The March 2007 issue of the Journal of World History features a forum on Social History, Women’s History, & World History. Here are the articles (links are to the articles posted at historycooperative.org):
Call for Papers: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine:
Announcing the 5th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, to be held the weekend of October 5-6, 2007, and hosted by the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. The seminar is organized and coordinated by graduate students across North America working in fields related to the history of medicine. Our mission is to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations on topics related to the history of health and healing; of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and of illness, disease, and public health, from all eras and regions of the world. Abstracts should be no more than 350 words and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will engage relevant historiographical issues and the potential contribution to scholarship on the history of medicine and health. A panel of graduate students and faculty members from 7 different institutions will review the abstracts.
All abstracts should be submitted electronically (either as a MS Word document or as text in the body of an e-mail message) to Abby Markoe, graduate student coordinator, at JAS_med2007@jhmi.edu.
We urge students whose papers are accepted to seek financial support from their home institutions to participate in the seminar. We hope that a limited amount of travel support will be made available to students whose home departments are not able subsidize their travel; however, we are uncertain as to the extent and availability of such funding at this time. Information about availability of funding and how to apply will be sent to those whose proposals are accepted for the program.
The deadline for submissions will be May 25, 2007.
More information is available at the conference website: http://www.jointatlantic.org/
The January 2007 issue of Modernism/modernity (Volume 14, Number 1) features three Thomas Mann texts in translation (along with an accompanying introduction to set the lecture/essays in context); the texts relate to Mann’s defense of the interwar German Republic [all links are to PDF files and require a subscription to access]:
The Library of Congress’ Kluge Center invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on the Kislak Collection. The Kislak Collection is a major collection of rare books, manuscripts, historic documents, maps and art of the Americas donated to the Library of Congress by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation of Miami Lakes, Fla. The collection contains some of the earliest records of indigenous peoples in North America and superb objects from the discovery, contact, and colonial periods, especially for Florida, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica.The Kislak Fellows Program supports scholarly research that contributes significantly to a greater understanding of the cultures and history of the Americas. It provides an opportunity for a period of up to 8 months of concentrated use of materials from the Kislak Collection and other collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency at the Library. The program supports research projects in the disciplines of archaeology, history, cartography, epigraphy, linguistics, ethno-history, ethnography, bibliography and sociology, with particular emphasis on Florida, the circum-Caribbean region and Mesoamerica. We encourage interdisciplinary projects that combine disciplines in novel and productive ways.
For more information about the Kislak Collection, visit: http://www.kislakfoundation.org/collections.html
Applicant Eligibility
Applicants may be of any nationality and must possess a Ph.D. degree, or equivalent terminal degree, awarded by the application deadline date of February 28 of the year they apply.
Tenure & Stipend
The Kislak Fellowship in American Studies is for a period of up to 8 months, at a stipend of $4,000 per month, for residential research at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress will pay stipends monthly by means of electronic transfer to a U.S. bank account. Transportation arrangements, housing, and health care insurance and costs are the responsibility of the Fellow. The Library will provide Fellows with information on housing and can provide Fellows with contacts for commercial providers of health care insurance. The Library is required to ensure that nonresident alien visitors maintain minimum levels of medical insurance, and will provide information about insurers that offer qualifying policies to nonresident aliens.
Applications
Applicants must submit an application form, a two-page curriculum vitae which should indicate prior scholarship, a one-paragraph projects summary, a bibliography of basic sources, a research proposal of no more than 1,500 words, and three letters of reference (in English) from people who have read the research proposal.
Successful proposals will clearly indicate the purpose and principal scholarly contribution of the project, and the benefit to the project of working in the Library of Congress using both the Kislak materials and the Library’s other collections.
Due Date
The annual application deadline is February 28, with the fellowship commencing anytime after June 15 of that same year. Application materials must be post-marked by the deadline date to be considered. Applicants are urged to consider submitting their application materials online http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge or by fax (202-707-3595) to avoid any problems caused by mail delivery.
Expectations
The Kislak Fellow is expected to develop research of a publishable quality. As a Library of Congress resident scholar, fellows are also expected to make at least one public presentation about their research and to participate actively in Library events and programs as appropriate.
Contact Information
Completed application packets, questions, and other requests for information should be sent to the following address. Please note that containing mail delivery problems at the Library may require submitting the application packet by fax or email, to insure delivery by the deadline date:
The Kislak Fellowship in American Studies
Library of Congress, LJ-120
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4860
tel. 202 707-3302; fax 202 707-3595
email: scholarly@loc.gov
For an application and additional information on Kluge Center fellowships, see: www.loc.gov/loc/kluge
From H-Net Announcements:
The editors of French Historical Studies seek articles for a special issue on New Perspectives on French Environmental History. Articles on research topics covering all chronological periods and all areas within environmental history are welcome. Among other possibilities, we invite articles treating the following topics:
• The Annales school and environmental history in France
• The proper geographical parameters for French environmental history: locales, regions, the nation-state, Europe, French colonial empires
• Urban, rural, and maritime environments
• Eco-logics and contradictions in peasant society
• Environmental thought and nature writing
• Varieties of environmentalism and green politics
• War and the environment
• The environmental consequences of tourism
• Environmental justice
Queries regarding submissions and all other matters should be addressed to the guest editors, Caroline Ford (cford@history.ucla.edu) and Tamara Whited (twhited@iup.edu). Articles may be either in English or in French but must conform to French Historical Studies style (see http://fhs.ucdavis.edu/style/shtml for details) and must be accompanied by abstracts in both languages. Papers should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (up to but not longer than 15,000 words including notes). For the inclusion of illustrations written permission must be obtained from the relevant persons or institutions for print and on-line publication.
Manuscripts can be sent by post or electronically. After July 1, 2007, they should be sent to Jessica Namakkal, Managing Assistant, French Historical Studies, Department of History, University of Minnesota-twin cities, 614 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 We encourage, but do not require, electronic submission of manuscripts. Manuscripts submitted electronically should be sent in MS Word or Rich Text Format (RTF). The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2007.
This looks like a good opportunity for young scholars in the humanities (I learned of this via The Stoa Consortium; they point out that it is potentially interesting to digital classicists [because, I assume, the Perseus Digital Library is based at Tufts] – I would add that this could be of interest to anyone working in the digital humanities, though the program is not specifically designated as such):
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has generously provided Tufts University with funding to bring two postdoctoral fellows each year for four years to pursue new collaborative research projects with Tufts faculty in the Humanities. Two fellows will be appointed in fall 2007.
Each fellow will be housed for two years in a particular department or interdisciplinary program, and will be associated with one or more Tufts faculty members who will serve as advisor/mentor(s). Fellows will be expected to teach one course in the spring semester of their first year and two in the second year of their residency. Applications will be competitively evaluated by the Mellon Postdoctoral Committee There is no requirement that the fellows be U.S. citizens. Applicants for the fellowships must have received their PhD within the past five years. The stipend for fellows will be $46,440 plus benefits, and a research allowance of $6,000 per year.
Recipients of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships will appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, upon the recommendation of the Mellon Postdoctoral Committee and in consultation with appropriate departments. All applications must be received no later than February 1, 2007.
Link to the Fellows Program main page: http://ase.tufts.edu/mellonpostdoc/
The Fall 2006 issue of The Historian (Vol. 68 Issue 3 Pages 431-711) features the following articles:
The November 2006 issue of Early Medieval Europe (Vol. 14 Issue 4 Page 355-522) features the following articles:
New York University’s Tamiment Library is pleased to announce a new Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship for 2007-2008. This interdisciplinary program is designed to support post-doctoral scholars working on the history of academic freedom and its complex relationship to American politics, culture, and society. We are particularly interested in proposals that explore the ways in which fear and anxiety about enemies abroad and radical political movements at home have shaped the idea of academic freedom and the role of the university in American life. Scholars working on projects that explore the relationship between academic freedom and the larger struggles surrounding civil liberties, civil rights, gender relations, political repression and resistance are encouraged to apply.
Apply by February 15 , 2007– send vita, short project description, statement of relevance of Tamiment collections , and two letters of recommendation to:
Dr. Michael Nash and Professor Marilyn Young
Tamiment Library
New York University
70 Washington Square South
New York, N.Y. 10012
Please contact Michael.Nash@nyu.edu; or Marilyn.Young@nyu.edu for more
information.
[there is also further information about all of Tamiment's fellowships online: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fellowships.html ]
From JewishJournal.com, “Martin Luther King’s Hollywood Dream“:
Temple Israel of Hollywood has had many milestones in its 80 years as a Jewish cultural landmark in our city. One that bears special significance this month, however, occurred on Friday, Feb. 26, 1965 , when the synagogue’s Rabbi Max Nussbaum welcomed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to share the bimah with him and to offer a sermon.
Nearly forty-two years later, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the synagogue will welcome the reverend’s voice back into the sanctuary in a special service on Jan. 12 with The Word Center Church Gospel Singers, as well as its pastors and musicians.
The sermon is split into two mp3 files (one, two); the sound quality is quite good.
[link from BoingBoing]
