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CFP: Business History Conference

2013-05-24T07:50:53Z

The Virtues and Vices of Business - a Historical Perspective

Business History Conference Annual Meeting
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
March 13-15, 2014

The organizers invite papers and session proposals that address both the
micro and macro levels of the virtues and vices of business in historical
perspective. In keeping with longstanding BHC policy submissions need not
be directly related to the conference theme. The 2014 Program Committee
consists of: Ed Balleisen, Duke University (chair); Chris McKenna,
University of Oxford; Andrea Schneider, Society for Business History
(Germany); Per Hansen, Copenhagen Business School (BHC President), and
Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Bielefeld.

Is business good or bad, or both? Does business serve private or public
interests, or both? A variety of theories from the social sciences furnish
different answers to these questions and, by implication, different ideas
about the role of the state in creating the good society. The 2014 BHC
annual meeting aims to address these issues from a historical and
empirical perspective by exploring the virtues and vices of business
across societies from the early modern period to the present.

Business firms - large corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises and
entrepreneurs - have been decisive in securing economic growth and
development through the First, Second and Third Industrial Revolutions. By
constantly innovating, imitating and competing, business has changed the
lives of billions of people all over the world. Firms have brought
forward new products and services that enrich and improve our lives. The
wider business community, including not just companies but also trade
associations and informal networks, have fashioned solutions to numerous
pressing social problems, whether concerning the environment, health and
safety, discrimination, social isolation, or other aspects of modern life.
One can similarly point to examples of business as a progressive force
enabling minorities and poor people to shape better lives.

Yet, four hundred years of business history are also replete with examples
of abusive and dehumanizing business practices, against other firms,
individuals, and entire peoples. In some cases, as with plantation
slavery and imperial expansion, the offending enterprises worked closely
with state authorities. In others, the actions of business entities
prompted calls for aggressive state intervention to minimize or end the
negative effects of business. The occurrence of business scandals amid
extreme cases of financial crisis offers especially well known historical
instances of this type. But history offers an abundance of examples where
business enterprises have generated serious externalities, yet nonetheless
privatized profits while socializing risks borne by other stakeholders -
and sometimes by shareholders as well. Around the industrialized world,
business interests have also regularly interfered with politics, sometimes
supporting non-democratic regimes, lobbying against the public interest
and fighting organized labor.

Should we view such episodes of corruption and abuses of economic power as
regrettable costs that society must pay for increases in income and
wealth? Do these unseemly aspects of capitalism merely represent the
unavoidable process of Schumpeterian creative destruction? Or should we
rather understand them as the result of specific, and contingent,
institutional frameworks, business networks, and systems of corporate
governance that increase the likelihood and occurrence of business
scandals and crisis?

Another set of questions involve the evolution of societal understandings
about "the good and virtuous," or "the bad and the vicious," that we use
to praise or condemn particular markets, firms, or business practices.
To what extent should we attribute the more abject failings of business,
as judged from any particular social vantage point, to the decline of old
and the rise of new social regimes that entail changes in discourse,
narratives, cultural values, and norms? How have societies tried to set
moral boundaries to the domain of business - either by prohibiting some
businesses and markets outright, or by proscribing commercial practices as
beyond the ethical pale? And how and why have those moral constraints on
business activity changed over time?

Must we endure the vices of business so that society may enjoy its
virtues? Do they result from state intervention that disturbs the delicate
balancing act of markets, or from too little regulation that allows
private business actors to pursue their own interests regardless of the
costs to society? Or should we abandon the dichotomy of state and market
altogether and replace it with a more historically based view of markets
as embedded in social and cultural relations? Even if one accepts the
"embeddedness" of market relations, we continue to face complicated
questions about how to strike the best balance between private and public
interests. How have societies attempted to strike this complex balance?
What business networks, systems of corporate governance, and cultural,
political and social values have historically contributed to achieving
this balance most constructively?
The committee will consider both individual papers and entire panels.
Individual paper proposals should include a one-page (300 word) abstract
and one-page curriculum vitae (CV). Panel proposals should include a cover
letter stating the rationale for the panel and the name of its contact
person; one-page (300 word) abstract and author's CV for each paper; and a
list of preferred panel chairs and commentators with contact information.
Graduate students and recent PhDs (within 3 years of receipt of degree)
whose papers are accepted for the meeting may apply for funds to partially
defray their travel costs; information will be sent out once the program
has been set. Everyone appearing on the program must register for the
meeting.

The BHC awards the Herman E. Krooss
Prize<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/krooswin.html>; for the best
dissertation in business history by a recent Ph.D. in history, economics,
business administration, the history of science and technology, sociology,
law, communications, and related fields. To be eligible, dissertations
must be completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the
2014 annual meeting, and may only be submitted once for the Krooss prize.
If you wish to apply for this prize, please send a letter to the Krooss
Prize Committee expressing your interest along with a one-page CV and
one-page (300 word) dissertation abstract. After the Krooss committee has
reviewed the proposals, it will ask semi-finalists to submit copies of
their dissertations. Finalists will present summaries of their
dissertations at a plenary session of the 2014 BHC annual meeting in
Frankfurt and will receive a partial subsidy of their travel costs to the
meeting.

The K. Austin Kerr Prize<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/kerr.html>; is
awarded for the best first paper delivered by a new scholar at the annual
meeting of the BHC. A "new scholar" is defined as a doctoral candidate or
a Ph. D. whose degree is less than three years old. If you wish to
participate in this competition, please notify the BHC program committee
in your proposal. Proposals accepted for the Krooss Prize are not eligible
for the Kerr Prize.
The CEBC-Halloran Prize in the History of Corporate
Responsibility<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/halloran.html>; is awarded for
a paper presented at the annual meeting of the BHC that makes a
significant contribution to the history of corporate responsibility.
Corporate responsibility is understood to embrace the many ways in which
the firm relates to the political realm and the wider society.

The deadline for receipt of all proposals (papers, panels, and Krooss Prize
competition) is 15 September 2013. Please send them to
BHC2014@Hagley.org<;mailto:BHC2014@Hagley.org>;. Acceptance letters will be
sent by 1 December 2013. Presenters are expected to submit abstracts of
their papers for posting on the BHC website. In addition, presenters are
encouraged to post electronic versions of their papers prior to the
meeting.
The Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium in Business History will be held in
conjunction with the BHC annual meeting. This prestigious workshop,
sponsored by BHC and funded by the Journals Division of Oxford University
Press, will take place in Frankfurt Wednesday March 12 and Thursday March
13. The colloquium is limited to ten students. Participants work
intensively with a distinguished group of BHC-affiliated scholars that
includes at least two BHC officers. The colloquium will discuss
dissertation proposals, relevant literatures and research strategies, and
employment opportunities in business history. This colloquium is intended
for doctoral candidates in the early stages of their dissertation
projects. If you are interested in being considered for this colloquium,
please submit to Roger Horowitz by 15 November 2013 to
BHC2014@Hagley.org<;mailto:BHC2014@Hagley.org>; a statement of interest, a
CV, a preliminary or final dissertation prospectus of 10-15 pages, and a
letter of support from your dissertation supervisor (or prospective
supervisor).

Questions about the colloquium should be sent to its director, Pamela Laird,
Pamela.Laird@ucdenver.edu<;mailto:Pamela.Laird@ucdenver.edu>;. All
participants receive a stipend that will partially cover the costs of
their attendance at the annual meeting. The colloquium committee will
notify all applicants of its decisions by 15 December 2013.

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Print and Media Cultures Dissertation Reviews 2012-13 Digest

2013-05-21T11:18:14Z

Print and Media Cultures Dissertation Reviews is part of the Dissertation Reviews project (http://dissertationreviews.org/) and features friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished dissertations, as well as articles on archives and libraries around the world. The following digest of posts published during the season 2012-13 might be of interest to some of the list members.

[Print Media] HATFIELD, Philip John, “Colonial Copyright and the Photographic Image: Canada in the Frame” (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011), reviewed by Amelia Bonea (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3698

[Print Media, Performance] ISHIKAWA, Naoko, “The English Clown: Print in Performance and Performance in Print” (University of Birmingham, 2011), reviewed by Maha El Hissy (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3638

[Print Media, Japan] GOREE, Robert Dale, “Fantasies of the Real: Illustrated Gazetteers in Early Modern Japan” (Yale University, 2010), reviewed by William Fleming (Yale University)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2710

[Print Media, Japan] CHUA, Karl Ian Uy Cheng, “Gaijin: Cultural Representations through Manga, 1930s-1950s” (Hitotsubashi University, 2010), reviewed by Seth Jacobowitz (Yale University)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2488

[Print Media, Japan] BIRD, Lawrence, “Saving Metropolis: Body and City in the Metropolis Tales” (McGill University, 2009), reviewed by Kerim Yasar (University of Notre Dame)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2343

[Print Media, China] WU, Jingsi, “Entertainment and the Public Sphere: The Convergence of Popular Culture and Politics in China’s Public Sphere and Cyberspace” (State University of New York, 2011), reviewed by Hsiao-wen Lee (University of West London)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2444

[Print Media, Japan] MARSHALL, Amy Bliss, “Creating Mass Culture in Interwar Japan” (Brown University, 2013), reviewed by Hiromu Nagahara (MIT)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2340

[Print Media, Japan] PENDLETON, Mark Aaron, “Sarin Traces: Memory Texts and Practices in Post-War Japan, 1995-2010” (University of Melbourne, 2011), reviewed by Judit Erika Magyar (Waseda University)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2307

[Print Media, Science Studies] PETTIT, Fiona Yvette, “Freaks in Late Nineteenth-Century British Media and Medicine” (University of Exeter, 2012), reviewed by Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Siegen)

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2300

[Print Media, China] LEE, Hsiao-wen, "The Public and the Popular Media in China" (University of Westminster, 2010), reviewed by Mareike Ohlberg (University of Heidelberg)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2221

If you are interested in having your dissertation reviewed, reviewing a dissertation, contributing an article, or helping our team in some other way, please contact info@dissertationreviews.org

Dr. Amelia Bonea
Field Editor, Print and Media Cultures Dissertation Reviews

http://dissertationreviews.org/

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
University of Oxford
45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE
Email: amelia.bonea@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk

http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/staff/dr-amelia-bonea.html

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Cfp2: Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory

2013-05-21T06:02:08Z

Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory

Conference, The University of Copenhagen, November 14-15, 2013

www.larm-archive.org/conference

Keynote speakers:

David Hendy, University of Sussex

Karin Bijsterveld, Maastricht University

Lev Manovich, City University of New York

Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison

We welcome abstracts for our open paper sessions and for panels taking
place at the conference. Sub-calls for the panels can be found by
following the links bellow.

Digitization enables us to meet cultural heritage artifacts and
narratives in heretofore unimagined media and platforms. Accessibility
to written, visual, auditory and audiovisual sources increase
dramatically. But how do we wish to access and interact with cultural
heritage sources in the 21st Century? This conference focuses on
practices of cultural memory in the multiform meetings between users and
cultural heritage. What interfaces are established between users, be
they researchers or ‘ordinary’ citizens, and the archives of cultural
heritage? What possibilities are opened for interaction with cultural
heritage artifacts? And what methods and scientific paradigms are
relevant to order and describe such immense archives.

One aspect, which seems still to have received too little treatment is
the question of the auditory and audiovisually based cultural heritage’s
role in the construction of historical narratives. Music, film, radio,
and television have become ingrained in a nation’s cultural memory, and
in many, not least, European countries, state-governed national
broadcasting corporations have played and do still play a vital role in
narrating and interpreting the past, not least by establishing
institutional production archives which give producers access to
historical material otherwise inaccessible. Such reuses of historical
materials afford renegotiations of the historical past(s) by valuating
the new historical materials as significant historical sources.
Digitization means that such historical materials, be they broadcast or
other cultural heritage artifacts, are to an increasing degree
accessible outside the production environment, e.g. for research. One
recurring problem is that the materials are still under the editorial
control of the parent institution and accessible only for some uses to
some users. This motivates a new look at the question of who has the
right to circulate archived material in what forms, and thus who is
allowed to narrate the past. The question is relevant at all levels,
from the level of national cultural politics all the way down to the
concrete definition of rights for individual users in the archive or on
broadcaster’s websites.

The conference wishes to contribute new perspectives on the first by
focusing on (access to) digital media archives, a phenomenon that has
only really come into existence within the last decades; Secondly, by
focusing on auditory and audiovisual source material, i.e. data sources
with an extension in time, as oppose to texts and pictures. Again,
digital archives of auditory and audiovisual material are rather young
compared to archives of (scanned) texts and pictures. Finally, the
conference’s focus is on the digital archives’ role in the construction
of a cultural history as well as studies in cultural history and
cultural memory. Traditionally, digital humanities have tended to focus
on the internal structure of artifacts, e.g. using digital texts to
investigate language systems, translations, stylistics etc.

The conference welcomes contributions from a broad range of researchers,
designers and developers who work with digital archives of auditory and
audiovisual media in the investigation or production of cultural history
phenomena. All of these definitions shall be taken in their widest
sense. A digital archive can range from enormous national archives to
the archives collected by individual researchers and research groups.
Similarly, the conference wishes to invited both concrete experience
with collecting and using a digital archives as well as theoretical
reflections on the nature of the digital archive. Likewise, the concepts
of cultural history and cultural memory shall be taken in their broadest
sense and can include both historical investigations and research within
the broader humanities with either an historical or an aesthetic scope.

Papers

We welcome papers relating to the general outline of the above call. The
conference will embrace three sub themes: Interface (i.e. the
construction, design and interface of the archive), Immensity (dealing
with the vast amounts of data which all of a sudden are available to
research that has heretofore tended to work qualitatively with rather
small samples), Memory (choosing from the archives, sampling and
building a coherent interpretation). Please indicate if your paper
addresses one or two of the themes in particular.

Panels

Along with open and themed paper sessions, we have accepted a number of
themed panels to take place at the conference. A themed panel will
consist of a minimum of 3 papers with a common research question. If you
whish your paper to be taken under consideration for a particular panel,
please select the panel as "category" in the Easy Chair submission form.
Submissions not accepted for panels will be taken into consideration for
the open paper sessions.

· The practices of exhibiting sound, organized by Christian
Hviid Mortensen & Morten Søndergaard

· Infrastructural Sustainability and Curatorial Practices of
the Digital Archive, organized by Luca Antoniazzi

· How to make radio and sound archives work for audiences?
Organized by Zillah Watson?

· Who keeps the memory? Organized by Teo Mäusli, Brecht
Declercq & Petra van Dijk

· Challenging the homogeneity of ’media language’, organized
by Jacob Thøgersen

· My Childhood Radios, organized by Henrik Reeh?

· Transnational Radio Encounters, organized by Golo Föllmer &
Jacob Kreutzfeldt

· Radio and Music/Music Radio, organized by Morten Michelsen

Submissions

Deadline for paper abstracts (max 200 words) 1 June 2013?Notification on
acceptance will be given by the beginning of July 2013

Please send submissions via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=larm2013. Please
forward the automatically generated submission confirmation to:
conference@larm-archive.org.

We strongly encourage presentations of practice based and artistic projects.

Conference fee: 60 € (reduced price for students)

Affiliation

Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory is arranged by
LARM Audio Research Archive. LARM is an interdisciplinary project, the
goal of which is the production of a digital infrastructure to
facilitate researchers’ access to the Danish radiophonic cultural heritage.

The LARM project is a collaboration between a number of research and
cultural institutions: The University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University,
Roskilde University, The University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg
University, The Royal School of Library and Information Science, The
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, The State and University Library,
Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation, Kolding School of Design and The
Museum of Media.

The main purpose of LARM is to establish a digital archive with the
appropriate tools and a bibliography to enable researchers to search and
describe the many recordings of the radiophonic cultural heritage. Radio
has played an important role in Danish lives and, today, radio
broadcasts form an invaluable, yet untapped, source to Danish culture
and history. LARM Audio Research Archive will allow access to thousands
of hours of national and local radio broadcasts from 1925 and onwards
and thus prepare them for future research.

LARM – Audio Research Archive: http://www.larm-archive.org/

Organisation

Organizers: Jacob Thøgersen, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Morten Michelsen, Per
Jauert, Frederik Tygstrup & Bente Larsen

Scientific committee: Morten Søndergaard, Erik Granly, Ditte Laursen,
Marianne Lykke, Birger Larsen, Erik Svendsen

Contact: for questions and enquiries please contact Jacob Kreutzfeldt
(jacobk@hum.ku.dk) or Jacob Thøgersen (jthoegersen@hum.ku.dk)

Please consult the conferences website at: www.larm-archive.org/conference

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Post-doctoral research post

2013-05-16T08:14:48Z

Royal Holloway University of London seeks a post-doctoral researcher specialising in the history of technology for the ADAPT project led by Professor John Ellis. This five-year project will research the history of the technological arrays involved in television programme production, concentrating on the users and the role played by technologies in shaping programmes. The researcher will pay a key role in managing and shaping ADAPT (The Adoption of new Technological Arrays in the Production of Broadcast Television) which is funded by the European Research Council with a budget of €1.6 million. Further details at: http://tinyurl.com/cg634f7

Many thanks,

Professor John Ellis,
Media Arts Department,
Royal Holloway University of London,
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX
+44 (0) 1784 443831
http://tinyurl.com/d7ctjl8

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2013-05-13T08:05:39Z

CALL FOR LISTENERS/PARTICIPANTS

Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication

2013 International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference

ICA Theory, Philosophy and Critique Division

17 June 2013, Birkbeck, University of London

Conference website (includes full conference programme and registration details):

http://conditionsofmediation.wordpress.com

Confirmed keynote speakers:

� Dr David Berry, Swansea University

� Professor Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London

� Professor Graham Harman, American University of Cairo

� Professor Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland

� Professor Lisa Parks, University of California Santa Barbara

� Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan

Conference Outline:

Media theory seems to have reached a moment in which it is effectively orthodox to presume we must pay attention first and foremost to the intricacies of everyday experience. Ethnographic audience studies, for example, have attacked assumptions that there is a discrete relationship between media content and audiences, arguing that media forms, content and technologies have indeterminate and multifaceted significance within the daily rhythms and spaces of their everyday lives. Studies of digital and networked media, meanwhile, have put into question the very notion of �audiences� as the starting point for understanding mediated experience.

For some, accounting for the intricacies of everyday mediated experience has implied asking people what they actually do with media. But for others this is not enough: instead, the question is what constitutes the conditions of media experience in the first place. How do political configurations of discourses and inherited dispositions prefigure mediated action? How do material arrangements themselves constitute environments for mediated experience? How might we account for nonhuman agency, for example the ways in which software objects interact not only with human perceptions but also each other? Such questions point to a renewed confidence in explaining not just how but also why media, technology and communication are experienced as they are � all the while resisting a reversion to functionalism.

These interests in the very conditions of mediation suggest, if sometimes only implicitly, an emerging interest in a phenomenology of media. Indeed, phenomenology � broadly the structuring of perception � has seemingly obvious relevance for recent academic interests in media experience. Yet its use or invocation in media studies has been scattered. While this might simply reflect the considerable diversity of phenomenological philosophies and their applications, there have also been concerted efforts recently to rethink phenomenology across the social sciences and humanities. Paired with recent interests in mediated experience, the time seems apt to reassess what it might mean to theorize media phenomenologically.

Conditions of Mediation seeks to bring together scholars from a very wide range of perspectives � such as media history, media archaeology, audience studies, political theory, metaphysics, software studies, science and technology studies, digital aesthetics, cultural geography and urban studies � to reflect explicitly on the phenomenological groundings of their work on media. The phenomenological thinking to which participants might connect will be broad-based, ranging from core thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre to those with looser affiliations to phenomenology per se, for example Arendt, Bergson, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Garfinkel, Ingold, Latour, Whitehead and Harman.

In short, the overall aim is that this conference goes beyond a mere congregation of media phenomenologists. Instead, it will encourage critical reflection on what various readings of phenomenology might offer media and technology studies that other approaches cannot. Conversely, it will also welcome reflections on the limits of phenomenological approaches in philosophical, theoretical, political and empirical terms.

If you have any inquiries, please email both:

Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk) and Tim Markham (t.markham@bbk.ac.uk)

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"Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television" book reviewers

2013-05-03T08:07:13Z

The "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television" is looking for
book reviewers to contribute to future issues and has brand new copies
of the following titles:

1. Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver
Screen into the Digital Age (Lambeti, ed.)
2. Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
(Portuges & Hamesn, eds)
3. The War that won't die: the Spanish Civil War in Cinema (Archibald)
4. Marcel Pagnol (Bowles)
5. Spanish Cinema 1973-2010: Auteurism, landscape and memory (Delgado &
Fiddian, eds)
6. The Catholic Church and Hollywood: Censorship and Morality in 1930s
Cinema (McGregor)
7. Local Radio Going Global (Starkey)
8. The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and
Creativity (Barber)
9. Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts (Bracken &
Radley, eds)
10. Der absolute Film: Dokumente der Medienavantgarde (Kiening & Adolf,
eds)

Reviews are typically in the 500-1.000 word range. The projected
deadline is 4 November 2013. Individuals interested in a particular
title should contact me personally: roel.vandewinkel@gmail.com. Please
make sure to include some information about your research and expertise
and/or explain why you are interested in reviewing the title of your
choice.

Roel Vande Winkel

Book Review Editor, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Associate Professor, University of Antwerp

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Communication History Discussion List Message

2013-05-02T13:40:00Z

Rick Popp forwards this to us from the American Studies listserv...

I am working with a project that I thought might be of interest to the
American History Community.

I work for WGBH, Boston in the Media Library and Archive and the Archive
has been funded by the Mellon Foundation to work with academic scholars who
have interest in utilizing our moving image and sound materials through the
course of their research. We hope to increase public awareness of the vast
collections that digital repositories hold by publishing our entire
archival catalogue online, for open access and use.

Placing the catalogue online however is only the first step, as records may
be incomplete or misleading. To help enhance the quality of our records, we
are inviting scholars, teachers and students to research our catalogue and
contribute their own discoveries and findings back to us. There are even
limited opportunities there to catalogue and curate an online collection
specific to your field of research as part of Open Vault (
http://openvault.wgbh.org<http://openvault.wgbh.org/>;). Final products
could include essays on your topic, streaming public access to one
selection of media in your collection, supplying metadata for the items in
your collection and/or presenting your findings at a conference.

As a producer of Frontline and Boston Local News, we have quite a few
materials in the American History genre, so if you have an ongoing research
project and would consider utilizing moving image and sound materials in
your work, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Allison Pekel
WGBH Media Library and Archives
Allison_Pekel@WGBH.org

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Reminder: Mercurians' Communication History Research Grant

2013-04-29T09:32:31Z

Dear Colleagues,

This is a reminder that the application deadline
for our research grant ($US1,000) is 7 May. Please see details below.

The Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is
offering the Pam Laird Research Grant, US$1,000
to defray the cost of travel and housing to use a research collection.

The Mercurians began meeting in 1986 for the
purpose of generating networks between people who
share work and interests in the history of
communication technologies, defining the field
broadly. Our activities include publishing a
semi-annual newsletter, Antenna, meeting during
annual SHOT conferences, organizing paper
sessions for SHOT meetings, and pursuing contacts
between meetings via our Google Groups list. The
newsletter serves both as a clearing house for
readers and an informal forum for their ideas.

We have added this new initiative to encourage
and reward high-caliber research in the history
of communication technologies. One of the
Mercurians’ missions is to encourage scholarship
in the history of communication technologies.
There is no travel grant program (either within
or outside SHOT) that we are aware of dedicated
to supporting scholarship on the history of
communication technologies. While the history of
communication technology literature is vast and
always growing, the quality of the research
effort or resulting publication too often falls
short of scholarly expectations.

In general, the travel grant is awarded in
alternating years. We awarded two such travel
grants during the 2011 SHOT annual meeting in
Cleveland. The next grant (or grants) will be
announced during the 2013 SHOT meeting in Portland, Maine.

Eligibility
The grant is intended for and limited to junior
scholarsmeaning either current graduate students
or recent postgraduates (no more than three years
beyond the terminal degree in their field).

Requirements and Application
Only travel to an appropriate archival collection
to carry out research on an aspect of the history
of communication technology, broadly defined,
will be supported. The archive can be open to the
public, private, or even closed, provided that
necessary permissions have been obtained from the archive.

Complete the application form (available at:
http://www.mercurians.org/grant-form.doc) and
e-mail it and a curriculum vitae (no longer than
3 pages) as attachments to the Mercurians c/o abutrica@earthlink.net
Your curriculum vitae should include pertinent
publications, fellowships, or accomplishments
relevant to your proposed research, and
professional societies and affiliations.

The deadline for submitting an application for
the inaugural grant is May 1, 2013.

For further information or questions, please
contact Andrew Butrica at abutrica@earthlink.net or visit our website:
http://www.mercurians.org/Prize-Grant.htm

Andrew J. Butrica
MERCURIANS
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ASHR 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award

2013-04-28T19:50:41Z

The American Society for the History of Rhetoric invites submissions for the 2013 Dissertation Award. Dissertations must have been defended between September 10, 2012 and September 10, 2013 to be eligible. Required submission materials include an abstract, table of contents, one representative chapter, and a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor or a committee member. Do not send complete dissertations. Self-nominations are acceptable.

ASHR encourages a rich and pluralistic conception of the history of rhetoric. Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: significance of the work's contribution to the history of rhetorical theory, practice, and/or pedagogy; quality of archival or primary research and contribution to historiographic practice; and quality of writing. Finalists will be asked to submit additional dissertation materials at a later time. While ASHR membership is not a prerequisite for award consideration, award winners will be asked to join ASHR at the student rate for one year.

Please submit all materials via e-mail (MS Word or PDF) to the selection committee chair, Dr. Scott Stroud, at sstroud@austin.utexas.edu. Recommendation letters can be sent to the selection committee chair by either the applicant or the recommendation writer. The deadline for submissions is September 10, 2013.
For more information about ASHR and the benefits of ASHR membership (including our journal, Advances in the History of Rhetoric), visit www.ashr.org

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CFP: View - the Journal of European Television History and Culture

2013-04-24T14:04:51Z

Dear All,

I would appreciate it if you could pass on the latest call for papers for ‘VIEW’ - the Journal of European Television History and Culture to anyone you think may be interested.

Story here from RTÉ Archives

http://www.rte.ie/archives/2013/0411/380868-view-calls-for-papers-on-the-hidden-professions-of-television/

Further details available at

http://blog.euscreen.eu/?p=3872

Regards

Liam Wylie, RTÉ

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CFP: "Communication as a Liberal Art: The Historical Roots of the Discipline," PCA

2013-04-24T08:02:45Z

The 74th annual conference of the Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA) will be held October 18 - 19, 2013, at Gannon University in Erie, PA. The theme "Communication as a Liberal Art: The Historical Roots of the Discipline" encourages scholarship within our traditional thematic areas as well as research that broadly integrates teaching, scholarship and service through community engagement. Of special interest are submissions that explore the historical, philosophical and rhetorical foundations of the study of human communication.

Please send full papers or panel abstracts for the Rhetoric and Public Address Division to Nichola Gutgold, Penn State Lehigh Valley at dgn2@psu.edu no later than June 1, 2013.
Full Papers
Papers no longer than 25 pages in length are preferred. Abstracts will be considered. Submissions should include:
1.A detachable title page with the title of the paper and the author's affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliation.
2.The word "debut" marked on all papers written by authors who have not presented previously at a convention or conference. The word "student" for all graduate or undergraduate authored papers.
3.A one-page abstract on the second page.
4.A Statement of Professional Responsibility (see below) on the second page.
5.If the paper has multiple authors, please indicate who will be presenting at the conference.
Panel Proposals
Submissions of panel proposals should include:
1.A thematic title for the program.
2.Names of the chairs and respondents.
3.Names, mailing addresses, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliations of all participants.
4.Titles and abstracts of no more than 150 words for each paper or presentation.
5.A Statement of Professional Responsibility (see below).
6.A detailed rationale for the program or panel.

STATEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY Please include the following Statement of Professional Responsibility on the second page, under the abstract:

"In submitting the attached paper or proposal, I/We recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present this panel or paper if it is accepted and programmed. I/We further recognize that all who attend and present at PCA's annual meeting must register and pay required fees."

AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT

There will be access to AV equipment at the conference. Please submit special AV requests at the time of notification of acceptance to present at the conference.

Registration information is on the PCA website at www.duq.edu/pca

Nichola D. Gutgold, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences

Coordinator BA in Corporate Communication ngutgold@psu.edu
2809 Saucon Valley Road
Center Valley, PA 18034-8447
610-285-5101

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