Ellen Glasgow: Ideas

“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated. . . To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality,” (Ellen Glasgow: Quoteland).

Milena Jesenska Fellowships for Journalists 2008/2009

CALL for APPLICATIONS: DEADLINE: March 31, 2008
The Milena Jesenská Fellowship program is directed towards European cultural journalists, with the term `cultural´ interpreted in a broad sense to encompass a wide variety of artistic and intellectual fields. It offers journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media time off from their professional duties in order to [...]

PhD Studentship in East Asian Cinema and Media

The National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at Bangor University is offering a part-funded PhD position in the area of East Asian cinema and media. This PhD programme will allow students to conduct in-depth research focusing on a broad range of topics. Applications are welcome in any field of East Asian cinema and [...]

CFP: Contributors are invited for the volume New Directions

Call for papers: contributors are invited for the volume New Directions
in Travel Writing and Travel Studies – Carmen Andras, editor 
Travel studies have recently gained an important place among academic fields owing to
their inter- and trans-disciplinary character. Contributions are invited to Carmen Andras at mailto:carmen_andras@yahoo.com on the subject of travel from the perspectives of history, literature, [...]

Saint Augustine: Reading

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” (Saint Augustine: Quote World).

Summer institute graduate fellowships: TASI 2008

Fellowships for Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies, June 9-June 21 “Immigrants in Europe and North America: Representations of Self and Other.”
The DAAD Center for German & European Studies at the Universities of Minnesota will host the 8th Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies (TASI).  The Institute will bring together 12 German or other European, [...]

Niels Henrik David Bohr: Laughter

“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them,” (Niels Henrik David Bohr: Quote World).

Parliamentarism in Small States – Parliamentarism and Monarchy

Bendern (Liechtenstein), 4th-6th June 2008.
Registration until 30th April 2008.
The conference is organized by the “Liechtenstein-Institute” (Bendern), the Department of Legal and Constitutional History (University of Vienna) and the Austrian Section of the “International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions” (Vienna).
Preliminary Programme and further information are published:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Gerald.Kohl/BendernPreliminaryProgrammeandInfo.pdf
Prof.Dr.Gerald Kohl
University of Vienna
Department of [...]

Visita Iglesia 2008

We are in the final days of the Holy Week for Christians. Here in the Philippines, we have this tradition of visiting at least seven (7) churches while praying the Way of the Cross. Here are some photographs of my family’s annual pilgrimage to churches in the provinces near Manila. Pictures to follow. Thanks

Feminist Theory and Fashion in Modernity

Essay proposals are sought for a cross-disciplinary collection foregrounding current feminist scholarship on modern fashion in the period between 1860 and 1940.
Fashion was frequently held up by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists of western modernity (including Baudelaire, Veblen, Simmel, and Benjamin) as a quintessentially modern form. One hundred years later, theorists and historians of [...]