Colleagues,
NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
Here's a hard-hitting (it's about time) MSNBC story about adjunct pay and working conditions.
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/the-tenure-track-professors-face-low-pay
Howard Smead
Editor, H-Adjunct
[SEE BELOW FOR FRENCH, ITALIAN AND DUTCH VERSIONS]
Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii. From the Roman Empire to Contemporary Imperialism
(International conference, Brussels, 11-13 September, 2014)
At the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Academia Belgica; conference organized by the Academia Belgica (Rome), with the support of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome, and the Princess Marie-José Foundation
Organizational committee:
Greetings. One of my students is seeking detailed information about the doctrinal differences between the Anglican church and the Catholic Church for the period of the 1650s-60s.
Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse will be offering an National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers entitled Exploring the Past: Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley this July 14-Aug. 1, 2014. For more information or to apply visit: www.uwlax.edu/mvac/neh.htm. The deadline for applications is March 4, 2014.
MOOCs are taking over university course planning. I thought this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about one college would be of interest to your readers.
November 18, 2013
Angered by MOOC Deals, San Jose State Faculty Senate Considers Rebuff
By Steve Kolowich
Greetings H-AMCA Subscribers,
Hello,
Could you please post this Call for papers to your network?
Thanks,
Hélène Levesque
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National Memory Conference 2014
to be held in Moscow, MGU, 3 September 2014
► Deadline for paper submission: February 2nd, 2014
Description:
National Memory Conference will welcome any researcher from all levels to our 5th conference, whose research centers on memory studies.
Please send a short CV and your paper proposal to: abc[at]server[dot]com by February 2nd, 2014.
What are doing to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address? How about trying it yourself? PBS is asking folks to "Share Your Gettysburg Address" - check it out at http://www.learntheaddress.org/submit-video/. Here are some simple steps to take for this celebratory crowd-sourcing activity:
This is another test
Hi H-Test,
I apologize for what seems like a simple--even simplistic--question--but I am puzzled. When an address reads "2 doors below Indian King Tavern" or "2nd 5 doors above Race" what do terms below and above indicate?
Vivian Bruce Conger
Ithaca College
I am a graduate student (M.A.) at Central Washington University, and I want to write my thesis on a Civil War-related topic. I was thinking about looking at court martial records to investigate relations between troops and contrabands. I was also thinking of looking at court martial records to see if there was any evidence of homosexuality among Civil War troops. Can anyone recommend any secondary literature on these topics? Also, does anyone know if court martial records include testimony? I have not been able to do any preliminary research on this question yet, unfortunately.
Considering our recent discussion of Beowulf, I thought list members might enjoy reading a review of two of the latest translations of that classic. They are _Beowulf: A New Verse Translation_ by Seamus Heaney and _Beowulf: A New Verse Translation_ by R.M. Liuzza. The reviewer is Frank Kermode in a piece titled "The Geat of Geats" in the July 20, 2000 edition of the _New York Review of Books_.
Is anyone else reading Indian Office materials on NARA microfilm? Have you made observations about the nature of these documents? Care to correspond?
Title: Call for Papers/Edited Volume of Essays on the Reception of
Greek and Roman Culture in East Asia
Date: 2013-12-21
Description: We are working on an edited volume based on a
conference entitled The Reception of Greek and Roman Culture in
East Asia: Texts & Artefacts, Institutions & Practices
organized by Professor Renger in Berlin in July, 2013. In this
volume, we attempt to explore the reception(s) of Greek and
Roman cultu ...
