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H-Net academic announcements posted to the web 2014-03-18 - 2014-03-19

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EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

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JOBS: H-Caribbean

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 10 March 2014 to 17 March 2014. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Caribbean. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN HISTORY / STUDIES

ANN: Verene Shepherd, Puerto Rico, March 20

Dr. Verene Shepherd - “Reparations & the Right to Development: The CARICOM Case”

Note: English translation follows.

CFP - Built Ideas and Imagined Objects in the Early Modern Period

From: R. Maritz <rm620@cam.ac.uk>
Date: 17 March 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS
BUILT IDEAS AND IMAGINED OBJECTS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

Graduate conference | History Faculty of the University of Cambridge | 3rd of July 2014

Keynote speaker: Dr. Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London), author of Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (Edinburgh, 2008)

ANN: CSA Lifetime Achievement Award

CSA Lifetime Achievement Award

Purpose

The CSA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes outstanding achievements by a living scholar in academic leadership relating to the multi-disciplinary field of Caribbean Studies. “Leadership” refers primarily to foundational or superior contributions in research and scholarship, but also considers teaching and mentoring, organizational or center development, as well as contributions to the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA).

H-Net Academic Announcements--March 18-19, 2014

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET

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on the indicated dates. It has been sorted by type of event, not by
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CFP: Journal of Civil and Human Rights

The University of Illinois Press will publish the new Journal of Civil and Human Rights, beginning in 2015. The mission statement for the Journal of Civil and Human Rights is: “Founded in 2014, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, academic journal dedicated to preserving the histories of modern U.S.-based social justice movements and freedom struggles, including transnational ones, and their antecedents, influence, and legacies.

ANN: Call for book proposals and author workshop at American Folklore Society conference

The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are collaborating to host an author’s workshop at the 2014 conference of the American Folklore Society for authors working on their first book. Up to six authors will be selected to participate in a full day of intensive activities devoted to critiquing and developing their individual projects.

Apartment available for academics in Istanbul

Prof. Leyla Neyzi asked me to post a message on her behalf. Here it is:

"Dear colleagues, I would like to rent my apartment during the summer to an academic person or couple. It is located in the Ulus-Ortakoy area and is available June 15-August 15. Please write to me for photos and details. neyzi@sabanciuniv.edu"

CFP: Society for Utopian Studies

THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES

39th Annual Meeting

Global Work and Play

23-26 October 2014

Delta Montréal
475, Avenue Président Kennedy
Montréal, Canada

http://utopian-studies.org/conference2014

CFP: Greek Medical Texts and their Audience: Perception, Transmission, Reception

Greek Medical Texts and their Audience: Perception, Transmission, Reception

12-13 December 2014
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Organised by Sophia Xenophontos (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London)

Call for papers

CFP: The Art of Ritual: Object, Image and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Saturday 17 May 2014, Senate House, London, UK?

Book Announcement: The Barber of Damascus

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for the multiple postings. This is to announce the publication of my book The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th-Century Ottoman Levant.

The introduction and the table of contents are available at Stanford University Press website: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22567

Thank you,

Dana Sajdi

Boston College

Genocide on Trial

I have to say that I found Michael J Hoffmann's account of Donald Bloxham's book Genocide on Trial that appeared on the H-Test list on 24 October 2003 to be sadly lacking in what I regard as all the virtues of a book review. Since I needed to read the Bloxham book at some time anyway I took the opportunity of the Hoffmann account to undertake that job now and in the present. What I discovered - from the book itself, not the Hoffmann account - did not surprise me in the least. Here, for what it is worth, is my critical reading of Bloxham and his study.

Call for Reviewers

Hi,

Would you please post this to your group? We need reviewers for the following books.

Thanks,

Iam Pompous

review editor, H-Pomposity

Greetings:

The following is available for review consideration:

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1.

Title: Stories for Saturday: Twentieth Century Chinese Popular Fiction

Author: Wong, Timothy

Publisher: Hawaii

Date Published: 2003

2.

Beowulf

Greetings,

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_. It's available online at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2000/jul/20/

STIP: Pre-doctoral Fellowship - Minerva Research Group "The Nomos of Images" (Florence)

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy invites scholars to apply for one pre-doctoral fellowship for 3 up to 6 months (starting July or October 2014) The fellowship is awarded in conjunction with the Minerva Research Group (MRG) "The Nomos of images. Manifestation and Iconology of Law".

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