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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]