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Call for Papers: Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship
Massachusetts Historical Society
July 11-13, 2024
Proposals Due 10 July 2023
The MAPACA True Crime/general CFP for our annual conference has been extended from its original deadline. The new submission deadline is Friday, July 14th. While I am specifically looking for True Crime submissions, there are many Areas at MAPACA and I welcome you to explore and submit to another area if you have work that would be a good fit.
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University invites applications for grants to support research utilizing the Noriaki Tsuchimoto Papers housed in Manuscripts and Archives in the Yale University Library. The collection is currently comprised of 83 boxes containing materials related to the filmmaking and other activities of the Japanese documentary filmmaker Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1928-2008), who is most famous for recording the struggles over the Minamata mercury poisoning incident and other environmental hazards. The collection description is as follows:
CFP: Edited Volume on Studio Ghibli Films as Adaptations
Dear Colleagues,
For our next Art History seminar on 18 July, Margaret Samu will share her current research on the sensational exhibitions of Martseli Sukhorovskii’s (Marcel Suchorowsky’s) painting Nana in Saint Petersburg and Moscow during the winter of 1881 to 1882.
Dear Colleagues,
I am seeking paper proposals for a prospective panel on fairy tales in East Asia at the 2024 Association for Asian Studies conference (Seattle, March 14-17). The term “fairy tale” is notoriously resistant to precise definition, even when it is applied exclusively to Western narratives; here, I use it broadly and flexibly to accommodate diverse avenues of inquiry, including any of the following:
The Institute of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) will be hosting the biannual conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V.(VAD) from 30 September - 02 October 2024.
Call for panels: nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2024/cfpan
Call for Proposals: Writing Artifacts (edited collection)
Thanks to the generosity of the Max Kade Foundation, the German Department at Washington University is offering stipends of $500 for graduate students and faculty who wish to attend our biennial symposium. Grant recipients will also be included in all conference meals and social events. To apply, please submit a CV and a brief (no more than 1 page) explanation of your interest in attending to André Fischer (andrefischer@wustl.edu.) and Matt Erlin (merlin@wustl.edu).