NeoAmericanist news
Added: July 3, 2010
24 - 26 February 2011
Berkeley, CA
The Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley presents:
The First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema
Cinema's institutional consolidation in the 1920s enlisted practitioners from many other...
Added: June 25, 2010
26 - 29 May 2011
St. George, Utah
The forty-sixth annual conference of the Mormon History Association will be held May 26-29, 2011, at the Dixie Center in St. George, Utah. The 2011 theme, “From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, National, and Global Transformations in Mormon History,”...
Added: June 25, 2010
14 - 17 April 2011
Preston, United Kingdom
56th Annual Conference British Association for American Studies UCLan 2011
There is no overarching theme for the conference, and papers and panel proposals are welcomed on any subject related to the United States of America and early...
Added: June 25, 2010
8-9 April 2011
Boston, MA
Thinking about architecture has long been an enterprise of philosophers and architects alike, but in recent years there has been a growing divergence between them over terminological and methodological issues. Philosophers charge architects with...
Added: June 15, 2010
8-28 May 2011
Banff, Alberta
Imre Szeman (Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, U of Alberta) and Heather Zwicker (Associate Dean-Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, U of Alberta), are pleased to announce a new residency program for scholars engaged in advanced theoretical...
Added: June 15, 2010
14-16 April 2011
Alcalá de Henares, Spain
The Backyard of the USA Mansion: Critical Readings of Poverty and Wealth in the United States
In the subtitle of one of his well-known books, David S. Landes asks Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, a matter that can apply to whole...
Added: June 15, 2010
30 May - 1 June 2011
Fredericton, New Brunswick
“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed...
Added: June 10, 2010
15 October 2010
Praeger has contracted with us to publish a three-volume reference set titled “Muslims in American Popular Culture” (2010/2011). The first collection of its kind, MIAPC will be marketed mainly to university, public, and secondary school libraries. We are looking for...
Added: June 10, 2010
Blacks and Puerto Ricans in the Bronx: Culture, Community and Politics in New York City's Northern Borough
Historians and social scientists interested in contributing an article length-essay on Blacks and Puerto Ricans in the Bronx for publication in an edited volume. Topics can vary, but...
Added: June 5, 2010
31 December 2010
Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Dissertation Award in History of Medicine
American Association for the History of Medicine
This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences...
