AAS Visiting Academic Fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2008-2009 visiting academic fellowships. At least three AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships will be awarded for periods extending from four to twelve months.  Long-term fellowships are intended for scholars beyond the doctorate, for which senior and mid-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Up to twenty short-term fellowships will be awarded for one to three months.  The
short-term grants are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research.  Special short-term fellowships support scholars working in the history of the book in American culture, in the American 18th century, and in American literary studies, as well as in studies that draw upon the Society’s preeminent collections of graphic arts, newspapers, and periodicals.

The deadline for applications is January 15, 2008. For further details about the fellowships, as well as application materials, please consult our website: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm. 

The AAS is a research library whose collections focus on American history, literature, and culture from the colonial era through 1876. AAS, which was the first historical organization in the United States whose mission was national in scope, aims to collect, preserve, and make available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials documenting the early American experience.

The library’s holdings offer rich resources for historians of business in the 18th and 19th-century United States. In particular, our collection of materials related to printing and the book trade is one of the most extensive in the U.S., and our holdings in trade and business newspapers are also substantial.

For detailed descriptions of the collections, please consult our
guidebook, Under Its Generous Dome, available online at: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/collections.htm
Paul J. Erickson
Director of Academic Programs
American Antiquarian Society
508-471-2158

perickson@mwa.org

Urban Water Conference

Dear Friends,

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for oral presentation or an abstract for poster presentation at the Urban Water Conference, which will be held in Leuven, Belgium from 15-19 September 2008, at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. You are kindly asked to submit a paper or abstract by e-mail to contact@urbanwaterconference.be by 30 January 2008.

All papers will be reviewed and authors will be notified about acceptance of their paper by April 1, 2008. Kindly be informed that the deadline for the full paper submission is 15 May 2008.

For detailed information about this conference (topics, committees, venue, registration) please visit the conference web site http://www.urbanwaterconference.be.

Please, feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested.

Kind regards,

Professor Jan Feyen
Conference chair

Conference secretariat
Urban Water Conference
p/a Kasteelpark Arenberg 20, bus 2300
3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
Tel.: +32-16-32 17 44/32 13 91
Fax: +32-16-32 19 56/32 13 81
E-mail: contact@urbanwaterconference.be

Email: contact@urbanwaterconference.be
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