Webinar presentation by Prof Dr Andy Chebanne, University of Botswana.
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From the Kennedy assassination to the moon landing hoax and QAnon, the United States have witnessed myriad conspiracy theories throughout their history. While the US is, of course, not alone in its love for conspiracies, conspiratorial rhetoric and conspiracy theories have been a fixture of US culture and politics for over two centuries. But even to this day, conspiracy theories are evoked both seriously and humorously from the political realm to popular culture, shaping public discourse and challenging established narratives.
From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, breakthroughs in scientific medicine and advances in visual technology combined into a new public health practice: health messaging. Health messaging was heavily reliant on visual materials such as film, photography, posters, pamphlets, diagrams, and maps to translate new insights on the nature, transmission, and prevention of disease to lay audiences. Although referred to as “medical propaganda” by contemporaries, health messaging was not just about education.
The Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange Committee of the Theology Department at Providence College is pleased to invite you to an online lecture by Dr. Benny Bar-Lavi, incoming Scholar-in-Residence in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations for the 2023-2024 academic year: "An Assembly for the Sake of Heaven: The New Testament and the Providential Role of Christianity in the Thought of Rabbi Jacob Emden".
Details: Thursday, July 20 at 1:00 pm (EDT) on Zoom
Prof.
Displacement
This is a funded, weeklong workshop hosted by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad and Co-Sponsored by the South-South Forum at Dartmouth College.
Description:
Special Issue Call for Papers:
The Second Wave of Liberation Struggle in Africa and the New Order in the World
Dear H-Asia list members,
We are accepting paper abstract submissions for the panel titled “Women's Space in Late Imperial China” to be held at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference. This panel will focus on the exploration of women and agency in literature and art during the Ming and Qing dynasties, specifically examining the dynamics within and outside the inner chambers of cultivated gentry women. We welcome contributions from various genres and disciplines. Potential topics and themes may include but are not limited to the following:
Indian Council of Social Science Research sponsored International Conference
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In Search of Creative Common: Crisis, Catastrophe and the Responsive Literature in India
Organised by Abid Ali Khan Centre for Digital Archive and Translation of Cultures, Gour College, in collaboration with Department of English, Dr. Meghnad Saha College, University of Gour Banga, Malda, India
New publication. The latest issue of World History Connected contains a special forum on "The American West in World History" edited by Vera Parham. You can find the open access articles here: https://journals.gmu.edu/index.php/whc