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: 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, [...]

Parliamentarism in Small States - Parliamentarism and Monarchy

Bendern (Liechtenstein), 4th-6th June 2008.
Registration until 30th April 2008.
The conference is organized by the “Liechtenstein-Institute” (Bendern), the Department of Legal and Constitutional History (University of Vienna) and the Austrian Section of the “International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions” (Vienna).
Preliminary Programme and further information are published:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Gerald.Kohl/BendernPreliminaryProgrammeandInfo.pdf
Prof.Dr.Gerald Kohl
University of Vienna
Department of [...]

Recoded: Landscapes and Politics of New Media

“RECODED: LANDSCAPES AND POLITICS OF NEW MEDIA”
University of Aberdeen, April 25-26, 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/modernthought/recoded/
This conference promotes a serious discussion on the place – both intellectual and institutional — of the new media in modern thought, culture, and academia. We want to explore how new media is posing problems to how we think about States, institutions, subjects [...]

Women Religious & the Political World

Conference Announcement & Call for Papers:
The Historians of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI;
www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/) annual conference will be held on 22-23 August 2008, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Papers are invited on the theme of ‘Women Religious and the Political World’. How do women religious conceive the political world? What kinds of political activity and [...]

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 [...]

CFP: Historia Actual Online

Deadline MAR 15:
Extended CFP: Historia Actual Online

Call for contributions for the journal Historia Actual Online: Twentieth-century dictatorships and religion: deadline extended for contributions on (ex-)communist regimes. The scholarship of twentieth-century dictatorships has developed steadily since the demise of such regimes after W.W.II. The last decades, they have increasingly been studied from a cultural point of [...]

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 [...]

Quotations: Government

A couple of relevant quotes from Quote Garden for these difficult but exciting times:
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” ~ St. Augustine
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set [...]