How is Latin America made present and absent in the curated world of the museum? How has the play of presence and absence varied by museum, and across time and space? Do the histories of curating and effacing Latin Americana differ notably from those of Europe, Asia and Africa?
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Call for Interest
Global CoffeeScapes
Understanding the Coffee Commodity Chain: Land, Labour, and Environment
From 3 to 7 February 2020
Aula Volta – Palazzo Centrale
University of Pavia
Why Coffee?
The 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) will be hosted in Ghent (Belgium) from 26-29 August 2020. We invite you to visit the website and respond to the call for panels and papers.
Call for Panelists: "Conflicted Histories: Midwestern Indian Struggles over Identity and Sovereignty," for Midwestern History Conference 2020
Today, temples and other religious sites in Asia and Asian diaspora provide space for non-religious practices that run in parallel or blend with worship and other religious activities: in Thailand, temples serve as local museum exhibitions for the community's cultural assets and history; in Japan, shrines are visited by mangas' fans for recreating their favorite locations, whereas folk deities in Taiwan sustain political campaigns or watch movies with neighbors.
CALLING ALL INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS!
The National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS) is holding a series of Meetups in Great Britain in December 2019 and April 2020, to which you are most welcome. This is your chance not only to meet other indies, but to be involved in the development of our UK Partner Group AND the planning for our next NCIS Conference, to be held in the UK in late 2020/early 2021. Do come and join us, or contact us on info@ncis.org to hear about more opportunities.
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is pleased to announce Mapping Nature Across the Americas, a four-week NEH seminar (Monday, July 6— Friday, August 1, 2020) for schoolteachers.
Vampires are a phenomenon that have captivated humans since ancient times, and continue to globally fascinate different target audiences. From vampires in early Chinese traditions to their depiction in early poems such as “The Vampire” by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, to Lord Byron’s “The Vampyre”, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to vampires in more recent TV series and movies, this creature has not only evoked fear and horror but has also embodied both anxieties as well as desires of the culture and time in which it was created.
Call for Papers
The Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society
of the American Literature Association
31st Annual Conference: May 21-24, 2020
Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
Deadline: January 31, 2020
The Twentieth Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop will be held at the University of Pittsburgh on March 19-21, 2020. The program committee welcomes proposals for papers on Czech and Slovak topics, broadly defined, in all disciplines. In the past, the areas of interest have been: anthropology, architecture, art, economics, education, film, geography, history, Jewish studies, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, politics, religion, society, sociology, and theater.