism Conference at Harvard Description: Online registration is now open for the second Graduate StudentConference on the History of Capitalism in the United States. Theconference free and open to the public, and we particularly invitegraduate students and professors working in allied areas. Theconference will be held 6-8 at Harvard Univer ... Announcement ID: 164248 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164248 Title: "Women's Bodies in a Public History Context," Canadian Association for Women's Public History Conference, 7-8 November 2008 Location: Ontario Date: 2008-11-07 Description: The annual Canadian Association for Women's Public History Conference is on the theme of "Women's Bodies in a Public History Context." It will be held on 7-8 November 2008 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Gatineau) and the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa) The conference will bring together intern ... Contact: cawph.achpf@gmail.com URL: cawph.wordpress.com/ Announcement ID: 164191 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164191 Title: "Does the past matter? Renegotiating the past, communal identity and multiculturalism in Europe" Date: 2008-11-13 Description: This is an international conference whose objective is to advance a debate among scholars of various disciplines on the significance of national and cultural histories and their impact on the project of a new multicultural Europe. The aim of this seminar is twofold. First, it seeks to address the is ... Contact: kinga.olszewska@nuigalway.ie URL: www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/news.php?newsItem=9 Announcement ID: 164182 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164182 Title: 2009 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting Location: Washington Date: 2009-03-26 Description: 2009 OAH Annual Meeting "History Without Boundaries" Thursday to Sunday March 26 to March 29, 2009 Washington State Convention and Trade Center With the theme "History Without Boundaries," the 2009 meeting of the Organization of American Historians will meet at the Washington State Convention and Tr ... Contact: jason@oah.org URL: www.oah.org/2009 Announcement ID: 164428 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164428 Title: AAH New Voices Postgraduate Symposium ART AND AUTHENTICIT Date: 2008-11-01 Description: AAH New Voices Postgraduate Symposium ART AND AUTHENTICITY University of Cambridge, Newnham College, Lucia Windsor Room 1st November 2008 The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity, writes Walter Benjamin in "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" ... Contact: admin@aah.org.uk URL: aah.org.uk/student/index.php Announcement ID: 164576 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164576 Title: International conference: Rethinking theory, space and production: Henri Lefebvre todayFull program of the conference available. Date: 2008-11-11 Description: Rethinking theory, space and production: Henri Lefebvre todayInternational conference Delft, November 11th 13th, 2008 / Zurich, Autumn 2009 Call for contributions, Delft symposium Chair of Architecture Theory, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (NL)Academie Jan van Eyck, Maastricht (NL) Chair of Arch ... Contact: ls@henrilefebvre.org URL: www.henrilefebvre.org Announcement ID: 164552 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164552 Title: Cold War Culture Conference at the V&A Date: 2008-11-21 Description: COLD WAR CULTURE 21-22 November 2008 Victoria and Albert Museum Major international conference that beings together some of the most exciting thinkers on art, design and architecture in the post-1945 period to reflect on the ways in which Cold War politics shaped the modern world. Organised in conju ... Contact: j.banham@vam.ac.uk URL: vam.ac.uk/conferences Announcement ID: 164473 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164473 Title: The Expression of Freemasonry: its ritual, oratory, poetry, music, literature, art & architecture Date: 2008-11-27 Description: Following on from the appointment of prof.dr. Malcolm Davies to the Chair for the Study of Freemasonry as an Intellectual Current and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon (University of Leiden, the Netherlands), a large international conference has been planned. Seventeen researchers from various academic disc ... Contact: f.m.conference.leiden08@gmail.com Announcement ID: 164474 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164474 Title: EUROCLIO's 16th Annual Professional Training and Development Conference Date: 2009-04-05 Description: EUROCLIO's 16th Annual Professional Training and Development Conference will be held from April 5 - 11 2009 in Nicosia, Cyprus and is organised by history educators representing teacher trade unions, research centres and associations from across the divide, on the theme: "Taking the Perspective of t ... Contact: ac2009@euroclio.eu URL: ac2009.euroclio.eu Announcement ID: 164575 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164575 Title: Facing the Past/ Facing the Future: History, Memory, Literature Date: 2009-05-06 Description: Conference Title: Facing the Past/ Facing the Future: History, Memory, Literature Bahcesehir University, Department of American Culture and Literature is organizing a conference on memory, history and literature. Place: Bahcesehir University, Istanbul Turkey Date: 6-7-8-9 May, 2009. There has been a ... Contact: burcin.cakir@bahcesehir.edu.tr URL: www.bahcesehir.edu.tr Announcement ID: 164549 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164549 Title: Ninth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations Date: 2009-06-16 Description: Ninth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. Location: Riga, Latvia Conference Date: 16-19 June 2009 Conference website: www.Diversity-Conference.com The Ninth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations is an interdiscipl ... Contact: info+d09@commongroundconferences.com URL: www.Diversity-Conference.com Announcement ID: 164544 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164544 ###################################################################### # Category: Summer Program ###################################################################### Title: 7th Annual Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research Location: District of Columbia Date: 2009-02-10 Description: George Washington Universitys Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies is pleased to announce the 7th annual Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR). This prestigious five-day seminar will be held in Washington, D.C., from 25-29 May, 2009. SICAR trains graduate students ... Contact: sicar@gwu.edu URL: www.ieres.org Announcement ID: 164537 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164537 ###################################################################### # Category: Symposium ###################################################################### Title: Foreign Labour in Wartime Germany: the Gender Perspective Date: 2008-12-16 Description: Most reference works implicitly or explicitly portray forced labour as a male question: young men and family men were coerced to leave family and fatherland to go and work for the enemy. For historians and the collective memory, women labour in German is considered exceptional and concerns mostly vo ... Contact: mathieu.vanhaelewyn@cegesoma.be URL: www.cegesoma.be Announcement ID: 164188 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164188 ###################################################################### # Category: Workshop ###################################################################### Title: Effective FOIA Requesting for Researchers Location: District of Columbia Date: 2008-10-30 Description: On 5 December, 2008, George Washington University and the National Security Archive will join forces for a day-long workshop on Effective FOIA Requesting for Researchers. This session will offer a unique opportunity for graduate students currently enrolled in Ph.D programs to learn the fundamentals ... Contact: cdavidso@gwu.edu URL: www.ieres.org Announcement ID: 164536 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=164536
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