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
Showing posts with label Library History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library History. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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)
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)
Friday, July 06, 2007
CFP: Analogous Spaces: Architecture and the space of information, intellect and action (Ghent University)
CFP: Analogous Spaces: Architecture and the space of information, intellect and action (Ghent University)
May 15-17 2008 Ghent University
International Conference
Deadline: July 31, 2007
Call for Papers URL (with much more information): http://www.hastac.org/node/748
Information: http://www.analogousspaces.com/
Call for Papers
The International Conference on Analogous Spaces interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. Although these spaces may differ in material, virtual, or operational ways, there are resemblances if one examines their 'structure,' 'form' and 'architecture'. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate?
The conference seeks papers on the following types of spaces:
• architecture and elements of the built environment (museums, libraries and archives, warehouses, ministries, administrative towns, world capitals, physical infrastructure, functionalist urbanism, etc.);
• information storage and data processing (databases, information retrieval, data mining, conceptual maps, scholarly communication, search engines, etc.);
• the architecture of "the book" (contents and layout of atlases, scientific and scholarly treatises, encyclopedias, guides, manuals, children's books etc.);
• organizational schemes and diagrams (organigrams, functional diagrams, visual language, interfaces, artificial intelligence, taxonomies, classification systems, itineraries, etc.).
Conference papers should examine analogical relationships between these types of spaces by investigating how they produce, accumulate, order, conserve, distribute, classify, and use knowledge.
The conference will be organized around three main themes:
1. The first theme explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. What are the geographic relationships and/or technological affordances that support or inhibit the
development of such networks? What constrains their development and effectiveness and how do different kinds of network models help in understanding their formation, evolution and dissolution.
2. The second theme deals with the space of knowledge and memory. How can we compare the encyclopedia and the museum, the book and the library, the diagram and the database? How do they use architecture to structure knowledge and how is architecture used as a metaphor of
memory?
3. The third theme explores the space required for speed, action and decision making. In modernity, fast and effective action generates its own space of organization, intelligence and feedback. What does this space look like, and what are the different ways in which it can
be represented?
Calendar
• 31 July 2007 Deadline submission of abstracts
• 31 October 2007 Selection of papers
• 31 March 2008 Submission of final papers and other contributions
• 15-17 May 2008 Conference Analogous Spaces
Practical Information
• Conference language: English
• Conference venue: Ghent (Belgium)
• Publication: A selection of conference papers will be published
• Information: http://www.analogousspaces.com/
• E-mail: analogousspaces@architectuur.ugent.be
May 15-17 2008 Ghent University
International Conference
Deadline: July 31, 2007
Call for Papers URL (with much more information): http://www.hastac.org/node/748
Information: http://www.analogousspaces.com/
Call for Papers
The International Conference on Analogous Spaces interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. Although these spaces may differ in material, virtual, or operational ways, there are resemblances if one examines their 'structure,' 'form' and 'architecture'. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate?
The conference seeks papers on the following types of spaces:
• architecture and elements of the built environment (museums, libraries and archives, warehouses, ministries, administrative towns, world capitals, physical infrastructure, functionalist urbanism, etc.);
• information storage and data processing (databases, information retrieval, data mining, conceptual maps, scholarly communication, search engines, etc.);
• the architecture of "the book" (contents and layout of atlases, scientific and scholarly treatises, encyclopedias, guides, manuals, children's books etc.);
• organizational schemes and diagrams (organigrams, functional diagrams, visual language, interfaces, artificial intelligence, taxonomies, classification systems, itineraries, etc.).
Conference papers should examine analogical relationships between these types of spaces by investigating how they produce, accumulate, order, conserve, distribute, classify, and use knowledge.
The conference will be organized around three main themes:
1. The first theme explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. What are the geographic relationships and/or technological affordances that support or inhibit the
development of such networks? What constrains their development and effectiveness and how do different kinds of network models help in understanding their formation, evolution and dissolution.
2. The second theme deals with the space of knowledge and memory. How can we compare the encyclopedia and the museum, the book and the library, the diagram and the database? How do they use architecture to structure knowledge and how is architecture used as a metaphor of
memory?
3. The third theme explores the space required for speed, action and decision making. In modernity, fast and effective action generates its own space of organization, intelligence and feedback. What does this space look like, and what are the different ways in which it can
be represented?
Calendar
• 31 July 2007 Deadline submission of abstracts
• 31 October 2007 Selection of papers
• 31 March 2008 Submission of final papers and other contributions
• 15-17 May 2008 Conference Analogous Spaces
Practical Information
• Conference language: English
• Conference venue: Ghent (Belgium)
• Publication: A selection of conference papers will be published
• Information: http://www.analogousspaces.com/
• E-mail: analogousspaces@architectuur.ugent.be
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of American Disability History
Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of American Disability History
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Facts On File and the advisors for the Encyclopedia of American Disability History are looking for contributors.
• This three-volume reference work will cover basic information on important events, issues, developments, laws, biographies, and related topics in American Disability History. Entries on significant historical themes and concepts—including civil rights, war, public policy, citizenship, media, institutions, education, and technology—will examine both practical and theoretical factors, as well as demonstrate the deeper meaning of the lived experience of disability. Each entry will illustrate the subject within an historical context, and show that while disability has existed throughout American History, disability is neither a fixed nor static concept but one whose definition and understanding have changed markedly from era to era.
• Because accessibility is a major issue in Disability History, the entries in this reference will accommodate a broad, diverse audience, from high school students to general readers, to individuals who assist people with disabilities. Clear language, accessible prose, and coherent, balanced, jargon-free interpretations are essential for every article.
The editors of this encyclopedia are currently seeking contributors for a wide range of entries.
The following is a sample list of available entries:
Aesthetic surgery
Brown, Mordecai "Three-finger"
Camps
Cartoons
Discrimination
Homelessness
Identity
Gilbreth, Frank and Lillian
Gulf War
Little People of America
Mobility
National Paraplegia Foundation
Optical Recognition Scanner
Photographers
Poster art
Public welfare
Rare Disorders
Representation
Snake Pit, The
Stereotypes
Transportation
Violence
Visibility [vs. invisibility]
War
• Authors interested in contributing to this important project should contact Dr. Susan Burch for further information and details regarding the full list of entries: s.burch@abdn.ac.uk
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Facts On File and the advisors for the Encyclopedia of American Disability History are looking for contributors.
• This three-volume reference work will cover basic information on important events, issues, developments, laws, biographies, and related topics in American Disability History. Entries on significant historical themes and concepts—including civil rights, war, public policy, citizenship, media, institutions, education, and technology—will examine both practical and theoretical factors, as well as demonstrate the deeper meaning of the lived experience of disability. Each entry will illustrate the subject within an historical context, and show that while disability has existed throughout American History, disability is neither a fixed nor static concept but one whose definition and understanding have changed markedly from era to era.
• Because accessibility is a major issue in Disability History, the entries in this reference will accommodate a broad, diverse audience, from high school students to general readers, to individuals who assist people with disabilities. Clear language, accessible prose, and coherent, balanced, jargon-free interpretations are essential for every article.
The editors of this encyclopedia are currently seeking contributors for a wide range of entries.
The following is a sample list of available entries:
Aesthetic surgery
Brown, Mordecai "Three-finger"
Camps
Cartoons
Discrimination
Homelessness
Identity
Gilbreth, Frank and Lillian
Gulf War
Little People of America
Mobility
National Paraplegia Foundation
Optical Recognition Scanner
Photographers
Poster art
Public welfare
Rare Disorders
Representation
Snake Pit, The
Stereotypes
Transportation
Violence
Visibility [vs. invisibility]
War
• Authors interested in contributing to this important project should contact Dr. Susan Burch for further information and details regarding the full list of entries: s.burch@abdn.ac.uk
Sunday, December 31, 2006
CFP: Print Networks Conference - History of the British Book Trade)
CFP: Print Networks Conference - History of the British Book Trade)
The twenty-fourth annual Print Networks conference on the History of the British Book Trade will take place at the University of Chester on 24-26 July 2007. The theme for the conference is Print culture in the provinces: the creation, distribution, and dissemination of word and image. Provincial-metropolitan inter-trade connections will be acceptable or on aspects of trade relations with any part of the former colonies & dominions.
A selection of the papers will be published in July 2008 as part of the Print Networks series, published by the British Library and Oak Knoll Press. Papers should be of up to 30 minutes duration. An abstract of the offered paper and a brief CV, (no longer than one side of A4 in total) of the likely contents should be submitted by 31 January 2007.
Further information, including contact details, available here:
http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/PrintNetworks.htm
The twenty-fourth annual Print Networks conference on the History of the British Book Trade will take place at the University of Chester on 24-26 July 2007. The theme for the conference is Print culture in the provinces: the creation, distribution, and dissemination of word and image. Provincial-metropolitan inter-trade connections will be acceptable or on aspects of trade relations with any part of the former colonies & dominions.
A selection of the papers will be published in July 2008 as part of the Print Networks series, published by the British Library and Oak Knoll Press. Papers should be of up to 30 minutes duration. An abstract of the offered paper and a brief CV, (no longer than one side of A4 in total) of the likely contents should be submitted by 31 January 2007.
Further information, including contact details, available here:
http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/PrintNetworks.htm
Saturday, December 30, 2006
CFP: LIBRARIES DURING THE NAZI PERIOD PROVENANCE RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF LIBRARIES
CFP: LIBRARIES DURING THE NAZI PERIOD PROVENANCE RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF LIBRARIES
March, 26th/27th 2008 in Vienna, Austria
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July, 31st 2007.
The conference “Libraries during the Nazi period” is organized by the Vienna University Library and the Vienna City Library in cooperation with the Association of Austrian Librarians. Taking place four years after the conference “Looting and Restitution in Libraries” in April 2003 at the Vienna City Hall, the focus of the 2008 conference will be on new projects and recent developments. The conference “Libraries during the Nazi period” is inviting papers on book looting, recent provenance research and aspects of the history of libraries during 1933 and 1945.
Topics of interest include:
-Recent developments in provenance research in libraries
-The looting of private and institutional collections between 1933 and 1945
-Aspects of the history of libraries relating to National Socialism (librarians before and during WWII, the politics of libraries, …)
-How libraries and other institutions with book holdings in German-speaking countries and in Central and Eastern Europe approach issues relating to looting and restitution.
-Archives and other sources of information for provenance research (Archival records; databases …)
Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Proposals should be in Word and include a title and a summary of up to 300 words. These abstracts and a curriculum vitae with full contact details should be sent to:
Stefan Alker, Christina Köstner
Projekt Provenienzforschung
Universität Wien, Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen/
Vienna University Library
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Wien
Tel. +43-1-4277-15064
E-Mail: provenienzforschung.ub@univie.ac.at
Website: http://www.ub.univie.ac.at/provenienzforschung/
Christian Mertens
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus/Vienna City Library
Rathaus, A-1082 Wien
Tel. +43-1-4000-84978
E-Mail: christian.mertens@wienbibliothek.at
Website: http://www.wienbibliothek.at/
March, 26th/27th 2008 in Vienna, Austria
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July, 31st 2007.
The conference “Libraries during the Nazi period” is organized by the Vienna University Library and the Vienna City Library in cooperation with the Association of Austrian Librarians. Taking place four years after the conference “Looting and Restitution in Libraries” in April 2003 at the Vienna City Hall, the focus of the 2008 conference will be on new projects and recent developments. The conference “Libraries during the Nazi period” is inviting papers on book looting, recent provenance research and aspects of the history of libraries during 1933 and 1945.
Topics of interest include:
-Recent developments in provenance research in libraries
-The looting of private and institutional collections between 1933 and 1945
-Aspects of the history of libraries relating to National Socialism (librarians before and during WWII, the politics of libraries, …)
-How libraries and other institutions with book holdings in German-speaking countries and in Central and Eastern Europe approach issues relating to looting and restitution.
-Archives and other sources of information for provenance research (Archival records; databases …)
Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Proposals should be in Word and include a title and a summary of up to 300 words. These abstracts and a curriculum vitae with full contact details should be sent to:
Stefan Alker, Christina Köstner
Projekt Provenienzforschung
Universität Wien, Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen/
Vienna University Library
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Wien
Tel. +43-1-4277-15064
E-Mail: provenienzforschung.ub@univie.ac.at
Website: http://www.ub.univie.ac.at/provenienzforschung/
Christian Mertens
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus/Vienna City Library
Rathaus, A-1082 Wien
Tel. +43-1-4000-84978
E-Mail: christian.mertens@wienbibliothek.at
Website: http://www.wienbibliothek.at/
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