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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]