The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) THE 15TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANNING HISTORY Toronto, Ontario, October 3-6, 2013 SACRPH cordially invites papers on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history. Particularly welcome are papers or complete sessions addressing architecture, planning, geography and landscape design in Canada and The Americas [...]
The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) THE 15TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANNING HISTORY Toronto, Ontario, October 3-6, 2013
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Call for Submissions: Hip-Hop and Critical Pedagogy for a Special Issue of Radical Teacher
November 14, 2012 By 5 Comments
Via H-Net.org Hip-Hop and Critical Pedagogy ON-LINE Radical Teacher, No. 97 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS All submissions due no later than February 15, 2013 With this special issue we propose to construct a frame for understanding the place of Hip Hop in classrooms—from K-12 public schools and other youth-based community spaces to college and university courses. [...]
SAGE CALL FOR AUTHORS: Encyclopedia of Lying and Deception
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Via H-Net American Studies: ***Please note new deadline and updated article list*** The subject of lying crosses many disciplines, including psychology, history, politics, criminology, law, cultural sociology, business, family studies, education, and even health, among others. In the encyclopedia, we delve into each of these fields of study to see where lying takes a role. [...]
Museums & Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse Changes format
September 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
From Stefania Van Dyke of Left Coast Press: Museums & Social Issues (MSI), a peer-reviewed journal published by Left Coast Press, Inc., is pleased to announce a change in format that will allow researchers, museum practitioners, theorists, social scientists, and others to submit articles on any topic related to the engagement of museums in the [...]
CFP: Alien Bodies: Race, Space, & Sex in the African Diaspora, February 8-9, 2013
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Via H-Net ———————————- Alien Bodies: Race, Space, and Sex in the African Diaspora The African-American Studies Collective Emory University, Atlanta, GA February 8-9, 2013 Was it why I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it [...]
2013 Webb-Smith Essay Competition – Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution
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2013 Webb-Smith Essay Competition – Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution $1000 for the best research essay submitted Students and scholars are encouraged to submit original, unpublished article-length essays (maximum 10,000 words plus endnotes) that explore Texas during the Mexican period, and which examine the origins and long term ramifications of the events that gave [...]
CFP: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History (Toronto / May, 2014)
July 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via HNET email list: CALL FOR PAPERS Berkshire Conference on Women’s History Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche Toronto: May 22-25, 2014 Proposals due January 15, 2013 The sixteenth Berkshire Conference on Women’s History will be held in Toronto on May 22-25, 2014. The University of Toronto will host the first Canadian “Big Berks” [...]
#CFP: Envisioning Peace, Performing Justice
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Envisioning Peace, Performing Justice: Art, Activism, and Cultural Politics in the History of Peacemaking October 25-27, 2013 Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Peace History Society seeks proposals for panels and papers from across the humanities, social sciences, and fine and performing arts disciplines that reveal both the artistic and performative dimensions of peacemaking and the [...]
#CFP: SAGE Publications – Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia
June 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SAGE Publications is seeking contributions for the Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia that scheduled for publication in 2013. See the invitation below for all the details. Greetings, We are inviting academic editorial contributors to *Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia*, a new 4 volume reference work to be published by SAGE Reference in 2013. *Multicultural* *America: [...]
[CFP] Rethinking Power & Resistance: Gender & Human Rights from Texas to the Transnational Americas
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The University of Texas at Austin CALL FOR PAPERS: Rethinking Power & Resistance: Gender & Human Rights from Texas to the Transnational Americas CONVOCATORIA: Re-imaginando el Poder y la Resistencia: Género y Derechos Humanos Desde lo Local Hasta las Américas Transnacionales Contact: Kristen Hogan at genderandhumanrights@gmail.com Proposals Due: 1 February 2012 Conference Date: 5-6 October 2012 [...]
CFP: 2nd Annual Farrar Media & Civil Rights History Award: $1,000 prize
December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From H-NET: The School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina announces the second annual Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award. Honoring USC Professor Emeritus Ronald T. Farrar and his late wife, Gayla D. Farrar, this award recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited collection on [...]
Code of Ethics – Project for Excellence in Journalism
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The Pew Center for Research Project for Excellence in Journalism has a great resource that lists and provides links to the ethics guidelines for more than twenty of the world’s leading news organizations. From traditional media to new media, the list of organizations covers the vast array of American media outlets but also includes ethical standards [...]
[CFP] PLAZA: DIALOGUES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, VOL 1, NO 1
May 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The University of Houston Department of English is publishing a literary journal, and is taking submissions from Graduate & Undergraduate students. See the call for papers below, and visit the journal website for more information about submission guidelines. WALKING AROUND IN THE SPACE OF CONSUMPTION AND SEGREGATION: EXAMINING PLACE IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Journal Editors [...]
[CFP] 8th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference
May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I received the following Call for Papers [CFP] in my email today courtesy of the H-GRAD email list. The due date for conference proposals is Monday, August 22, 2011. There is plenty of time to prepare a manuscript and abstract for submission to the November conference. Considering the tight budgets in Graduate Departments nationwide, I would [...]
[CFP] The Border Project – December 2011 Symposium
April 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Re-posted from H-NET: The Border Project: Looking at Arts, History & Place in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, December 2011 Symposium Location: Arizona, United States Call for Papers Date: 2011-06-01 Date Submitted: 2011-02-21 Announcement ID: 183262 The University of Arizona Border Research Group invites academics to submit individual paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium [...]
[CFP] Panel on American Catholics & Immigration – AHA 2012
April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Presenters sought for panel on American Catholics and Immigration in 20th Century at ACHC Meeting in Chicago, January 5-9, 2012. Presenters are sought for a panel submission on American Catholics and Immigration in the 20th century for the American Catholic Historical Association’s meeting at the annual American Historical Association conference, to be held in Chicago, [...]
[CFP] WHA 2012 – Boundary Markers and Border Crossers: Finding the West and Westerners
April 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
The topic for the Western History Association 52nd Annual Conference has been announced. Set for October 4-7, 2012, the WHA conference is titled, “Boundary Markers and Border Crossers: Finding the West and Westerners.” Both the Funk & the Beans are interested in the way borders are created and reified, but also how they are crossed [...]
[CFP] The Border Project: Looking at Arts, History & Place in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, December 2011 Symposium
April 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
FYI Call for papers. http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=183262 We invite abstracts in English and/or Spanish that relate to or expand upon the following U.S./Mexico borderlands topics: -cross-disciplinary explorations of arts and humanities in the borderlands -gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship along the border -the roles the arts have played in shaping state and nation, and in constructing and [...]