Discussions

In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic sub-field of festive studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).

The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is pleased to announce its biennial competitions for the President’s Book Prize and the Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize. 

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Mediterranean Politics is pleased to announce the launch of the Richard Gillespie Mediterranean Prize for the best research article on the contemporary social and political dynamics of the Mediterranean region published in the Journal by an early career researcher, including doctoral students or early career scholars (2 years maximum after PhD).  Deadline for submissions is on or before December 31, 2019.  Please see the link below for more details.

Dear all,

As you will receive an H-Intel message from me too, now and then (Constant Hijzen at Leiden University, the Netherlands), I am happy to forward you the call for papers for the conference below.

All the best,

Constant

NISA – Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association
International conference, 21 November 2019, The Hague (the Netherlands)
Old wine, new bottles? The transforming discipline of intelligence collection

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday), June 19th, at 6pm at Busboys And Poets (Brookland) for a panel discussion in conjunction with the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s “A Right to the City” exhibition — the event is “Equitable Development and Eminent Domain: From the Freeway Fight to Beltway Expansion”