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Feb 1 Deadline: Margaret a. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize

2012-01-27T07:34:28Z

AMERICAN JOURNALISM HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION
2012 MARGARET A. BLANCHARD DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PRIZE

The deadline to submit a dissertation to be considered AJHA's Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize is fast approaching.

Submissions must be postmarked by Feb. 1 to be considered.

Given for the first time in 1997, the Blanchard Prize is awarded annually for the best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history. An honorarium of $500 accompanies the prize, and a $200 honorarium is awarded to each honorable mention.

Eligible works shall include both quantitative and qualitative historical dissertations, written in English, which have been completed between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2011. For the purposes of this award, a "completed" work is defined as one which has not only been submitted and defended but also revised and filed in final form at the applicable doctoral-degree-granting university by December 31, 2011.

To be considered, nomination packets must include:
(a) One copy of the complete dissertation in hard copy;
(b) One digital copy of the complete dissertation on a CD;
(c) Four copies each of the following items, with all author, school, and dissertation committee identification of any kind whited-out:
(i.) a single chapter from the dissertation [preferably not to exceed 50 manuscript pages, not including notes, charts or photographs],
(ii.) a 200-word dissertation abstract,
(iii.) the dissertation table of contents;
(d) a letter of nomination from the dissertation chair/director or the chair of the university department in which the dissertation was written;
(e) a cover letter from the nominee:
(i.) containing complete (home and work) contact information including postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses,
(ii.) indicating a willingness, should the dissertation be selected for a prize, both to attend the awarding ceremony and to deliver a public presentation based on the dissertation at the 2012 American Journalism Historians Association Annual Convention, 10-13 October 2012 in Raleigh, NC.

Note: Regarding Paragraph (c.)(i.) above, as a guide to selecting a chapter for submission, the Award Committee has in the past expressed a preference for a chapter which, if possible, highlights the work's strengths as a piece of primary-sourced original research.

Nominations, along with all the supporting materials, should be sent to: Prof. David Abrahamson, Chair, AJHA Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize Committee, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208.

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CFP: The Great War and the Illustrated Press, June 5th, 6th and 7th 2013

2012-01-26T08:56:20Z

Call for Paper

The Great War and the Illustrated Press, June 5th, 6th and 7th 2013

We are pleased to announce an extended Call for Paper for the symposium organized by the OPIIM, LabSIC, MSH-Paris Nord, and Université de Paris-XIII

The year 2014 will commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great War. This will be an opportunity to review our most recent knowledge about this event. One could assume, considering the amount of books published on the matter, that everything has already been said during the last twenty years concerning the cultural history of the Great War, leaving but few uncharted areas. However, as far as the iconography is concerned, there are only a few studies that have contributed to such historiographic developments, if we except those published by Laurent Véray on animated images, from news bulletins (1993) to fiction movies (2011). In the case of illustrated press, this fact is particularly striking. Although this field has benefited from more recent approaches (Beurier, 2007), it still lacks a broader, European point of view (Tomassini, 2007). It also lead to very few comparative works as it has been the case for the 1870 War (Martin, 2006). Yet, the illustrated magazines conveyed images of the war that were shared by European societies both during and after the conflict. This symposium aims at seizing the opportunity of this anniversary to shed new lights on the European and American illustrated press, including its function and its influence on the cultural representations of the nations before, during and after the war.

A research following various lines:

1. Before the war started, we need to look at the visual culture of the pre-war societies. What about the “in-war images”? Is the public used to violence, to what extent and under which visual format? What are the kinds of information and images that make you sell more out of one event? To what extent the coverage of preceding wars (1870-1871, Balkans, colonial events) did introduce certain visual habits that reappeared between 1914 and 1918? Besides, magazines enable us to investigate the mental preparation to war. In the case of France, unlike what was long thought, there was no will for revenge. However, to what extent the veneration of the army that dominated illustrated press in the years 1910 can be understood as a psychological preparation? Was it also the case in other European countries?

2. Concerning the time span of the Great War, an account is needed on the articles and documents written by the illustrated press on the event. What are the most favourite themes in the various European countries? How do the words and images convey the violence of combats or occupation? How can they be analyzed in terms of gender? How the colonial soldiers are viewed? How important is the part played by the aesthetics of war in photography? What lines can be drawn in terms of chronology? It is also important to understand the links between the illustrated press and the war in the context of a history of the medium. To what extent did the Great War stimulate editorial changes, modifying the magazine’s conception, reversing the common hierarchy between photography and paintings, or creating new practices in journalism (as it has been the case in France)?

3. A third period ought to ponder upon the legacy of the war. What is the impact of the latter in the illustrated press of the years 1920, both in Europe and the United States? From a national point of view, what are the contents and representation of the Great War in the magazines that were issued afterwards? Did the photography play an important part in the reintegration of soldiers? What representation of the conflict or Nation does it convey? Is there a possibility left to forget about the war, or deny it; or on the contrary, is violence voluntarily shown? Here, the circulation of images is worth a specific study: did the numerous journalistic (Témoignage, 1931) or editorial (Krieg dem Kriege, 1924) publications have an influence on after war illustrated magazines? How do images circulate? From and up to where? Through which pattern or changes? In between which countries? Similarly, up to what point the iconographic legacy of the Great War is used without change in the following conflicts (Rif War, Civil War in Russia)? How far can it be traced as we close in on World War Two?
Eventually, from the point of view of media history, there subsists an uncharted area concerning the legacy of the Great War in terms of press professional practices. More precisely, it can be wondered why photojournalism had disappeared in France until the end of the 1920s and the issue of the Vu magazine in 1928 by Lucien Vogel. Similar observations can be made in other countries. What happened in the meantime? What became of the magazines that relied on pictures in the war time? How did they evolve to meet their readers’ needs? Did they learn from their war experience in terms of professional and editorial practices? How did famous post war photographers like André Kertesz use their experience of the Great War in their work? Last but not least, it can be asked whether there exists a possible link between information such as delivered by the Great War magazines and journalism today (such as the importance of amateur photographers, or pictures bringing back images of the Great War)?

Contributions on Eastern Europe and/or North America will be particularly welcome.

Travel and hotel costs of invited presenters will be refunded.

The symposium will take place in June, 5th, 6th, 7th 2013 in the MSH-Paris Nord. The articles selected by the scientific committee will be published in 2014.

The projects (250 words) must be sent to joelle.beurier@eui.eu and karine.grandpierre@univ-paris13.fr before February 25th, 2012.

Scientific committee : Pr. Jean Jacques Becker (Paris X), Pr. Christian Delporte (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Pr. Bertrand Legendre (Paris XIII), Pr. Jean-Claude Lescure (Cergy Pontoise), Pr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Sarrebruck), Pr. Marie-Eve Therenty (Montpellier), Pr. Luigi Tomassini (Bologna).

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CFP: CINEJ Cinema Journal: cinema and memory

2012-01-24T07:28:21Z

CINEJ, Vol. 1 No. 2, May 2012

CINEJ Cinema Journal is a peer-reviewed semi-annually
published international cinema journal. It is published by the University Library System, University
of Pittsburgh, and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Cinema is the art of reminiscences and of storing, losing,
finding, extracting, and re-visioning memory.

The history of cinema is full of films, directors, and
movements firmly cemented in our collective unconscious, reminding us of
memories that are lost, hidden, about to disappear, struggling to keep alive,
and ready to come back again.

Films reflect our lives through our version of the truth
through what we repress or prefer to remember.

Cinema helps to expand the boundaries of our memories.
Remembering and forgetting and including as well as excluding our lived
experiences are ways of coping with life-long effects of our early years and
adolescence and our grief over lost loves. Our senses of ourselves as we
remember our lives often conflict with what may have been suppressed.
The cinematic journey in the history of humankind is about
understanding the history of society and individuals and of repressing and
remembering memories. The temptations to hide and forget and to bring back and
expose are the major themes of this issue.

Some of the topics can be found below:

- Cinema and Social Memory
- Return of the Repressed: Films forgotten by film history
- Film Criticism and the Audience Memory
- Confrontations with the Past: The New Political Film
- Writing History with TV Series
- Hollywood/Green Pine Resurrected: The Remakes
- Personal History: Rites of Passage
- Cinema/City/Memory
- Witnesses of History: Documentaries
- Father/Memory/Rebellion
- My Beautiful Psychobiography: Filming Personal History
- Cinema and Social Archetypes
- Archive/Restoration/Nostalgia

Deadline for papers is April 1, 2012.

Please send a copy of your article to Murat Akser at
masker@khas.edu.tr and also create your cinej account to upload your article
for evaluation purposes.
Please refer to this link for Author Submission Guidelines:

http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

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Research Grants: Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University (deadline approaching)

2012-01-20T07:36:04Z

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, part of the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, announces the availability of Mary Lily Research Grants for research travel to our collections.

The Sallie Bingham Center documents the public and private lives of women through a wide variety of published and unpublished sources. Collections of personal papers, family papers, and organizational records complement print sources such as books and periodicals. Particular strengths of the Sallie Bingham Center are feminism in the U.S., women's prescriptive literature from the 19th & 20th centuries, girls' literature, zines, artist's books by women, gender & sexuality, and the history & culture of women in the South. An overview of our collecting areas can be found here: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/overview.html.

Mary Lily Research grants are available to any faculty member, graduate or undergraduate student, or independent scholar with a research project requiring the use of materials held by the Sallie Bingham Center. Grant money may be used for travel, photocopying, and living expenses while pursuing research at the Rubenstein Library. Applicants must live outside of a 100-mile radius from Durham, NC. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000.

The deadline for application is January 31, 2012 by 5:00 PM EST. Recipients will be announced in March 2012. Grants must be used between April 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.

For more information and to download a copy of the application form, please visit:http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants/index.html.

Applicants are encouraged to contact Kelly Wooten, the Bingham Center's research services librarian, before submitting their application. In our experience, those who spoke with a staff member about their projects produced stronger applications. Contact information is listed below:

Kelly Wooten
Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
Box 90185
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0185
Phone: 919-660-5967
E-mail: kelly.wooten@duke.edu
Website: http:// library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/

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Call for Abstracts: Nothing New in the New? History and the Emergence of New Media

2012-01-17T09:28:33Z

Call for Abstracts: Nothing New in the New? History and the Emergence of New Media

A track for the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies 4th National Conference
Rovigo (Italy)
June 21 to 23, 2012

The track--NOTHING NEW IN THE NEW? HISTORY AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MEDIA--aims at analyzing the historical significance of new media and, more in general, the relationship between old and new media. See:

http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2012/STS_Track8.pdf

Abstracts (in Italian or English) should be sent as email attachment (as MS word or Rich Text Format) to the track’s coordinators, Gabriele Balbi (gabriele.balbi@usi.ch) and Simone Natale, and carbon copied to 4convegnosts@gmail.com, by March 1, 2012. Abstracts with a maximum length of 500 words should contain the title, author's name, affiliation and contact details including e-mail address.

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CFP: edited collection on representation and depiction of history in video games

2012-01-13T07:14:46Z

At this time the editors are especially interested in proposals addressing
NON-AMERICAN HISTORIES

We are seeking chapters for a new interdisciplinary collection addressing the representation and depiction of history in video games.

In a 2005 article discussing the simulation of history through video games, William Uricchio observes that the opportunities for mediation through play pose new and difficult questions about narrative authority and representation. “What happens”, he asks, “if we push the notion of mediation beyond language, to the domain of game, enactment, or simulation? Does this allow us to slip out of the well-critiqued trap of representation? And if so, where does it land us?” As of 2011, his questions remain unanswered.
Amid a world of SIMs, first-person warfare games, strategy, MMO and MMORPs in which players can influence the outcome of battles, campaigns, and even entire civilisations, such questions about the means by which history is delivered to new generations gain increasing importance. When history can be simulated, recreated, subverted and rewritten on a variety of levels, new questions arise about the relationship between video games and the history they purport to represent, questions which traditional historical approaches cannot properly address.

The proposed edited collection thus seeks to examine representations of history through video and computer games from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our aim is to avoid criticisms of inaccuracy and betrayal or descriptions of games which purportedly ‘get things wrong’, but to look instead at the ways in which contemporary players actually can and do engage with the past, and what effect this has on the period depicted.

Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to):

• The representation of historical battles, wars and campaigns (e.g. Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Command & Conquer, Battlefield)
• The role of play in the recreation, retelling and representation of key events in history (e.g. Anno 1404, Anno 1701, Sid Meier’s Colonization)
• The representation of historical personages (Caesar, Napoleon, Victoria, Sun Tzu)
• The ways in which non-western histories are depicted (e.g. Seven States, Pharaoh, Age of Empires: Asian Dynasties, East India Company, Total War: Shogun, Assassin’s Creed) • The role of the player and designer in subverting the “master narratives of history” (Sim City, Sim Earth, Populous, Age of Empires, Deus Ex)
• Games which rewrite histories across eras (e.g. Civilization, Empire Earth, Europa Universalis, Pride of Nations )
• Instances of alternative history or future history (e.g. Alpha Centauri, Masters of Orion, World of Warcraft, Galactic Civilizations, Homeworld)

While we welcome proposals which adopt unusual approaches to representations of the past, we hope to focus on games with a wide fan base in order to appeal to a wide readership of both non-gamer historians and non-historian gamers alike. Likewise, we would encourage essays which address a single topic or theory (such as World War I or the Great Man theory of history) across a number of games. Proposals are sought from both experienced researchers and doctoral students alike, and co-authored submissions which seek to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries are especially welcome.

Abstracts of 300 words, along with a brief CV or publication list, should be sent to the editors at simulatehistory@gmail.com by January 16th 2012. At this stage we are expecting to receive draft essays of 5-6,000 words by late May 2012. For informal enquiries, please contact either Matthew Kapell or Andrew Elliott atsimulatehistory@gmail.com.
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Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Swansea University
American Studies
matthewkapell.com
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CFA: Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History: Texts and Contexts

2012-01-12T08:43:51Z

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1st FEBRUARY 2012

Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History: Texts and Contexts

A Postgraduate Conference

Tuesday 3 April 2012, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Professor John Ellis (Royal Holloway University)

Author of Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video (London: Routledge 1984), Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty (London: I.B. Tauris 2000) and Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation (London: Routledge 2011)

Dr Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick)

Author of Gothic Television (London: Routlesdge 2006), editor of Re-Viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Telelvision Historiography (London: I.B. Tauris 2007)

Film studies and television studies have frequently been characterised by a polarisation between theoretical approaches and historical/empirical approaches. This conference will question this perceived dichotomy and explore how elements of these two approaches can be productively combined.

Abstracts of 200-300 words are invited from postgraduate students in film studies and television studies, for twenty-minute papers interrogating film and/or TV history, and how we understand, research, and theorise these areas. We welcome specific case studies drawn from your own current research, as well as more theoretical or abstract reflections on the topics below.

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following areas:

* Can texts be considered outside of their contexts, or can contexts be discussed without their texts?

* Are theoretical and historical approaches to film and television history mutually exclusive?

* Our understanding of ‘history’: past, present and future

* The impact of the ‘digital revolution’ on film studies and television studies: impacts on texts; questions of production, distribution, exhibition and reception; questions of archiving

* Missing histories: acknowledging previously unexplored territories in film and television

* The representation of film history and television history on television and on film

* The representation of history on television and film

* The interrogation of the concepts ‘cinematic’ and ‘televisual’

* The future of film studies and television studies

Please send your abstract for a twenty-minute paper (200-300 words), plus a biography of 100 words tocath.postgrad@gmail.com, by Wednesday 1 February 2012.

For further updates, see http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com.

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New book series on consumption history

2012-01-11T13:34:26Z

Worlds of Consumption

A new series published by Palgrave Macmillan in association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Series Editors: Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

Worlds of Consumption is a peer-reviewed venue for the history of consumption and consumerism in the modern era, especially the twentieth century, with a particular focus on comparative and transnational studies. It aims to make research available in English from an increasingly internationalized and interdisciplinary field. The history of consumption offers a vital link among diverse fields of history and other social sciences, because modern societies are consumer societies whose political, cultural, social, and economic structures and practices are bound up with the history of consumption. Worlds of Consumption highlights and explores these linkages, which deserve wide attention, since they shape who we are as individuals and societies.

Initial Volumes

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

* Edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann Release: January 3, 2012

The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture

* Edited by Jan Logemann Release: August 7, 2012

The Rise of Marketing and Market Research

* Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Philip Scranton, and Uwe Spiekermann Release: November 13, 2012

Also under Contract

An English translation of Stadt der Schieber: Der Berliner Schwarzmarkt 1939–1950 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008)
* By Malte Zierenberg
Release planned for 2013

Please direct queries to Mark Stoneman, stoneman@ghi-dc.org or 202-552-8941.

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Launch of the Raymond Williams Catalogue

2012-01-10T15:05:28Z

Launch of the Raymond Williams Catalogue

The full catalogue of the Raymond Williams Collection, held at the Richard Burton Archives, is now available online and researchers are welcome to consult the collection.

Raymond Henry Williams (1921-1988) was born in Pandy, Wales. He was a staff tutor of the Oxford University extra-mural delegacy, and became a lecturer in English at Cambridge University and a fellow of Jesus College in 1961. He later became the University’s first professor of drama. His writing of both fiction and non-fiction was significant and wide-ranging. As well as writing extensively about drama and literature, his work encompassed wider social and political matters. He married Joyce (Joy) Dalling in 1942 and they had three children.

The diversity of his interests are shown in the archive, which includes his published academic works and novels, articles and reviews, together with unpublished writings, correspondence, personal papers and many other documents.

The collection was catalogued thanks to support from the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust,[i] and joint funding from the College of Arts and Humanities and Information Services and Systems, Swansea University.

For more information about the collection please contact the Richard Burton Archives.

Richard Burton Archives, Information Services and Systems, Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
archives@swansea.ac.uk
www.swansea.ac.uk/lis/historicalcollections/Archives

[i] Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust – www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/

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CFP: "Communication and/ of Memory"

2012-01-09T13:26:43Z

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies is excited to announce the launch of the Call for Papers for its December 2012 issue on « Communication and/ of Memory ».

ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is edited by ESSACHESS in cooperation with Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse.

ESSACHESS, peer-reviewed and published two times per year (july 23th and december 23th), is covered in ProQuest CSA, Ebsco, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, Gale, Ulrich's and DOAJ databases.

Important Deadlines

– april 15, 2012: submission of the proposition of article in the form of a summary of 400-500 words;

– may 15, 2012: acceptance of the proposal;

– september 15, 2012: full paper submission;

– november 15, 2012: full paper acceptance.

Papers should be between 6,000-10,000 words in length. Papers can be submitted in English or French. The abstracts should be in English and French, max. 200-250 words followed by 5 keywords. Please provide the full names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of all authors, indicating the contact author. Papers, and any queries, should be sent to:

essachess@gmail.com

Authors of the accepted papers will be notified by e-mail.

Call for papers is available in the annex.

With warm regards,

Stefan BRATOSIN

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24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2013

2012-01-09T10:38:26Z

24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine

University of Manchester, UK, Monday 22-Sunday 28 July 2013

The 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, from Monday 22-Sunday 28 July 2013.

The Congress website is at: http://www.ichstm2013.com/

The theme of the Congress is ‘Knowledge at Work.’ We construe the theme broadly to include studies of the creation, dissemination and deployment of knowledge and practice in science, technology and medicine across all periods, and to encompass a variety of methodological and historiographical approaches.

The call for Symposia is now open. Details are at: http://www.ichstm2013.com/call/

The deadline for symposia submissions is Monday 30 April 2012.

The call for individual papers will be issued in May 2012, and will be widely circulated.

Information about iCHSTM2013 will be regularly updated on the website as plans develop: please bookmark the site and check regularly for the latest news!

Enquiries about any aspect of iCHSTM2013 may be sent to: enquiries@ichstm2013.com

Please forward this announcement to any other appropriate lists to ensure its widest possible distribution.

With thanks and best wishes,

Jeff Hughes (iCHSTM2013 Local Organising Committee)
Frank James (iCHSTM2013 National Organising Committee)

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