A colleague of mine will be traveling to Libreville, Gabon in December as part of a project documenting North and South Korean monuments in Africa. She is interested in connecting with contemporary artists and cultural institutions while she is there. If anyone has recommendations about whom to contact, places and people to see, please let me know.
UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces
THINKING GENDER 2015
25th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
Call for presentations: Power, Contested Knowledge, and Feminist Practices
After Empire: The League of Nations and the former Habsburg Lands - Call for papers
11-12 December 2015
University of Vienna, Austria
Dear colleagues
You can find in the following website the program of the International Conference entitled "Balkan Worlds II: Balkan perceptions of War and Revolution in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1918)" which will be held by the Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen:
http://balkanworldsii.gr/index.php?hit=1
Sincerely
Dr. Dimitris Stamatopoulos
https://www.socialhistory.org.uk/conference
The annual Social History Society Conference is the largest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK. Proposals for individual papers and panels are warmly invited from new and established researchers in the field.
Forwarded from H-Net Jobs
ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Princeton University - Princeton-Mellon Fellows in Architecture,
Urbanism, and the Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50193
MIDDLE EAST HISTORY / STUDIES
SUNY Canton - Assistant Professor - History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50178
Forwarded from H-Announce
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is pleased to invite applications for Ph.D. research stipends for 2015 and for the academic year of 2015/16. Stipends are available to support research in the research disciplines and topics covered by the Orient-Institut Istanbul, such as:
Musicological research on Turkey
Narrative sources on Istanbul and the late Ottoman Empire
Manuscript culture in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Historic and contemporary forms of religious expression in Anatolia
The Islamic Painted Page database at www.islamicpaintedpage.com has been substantially upgraded. It now includes a full capability to search for paintings by picture description, as well as by MS author, title, place and date of origin, collection and accession details, and other parameters. The user interface has also been improved with a new full-function Advanced Search page.
Dear colleagues,
I would like to bring your attention to the following publication, a catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts conserved at the Institute for Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University, just published.
