“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh,” (Friedrich Nietzsche: Wisdom Quotes).
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23nd Annual MELUS Conference, April 2-5, 2009
Red Lion Hotel at the Park, Spokane, WA
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US: www.melus.org
Conference Theme:
“Poetic Justice: Imagination, Empowerment, and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US”
Multi Ethnic Literatures in the United States narrate the stories not only of [...]
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Russia Encounters Asia: Interests and Identitites
ISA Annual Convention in New York, February 2009
Panel organizers: Dr. Alexander Bukh, Tsukuba University, Japan, and
Dr. Mikhail A. Molchanov, St. Thomas University, Canada
Russia’s identity as not only European, but also a Eurasian nation has always been subject to a debate. With the center of global politics and finance now moving [...]
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Deadline for paper proposals: May 9, 2008
Clothing, Flesh, Bone: Visual Culture above and below the Skin
Chairs: Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, Box 115801, Gainesville, FL 32611-5801; and
Sarah Adams, University of Michigan, 3502 Barton Farm Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105
This panel broadly explores new approaches to the study of visual culture that depicts or adorns [...]
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New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, Romania -, announces the EUROPA FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM, supported by the VolkswagenStiftung (Hanover, Germany).
The program targets researchers and academics from South-Eastern Europe (including Romania), as well as young Western scholars working on South-Eastern Europe. Applicants must be doctoral students, or hold a Ph.D. title. Duration [...]
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