The Outreach and Engagement Committee of the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS OEC) invites applications for the first round of the Outreach and Engagement Project Grants in 2024. The grant of up to £500 is intended to support projects that engage with the history of science, technology and medicine (HoSTM) in new and exciting ways, and are applicable to their intended audiences. Previous OEC Project Grant initiatives have included public events, the development of materials for schools, and work with collections and heritage sites.
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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
15 Jan 2024 and 22 Jan 2024.
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Douglas Leonard
Collins, Jacob. _Anthropological Turn: French Political Thought
after 1968, The_. Intellectual History of the Modern Age Series.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 304 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-5216-3.
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The Art of Black Preaching and the Rhetoric of the Black Sermon
Edited by Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D. and Courtney V. Buggs, Ph.D.
Traditionally, in the field of homiletics, there has been a debate among scholars as to whether preaching is a theological or rhetorical act. Some argue it has no place, while others suggest that rhetoric if it is to have a place at all, comes after the preacher crafts the sermon. However, it seems as of late that the field has made an interesting rhetorical turn.
Ice and Water: Circular Thinking on Cultural and Environmental Sustainability
A Two-Day Workshop and Conference
University of Iceland, Reykjavik
23-24 May 2024
Special Issue 6 (2025):
“Anti-East European Racism. Surveying a New Field of Research”
Editors: Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET Wien) and Hans-Christian Petersen (BKGE Oldsenburg)
Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the twentieth anniversary Slayage Conference—the tenth biennial (SC10). Devoted to creative works and workers of the ‘fuzzy set’ surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SC10 will be held on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, on 18-21 July 2024.
History has judged Cotton Mather harshly when it comes to women, perhaps with good reason. His first published sermon was preached on the execution day of Elizabeth Emerson, convicted of murdering her illegitimate newborn twins. And Mather’s writings are littered with numerous assertions reinforcing the deeply entrenched Puritan notion of the subordination of women. Then, of course, there was the debacle of the witchcraft trials. For these reasons, when people think of Mather today, the word most likely to come to mind is “complicated.”
The History Graduate Conference 2024 is organized by graduate students from Istanbul Bilgi University’s History Department and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies and supported by Tarih Vakfı.
The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students primarily studying History and academics from different disciplines to present their research.
The conference will be held at Istanbul Bilgi University Santral Campus on May 17-18, 2024.
Application Deadline
March 15, 2024.
In recent years, the defacement and toppling of historic monuments by the BLM and other protest movements has filled the headlines and prompted public debates. Monuments are powerful and politicized physical structures that can endure for centuries in city centres.
As the passage of time obscures their original meaning, they can acquire a quality of benign anonymity. However, monuments often embody links to dark pasts and traumatic memory, particularly when statues commemorate one-sided narratives of war, colonization, and slavery.