Postdoctoral Fellowships in East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University hereby invites applications for two postdoctoral fellowships. The duration of each fellowship is two years, commencing 1 September 2008 and ending on 31 August 2010. In this call for applications, one of the two positions will be awarded for research focusing on contemporary Japan, [...]

Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize

Each year the Friends of the German Historical Institute award the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for the two best doctoral dissertations submitted in German history, German-American relations, or the history of Germans in North America. The winners are invited to the GHI to present their research at the annual symposium of the Friends in November. [...]

Earth Day 2008: Call for Climate

Today, April 22, is Earth Day.  The focus of activities mirrors the different challenges we are facing right now.  Millions of people around the world are rallying behind a Call for Climate, the global warming action theme.  The planet is heating up and with the rising temperature comes the problems associated with global warming (food [...]

CFP Collective Biography Conf., ANU Canberra, 8-10 Sep 08

This will be a multi-disciplinary conference, covering any aspect of collective or group life writing. Paper proposals on any aspect of this theme, such as networks; families; artistic, political or academic groups; communities; institutional history and prosopography, are welcomed. Papers may be on specific topics or people, or may be reflections on aspects of methodology.
The [...]

CFP: Eras Journal

The Eras on-line postgraduate journal is currently seeking submissions of papers for publication for our forthcoming editions in 2008 and 2009.
Eras is a fully refereed on-line journal edited and produced by postgraduate students from the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia which is intended as an international forum for current or recently [...]

Free Webinar: New Technologies in Timbuktu: A Report on Aluka’s Digitization of Manuscripts in Mali

A 45-minute recorded presentation from Harlan Wallach that will cover the background of Aluka’s project to digitize manuscripts from Timbuktu, the geographical and environmental obstacles of the project, and the overall effort to establish and create a fully operational digitization and photography studio at SAVAMA-DCI’s (www.savamadci.org) offices in Timbuktu. The presentation will be followed by [...]

CFP: Film & History at the NEPCAs

For those of you who are unable to get to Film & History’s biennial conference this fall in Chicago, here’s a wonderful alternative for connecting with other Film & History scholars — join the Film & History area at the Northeast Popular Culture meetings:
Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers
Film & History Area
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
October [...]

LACMA: Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces an international search for candidates for the Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship.
This two-year fellowship will provide curatorial training and support for scholarly research in connection with the permanent collection and related projects at LACMA. Striving to combine the strengths of academic art history and the art museum, [...]

Fellowships 2008: Call for Proposals Tasveer Ghar

“Kaleidoscopic Sites and Sights: The Printed Visual Culture/s of Religious Pluralism”
Last Date of Submission: May 10, 2008
We are pleased to invite proposals for our second short-term fellowships involving the collection and documentation of unique forms of popular visual arts of India with a focus on religious pluralism and sacred sites in India. The estimated duration [...]

Graduate colloquium “Provincials and Empire”

The graduate students of the Yale University departments of Classics, History and History of Art are pleased to announce their upcoming graduate colloquium, “Provincials and Empire”, to be held at Yale University, New Haven, CT, on Friday and Saturday April 25-26, 2008. The colloquium will feature a keynote address by Prof. Clifford Ando (University [...]