Call for Papers: Southwest Labor Studies Association, Cal Poly Pomona, May 15-17

From the Labour History News Archive.

Southwest Labor Studies Association

Southwest Labor Studies Association
34th Annual Conference May 15-17, 2008
California Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA

Call for papers, workshops, and presentations

Working and Organizing Everyday: Workers, Families, and Communities in Local and Global Struggles

Featuring: Plenary Sessions on The State of Working Families in the Inland Valley and The Struggle for a Continental Living Wage

Global economic transformations coupled with U.S. imperial policies have radically transformed the working and living conditions in communities across the globe. We invite proposals from scholars and community activists for panels, interactive workshops, performances, displays, art, film, and music that explore the local and global impacts of these processes and how workers and communities are challenging them.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Historical and contemporary discussions of working class movements
• Organizing in the Inland Valley
• Immigrant worker organizing
• Global resistance to neoliberalism
• Impact of NAFTA and CAFTA on workers and communities -Labor education -Nativism and anti-immigrant movements
• Gender, race, and sexuality in organizing -Youth and student activism -Prison Labor -Fair Trade Movements
• War, imperialism, and resistance

 

Proposal deadline is March 1, 2008. Please send a short (1-2 paragraph) proposal and the name and contact information of the participants to Enrique C. Ochoa at ecochoa@csupomona.edu at CLASS Dean’s Office, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA 91768. For further information contact Enrique Ochoa at (909) 869-3115 or [mailto]ecochoa@csupomona.edu[mailto].

 

Conference Announcement: Space of History/History of Space

Conference Announcement:

Spaces of History / Histories of Space

Emerging Approaches to the Study of the Built Environment

A Conference at the University of California at Berkeley on April 30,
2010

In the past three decades, a growing number of scholars in the
humanities and social sciences have turned their attention to
space and to the built environment as a means of understanding
historical processes. The writings of Lefebvre, Foucault, Gregory,
Harvey, Soja, Latour and others have significantly reshaped the
intellectual landscape across academic fields. Meanwhile, the
subject matter and research methods of the history of architecture,
landscapes and planning have become increasingly open to
reassessment.

Looking to survey and assess new approaches and analytical tools for
studying the history of built spaces across a
variety of scales and geographies, this conference will explore a
range of questions pertaining to theory, methodology and
pedagogy. How has the “spatial turn” in the humanities and social
sciences transformed the ways in which history of the built
environment is theorized and researched? How should we study a
historical moment when certain types of evidence predominate?
What are the potentials and biases in the use of particular research
techniques and narrative forms? To what extent are these
choices shaped by disciplinary knowledge? How might such
interrogations help us conceive new pedagogies for
design and planning?

The conference is expected to attract a diverse group of scholars
interested in interdisciplinary research on the history
of the built environment. Participation from graduate students and
early career academics is especially welcome. Participants will
present papers related to one of the following two tracks:

1. Interrogating Theories and Methodologies
Papers in this track will explore how built spaces have been
integrated into historical research in a variety of
disciplines, or discuss the use of particular theoretical
formulations that have become influential in studying the history
of the built environment. We are especially interested in work that
assesses the potentials and limits of research
methods, such as ethnography and oral history, as well as the use of
various types of archival evidence.

2. History as Pedagogy: Teaching and Practice
Papers in this track will examine pedagogical approaches to history
in design education and their implications for the
making of the built environment, including professional practice.
Topics of interest include the use of history as
precedent, the construction of a survey course, the relationship
between history teaching and the design studio, and
other interdisciplinary approaches to historical research such as
experimental art practice and other creative mediums.

As part of the activities of this conference, we will be holding a
special poster exhibition that explores the relationship between
historical thinking and the making of the built environment. This
exhibition especially welcomes the participation of graduate
students in professional programs as well as advanced undergraduate
students. For submission guidelines for posters, please refer to
the forthcoming conference website at arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/
conf/spacesofhistory2010.

Applicants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short CV in Word
format to tcastela_at_berkeley.edu and to ceciliachu_at _berkeley.edu
by January 8, 2010. Accepted participants will be notified by February
5, 2010. Authors of accepted proposals should submit a
completed paper of no more than 10 pages that summarizes the main
points of the presentation by April 2, 2010.

This conference is organized by graduate students Tiago Castela,
Cecilia Chu, Clare Robinson, Yael Allweil and Huey Ying Hsu.
The event is jointly sponsored by the Draper Architectural History
Research Endowment of the College of Environmental Design
at UC Berkeley and by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC
Berkeley. For additional information about the conference,
please contact the organizers, or visit the conference website.

 

Call for Papers: Western Association of Women Historians: May 20-23

CALL FOR PAPERS

Western Association of Women Historians
42nd Annual Conference

University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington

May 20-23, 2010

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The WAWH invites faculty members, graduate students, independent
scholars and others for a collegial, stimulating, and professional
weekend of history and networking.

The program committee welcomes proposals for panels or single papers on
any historical subject, time period, or region. The program
committee seeks to emphasize that papers do not necessarily have to
focus on women’s or gender history, although those issues are of
interest to the membership. All periods of history are welcome,
especially non-U.S. subjects. Panels, workshops, or roundtables on
issues in the historical profession are also encouraged. Proposals for
complete panels, including commentators, are preferred, but individual
papers are also welcome.

WAWH offers a prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student
at the WAWH meeting. Please see www.wawh.org for guidelines.

Proposals must include each of the following:

1) A required WAWH Cover Page (found at www.wawh.org)

2) A one-half to one-page abstract for each paper submitted

3) One-to-two-page curriculum vitae for each panelist

Mail _six_ complete sets of proposal material to the program committee
co-chair, postmarked by October 15, 2009:

Dr. Nancy Page Fernandez
Freshman Programs
California State University, Fullerton
Langsdorf Hall Suite #216
800 North State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831-3599

If you have any questions, please contact either program co-chair:

Kathleen Kennedy at Kathleen.Kennedy@wwu.edu or 360-650-3043 or

Nancy Page Fernandez at npfernandez@fullerton.edu or 657-278-4184

Current (2009-2010) WAWH membership and 2010 conference preregistration
are _required_ of all program participants.

WAWH Membership runs from conference to conference.

The program committee reserves the right to change or reconfigure
panels. Submission of proposal will indicate agreement with this policy.
Communication with panelists will be made through the designated contact.

Electronic submissions will not be accepted.

The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969. Drawing
scholars from the Western states, the WAWH is the largest of the
regional women’s historical associations in the United States.
Membership is open to all. For information about the organization, award
and prize applications, proposal deadline, conference registration,
conference program, and membership, please visit www.wawh.org.

 

Call for Papers: Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers in Los Angeles: Art, Migrations, Community Development

Submission Due date:  July 20, 2009

As a follow-up to an international conference that took place April 2-5, 2009, at the University of Genova in Italy on the theme of art and migration as they relate to Sabato (Simon) Rodia and the Watts Towers, an independent group of scholars (partly in formation) has announced that it is ready to consider submissions for a volume of selected papers related to the themes of the Genova conference.  From the announcement:

The tentative title of the collected essays will be: Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers in Los Angeles:  Art, Migrations, Community Development.  The volume will seek to treat the monument and its maker from a diverse spectrum of disciplinary perspectives and cover these areas: 1) The Community of Watts and its Monument:  Physical, Socio-Economic and Political Realities; 2)  Art Environments, Vernacular Traditions, and their Imaginaries; 3)  Italian Migrations:  Literary, Artistic, and Visual Legacies; 4)  Reproducing Nola (the Watts Towers vis-a-vis the Gigli of Nola).  Consult subjects 1 – 4 below for further details.  Please reply immediately with your intention to contribute (include your name, essay title, one-sentence description).  Submit your essay contribution for consideration by July 20.  All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an editorial advisory committee with expertise in the publication’s subject areas:

1.  Migration
- The life of Simon Rodia in the context of 19th to 20th-century Italian immigration
- Italian immigration as bridge between two worlds
- From Nola to Watts:  material culture traditions
- Oral history, oral culture and the Watts Towers
- Watts Towers and migration studies

2.  Art & Architecture
- Varieties of artistic definition:  e.g., Outsider Art, Folk Art, Visionary, etc.
- The Watts Towers and the Architecture of personal fantasy and genius
- Engineering, Construction, Conservation of the Towers

3.  Literary and Visual Legacies
- Los Angeles, the Towers, literature, film, music, etc.
- Visual documentation

4.  Socio-Economic and Political Realities
- Economic underdevelopment and renaissance:  yesterday and today
- In their shadow:  cultural politics and the Watts Towers
- Watts Towers Art Center:  arts education and community activism
- Italy as the New America:  immigrant art and literature in Italy

Submit:  Digital copy of your 20 – 25 page, double-spaced, essay (as an email attachment, Microsoft Word .doc file please).  Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html).
Appropriate critical apparatus (notes and bibliography), as well as illustrations, encouraged.

Send materials to volume editor:

Luisa Del Giudice, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 241553
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1553

Tel.:  (310) 474-1698
E-mail:  luisadg@humnet.ucla.edu

 

Call for Proposals: 2009-2010 Los Angeles History Research Group

From the Los Angeles History Research group:

The Los Angeles History Research (LAHR) group invites proposals for its 2009-2010 seminar season.  Since 1991, the LAHR group has provided a stimulating environment for scholars of Los Angeles history to discuss works in progress.  Presenters pre-circulate a paper and then meet with group members in seminar at the Huntington Library, located in San Marino, California.

If you are interested in presenting, please send by email a one-page proposal and a brief CV to one of the coordinators listed below by April 25.  Please indicate if you will be in Southern California for only part of the year, as travel stipends are not provided.  Those interested in receiving regular announcements of LAHR meetings are also invited to contact one of the coordinators to ask to be added to the email list.

Allison Varzally, California State University-Fullerton
avarzally@exchange.fullerton.edu

Nick Rosenthal, Loyola Marymount University
ngrosen@lmu.edu

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Changing Face of Agricultre and the Rural Landscape, Agricultural History Society, Little Rock, AR (Deadline, Nov. 15; Conference June 18-20, 2009)

Call for Papers

The Changing Face of Agriculture and the Rural Landscape
Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

June 18 to June 20, 2009

Deadline for Submissions: November 15, 2008

International issues concerning agriculture and rural life have attracted wide public discussion in the last few years. Farmers, consumers, workers, and communities across the world are facing such issues as climate change, trade and migration, financial and credit instability, and pressures on rural traditions. Scholars of rural life have an opportunity to reassert the importance of agricultural and rural history in weighing these issues and at the same time to consider the implications for approaches to our field.

In the interest of promoting understanding of the changing face of agriculture and the rural landscape, the program committee wishes to encourage submissions of interdisciplinary and cross-national panels focused on the historical roots of current issues. We also encourage discussion of changes these new issues may suggest for the field of agriculture and rural history. However, proposals on any aspect of agriculture and rural history are welcome. We encourage proposals of all types and formats, including traditional papers/commentary sessions, thematic panel discussions, roundtables on recent books, and poster presentations. We will consider submissions of full panels and individual papers, as well as paired or individual posters.

Submission Procedures
Complete session proposals should include a chair, participants, and, if applicable, a commentator. Please include the following information:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words for the session as a whole;
• A prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation;
• A mailing address, email, phone number, and affiliation for each participant; and
• A CV of no more than a page for each participant.

Individual submissions should include all the above except a session abstract.

Please send submissions, in Microsoft Word or RTF format, to jwhayne@uark.edu. Alternatively, applicants may mail five hard copies of their proposals to:

Jeannie Whayne
Department of History, 416 Old Main
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Please direct questions regarding the program to any member of the program committee:

• Jeannie Whayne, Chair, University of Arkansas, jwhayne@uark.edu
• Jim Giesen, Mississippi State University, jcg245@msstate.edu
• Doug McCalla, University of Guelph, dmccalla@uoguelph.ca
• Sara Morris, University of Kansas, semorris@ku.edu
• Jim Norris,  North Dakota State University, Jim.Norris@ndsu.edu

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: National Assn. for Ethnic Studies, San Diego (Deadline, Oct. 15; Conference, April 2-4, 2009)

NAES 37th Annual Conference

April 2-4, 2009
San Diego Mission Valley Hilton Hotel
San Diego, California

Borders & Boundaries

Saludos! Welcome to San Diego, California’s second largest city, where blue skies keep watch over 70 miles of beaches and a gentle Mediterranean climate greets visitors most each and every day. Bordered by Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Anza-Borrego Desert and the Laguna Mountains, San Diego offers the perfect setting for this year’s annual conference. The city is home to numerous ethnic communities, including members from the Kumeyaay/Diegueño, Luiseño, Cupeño, and Cahuilla native tribes, whose ancestors inhabited the San Diego region as far back as 7,500 B.C., and Latina/os, who currently make up more than a quarter of the overall population. Similarly, the Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District recalls San Diego’s early Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, and Japanese settlements, and Baja California is accessible just minutes from downtown.

San Diego’s diversity also extends to its landscape, where visitors can explore rural mountain or desert trails, run with the tide or swim against it, scuba dive the depths of kelp forests or cycle pine forests. For the less adventurous but equally curious, the lush 1,200-acre Balboa Park is one of the nation’s most extensive cultural centers, with the greatest concentration of museums west of the Mississippi. Browse the spectacular array of fine art, science and natural history, aerospace, photography, model railroads, automobiles and performing arts. Plan a picnic near one of the Park’s many botanical gardens or arboretums. Tour the “world-famous” San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park or head over to the nearby SeaWorld and LEGOLAND theme attractions.

Two unique sites not to be missed are the Casa del Rey Moro Museum and Chicano Park. Located in Old Town, the Casa del Rey Moro Museum houses a multimedia exhibit that highlights 6,000 years of African world history with a special focus on African-Spanish, African-Mexican and African-American heritage. Chicano Park is situated beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Logan Heights (Barrio Logan), a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican-immigrant community in central San Diego, California. The historical site is home to the world’s largest conglomeration of outdoor murals (67 in total), as well as various sculptures, earthworks, and an architectural piece dedicated to the cultural heritage of the community.

In addition, downtown San Diego is an exciting urban center full of specialty shops, hotels, galleries and theaters. Dance to the rhythm of blues, jazz, reggae and rock at one of the many clubs, festivals and outdoor concerts. When it’s time to eat, you will find a delicious array of rich and savory choices. Food representing almost every world cuisine can be found somewhere in the city, including Mexican, Moroccan, Ethiopian, Thai, Vietnamese, Afghan, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, British, Italian and Cuban cuisine.

Not to be outdone by our surroundings, the NAES conference promises an equally exciting venue. As in the past, you can expect to hear national and international scholars discussing cutting edge work from a variety of academic perspectives. In addition, we will feature several panels and special sessions addressing local community issues facing San Diego residents. Finally, we will be presenting a number of awards to both young and established scholars as well as community leaders.

San Diego represents a great opportunity to blend intellectual stimulation with relaxing fun. Please join us!

Dr. Maythee Rojas, NAES 2009 Conference Chair

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Call for Papers – 37th Annual NAES Conference at San Diego, CA

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City (Deadline Sept. 15; Conference April 16-18)

FROM: H-AMST

Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009

Expected plenary speakers include:
Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University
Orit Halpern, New School for Social Research
Michele Janette, Kansas State University
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
Karim Murji, Open University (U.K.)
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois
Amit Rai, Florida State University
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Porillo, New York University
Jeff Williams, Carnegie Mellon University

Also, the popular Journal Salon feature will continue.  Journals expected
are:
Cultural Critique
Cultural Studies/ Critical Methodologies
Dialectical Anthropology
Flow
Genders
Mediations

Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2008.

This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public
Knowledge Project <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/> , enables participants to submit
abstracts online at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/submit.php?cf=5.  The
website for submissions will open August 15, 2008.

Call for Papers and Sessions

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Seventh
Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural
Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology,
geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory,
queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial
studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and
visual arts studies.

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by
March 16, 2009, to be listed and participate in the program. See the
registration page of this website for details about fees.

If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other concerns,
please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We welcome proposals in the following
four categories:

1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Proposals for individual papers are due September 15, 2008.

Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and
will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.

They should be submitted online on the conference website. Successful
submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgment
within 24 hours, please resubmit. The acknowledgment will say that your
proposal has been ‘’successfully submitted,” which does NOT mean your
proposal has been accepted.

All paper proposals require:

a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation of the
author, entered on the website.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper entered on the website.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the abstract in
that space on the site.

2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER SESSIONS, ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS, OR WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Proposals for pre-constituted sessions are due September 15, 2008.

Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the
bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and
audience members. Workshops are similarly devoted primarily to discussion,
but they focus on practical problems in such areas as teaching, research, or
activism. No paper titles may be included for roundtables or workshops.

Pre-constituted sessions should NOT be submitted on the website, but should
be sent to csaus@pitt.edu with the words ”Session Proposal” in the subject
line. All proposals will be acknowledged, but please allow at least two
business days before inquiring.

All session proposals require:

a. The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional
affiliation of the proposer.
b. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations
of each participant.
c. A 500-word overview of the session, including identifying the type of
session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. For paper sessions, also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers. Paper sessions should have
three or four papers.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal.

3. DIVISION SESSIONS
Division sessions are due September 15, 2008.

A list of divisions is available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu
<http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/> . Divisions may elect to post calls on that
site for papers and procedures for submission to division sessions or handle
the creation of their two division sessions by other means.  Division chairs
will submit their two panels/workshops/roundtables directly to the program
committee by September 15, 2008 (directions will be sent to the division
chairs). Proposals for divisions should NOT be submitted on the website or
to csaus@pitt.edu.

4. SEMINAR PROPOSALS
Proposals for seminars are due September 15, 2008.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years,
preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ”position papers”
by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference
collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to
advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within
Cultural Studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to
generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited
number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be
announced through the CSA’s various public e-mail lists. Participants will
contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then inform the Program
Committee who will participate in the seminar.  Seminars will be marked in
the conference programs as either closed to non-participants or open to
other conference attendees as auditors (or in other roles).  Examples of
successful seminar proposals from previous years are linked in here (if you
are reading this on the website).

All seminar proposals require:
a. A 500-word overview of the topic designed to attract participants and
clear instructions about how the seminar will work, including details about
what advanced preparation will be required of seminar participants.
b. The name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and departmental
and institutional affiliation of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
c. A brief bio or one page CV of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal. Since seminars typically involve discussion of
previously circulated papers, such requests must be explained.

Seminar proposals should be sent to:

Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
burgett@u.washington.edu

and

Colin Danby, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences,
University of Washington Bothell
danby@u.washington.edu

Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should
consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them,
available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu <http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/>  after
October 15, 2008. Deadline to sign up will be November 14, 2008.  Deadline
for seminar leaders to submit final lists of participants (minimum 8
individuals, in addition to the seminar leader or leaders) will be November
21, 2008.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Congress for New Urbanism 2009, Denver, CO (Deadline Dec. 1, Congress June 10-13, 2009)

CNU Call for Academic Papers

Call for Papers:

The Congress for the New Urbanism annually invites academic paper submissions for presentation at the Congress. Submissions are welcome on a range of issues and disciplines related to New Urbanism. Selection is based on the paper’s contribution to critical discussion and practice of New Urbanism and for synergies within sessions. Papers that incorporate the theme of the Congress, “Experiencing the New Urbanism: The Convenient Remedy”, are especially welcomed. All papers are read and commented upon by at least two reviewers prior to presentation.

Deadline: December 1, 2008

Details of Submission:
All paper submissions must represent original work, cannot have been previously published, and must be written in English.

Submissions can be no longer than 2400 words, excluding endnotes, and all papers must also include an abstract not to exceed 100 words.

Accepted papers and abstracts will be published on the CNU website, and the authors of those selected papers will be required to complete copyright transfer forms.

All papers will be reviewed and commented on by at least two peers prior to presentation. Authors will receive copies of reviewer comments.

Submitted papers will be submitted for publication to the Journal of Urbanism.

Instructions for Submission:
The subject line of the email should be the title of the paper. The body of the e-mail should include the author’s name, e-mail address, phone number, and brief bio for the CNU speaker database (not to exceed 100 words). The paper should be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment. Participants should fill out the cover sheet (see attached file) and paste their abstract and text into the body of the word document. The 100-word abstract must appear at the front of the paper. So that the submissions can be objectively assessed, please do not reference the author’s name or institution in the file name or text of the paper or abstract. Illustrations incorporated into the text in are strongly preferred, however they can be sent as additional attachments with the email so long as they do not exceed a total of 5MB.

Submissions are now open for CNU 17 in Denver! Authors wishing to submit a paper for consideration must do so by December 1, 2008.

Email Submissions to callforpapers@cnu.org.

Please send any questions to Heather Smith

Call for reviewers:
If you are interested in reviewing academic papers for CNU 17, please e-mail a short paragraph describing your areas of expertise to callforpapers@cnu.org. It is a plus if you are in academia but it is not required, practitioners are encouraged to volunteer as well.

CNU 17: Experiencing the New Urbanism: The Convenient Remedy

DenverJune 10-13, 2009

Since hosting CNU VI in 1998, the Denver region has seen numerous new urbanist developments shaped by the CNU charter. CNU 17 will provide opportunities to experience how these new urbanist places live: the people, the spaces, and the buildings. We are looking for ideas that will challenge attendees to evaluate how the CNU Charter has shaped better neighborhoods and communities and created Convenient Remedies to urban sprawl.

The deadline is now up for CNU 17’s Call for Ideas. Thank you all for your idea submissions!

The program will consist of the following tracks:

Towards the Post Carbon Urbanism
The realities of peak oil and global climate change have raised the urgency of refining and broadening awareness of the Convenient Remedies of the New Urbanism. How does New Urbanism make sustainable living easier? How do the Convenient Remedies improve choices for where we live and work, how we get around, and where we get our food? How do we most effectively measure and convincingly broadcast what the New Urbanism achieves?

Implementing the New Urbanism
Developing and redeveloping according to the principles of the New Urbanism often diverges significantly from customary practices: market analysis, approvals, financial structures, building types, marketing, all can be quite different than those associated with conventional developments. After nearly two decades of experience, how well have new urban practices been developed? Is an alternative system emerging? Or are projects still being approached as variances from the norm?

Challenging the New Urbanism to Improve
Skepticism and misconceptions of the New Urbanism have constantly challenged us to find better ways to promote the CNU movement. Criticism from both outside and within the movement has driven constructive refinement of our techniques for making better places. What are the common myths that still challenge us? How do we expose places that claim to be New Urbanist but aren’t? How do we continue to self-critique the New Urbanism to intelligently respond to common myths and strengthen the movement by sharing lessons learned from real places?

Driving, Riding and Walking the New Urbanism
The Denver region is embarking on one of the nation’s largest public transit expansions and provides a rich setting for exploring how and greater mobility choice can support sustainable growth. But simply adding transit will not guarantee better results. This track is designed to challenge and expand the current thought and practice regarding historical perspectives and the future of US transit, how TOD location, design and type, support sustainability. Off the Tracks, evaluating the value of the bus and bike, and using New Urbanist tools, such as the transect, to organize regions around public transit.

Urbanizing the Horizontal Region: Retrofitting Suburbia
Many Western and Sunbelt cities and regions grew in sprawl patterns, with urbanism and regionalism compromised in order to accommodate the automobile. As New Urbanism is integrated into these communities, many challenges arise. This track is intended to explore implementing urbanism at the regional scale, Re-urbanizing cities, urbanizing suburbia, affirming the role of public space, integrating new buildings with existing places, and increasing density where appropriate.

Sustainable Infrastructure: Codes and other Tools that Create Value
Our existing infrastructure is in need of extensive repair. New Urbanism provides a framework for designing and wisely investing in public infrastructure that creates value, provide opportunity for economic development, broaden transportation choices. This track focuses on and Investing in Public Infrastructure that Creates Value by shifting the paradigm from simply providing a utility to creating that adds value.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2009 Association of American Geographers (Deadline Oct. 16, 2008; Conference Mar. 22-27, 2009)

The 2009 Annual Meeting will be held at the Riviera Hotel, March 22-27, in Las Vegas, Nevada–a U.S. city with a unique economic and social history. Las Vegas was originally established as a stopover for pioneers and later founded as a railroad town in 1905. Today, Las Vegas is a thriving, fast-growing metropolis.

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Call for Papers

The AAG is now accepting abstracts for the 2009 Annual Meeting. Read the Call for Papers to learn more.

Register and submit your abstract online
by October 16, 2008

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This year’s annual meeting will be headquartered in the Riviera Hotel on the famous Las Vegas strip. Learn more about the hotel, rates, and availability»

Reserve Your Room Online!

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About the Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers attracts geographers and related professionals from around the world. Our meeting forum stimulates discussion about research, education, accomplishments, and developments in geography.

Join your colleagues, friends, and other professionals in related disciplines for:

• The Latest Research
  Featuring panels of distinguished researchers, and over 4,000 papers and presentations.
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• Exposition Hall
  Learn about geographic technologies, books, posters, special displays, and more.
• Field Trips
  Explore the rich cultural and physical geographies of Las Vegas and the surrounding region!
• Many Other Events
  Jobs in Geography, International Reception, World Geography Bowl, Las Vegas Film Series, and more.

 

NEWS: CSA Announces Partnership With the H-California Discussion Network

The CSA and H-California (Humanities Discussion Network, California) are proud to announce a new partnership to advance their missions to serve the communities of scholars, activists, and professionals who rely on scholarship in the humanities for their work. We are joining forces to strengthen the service we provide our communities.

In the last year, the CSA has undertaken a more robust approach to its use of the internet to serve its members by adopting a new website and a blog. These projects will be enhanced by collaborating with the editors at H-California who run a listserv (an email list), and an online forum with resources, through the international Humanities Network, h-net.org.

H-California functions as a way for scholars, activists, and nonprofit professionals to communicate about scholarly projects about California. Many of the postings are book reviews, calls for papers, event announcements, queries for projects, new resources, and so forth.

The CSA will collaborate with H-California in the following capacities:

* Shared news items, syndicated between the CSA blog and the H-California listserv.

* Promoting resources, events, and projects between the two resources.

We strongly encourage CSA members and our community to join the H-California listserv, an automated email discussion board of all news and events related to humanities scholarship in California. The CSA will list all our news, events, blog postings, and official communication on the H-California listserv.

 

NEWS: CSA Announces Plans for 2009 Conference on the Silicon Valley

The history of the Silicon Valley was wrought by the bulldozer. Here is a 1954 conversion of a field into the Palo Alto Shopping Center on the Stanford Campus.

NEWS:

In July, the CSA steering committee voted to hold our next conference at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA, likely sometime in April, though the date has not been finalized.

The conference theme will focus broadly on an alternate vision of the Silicon Valley, an attempt to orient the official boosterist narrative of the entreprenuerial region toward the history, culture, and politics of the local communities in the Valley. The conference will bring together scholars, activists, non-profit professionals, and government officials to discuss the political economy of the Valley in the historical and cultural context of California.

The conference co-chairs are,

Mae Lee, PhD, professor of intercultural studies at De Anza College and co-director of the Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute, who is conducting a study about political formations of Asian Americans in the Silicon Valley. Contact leemae@fhda.edu

Tom Izu, executive director of the California History Center and Foundation, located on the De Anza campus. Contact izutom@fhda.edu

Also on the conference organizing committee are,

Cynthia Kaufman, PhD, a professor of philosophy at De Anza and author of the book Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change. Contact kaufmancynthia@fhda.edu

Nari Rhee, PhD, post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Education at UC Berkeley, who has written a dissertation on labor history and politics in the Silicon Valley. Contact nari@berkeley.edu

Aaron Wilcher, MA, instructor of Humanities at De Anza College and a master’s student in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, who is working on a study of politics and built space in the Valley. Contact aaronwilcher@gmail.com

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th Annual Robinson Jeffers Association Conference, Boulder, Colorado (Mon. Dec. 15 Deadline; Conference Fri. to Sun. Feb 13-19)

From U Penn English

Call for Papers
15th Annual Robinson Jeffers Association Conference
February 13-15, 2009 (President’s Day weekend)
University of Colorado, Boulder

Conference theme: The Alpine Jeffers

Jeffers is most frequently associated with the California coast and the
ocean he so deeply loved. At the same time, his interest in the alpine
world is everywhere evident in his work. Mountains appear throughout his
poems, from the early poem “The Alpine Christ,” to the ridge line that
California rides at night in “Roan Stallion,” all the way through to the
setting of his last long poem, Hungerfield, at the foot of a “thin turfed
mountain,” and in countless lyrics. In Jeffers’ journeys away from the
ocean, he always turned to the mountains; his only poem set in New Mexico
is “New Mexico Mountain,” and his only poem set in Colorado is “Red
Mountain.” Wherever we turn in his work, mountains appear as
manifestations of nature at the same time as they suggest the richest
possible range of symbols, from Sinai to Olympus, Parnassus, Mt. Blanc,
and all that such places represent in the history of art and culture.

For its fifteenth annual conference, the Association welcomes papers that
explore any aspect of Jeffers’s interest in and representation of the
alpine environment, from geological fact to aesthetic or religious
symbol, from setting to subject, from representation to interpretation.

As usual, serious papers on other subjects and on the relation of Jeffers
to other writers, artists and thinkers are also welcome.

Proposals should be relatively brief and must be postmarked by December
15, 2008. The conference has a number of different formats and includes
opportunities for standard academic talks (15-20 mins.), longer plenary
presentations, responses to longer talks, panel chairs, participation in
discussion sections, and poetry readings.

Please address all queries and proposals directly to Rob Kafka,
Treasurer, at rkafka_at_unex.ucla.edu.

To learn more about the Robinson Jeffers Association, please visit
www.jeffers.org

 

CALL for APPLICATIONS/PAPERS: “Minds and Matters,” a Workshop on History of Technology and the American West, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, San Marino (Deadline, Fri. Aug. 15; Event: Fri. and Sat. April 24-25, 2009)

From H-Urban

The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, April-24-25, 2009
Deadline: August 15th, 2008

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West invites
proposals for a scholarly workshop examining the history of technology
in California and the American West.

“Minds and Matters” will bring together a small group of scholars on
April 24-25, 2009 to explore new themes in the history of technology,
and to discuss new perspectives on technology as an analytical category.
Topics or themes might include, but are not limited to agriculture and
the extractive industries, urbanization, energy and water, the history
of computers, military, popular movements and popular culture, Hollywood
and media, deindustrialization, etc. Participants will submit and share
drafts, which may be included in a possible collected essays volume.
Some funding support will be made available for travel and lodging.

To apply for the symposium, please submit by August 15, 2008: a letter,
C.V., a detailed abstract of the research on technology in California
and the West, and the names of two references. Send submissions to:
Volker Janssen Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, The
Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA  91108
vjanssen@fullerton.edu.

David C. Hammack
Department of History
Case Western Reserve University

 

CALL FOR PAPERS and AWARD SUBMISSIONS: Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Clara University (Call Deadline: Wed. Oct. 15; Award Submission Deadlines, Thur. Jan 15, 2009; Conference Thur. April 30 to Sun. May 3, 2009)

From H-California: In addition to the call for papers, there is a call for submission for a number of awards for dissertation fellowships, monograph and article prizes. The deadline for the awards is in January 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS
40th Anniversary Conference
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, California
April 30-May 3, 2009

All are invited to come to the San Francisco Bay area to celebrate the 40th anniversary
conference of the WAWH. The WAWH conference brings together faculty,
graduate students, independent scholars, and others for
a unique, collegial, professional weekend of history and networking.

The program committee welcomes proposals for panels or single papers on any historical
subject, time period, or region. The program committee seeks to emphasize that papers do
not necessarily have to focus on women’s or gender history, although those issues are of
interest to the membership. All periods of history are welcome, especially non-U.S.
subjects. Panels, workshops, or roundtables on issues in the historical profession are also
encouraged. Proposals for complete panels, including commentators, are preferred, but
individual papers are also welcome.

In 2009, WAWH is pleased to announce a new prize for the best paper presented by a
graduate student at the WAWH meeting. Please see www.wawh.org for guidelines.

Proposals must include each of the following:
1) A required WAWH Cover Page (found at www.wawh.org)
2) A one-half to one-page abstract for each paper submitted.
3) One-to-two-page curriculum vitae for each panelist.

Mail six sets of proposal material to the program committee chair,
postmarked by October 15, 2008:
Barbara Molony
Santa Clara University
History Department
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0285

If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Molony at 408-554-4433 or bmolony@scu.edu

Current (2008-2009) WAWH membership and 2009 conference registration are required of all program participants.
WAWH Membership runs from conference to conference.

 

Call for Submissions: H-California Seeks Annual Bilbiography of New Publications (Deadline Sun. July 20)

H-California is an important listserv and online resource run through the Humanities Network.

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:04:31 -0700
From: Denise Spooner <jmds1997@GTE.NET>
Subject: New Contributions to California History and Culture?

Dear H-Californians,

It’s that time of year, time for me to compile a list of new
publications and materials in California history and culture.

If you have a book, website, exhibition or some other contribution
you’ve completed in the last year that you’d like other subscribers to
H-California to know about, please forward to me the pertinent
information by 20 July 2008. Send it to my email address: denise.spooner@verizon.net
so that our next H-California editor, Bob Cherny, isn’t burdened
with forwarding them to me.

Thanks,

Denise Spooner, co-editor H-California

 

CONFERENCE Announcement and CALL FOR PAPERS: Western History Association (Salt Lake City, Oct. 22-25; Denver, Oct. 7-10, 2009 [submission deadline Sept. 1, 2008])

From H-Urban.

The Western History Association website is located here.

Conference information, including online registration is located here. A little confusing: click on the images.

The 2008 call for papers is located below for more information on the Salt Lake CIty meeting.

2009 CALL FOR PAPERS

49th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION
DENVER, COLORADO, OCTOBER 7-10, 2009

WIRED WEST

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The program committee for the WHA 2009 annual meeting invites papers on the theme of Wired West.

Wire conducts and symbolizes western history. We seek papers that explore the development and interconnection of the North American West, a region divided by barbed wire and border wire and yet one of the first whose sub-regions were united by telegraph, telephone, electric line, and fiber optic cable.

We are interested in the wiring of the world to the West metaphorically and materially. No country in any part of the world is untouched by what happens in the western provinces of North America. Western industries in mine, ranch, farm, and forest, Hollywood and dude ranch, Silicon Valley, Denver, and elsewhere, have drawn immigrants, generated exports, and reconfigured the world’s economies, cultures, and politics. So the world has been wired west, constantly rebuilt, retooled, and rejiggered to accommodate the realities of the rapidly growing and changing region.

Our interests encompass the changing relations of western peoples with the earth, from which wire itself is made, and over which western peoples have fought to determine how best to live. We are equally compelled by the social and cultural wiring of the West— the struggles of natives and immigrants for justice, equity, and autonomy, of women and men to understand sexual, racial, ethnic, and class identity and connections from the most intimate human bonds to the most formal relations, and the constant effort to make and re-make the good society.

We encourage innovative presentations, including performances, workshops or moderated discussions. Submissions may be for an entire session, a panel discussion, or an individual paper. When submitting an entire session, include an abstract that outlines the purpose of the session, if any, and designate one panelist or participant as the contact person. Each paper proposal, whether individual or part of a session, should include a one-page abstract and a one page c.v., including the address, phone, and email address for each participant. Indicate equipment needs, if any. The committee will assume that all listed individuals have agreed to participate. Send all program submission materials to Colleen O’Neill either electronically: colleen.oneill@usu.edu or by mail service: Colleen O’Neill, History Department, Utah State University, 0710 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-0710. Submissions should be postmarked by September 1, 2008.

2008 Call for Proposals

48th Annual Conference of the Western History Association
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 22-25, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2007

“Risky Business”

Western history is filled with risky propositions. It’s not easy to join a wagon train, or hop a freighter, or brave a wide desert. It takes guts to come out to your parents, or give birth on the side of the trail, or spend a day digging a well. Indeed, the West, past and present, is filled with individuals and communities who have taken risks. The Western History Association itself, surveys say, is at a moment of decision. Poised, it stands mature and self-possessed at the edge of change, while a next generation waits ambivalently, with both old-timers and next-wavers unsure whether to cast their lot with our motley crew.

On October 22-25, 2008, the Western History Association will gather in Salt Lake City for its 48th Annual Conference. Salt Lake City is a welcome venue for both this talk of risk and for risky talk. Carving a new mountain home for generations of faithful is surely a chancy endeavor, not to mention the grit required to journey thousands of miles from one’s birthplace to pound railroad stakes for a living. The city is also well-known, of course, for its winter sports, short-term perils of downhill racers and long-term threats to stable mountaintops. The city too is poised, as newcomers from Latin America and the Pacific Islands mingle and mix with the long-settled, queer and straight alike.

To explore further the risky businesses of Western history, the 2008 program committee solicits proposals for sessions that themselves seek to re-imagine and re-invent the standard conference format. Possible sessions could follow new formats that give fresh legs to the faltering three-paper standard. Workshops could belly up to a range of topics: the perils of public history; the pitfalls of peer review; the problems and pleasures of crossing disciplines; books we couldn’t, and could, do without; museum exhibits we would like to see funded, movies we’d like to make. Other sessions could consider a variety of media — such as essays, web pages, dissertation chapters, K-12 teaching materials, music, public history projects, fiction, or short films—that might be pre-posted electronically and made available through the WHA website. Given the vitality of Asian American history and the history of Pacific Islanders, we are especially eager to receive sessions and individual papers examining the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience in the West.

Submissions may be for an entire session, a panel discussion, or an individual paper. When submitting an entire session, include an abstract that outlines the purpose of the session, and designate one panelist or participant as the contact person. Each paper proposal, whether individual or part of a session, should include a one-page abstract and a one page c.v. including the address, phone, and email address for each participant. The committee will assume that all listed individuals have agreed to participate. Send all program submission materials to: Karen Merrill, Department of History, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 (kmerrill@williams.edu). Submissions should be postmarked by 31 August 2007.

 

CALL for ENTRIES: California Journalism Awards (deadline July 23; Awards in late Sept.)

From Sac State: Center for California Studies Spring Newsletter.

The Center for California Studies and the Sacramento Press Club will again hold the annual California Journalism Awards competition. The 14th Annual Journalism Awards will recognize stories published or broadcast in 2007 that cover California state government and politics.

The California Journalism Awards are unique in that the entries are judged by current and former journalists. Past recipients have expressed that these awards mean more to them because their work was recognized by their peers.

The California Journalism Awards are given in four categories:

Print Journalism – John Jacobs Awards for excellence in daily coverage, and excellence in special feature or enterprise reporting;

Radio Journalism

Television Journalism

Katherine M. Macdonald Award for excellence in print, radio, or television journalism by a college or university student.

Cash prizes are awarded, with winners in the print, radio and television categories receiving $500 and the recipient of the student journal¬ism award receiving $300. There is no entry fee and all interested journalists in California are encouraged to apply.

The call for entries for the 14th Annual California Journalism Awards will be circulated in early summer 2008, with a postmark deadline to submit an entry by July 23, 2008. Award recipients will be announced in September 2008, and the winners will be invited to attend the 14th Annual Journalism Awards luncheon in Sacramento that same month.

For more information about the Journalism Awards, visit our website here.

 

CALL for Submissions/Proposals: California Council for the Humaniteis Oral History and Documentary (Deadlines July 1 and Oct. 1)

The California Council for the Humanities offers grants in three areas: the “California Stories” oral history grant, the California Documentary Project, and the Youth Digital Filmmakers. They are currently accepting submissions for the documentary and oral history projects.

Youth Digital Filmmakers is our grant line supporting projects that engage California youth in creating short films about how they see California. Eight projects received funding in June 2007. The films will be screened in spring 2008. The program is part of the Council’s youth-based campaign, “California Stories: How I See It.”

The California Story Fund is our grant line supporting public humanities projects that bring to light new and compelling stories from California’s diverse communities. The guidelines for the July 2008 round of funding for the California Story Fund are now available. An online application will be posted on June 2, with proposals due July 1

The California Documentary Project supports documentary film, video, radio and new media projects that explore and interpret subjects relevant to California’s past, present or future. Applicants may apply for a Research and Development Grant, a Production Grant, or a New Media Grant. The deadline for each grant is October 1, 2008.