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 [...]

Feminist Theory and Fashion in Modernity

Essay proposals are sought for a cross-disciplinary collection foregrounding current feminist scholarship on modern fashion in the period between 1860 and 1940.
Fashion was frequently held up by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists of western modernity (including Baudelaire, Veblen, Simmel, and Benjamin) as a quintessentially modern form. One hundred years later, theorists and historians of [...]

Citizen Media and the Civic Journalist

Dear All,
The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan is pleased to announce:
Citizen Media and the Civic Journalist: March 3, 2008 - 7 p.m.
McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Wayne State University
Renowned journalist Nick Clooney and citizen media advocate Dan Gillmor will speak on at Wayne State University’s Center for the [...]

New Journal & CFP: International Journal of Gandhi Studies

The International Journal of Gandhi Studies is committed to publishing excellent scholarship on well-established topics in Gandhi Studies, to fostering new work in neglected areas, and to stimulating alternative perspectives on a wide range of issues. The journal supports critical inquiry, hermeneutical interpretive proposals, and historical investigation into all aspects of Gandhi Studies.While committed to [...]

Mortimer Adler: Books

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you,” (Mortimer Adler: www.quoteworld.org).

Magna Carta for Journalists: Sen. Jinggoy Estrada

There are two bills pending in the Philippine Senate with the same intention and subject matter: Magna Carta for Journalists. This is very timely and hopefully it will also cover our campus journalists.
SB-9: An Act Promoting the Welfare of and Providing Protection to Journalists, Providing Penalties Thereof and for Other Purposes, introduced by Sen. [...]

Congressional Research Awards Announcement (USA)

Congressional Research Awards Announcement
DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2008.
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be available in 2008. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.
The competition is open [...]

CFA: AIIS Fellowship Competition

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
The American Institute of Indian Studies invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term [...]

Historicising the middlebrow

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 4 July 2008
The term ‘middlebrow’ emerged in the mid-1920s to describe dismissively the extensive area of cultural production which situated itself between high modernism and popular culture. The category was particularly associated with best-selling novels, but was also used to label certain types of broadcasting, cinema, periodical, music and [...]

Transformations: Researching Asia

Call for Papers: TRANSFORMATIONS: RESEARCHING ASIA
York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student Conference - York University, Toronto, Canada September 26 to 28, 2008
Call for Papers deadline: April 1, 2008
What does it mean to “research Asia”? Asian Studies is a growing field within and, [...]