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Added: July 9, 2010

31 March - 1 April 2011
Cambridge, UK

Urban History Group
Annual Conference
Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK

This conference theme broadly explores the pursuit of pleasure" in the context of the history of towns and cities. The conference organisers are...

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The Encyclopedia of Women and American Popular Culture

Facts On File, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, is seeking contributing media studies and television scholars for a print and online reference work on the history of women in America popular culture from colonial...

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6-7 May 2011
Paris, France
 
Contemporary American TV Series: Between Fiction, Fact and the Real

This two-day international conference will take place at the Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, on May 6-7, 2011. The relationship between reality and fiction in...

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20 November 2010
London, UK

This one-day workshop offers postgraduates and early career researchers an opportunity to reflect on how historians might research and write histories relating to public health and voluntary action.

We welcome papers that emphasise the...

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17 October 2010
Madison, NJ

On Sunday, October 17th at 2pm join storyteller Kati Brower as she tells traditional Lenape tales. Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x14. Regular Admission.

April Lyzak
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts
9 Main Street...

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10 October 2010
Madison, NJ

On Sunday, October 10th at 2pm join historian and archeologist Alan Cooper as he discusses the Lenape Meadow Excavation with a slide show presentation and actual found Lenape artifacts. Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x14. Regular...

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13-16 April 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah

The Western Social Science Association invites papers and panels on American Studies topics for its 53rd annual conference, April 13-16, 2011, at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.

The WSSA's annual meeting presents...

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16-18 June 2011
Preston, UK

Food and Drink: Their Social, Political and Cultural Histories

Food and drink – the provision, choice, use, restriction or lack of them – provide a fascinating focus for historical inquiry. This conference will of interest to social, political and...

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18-19 April 2011
Hong Kong, Japan

Disease and Crime: Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

The Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the forthcoming international workshop, Disease and Crime: Social Pathologies...

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September 2010-May 2011
Chicago, IL

Reception at 5:45 p.m.
Dinner at 6:15 p.m.
Speaker at 7:00 p.m.

Reservations are $20 and may be purchased by calling 312-799-2012 or online at:
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