H-Net Academic Announcements--March 18-19, 2014

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    Title: Conference on Catholic Paths to Antisemitism in 19c Europe
       (Venice, 21 March 2014)
    Date: 2014-03-21
    Description: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Dipartimento di Studi
       Umanistici, Venice. Project for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies
       in collaborazione con Centro Interuniversitario di Studi
       Culturali. On the Religious Roots of Anti-Jewish Hatred: Catholic
       Paths to Anti-Semitism in 19th-Century EuropeInternational
       Confer ...
    Contact: levissmn@unive.it
    Announcement ID: 212294
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212294

    Title: The First Months of the Great War in Central and East
       Central Europe. Mentalities, Feelings, and Experiences in the
       Summer and Autumn of 1914
    Date: 2014-03-26
    Description: Die ersten Monate des Großen Krieges in Mittel- und
       Ostmitteleuropa. Mentalitäten, Stimmungen und Erfahrungen im
       Sommer und Herbst 1914 The First Months of the Great War in
       Central and East Central Europe. Mentalities, Feelings, and
       Experiences in the Summer and Autumn of 1914 26. 28. März 2014,
       Ber ...
    Contact: Burkhard.Olschowsky@bkge.uni-oldenburg.de
    Announcement ID: 212191
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212191

    Title: AAS panel on Animals in Chinese Culture and History:
       7:30pm, March 27 (Thursday), 2014, Liberty Salon A
    Location: Pennsylvania
    Date: 2014-03-27
    Description: Dear all We will hold an AAS panel on animals in
       Chinese culture and history at 7:30 pm, March 27 (Thursday),
       2014. We sincerely hope that scholars interested in this topic
       can join us for intellectual stimulation and discussion.
       Sincerely yours, Daisy Yan Du Assistant Professor Division of
       Humaniti ...
    Contact: daisyyandu@ust.hk
    Announcement ID: 212280
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212280

    Title: "Rethinking Space in Latin American History" Conference,
       Yale University, March 28-29, 2014.
    Location: Connecticut
    Date: 2014-03-28
    Description: Dear colleagues: We are very pleased to announce our
       Conference "Rethinking Space in Latin American History", which
       Yale will host on Friday and Saturday, March 28-29. In this
       two-day conference, leading scholars will present new work that
       brings to the forefront the dynamic relationships through whi
       ...
    Contact: adrian.lernerpatron@yale.edu
    URL: www.yale.edu/macmillan/lais/rethinkingSpace/index.html
    Announcement ID: 212178
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212178

  
    Title: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, EFFICIENCY OF LEGAL NORMS. 3rd
       Edition. Challenges of the Current Decade
    Date: 2014-03-30
    Description: Dear colleagues, We are pleased and honoured to invite
       you to the International Conference, The Efficiency of Legal
       Norms, organized by our faculty between the 15th and the 17th of
       May 2014.The conference will have two separate panels, Public
       Law and Private Law, and will feature two workshops which will b
       ...
    Contact: law.cantemir@gmail.com
    URL: www.dimitriecantemir.ro/Conferinta_2014/index.php
    Announcement ID: 212286
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212286

    Title: "You were not expected to do this: On the dynamics of
       Production.” International conference in Düsseldorf (Germany)
    Date: 2014-04-02
    Description: YOU WERE NOT EXPECTED TO DO THIS: On the Dynamics of
       Production (Distraction/Interference
       Resistance/Accident)International Conference Haus der
       Universität, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany)
       2-4 April 2014 Dr. Daniel Blanga-Gubbay / Dr. Elisabeth
       Ruchaud. @ Graduiertenkolleg Materialit ...
    Contact: notexpected@phil.hhu.de
    URL: notexpected.phil.hhu.de
    Announcement ID: 212225
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212225

    Title: History of Women's Health Conference, Philadelphia
    Location: Pennsylvania
    Date: 2014-04-02
    Description: Pennsylvania Hospital History of Women’s Health
       Conference 2014. The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will
       host its Ninth annual History of Women’s Health Conference on
       Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The History of Women’s Health
       Conference focuses on areas of women’s health from the 18th
       century to the p ...
    Contact: stacey.peeples@uphs.upenn.edu
    URL: www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/
    Announcement ID: 212228
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212228

    Title: Soccer As the Beautiful Game: Conference with Pele'
    Location: New York
    Date: 2014-04-10
    Description: Hofstra University has organized an unprecedented
       four-day international conference on soccer for April 10-13,
       2014. With over 150 scholars, players and speakers from 25
       countries, the conference promises to be a landmark event in
       soccer scholarship. Keynote speakers are David Goldblatt of
       Bristol U ...
    Contact: stanislao.pugliese@hofstra.edu
    URL: www.hofstra.edu/soccercon/
    Announcement ID: 212248
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212248

    Title: CFP: 1st Global Conference: What Is It that still Scares
       Us?: Mapping Fears in Contemporary Europe
    Date: 2014-04-11
    Description: 1st Global Conference: What Is It that still Scares
       Us?: Mapping Fears in Contemporary Europe, Tuesday 29th-Thursday
       31st, July 2014. Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Call for
       Presentations:This special stream within the inter-disciplinary
       and trans-disciplinary conference seeks to explore the is ...
    Contact: fa1@inter-disciplinary.net
    URL:
www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/fears-and-anxieti...
    Announcement ID: 212245
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212245

    Title: PubComm 2014
    Location: Pennsylvania
    Date: 2014-04-26
    Description: The Public History Community Forum (PubComm) will
       host its fourth annual conference on Saturday, April 26th from
       12:30pm-5:30pm at the Philadelphia History Museum at Atwater
       Kent. Join students, professionals and faculty from public
       history, museum studies and historic preservation programs
       througho ...
    Contact: abclements27@gmail.com
    URL:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pubcomm-2014-conference-tickets-10512203283
    Announcement ID: 212214
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212214

   
    Title: BIRTH STUDIES AREA MPCA/ACA Oct. 3-5, 2014
    Location: Indiana
    Date: 2014-04-30
    Description: Deadline: April 30, 2014. Papers and panel proposals
       focused around the cultural framing or representation (in
       comics, film, literature, religious and medical practices,
       etc.) of birth or the birthing process are welcome. I welcome
       any theoretical or critical approaches that address birth
       (understood  ...
    Contact: proftod@gmail.com
    Announcement ID: 212254
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212254

    Title: Midwest Popular Culture Conference- Southern Lit and
       Culture CFP
    Location: Indiana
    Date: 2014-04-30
    Description: Call for Papers. The Southern Literature and Popular
       Culture area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association seeks
       panel and paper proposals for the annual Midwest Popular
       Culture Association/American Culture Association conference,
       this year to be held Oct. 3-5 at the JW Marriot Indianapolis in
       India ...
    Contact: anne.canavan@gmail.com
    Announcement ID: 212285
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212285

    Title: The Early Modern Career: an Early Career Networking Event
       sponsored by the British Academy. To be held at the University
       of Birmingham, 2nd May 2014.
    Date: 2014-05-02
    Description: This event will bring together early modernists from
       the Midlands three cities group of Nottingham, Leicester and
       Birmingham to explore the intellectual and institutional
       contexts of the early modern career. The day will mix short
       academic papers with small-group networking discussions, and a
       plenary ...
    Contact: earlymoderncareer@gmail.com
    URL: earlymoderncareer.wordpress.com/
    Announcement ID: 212312
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212312

    Title: Film Studies and Cinematic Arts Conference on 'Cinema and
       Politics'
    Date: 2014-05-05
    Description: CINE CRI 14: Film Studies and Cinematic Arts
       Conference, hosted by MSGSÜ (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University)
       and organized by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research
       Center), will take place from 5 - 6 May 2014.Conference aims to
       trace the tracks of the dialectic correlation between the film
       a ...
    Contact: info@cinecriconference.org
    URL: www.cinecriconference.org/
    Announcement ID: 212293
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212293

   
    Title: Conference Welt unter Tage. Neue Perspektiven für die
       Bergbaukultur am Ende des Bergbaus
    Date: 2014-05-23
    Description: Conference World under ground. New perspectives on
       the culture of coalmining at the end of coalmining in
       Germany23./24.5.2014 in the LWL-Industriemuseum, Grubenweg 5,
       44388 Dortmund. The conference addresses historians of various
       disciplines and museum curators. It is jointly organised by the
       LWL-Indu ...
    Contact: dagmar.kift@lwl.org
    URL: www.unterwelten.lwl.org/tagungen
    Announcement ID: 212317
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212317

    Title: American Civil War in a Global Context
    Location: Virginia
    Date: 2014-05-31
    Description: George Mason University will be hosting the sixth
       installment of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American
       Civil War Commission Signature Conference series on Saturday,
       May 31, 2014, 9:30 am-4 pm. The Civil War was an intense
       regional struggle, but it was also an international event. The
       conferen ...
    Contact: swoodru3@gmu.edu
    URL: VirginiaCivilWar.org
    Announcement ID: 212261
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212261

    Title: 44th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the
       Comparative Study of Civilizations
    Location: New Jersey
    Date: 2014-06-11
    Description: 44th Annual Conference of the International Society
       for the Comparative Study of Civilizations June 11-14, 2014,
       Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. Can
       Collective Wisdom Save Civilization? What is the way out of this
       deep sense of contemporary crisis? What exactly is wisdom and
       how ...
    Contact: drosner@mcny.du
    URL: www.wmich.edu/iscsc/
    Announcement ID: 212230
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212230

    Title: 6th International Political Economy Conference
    Date: 2014-06-15
    Description: NEW SOCIOECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS,
       ACTORS: CALL FOR PAPERS. Throughout the history of the mankind
       social problems, in the broader sense, have always been
       accompanied by social problems. Accordingly, we have been
       witnessing the emergence of of new social movements in the
       process of transit ...
    Contact: bilgi@icopec.org
    URL: icopec.org
    Announcement ID: 212318
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212318

    Title: World Association for Vedic Studies Eleventh International
       Conference
    Location: Iowa
    Date: 2014-07-31
    Description: The upcoming World Association for Vedic Studies
       (WAVES) conference next summer (July 31 - Aug 3) will be held
       at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. There
       is an announcement for the conference on the WAVES home page
       http://www.wavesinternational.net/D_Pages/Home.aspxand then if
       yo ...
    Contact: dscharf108@gmail.com
    URL:
www.wavesinternational.net/Uploaded/News/WAVES201431ccb17e-73a6-4159-9389-21b6653706ea.pdf
    Announcement ID: 212204
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212204

    Title: 2014 Africa Berlin International Conference on "Technology,
       Social Media and the transformation of African Social, Economic
       and Political Spaces"
    Date: 2014-08-18
    Description: The Africa Berlin International Conference (ABIC)
       Berlin, Media team, IT Educational Center (MTIT) Berlin, and
       Humboldt University (HU) Berlin, invite conference papers and
       panel proposals for its 2014 conference ( 18th - 22nd August)
       on Technology, social media and the transformation of
       socio-politica ...
    Contact: africaberlin-conference@mediateamit.com
    Announcement ID: 212321
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212321

    Title: SONTA 2014 International Conference, Lagos, Nigeria
    Date: 2014-08-26
    Description: SONTA 2014. The Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists
       (SONTA) invites papers and presentations for its annual
       convention and international conference coming up from the
       26th-29th August, 2014 in the Department of Creative Arts,
       University of Lagos, Nigeria. The theme of the conference is:
       Theatre, Creativ ...
    Contact: seododo@gmail.com
    URL: www.sonta.org
    Announcement ID: 212198
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212198

  
    Title: International DAVO Congress: Contemporary Research on the
       Middle East and North Africa, Cologne, 25-27 September 2014
    Date: 2014-09-25
    Description: 21st International DAVO Congress: "Contemporary
       Research on the Middle East and North Africa". Cologne,
       Germany, September 25 27, 2014 The German Middle East Studies
       Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO)
       is calling for papers on all fields of contemporary Middle East
       studies ...
    Contact: amke.dietert@googlemail.com
    URL: www.davo2014.de/en
    Announcement ID: 212277
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212277

    Title: The Many Dimensions of Herbert Marcuse
    Location: Massachusetts
    Date: 2014-10-01
    Description: On October 1st and 2nd, Brandeis University will host
       a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
       publication of One-Dimensional Man, the most famous book of
       former Brandeis faculty member and Frankfurt School member
       Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979). The conference will explore
       Marcuse's inte ...
    Contact: pgamsby@brandeis.edu
    URL: www.brandeis.edu/marcuse2014/
    Announcement ID: 212180
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212180

   
    Title: The First Levantine Conference in Istanbul
    Date: 2014-11-03
    Description: Dear colleagues,Please find below the announcement
       for the Levantine Conference in Istanbul, with links and
       contact information. If interested in participating, you can
       use the contact information below, or email me at
       acorlu@umw.edu.Best wishes,Axel B. CorluDepartment of History
       and American Studie ...
    Contact: acorlu@umw.edu
    URL:
levantineheritage.com/pdf/Istanbul-Conference-2014-information&callforpapers.pdf
    Announcement ID: 212227
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212227

   
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    Title: Environmental Studies v. Animal Studies: A Graduate
       Symposium
    Location: California
    Date: 2014-03-24
    Description: Environmental Studies v. Animal Studies: A Graduate
       Symposium. The Environmental Humanities Project at Stanford is
       hosting a symposium on Friday, May 2, 2014, to examine the
       relationship between environmental studies and animal studies.
       We are interested in examining the tension, as well as points
       of  ...
    Contact: nvarsava@stanford.edu
    Announcement ID: 212182
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212182

    Title: "Brookeville and the Burning of Washington: A Tale of Two
       Capitals"
    Location: Maryland
    Date: 2014-03-29
    Description: As the state of Maryland continues to commemorate the
       Bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Town of Brookeville
       Bicentennial Commission will be offering a special symposium
       set for March 29, from 9 am- 3:15 pm at the Sandy Spring
       Friends Schools Performing Arts Center (16923 Norwood Road in
       Sandy Spr ...
    Contact: sheiler07@gmail.com
    URL: www.USCapitalforaDay.org
    Announcement ID: 212237
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212237

    Title: Day Out of Days: Sam Shepard Symposium
    Date: 2014-11-15
    Description: DAY OUT OF DAYS: A SAM SHEPARD SYMPOSIUM DERBY THEATRE
       NOVEMBER 15TH 2014.Take a day out of days to explore the surreal
       magic of America’s leading living playwright. From humble
       beginnings in the lofts and cafés of the Village, New York to
       Broadway and across the globe, Sam Shepard has explored family,
       ...
    Contact:  n.campbell@derby.ac.uk
    URL: www.DerbyTheatre.co.uk
    Announcement ID: 212322
    http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=212322