Dear Students and Faculty,
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College is hosting an academic conference on the Eisenhower Legacy on March 7th and 8th.
The program features sessions on presidential leadership, civil rights, science policy, and both domestic and foreign policy. You may attend any or all of the sessions. Please RSVP as soon as possible as sessions are filling up.
http://roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/ike/academic-conference/
CALL FOR PAPERS
Graduate Conference
10th Anniversary Conference of the Human Rights Institute
September 18, 2013
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Deadline for Proposals: April 8th, 2013
The Human Rights Institute is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a conference (September 19-21) that will showcase the “Connecticut School of Human Rights,” an interdisciplinary, contextual approach to human rights. Interest in human rights has expanded beyond law schools throughout the academy, and in particular into the social sciences and humanities. The conversations that will take place at the conference point toward new horizons for the Institute and for the interdisciplinary study of human rights for decades to come.
The Graduate Human Rights Conference will kick off the interdisciplinary conversation on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. We aim to bring together graduate students interested in human rights, from multiple disciplines, to present and share their research interests. The Graduate Conference will include a workshop on publishing in the field of human rights as well as complimentary breakfast and lunch. We encourage Graduate students to come to these events on Wednesday and stay for the 10th Anniversary Conference which will include many prominent human rights scholars.
Panel Themes: The Graduate Conference encourages interdisciplinary social science, law, and humanities approaches to understanding human rights issues. Panel themes may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:
Economic and Social Rights
Education and Human Rights
Environmental Rights
Foundations of Human Rights
Gender and Human Rights
Group Rights
Health and Human Rights
Human Rights and International Law
Humanitarianism
Literature and Human Rights
Political and Civil Rights
If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 300-500 word abstract and short bio to the Human Rights Institute at humanrights@uconn.edu by April 8, 2013:
Please feel free to contact us at humanrights@uconn.edu if you have any further questions.
Limited travel assistance may be available for accepted panelists.
The Renaissance Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center is hosting a conference “Becoming Global: The Renaissance and The World,” to take place March 14-15, 2013. The keynote lecture by Serge Gruzinksi will take place on Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 PM in the Proshansky Auditorium, and Friday sessions will be in the Elebash Recital Hall. For more information, and to register, please see the website: http://globalrenaissance.ws.gc.cuny.edu/
Call for Papers:
Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice
The Prison Studies Group’s Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
April 12, 2013
Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for The Prison Studies Group’s third annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference to take place at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York on April 12, 2013. This year’s conference is entitled “Police, Power, and Prisons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice.”
The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for emerging scholars whose research relates to the prison and criminal/juvenile justice systems. We welcome papers across academic fields, and we encourage submissions on a broad range of subjects on the general theme of crime and punishment – past and present, domestic and international.
Topics might include:
The power of people and knowledge
Each presentation will be 12-15 minutes long, with time reserved at the end of each panel of presentations for Q&A.
Graduate students interested in participating should submit the following as an email attachment (.doc/x or .pdf) by Monday, February 18, 2013 to prisonstudiesgroup@gmail.com:
Participants will be notified by March 1, 2013.
The Prison Studies Group an organization chartered by the Doctoral Student Council of the The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The students of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York will hold the Eighteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference on April 5th and 6th, 2013.
Our keynote speakers for this year’s conference will be Anna María Escobar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Joan Cammarata (Manhattan College).
Submissions are invited on all periods and areas of Iberian, Spanish-American, Hispanic/Latino, Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Film, Visual and Performing Arts, as well as any area of Hispanic or Luso-Brazilian Linguistics. Papers may be presented in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Please send an abstract of not more than 250 words via email as an attachment to congreso.hlbll.gc.cuny@gmail.com by February 1st, 2013. In the body of the email specify your name, phone number, title of the presentation, and academic affiliation.
Reading time of papers will be limited to 20 minutes.
Authors will be notified by the second week of February 2013, as to whether their papers have been accepted.
Additionally, authors are encouraged to submit their papers to the LL Journal for potential publication. The LL Journal is an online publication dedicated to the promotion of research related to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian worlds. For submission guidelines, visit: http://lljournal.gc.cuny.edu.
For more information, please visit our conference website: http://congreso.ws.gc.cuny.edu. You may also contact the conference organizers at:
Eighteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The Graduate School and University Center – CUNY
Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Room 4116
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Email: congreso.hlbll.gc.cuny@gmail.com
Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis
A Graduate Student Conference on the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
Feb. 28 & Mar. 1, 2013| Columbia University in the City of New York
CALL FOR PAPERS
The concept of paradigm opens broad possibilities for the analysis of social and intellectual phenomena across diverse traditions and time periods. Paradigm is commonly but not exclusively viewed as a system of knowledge with a particular power structure, within which a set of beliefs or values plays a dominant and defining role. Studying paradigms may consist of analyzing major social transformations to reveal the paradigmatic tensions and crises underlying them, or employing paradigms as tools to clarify socio-political events. Furthermore, the very notion of paradigm can be contested and transformed.
The annual Graduate Student Conference at Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) is soliciting papers exploring the debates, moments, and spaces in which paradigms undergo crisis and conflict, or challenge the dominant theoretical positions underpinning its very constitution. Papers can focus on any topic within the humanities and social sciences.
Papers may relate to but need not be bound by the following themes:
ñ Paradigm as Comparative Tool: How do paradigmatic elements within intellectual traditions allow for historical and cross-cultural comparative work?
ñ Conflict In and Across Paradigms: How is conflict dealt with in a paradigm?
ñ Paradigm Shifts: When and how do paradigms become outdated?
ñ Critical Theory as Anti-Paradigmatic: How can critical theory challenge established paradigms or paradigm shifts?
ñ Paradigmatic Technology: How does the adoption of a given technology challenge, strengthen, or influence the implementation or development of different paradigms?
Students interested in presenting a 20-minute paper should submit a 300-word abstract and one-page CV to our website by January 15th.
Panel submissions are encouraged.
Exceptional papers will be collected into a digital volume under the conference title.
For all inquiries, contact: info@mesaasgradconference.org
“Competing Visions: Changing Landscapes in the Past, Present, and Future”
Call for Proposals: Deadline January 15th, 2013
The Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites graduate students to submit proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference. This year’s conference, entitled “Competing Visions: Changing Landscapes in the Past, Present, and Future,” will be held Saturday, March 9th, 2013.
The challenges societies and individuals face require imaginative and often controversial solutions. How have contrasting visions of societal, environmental, intellectual, and other landscapes competed
to interpret the past and shape the future? How do shifts in
historical perspectives impact the world in which we live today? We welcome submissions from all fields relevant to these questions.
Please see the full Call for Proposals attached for more details and submission instructions.
Samuel Dodge
Graduate History Association
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The third annual Graduate Student Conference is scheduled for Friday, March 15, 2013.
The purpose of this conference is threefold. First, we aim to provide an introduction for our graduate students to major debates in various areas of study. Second, we seek to build community and dialogue within the department between students in the different major fields. Third, we want to provide a friendly forum for students to present their work and obtain feedback from faculty and fellow students.
A full schedule will follow.
“New Media and the Middle Ages”
8th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
March 1, 2013, 10am-4pm
The field of medieval studies has a relatively long and recognized history of scholarship assisted by technology. The 2013 PKMS Graduate Student Conference aims at addressing some of the key concepts, questions, and methodologies concerning the convergences between developments in both new and old technologies and our study of the medieval past.
One of the first to merge new advances in technology with humanities scholarship was a medievalist, Fr. Roberto Busa, who in the 1940s conceived and developed the Index Thomisticus, a tool for performing text searches within the massive corpus of Aquinas’s works, in collaboration with IBM. Today dozens of digital resources are available for the medievalist: online collections of digitized manuscript images, full- text databases, online scholarly editions, and tens of thousands of books and journals. One of the more recent and popular trends amongst medievalists in new media technology is the transformation of medieval texts and data- widely conceived- into new forms of media and technology. Projects such as Piers Plowman Electronic Archive and the Mapping Medieval Chester project exemplify only a few of the innovative applications of new media to our study of the medieval world. Shared amongst these projects’ use of digital tools is an emphasis on remediation, taking data in one form and transforming and transposing it into another form of usable media. Additionally, through a greater focus on developments in contemporary technology, or as result of its proliferation, scholars and researchers have also become more attuned to the use, development, and creation of medieval technologies in the contexts of the written word, manuscripts, works of art, music, architecture, warfare, urban planning, and others.
Papers might address such questions as: What insights might digital humanities allow in our study of medieval texts, architecture, music, manuscripts, and art? What kinds of multimedia objects or events existed in the medieval period, and how might we as modern scholars still have access to them? What are the consequences of considering medieval manuscripts, texts, and works of art as multimedia works?
Other topics for presentations may include:
· Translation and dictionary projects
· Digital projects in the visual and performance arts
· Encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts
· Management and preservation of digital resources
· The cultural impact of new media
· The role of digital humanities in academic curricula
· Funding and sustainability of long-term projects
Graduate students, please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words by December 7, 2012.
Include your name and affiliation.
Papers must be 15-20 minutes in length.
Submissions should be emailed to medievalstudy@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS – deadline November 29, 2012
The PhD Program in History is pleased to announce the third annual Graduate Student Conference, scheduled for Friday, March 15, 2013.
The purpose of this conference is twofold. First, we aim to provide an introduction for our graduate students to major debates in various areas of study. Second, we seek to build community and dialogue within the department between students in the different major fields.
To that end, we are seeking proposals for 10-12 page papers on any historical or historiographical topic in any time period. Some examples include: presentation of original research (such as seminar papers), overviews of proposed research, interpretive essays on recent scholarship, critical accounts of ‘classic’ secondary sources, and papers on methodological issues. We especially encourage students in the literature surveys, many of which require historiographical essays, to submit proposals.
We also urge students to submit proposals for panels of 3 papers, either on traditional topics (such as a panel looking at three different aspects of Civil War) or those that cut across periodizations and fields (for example, a panel on decolonization with papers focusing on Europe, Asia, and Latin America).
Interested students should submit a 250-word abstract and curriculum vitae by November 29, 2012 to pschweigert@gc.cuny.edu. Students who have papers accepted will be notified by the conference organizing committee by mid-December.
