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2010

February

Opens: February 15, 2010. Social Science History Association, Culture Network—We invite you to take part in the culture panels of the 54th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 18-21, 2010, in Chicago. Please refer to the SSHA website: www.ssha.org for submission details. The deadline is February 15, 2010. While we welcome panels and papers on any topic of interest to scholars of culture and history, we are particularly soliciting papers on the following themes: The "Chicago Schools" and Regimes of Power; Culture and Colonization; The Culture of Intimacy; Hegemony and Mass Media; Popular Culture and Popular Social Theory; Culture in the Marketplace; and Struggles over Classification. If you have any questions, please contact any of the culture co-chairs (Jennifer Lena jennifer.c.lena@vanderbilt.edu, Fred Wherry ffwherry@gmail.com,or Leah Gordon gordonle@stanford.edu).

Web page: http://www.ssha.org

Opens: February 15, 2010. UHA Call for Papers Deadline Extended—The Program Committee of the Urban History Association seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history for Sustainable Cities?: Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 20-23, 2010. Panel proposals should designate a single person as contact and include a brief explanation of the overall theme as well as one-page abstracts of each paper and a 250-word biography for each participant. Round table proposals follow this format but should submit one page on the theme and a 250-word biography for each presenter. Those submitting an individual paper, please include a one-page abstract and a 250- word biography. Submissions are due February 15, 2010, and should be sent via e-mail to Professor Janet R. Bednarek at Janet.Bednarek@notes.udayton.edu.

Web page: http://uha.udayton.edu
Contact e-mail: Janet.Bednarek@notes.udayton.edu

Opens: February 15, 2010. Summer Seminars in American History—K-12 history, social studies and English teachers are invited to apply to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2010 Summer Seminars. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K., these one-week seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history--while gaining practical resources and strategies to take back to the their classrooms. For a list of all thirty-nine seminars, information about full and partial fellowships, graduate credit, and to apply online, visit our website. Deadline is Feb. 15, 2010. Also, new this year, the NEH Summer Institute with John Demos. The Lost World of Early America, a two-week NEH Summer Institute led by historian John Demos at Yale University, July 18-31. All K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers are now eligible to apply the deadline for this seminar only is March 2, 2010.

Web page: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_overview.php

Opens: February 15, 2010. Call for Papers: The IV Queer Studies Easter Symposium—The IV Queer Studies Easter Symposium, April 4-10, 2010, Mexico City. Deadline for submission of paper proposals: February 15, 2010. The International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS), AIDSinCULTURE.org, and Enkidu Magazine invite the global community to a vibrant and exciting multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and multi-cultural symposium. The conference aims at exploring recent developments in theory and method in Queer studies as well as the broad themes of sexual diversities through time and space, gender constructions, sex-gender subjectivities, and sexual identity constructions from a wide and diverse range of perspectives. The conference sessions will be conducted in Spanish and English. Paper and panel proposals must be presented via 500 word abstracts submitted by February 15, 2010. Please send us a proposal by e-mail to info@enkidumagazine.com. Conference homepage: http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/qses/intro_en.htm.

Web page: http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/qses/cfp_2010_en.htm
Contact e-mail: info@enkidumagazine.com

Opens: February 18, 2010 Closes: February 20, 2010. Matteo Ricci Lecture Series: Sowing the Field of Christian Missions in China and Japan —The "Matteo Ricci Lecture Series: Sowing the Field of Christian Missions in China and Japan" will commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci in Beijing, China, and will explore the wider questions raised by the cultural and religious encounters between Asia and the West. The symposia will be held jointly on the campuses of Whitworth and Gonzaga Universities from Thursday, February 18-Saturday, February 20, 2010. Speakers and lectures include: Francis Xavier in Japan, Dr. Eric Cunningham (Gonzaga University); Matteo Ricci in China, Rev. Michael Maher, SJ; "China's Taiping Rebellion," Dr. Thomas Reilly; "China's Taiyuan Christian Martyrs," Dr. Anthony E. Clark; "Jesuit Missions in Japan," Rev. Ignatius Ohno, SJ; and "Jesuit Missions in Modern China," Rev. Paul Mariani, SJ. Coordinators Anthony E. Clark (Professor, Whitworth) aclark@whitworth.edu and Michael Maher (Professor, Gonzaga) maher@gonzaga.edu.

Contact e-mail: aclark@whitworth.edu

Opens: February 25, 2010. Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research, June 7-11, 2010—PhD students from any discipline writing dissertations involving archival research are invited to apply to the 8th annual Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., June 7-11, 2010. SICAR will be limited to 20 participants. Preference is given to students who have defended their dissertation proposal and are about to embark on dissertation research. Applicants must submit the application form (see website), a two-page proposal, a c.v., and one letter of recommendation from a faculty member in their department. The deadline for applications is February 25, 2010. Please send applications via e-mail (ATTN: SICAR APP) to sicar@gwu.edu. Letters of recommendation can be sent via e-mail or by regular mail to IERES, ATTN: SICAR, 1957 E St. N.W., Suite 412, Washington, DC 20052. GWU will cover the costs of housing and meals and may in some cases help with transportation.

Web page: http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu
Contact e-mail: sicar@gwu.edu

Opens: February 28, 2010. Call for Papers: American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting—The 2010 meeting of the American Society for Legal History will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 18-21, 2010. We invite proposals for complete panels and individual papers on any facet or period of legal history, anywhere in the world. Panels should include: a description of the panel, including the e-mail addresses of each member; an abstract of each paper of 300-words; and a one-page c.v. or biography for every person on the panel. Individual papers should include an abstract of the paper of 300-words; and a one-page c.v. or biography for the author, including complete contact information. The deadline for proposals will be February 28, 2010. Proposals should be sent as email attachments to Kenneth F. Ledford at kenneth.ledford@case.edu. Those unable to send proposals as email attachments can mail hard copies to: 2009 ASLH Program Committee, c/o Kenneth F. Ledford, Dept. of History, Case Western Reserve University, 11201 Euclid Av., Cleveland, OH 44106-7107. U.S.A.

Web page: http://www.legalhistorian.org/conferences.shtml#cfp
Contact e-mail: kenneth.ledford@case.edu

March

Opens: March 1, 2010. Call for Papers: Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-75—The Office of the Historian, Department of State, will hold a conference on September 29-30, 2010, on American policy and war in Southeast Asia, 1946-75. The conference will take place in the George C. Marshall Conference Center at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. and will serve three purposes. It will showcase and commemorate the work of the Historians Office in documenting United States policy in Southeast Asia in the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series in over 24,000 pages of documents; and it will provide--through participants papers, presentations, and panels--a full-scale examination/reexamination of United States policy, beginning with the Indochina War (1946-54), continuing through the American periods of advice and support (1955-64) and intervention (1965-73), and ending with the Fall of Saigon (1975). Finally, the conference will explore the relationship between force and diplomacy in both the prosecution of the war and the peace negotiations. Proposals on the post-1975 era leading to "normalization" will be considered but the conference will focus on the period of greatest American involvement. The first days program will include the following: a keynote address by a senior official of the Department of State; a roundtable discussion by Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon-Ford Administration policy advisors on Vietnam; presentations by scholars from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; and a panel of presentations by senior scholars of the War. The second days program will consist of a series of panels where academic and independent scholars will present papers on topics/themes related directly or indirectly to American policy in Indochina from 1946 to 1975. Those interested in submitting proposals should keep in mind that the Program Committee will be more likely to form panels by historical period than by theme, but the latter will be considered. To achieve the above objectives, the Program Committee welcomes proposals for original papers/panels dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics: The Cold War and United States policy in/for Southeast Asia; Early United States involvement in Southeast Asia: Truman to Kennedy; The Americanization of the Vietnam Warpolicy, strategy, and operations; United States relationships with and/or involvement in South Vietnamese governments; The role of force and diplomacy in the implementation of policy; The air war against North Vietnam; Vietnamese Communists approaches to the war; The influence of non-governmental playerse.g., the media, the anti-war movementon policy and public opinion; Intelligence and policy; Pacification and nation-building in South Vietnam; Embassy Saigon and the implementation of United States policy in South Vietnam; Explanations for the outcome of the Vietnam War; The legacy of the Vietnam War for American military and foreign policies. Paper and panel proposals (abstracts and c.v.) must be in English, which is the language of the conference, and should be sent, via e-mail or fax, by March 1, 2010 to Dr. John M. Carland, Program Committee Chair, Office of the Historian, e-mail: vietnamconference@state.gov, fax: (202) 663-1289.

Opens: March 2, 2010. NEH Summer Seminar: The Falls of Rome: The Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity—NEH Summer Seminar: The "Falls of Rome": The Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity at the American Academy in Rome June 28-July 30, 2010. Through intensive study of texts and new archaeological remains, we will critically examine the reasons traditionally adduced for Rome's fall - political and/or military crisis -- and search for more complete explanations of societal change. All readings and seminar discussion will be in English. We welcome applicants from a wide variety of fields in the humanities. Participants are chosen from university and college faculty who teach American post-secondary students. http://www.aarome.org/other-ways-to-participate.php#program5. Director: Michele Renee Salzman, University of California at Riverside, Michele.Salzman@ucr.edu or 951-827-1991; Associate Director: Kimberly Bowes, Cornell University, kdb48@cornell.edu, or kimberlybowes@yahoo.com or 917-699-0340. Deadline for Applications: March 2, 2010.

Web page: http://www.aarome.org/other-ways-to-participate.php#program5
Contact e-mail: michele.salzman@ucr.edu

Opens: March 2, 2010. NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona—Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims & Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean July 4-July 31, 2010, Barcelona (Spain) Applications are now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH Summer Institute, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. Faculty will include Judith Cohen (York University), Steven Epstein (University of Kansas), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University), Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway), Cynthia Robinson (Cornell), and Daniel Selden (UC Santa Cruz), as well as co-Directors, Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita. Participants will be university and college faculty who teach American post-secondary students. Applicants from all relevant disciplines and of all ranks and all levels of institution are welcome. Two places are reserved for qualified graduate students (ABD/ final stages of writing strongly preferred). Please review the information and the application instructions on the Institute website, www.mediterraneanseminar.org. The application deadline is March 2, 2010.

Web page: http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org
Contact e-mail: mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org

Opens: March 2, 2010. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers—NEH summer programs will address the following topics: British Romanticism; Interwar Shanghai and Berlin; Contemporary Brazilian literature; Descartes, Galileo, and Hobbes; The American Civil War; Autobiography: Perpetua and Augustine; Aristotle on truth; Mapping and art in the Americas; The golden age of magazines; Rome in late antiquity; Cultural and technical exchange between early modern Islam and Europe; Philosophical perspectives on liberal democracy; Teaching the history of political economy; History of the Silk Road; Interactions between Native Americans and European colonists; Medieval philosophy, history, and interfaith exchanges between Christians, Muslims, and Jews; American maritime history; Native cultures of the Pacific Northwest; Ritual and ceremony in Europe and the Americas. New this year: A select number of spaces in seminars and institutes are now reserved for full-time graduate students.

Web page: http://www.neh.gov/projects/summer10.html
Contact e-mail: See individual listings on NEH website

Opens: March 2, 2010. NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty—NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty: Building the New South: The Social and Economic Transformation of the Piedmont after the Civil War; Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American Politics and Literature, 1877-1901; African-American History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry: Savannah and the Coastal Islands, 1750-1950; Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century; Along the Shore: Changing and Preserving the Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront; From Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia's Place in Early America; Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike; Plymouth, Massachusetts: Landmark of Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians; Legacies and Landmarks of the High Plains Native Americans; History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War.

Web page: http://www.neh.gov/projects/summer10.html
Contact e-mail: See individual listings on NEH website

Opens: March 5, 2010 Closes: March 6, 2010. Celebration of Teaching & Learning—The Celebration of Teaching & Learning will mark five years of bringing educators together to inspire creativity and curiosity in classrooms at the Hilton New York. Experts, academics and more than 8,500 educators will address relevant issues in education such as Social Studies, English Language Arts, Instructional Technology, STEM and Whole School Issues. Educators will hear from speakers including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Lisa Henson, CEO of The Jim Henson Company; Bobby McFerrin, ten-time Grammy Award winning composer, vocalist and conductor; Queen Latifah, musician and television & film actress; Her Majesty Queen Noor, international public servant; David Gregory, Host of NBC's Meet the Press; The Honorable Richard W. Riley, former U.S. Secretary of Education; Diane Ravitch, historian and education author; Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford professor; and Katherine Paterson, acclaimed author & National Ambassador for Young People's Literature as well as many others.

Web page: http://thirteencelebration.org

Opens: March 15, 2010. Call for Papers: San Francisco Rights Conference—"The Question of Rights." San Francisco State University will host a conference September 16-17, 2010, exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society. We welcome participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars, graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers. We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, or roundtables. The deadline for submission of proposals, consisting of an abstract of 300 words for individual presentations or 1,000 words for panel and workshop proposals and a one-page c.v. for each participant, is March 15, 2010. Send your proposals to Christopher Waldrep, Dept. of History, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 or via e-mail to cwaldrep@sfsu.edu.

Web page: http://www.h-net.org/~law/index.html
Contact e-mail: cwaldrep@sfsu.edu

Opens: March 15, 2010. Call for Papers: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Levi-Strauss—Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the great interdisciplinary writers of the 20th century whose influence has been felt far beyond his home discipline of anthropology. His inquiry illuminated the border lands between primitive and non-primitive, self and other, myth and history, human and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that give structure to culture. At the same time his method troubled those borders and dichotomies, through the bricolage he adopted that illuminated connections amongst literature, art, psychology, music, religion, and law. Our call for "savage thoughts" seeks out new work influenced by this inquiry and these methods, and reflections on Levi-Strauss' legacy across the whole range of the humanities and beyond. For more information on submitting proposals and registration and fees, please see the conference web site: www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/.

Web page: http://mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/
Contact e-mail: savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca

Opens: March 15, 2010. Seminar on Slave Narratives for History and English Faculty Members—The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of Independent Colleges, with the UNCF, will cosponsor a seminar on Slave Narratives to be held at Yale University on June 13-16, 2010. This multidisciplinary seminar is open to full-time faculty members in history, English, and related fields at CIC and UNCF member colleges and universities. David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale will lead the seminar. For the faculty members who are selected to participate in the seminar, there will be no expense for room, board, books, or the seminar program itself. The selection process is based on nominations by chief academic officers, not direct application by faculty members. The deadline for completed nominations is March 15, 2010. Guidelines and the nomination form are available on CIC's web site at www.cic.edu/projects_services/coops/gilder_lehrman.asp. Questions should be directed to Stephen Gibson, CIC's director of projects, at sgibson@cic.nche.edu.

Web page: http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/coops/gilder_lehrman.asp
Contact e-mail: sgibson@cic.nche.edu

Opens: March 18, 2010 Closes: March 20, 2010. International Conference on WWII—The National World War II Museum hosts the 2010 International Conference on WWII, March 18-20, 2010, in New Orleans. For more information, visit www.nationalww2museum.org.

Web page: http://nationalww2museum.org
Contact e-mail: clem.goldberger@nationalww2museum.org

Opens: March 22, 2010 Closes: March 28, 2010. 17th EUROCLIO Annual International Professional Development Conference—The 17th EUROCLIO Annual International Professional Development Conference, "A Bridge Too Far? Teaching Common European History, Themes, Perspectives and Levels" will take place on March 22-28 2010, in the vicinity of Nijmegen, a rich in historical heritage city, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands. From September 2009 the official Canon of 50 windows to Dutch History and Culture is compulsory for all pupils from 9 to 15. In 2010 the the Association of Teachers in History and Political Science in the Netherlands, VGN, wants to explore with colleagues from all over Europe if this approach can be used as a model for a European Canon. The EUROCLIO Conference will explore a set of common topics in European history: Roman times, Christianity and Islam, Industrial Revolution, Second World War, and the Cold War period, and aim to evaluate existing Dutch and international teaching materials for school history in design, pedagogic practice, assessment opportunities and professional implications.

Web page: http://ac2010.euroclio.eu
Contact e-mail: maria@euroclio.nl

Opens: March 22, 2010 Closes: March 28, 2010. EUROCLIO 17th Annual Professional Training and Development Conference —The 17th EUROCLIO Annual International Professional Development Conference A Bridge Too Far? Teaching Common European History, Themes, Perspectives and Levels will take place on March 22-28 2010, in the vicinity of Nijmegen, a rich in historical heritage city, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands. From September 2009 the official Canon of 50 windows to Dutch History and Culture is compulsory for all pupils from 9 to 15. In 2010 the Association of Teachers in History and Political Science in the Netherlands, VGN, wants to explore with colleagues from all over Europe if this approach can be used as a model for a European Canon. The EUROCLIO Conference will explore a set of common topics in European History: Roman Times, Christianity and Islam, Industrial Revolution, Second World War, Cold War Period and aim to evaluate existing Dutch and international teaching materials for school history in design, pedagogic practice, assessment opportunities and professional implications.

Web page: http://ac2010.euroclio.eu
Contact e-mail: maaike@euroclio.nl

Opens: March 31, 2010. Institute for Humane Studies Workshop—The Institute for Humane Studies invites graduate students to apply to their weeklong workshop on cutting-edge classical liberal inspired research and its applications. Scholarship & a Free Society will take place June 12-18, 2010, at Bryn Mawr College, outside Philadelphia, and bring together more than 100 graduate students to consider questions central to contemporary scholarship and to learn about the latest advances in areas such as voluntary associations and non-ideal theories of justice. Lectures will touch on topics in history, economics, political science, and philosophy. Historical topics will include Historiography of the New Deal & 20th Century America and The Role of Institutions in Development. There is no cost to attend the seminar. Students must only pay for their travel arrangements. The application deadline is March 31, 2010. Individuals who apply by March 15 will receive a free book. Learn more at www.TheIHS.org/sfshworkshop.

Web page: http://www.TheIHS.org/sfshworkshop

April

Opens: April 1, 2010. Call for Proposals: Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music—Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 14-17, 2010. We accept proposals in any field of Moravian history and music but special consideration will be given to the following topics: the Unitas Fratrum during the 15th-17th centuries; Count Zinzendorf; musical anniversaries: Gambold, Grimm, Geisler, Malthaner; Moravians in the Transatlantic World; instruments, instrumental music, the collegium musicum; iconography and art; the body. Send a proposal of 300 words to hlempa@moravian.edu or hbinford@moravian.edu. For more information: www.moravianconferences.org. Dr. Heikki Lempa, Dr. Hilde Binford, Dept. of History, Dept. of Music, Moravian College, 1200 Main St., Bethlehem, PA 18018. (610) 861-1315. Fax: (610) 625-7919.

Web page: http://www.moravianconferences.org
Contact e-mail: hlempa@moravian.edu

Opens: April 8, 2010 Closes: April 10, 2010. Margaret Fuller and Her Circles—Boston, MA. Conference presented by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Margaret Fuller Society. As a Transcendentalist, feminist theorist, literary journal editor, surveyor of reform institutions, and foreign correspondent, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was one of the central figures of the antebellum period. The conference will commence on Thursday evening with a keynote address by Mary Kelley of the University of Michigan. On Friday and Saturday, four sessions will be devoted to the topics "Fuller and Women," "Fuller and Antebellum Movements," "Fuller and Urban Culture," and "The Transatlantic Fuller." Aside from the keynote speaker, presenters will not deliver their papers aloud; the papers under discussion at this conference will be available at the society's web site to registered attendees approximately one month before the program. The registration fee is $75 ($50 for students). For more information, visit www.masshist.org/events/conferences.cfm.

Web page: http://www.masshist.org/events/conferences.cfm
Contact e-mail: kviens@masshist.org

Opens: April 9, 2010. New Perspectives on American Freemasonry and Fraternalism—This symposium, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, offers a historical perspective on American Freemasonry and fraternalism. Keynote paper by Jessica Harland-Jacobs, author of Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927. Additional speakers: Damien Amblard, Hannah M. Lane, Nicholas Bell, David Bjelajac, Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, Kristofer Allerfeldt. Topics range from 1700s to 1900s, examining American fraternalism from new angles. The symposium is funded in part by the Supreme Council, 33°, N. M. J., U.S.A. Registration is $50 ($45 for museum members). Registration deadline is MARCH 24, 2010. For more information, contact Claudia Roche at croche@monh.org or 781-861-6559, x 4142 or visit www.nationalheritagemuseum.org for a printable registration form.

Web page: http://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org
Contact e-mail: anewell@monh.org

Opens: April 15, 2010. Cottage Conversation—An Evening at President Lincoln's Cottage with Craig Symonds, author of "Lincoln and His Admirals" (2008). Reception at 6:00pm, program begins at 6:30pm. Admission: $10 general admission. Location: President Lincoln's Cottage, Upshur St at Rock Creek Church Rd, NW, Washington, DC 20011. Tickets: alison_mitchell@nthp.org or (202)829-0436 x31228.

Web page: http://www.lincolncottage.org/news/conversations.htm
Contact e-mail: alison_mitchell@nthp.org

Opens: April 24, 2010. Underpinnings: The Evolution of Underwear from the Middle Ages through Early Modernity —A conference held by the undergraduate students of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) in conjunction with Troubadours and Trebuchets, The Medieval Studies Club. From the trailing sleeves and towering headdresses of the High Middle Ages to the ornate, jewel-encrusted ensembles of Elizabethan England and the elaborate turbans of the Mamluk and Ottoman empires, clothing and headgear have captured the imagination of historians for decades. Few, however, have given thought to what lies beneath, which, even while having a functional role, comprises a system of sartorial signs that tell much with respect to social mores and shifting views of the body. This conference aims to explore the evolution of undergarments from the Middle Ages through the early modern era in a variety of contexts, from the material forms of the garments themselves to their symbolic associations and latent meaning. Geographic and temporal reach: global, 500-1750.

Contact e-mail: hallen1@binghamton.edu

Opens: April 29, 2010 May 1, 2010. Call for Presentations: Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century—The Visualizing Cultures project and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet. We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures web site.

Web page: http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu
Contact e-mail: shunk@mit.edu

May

Opens: May 16, 2010. Call for Papers: 35th European Studies Conference—The 35th European Studies Conference, which will be held at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on October 7-9, 2010, welcomes papers on European topics in all disciplines. Founded in 1975, our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad. Areas of interest have been: art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues and future prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, information sciences and technology, public administration, urban affairs, public health, music, geography, theater, and film. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words to European Studies Conference, Dept. of Foreign Languages ASH 301, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182-0192. We encourage submission via e-mail: tnovikov@unomaha.edu. Please include your name, full address, institution affiliation, day telephone, fax and e-mail address with the proposal. Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate. New in 2010: Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper in the amount of $250. Deadline to submit an abstract for presentation is May 16, 2010. More information: www.unomaha.edu/esc. (402) 554-4840. Fax: (402) 554-3445.

Web page: http://www.unomaha.edu/esc

June

Opens: June 3, 2010 Closes: June 6, 2010. Call for Papers: The Mediterranean of the Myths and the Myths of the Mediterranean—The idea and the ideal of the Mediterranean have always been hotly debated. From the Pirennian disruption of Mohammed (vis-á-vis Charlemagne), via the Braudelian concept of unity in the long durèe, to the more recent geo-ecological approaches of Horden and Purcell, "Mediterraneanism" has stimulated and perplexed the scholarly mind. Historians in particular are often on the lookout for unity, distinctiveness and connectivity binding together peoples and cultures inhabiting its coastlines. The "Mediterranean world" therefore, traversing different historical periods, has given the rise to an impressive volume of extraordinary interpretations, life-world strategies, and symbolic constructions, which manifests itself in the remarkable literature, art, religions, archaeological readings, political theories and economic practices of the region.

Web page: http://www.medworlds.org
Contact e-mail: luca,zavagno@emu.edu.tr

Opens: June 21, 2010 July 2, 2010. German Script Course—Upon completion of the course participants will be able to read and transcribe 17th-20th century texts written in German script; Medieval texts will not be studied. Participants will be able to identify abbreviations used in 17th- and 18th-century texts and will know where to reference less frequently used ones. We will discuss the development of script from Roman times until the abolition of German script in 1943. You will also learn about different calendar and dating systems used throughout the centuries. This intensive course on learning to read German script is now in its 40th year and is the only course of its kind in the country. The course is taught by Dr. Paul Peucker and Lanie Graf, both experts and experienced instructors in reading and writing German script. Course fee: $700.00 (incl. textbook and instructional materials but does not include housing). The number of participants is limited to 15.

Web page: http://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/germanscript.php
Contact e-mail: info@moravianchurcharchives.org

Opens: June 24, 2010 Closes: June 25, 2010. The Frankfurt School and Antisemitism Revisited. A CJCR Colloquium—Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU. Jack Jacobs, Thomas Wheatland, and Eva-Maria Ziege will speak in detail not only about their findings but also about the process of their research and their motivation in approaching the Frankfurt School and its attempts to grapple with antisemitism. Christine Achinger, Marcel Stoetzler, and Lars Fischer will offer short responses to these talks, followed by open debate. The programme also includes a book launch at 6.30pm on 24 June. Michael Mack (Durham) will present his new book on Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity. The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud. A small number of bursaries will be available for graduate students (see registration form for details). See http://www.woolfinstitute.cam.ac.uk/cjcr/news-and-events/colloquium.php

Web page: http://www.woolfinstitute.cam.ac.uk/cjcr/news-and-events/colloquium.php
Contact e-mail: lf309@cam.ac.uk

Opens: June 24, 2010 Closes: June 27, 2010. World History Association Annual Conference—The World History Association will hold its 19th Annual Conference, which will be held at the Handlery Hotel in Mission Valley, California, June 24-27, 2010. The hotel will provide accommodations for conferees at a discounted rate, as well as all necessary meeting space. Rooms will also be available on the San Diego State University campus for those desiring modestly priced accommodations. The conferences themes are still under consideration. Details regarding the 2010 conference will begin to be posted on the WHA web site during spring of 2009.

Web page: http://www.thewha.org

Opens: June 27, 2010 Closes: June 30, 2010. Citizenship in the 21st Century—"Citizenship in the 21st Century" is the topic of a Summer Teaching and Curriculum Development Workshop conducted by the Great Books Foundation at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. It is a four-day residential workshop designed for college faculty interested in developing Socratic discussion programs and curricular units dealing with the vital issue of citizenship. The workshop will consist of seminars facilitated by experienced Great Book Foundation staff members and will make use of selections from the Foundation's highly acclaimed classroom anthology "The Civically Engaged Reader." Participants are strongly encouraged to reside on campus, since a significant part of the learning experience will be the conversations that carry over from the formal sessions and continue over meals in the dining room and common areas. Contact: Donald Whitfield at whitfield@greatbooks.org.

Web page: http://www.greatbooks.org/citizen21
Contact e-mail: whitfield@greatbooks.org

July

Opens: July 1, 2010. NEH Summer Seminar on Perpetua & Augustine—NEH Foreign Study Fellowship Opportunity Summer 2010. I have been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to lead a summer seminar for college and university professors in July of 2010 in Tunisia. Stipends of $3,900 are available for all who are selected to participate. The seminar will investigate the representation of the self in the autobiographies of Perpetua of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo. Both are Roman north African and both are early proponents of a sustained investigation of human personality. Although both of our subjects are widely studied this is the first time to my knowledge that we will have an opportunity to study them in their lived context. We will study their works against the backdrop of the material culture of Imperial Rome which gave such a profound shape to their lives. If interested see http://web.utk.edu/~theff/carthage/. Tom Heffernan, Kenneth Curry Professor of the Humanities, University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Web page: http://web.utk.edu/~theff/carthage/
Contact e-mail: theff@utk.edu

Opens: July 31, 2010. Call for Papers: CUBA FUTURES: Past and Present—Proposals should consist of a 1-2 page abstract of the proposed paper or panel, with a cover letter indicating the author's professional affiliation, biographical sketch and contact information. Panel proposals must include an abstract and author information for each proposed panelist and paper. Please send proposals by e-mail to: cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu; or via fax to: 212-817-1540. We strongly encourage early submission. Proposals for sessions, papers, and special events will receive preliminary assessment as they arrive. In any case, final deadlines are as follows: Proposals for Sessions and Special Events: December 31, 2009; Paper Proposals: July 31, 2010; Completed Version of Accepted Papers: November 24, 2010. For updates and further information on the conference visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu/bildnercenter/cuba/events.shtml.

Web page: http://bildner.org
Contact e-mail: cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu

September

Opens: September 7, 2010 Closes: September 10, 2010. Autograph Manuscripts of the Middle Ages—Ljubljana (Slovenia), National Gallery, September 7-10, 2010. The XVIIth Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine. Through the study of a representative panel of individual cases, the conference will address the wide range of problems that arise from autograph manuscripts (i.e. those whose author and copyist is one single person) in the fields of palaeography, codicology, the diffusion, transmission and scholarly edition of the texts.

Web page: http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/ljubljana
Contact e-mail: pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk

October

Opens: October 29, 2010 Closes: October 30, 2010. Scratching the Surface: History of skin, Its Diseases and Their Treatment—Conference hosted by the University of Birmingham (UK), and sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Society for the Social History of Medicine held at the University of Birmingham (UK) October 29-30, 2010. Skin and skin disease is a central focus of many sub-fields in the history of medicine, including the history of venereal disease, cancer, leprosy, TB and industrial medicine. This conference seeks to address the subject of skin, its diseases and their treatment broadly since 1700. It further aims to promote discussion of the subject in the context of the history of specialisation, as well as the history of senses, sight, smell and touch being central to understandings of skin disease and the way in which such diseases are experienced by practitioners, patients and the public historically. The history of skin ailments also invites exploration of wider cultural endeavors such as aesthetics, health, beauty and race. Abstracts of 200-300 words.

Contact e-mail: j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk

2011

July

Opens: July 7, 2011 Closes: July 11, 2011. World History Association Conference 2011: China in World History—Capital Normal University's Global History Center will host the 20th Annual World History Association Conference on its Beijing campus, July 7-11, 2011, in its state-of-the-art International Cultural Plaza. The main theme will be China in World History, and a second theme is currently under discussion. Conferees will be housed in the plazas hotel at exceedingly reasonable rates (but there is a nearby Western, five-star hotel for those who want wanton luxury and a four-star business hotel next to the Plaza), and all sessions will be held in the adjoining conference building. Details regarding the 2011 conference will be posted on the WHA web site during the summer of 2010.

Web page: http://www.thewha.org

 

Last Updated: October 16, 2008