CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PAPER SESSION (ALA Annual - Washington, D.C. 2010)

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PAPER SESSION (ALA Annual - Washington, D.C. 2010)

For more information, visit:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/iro/iroactivities/papersession.cfm

The American Library Association, International Papers Committee invites proposals for presentations to be made at the next ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, June 24-29, 2010. Presentations will be delivered at the International Papers Session scheduled for Saturday, June 26, 2010.

The International Papers Program provides librarians with an opportunity to exchange information about library services, collections and projects throughout the world. The program also serves to stimulate the interest of U.S. librarians in international library matters. Through its International Papers Committee, ALA’s International Relations Round Table (IRRT) invites librarians to submit a presentation proposal. The 2010 International Papers Program theme is

Libraries as Gateways to Local History around the World

Libraries and librarians often create collections, provide resources, and develop programs and services specific to the local history of the communities they serve. Libraries also reflect the local history of which they are a part. Exhibits and programs, special collections, and genealogy services help to preserve the memory of the community and to keep the local history alive. Libraries may also collaborate with other local cultural heritage organizations (e.g., archives, museums, historical societies, etc.) to create content. Deeply embedded in the local history, libraries increasingly seek to open up this history and cultural heritage to the global community. This year’s program will explore successful projects and initiatives implemented by libraries around the world to preserve local history and to open up their cultural heritage to the global community.

Books for review: Journal of the Association for History and Computing (JAHC)

Books for review: Journal of the Association for History and Computing (JAHC)

Hello, everyone. I am the new book reviews editor for JAHC. I have a number of books that I need reviews; if you are interested, please let me know which book, and a short paragraph on your background and in what ways you qualify to review the books that you have asked for. If you have any questions, let me know. Also, please send me your mailing address. Book reviews would be due by October 1, 2008. No international reviewers at this time, please; postage comes out of my own pocket. Thanks. Brad

(Please contact Brad for the lastest titles - these might have been taken)

Charles Merewether, ed. _The archive: documents of contemporary art_. MIT Press, 2006
Lee McIntyre. _Dark ages: the case for a science of human behavior_. MIT Press, 2006
Geoffrey Bowker. _Memory practices in the sciences_. MIT Press, 2005
Jonathan Rosenberg. _Now for the promised land: world affairs and the American civil rights movement from the 1st World War to Vietnam_. Princeton UP, 2006
Kevin Kruse. _White flight: Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism_. Princeton UP, 2005
Donald MacKenzie. _An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets_. MIT Press, 2006
Charles Clotfelter. _After Brown: the rise and retreat of school desegregation_. Princeton UP, 2004
James Bennett. _Religion and the rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans_. Princeton UP, 2005
Victor Kaptelinin. _Acting with technology: activity theory and interaction design_. MIT Press, 2006
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. _From the Corn laws to free trade: interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective_. MIT Press, 2006

Brad Eden
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services & Scholarly Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara

Email: eden@library.ucsb.edu

CFP: Print Culture in 1790s (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Conference)

CFP: Print Culture in 1790s (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Conference)

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Conference(SHEAR),Philadelphia, PA, July 17-20, 2008

We are organizing a panel that deals with print culture, broadly defined, in the 1790s. Papers might deal with novels, newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, or printing networks. Proposals that engage with the political aspects of print culture are particularly welcome.

Please submit a brief statement of interest to Michelle Orihel (morihel@maxwell.syr.edu) or Sari Edelstein (sedel@brandeis.edu) by November 18.

Sari Edelstein
Brandeis University
sedel@brandeis.edu

Michelle Orihel
Syracuse University
morihel@maxwell.syr.edu

CFP: Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800

CFP: Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800
University of Warwick, UK
8-9 August 2008

CFP Deadline: Jan 31, 2008
CFP URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/recipebooks/

This international interdisciplinary conference will provide a much-needed environment that allows recipe book scholars to meet and discuss important issues such as comparative methodologies and periodization, thereby offering a key opportuninity to shape the course of future research on this genre.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of recipe book studies are welcome, though we particularly encourage papers on the following topics:
Methodological essays from the disciplines of history of medicine, literature, material culture, culinary history, etc. Periodization of generic conventions Possibilities of new scholarly directions (e.g. recipe books as life-writing sources)

Editing recipe books for modern audiences
Evidence of larger cultural influences, such as gender, social status, and geography
How manuscript and printed recipe collections relate to one another

Please send your 300 word proposal to one of the co-organisers:

Michelle DiMeo (m.m.dimeo@warwick.ac.uk) or Sara Pennell (s.pennell@roehampton.ac.uk)

CFP: The Reformation of the Book (Ohio State University Summer Seminar)

CFP: The Reformation of the Book (Ohio State University Summer Seminar)

John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will direct
a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on continuity and change in the production, dissemination, and reading of Western European books during the 250 years following the advent of printing with movable type. In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the Protestant Reformation. This seminar will also explore the related problem of whether the impact of printing was revolutionary or evolutionary. Employing key methods of the still-emerging interdisciplinary field of the History of the Book, our investigation will consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which readers understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This program is geared to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or cultural history of the Renaissance and/or Reformation, the History of the Book, art history, women's stud!
ies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library science (including would-be rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy studies, and more.

This seminar will meet from 18 June until 20 July 2007. During the first
week of this program, we shall visit Antwerp, Belgium, in order to draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum. It preserves the world's only surviving early modern printing and publishing house. During four weeks in Oxford, where we shall reside at St. Edmund Hall, we plan to draw on the resources of the Bodleian Library and other institutions. In addition, we shall make an overnight trip to London in order to visit other rare book collections.

Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in teaching at the college or university level and independent scholars who have received the terminal degree in their field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March 2007 are eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,600.

Full details and application information are available at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/Reformationofthebook/. For further information, please contact rankin.86@osu.edu. The application deadline is March 1, 2007.

Call for Book Reviewers: Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire

Call for Book Reviewers: Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire

The _Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire_, Canada's premier journal for the general study of world histories, seeks reviewers for books in a range of fields and topics. We encourage interested scholars to visit our website (www.usask.ca/history/cjh) for guidelines and a list of available books. If you have not reviewed with us before, we also ask that you fill out our online form for reviewers, easily accessed at the same website.

Reviewers need not be Canadian or affiliated with a Canadian university. However, federal funding guidelines make it necessary for us to require that, with only rare exception, reviewers hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.

For contact information and guidelines, or to ask any questions, for contributors, see our website or write us at cjh@usask.ca.