NEH Grant Opportunity

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in Humanities Collections and Resources. These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of [...]

CFP: 23rd Annual MELUS Conference

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 [...]

CFP: ISA 2009-Russia in Asia

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 [...]

CFP: Clothing, Flesh, Bone: Visual Culture above and below the Skin

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 [...]

2008-2009 EUROPA FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]