Communication History Discussion List

CFP: Media, Religion and Culture

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:57:00 GMT

<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Consolas, Courier New, Courier"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Call for papers:<BR> <BR> 7th International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture<BR> <BR> Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada<BR> <BR> August 9 - 13, 2010<BR> <BR> Hosted in one of the world's most diverse cities, the 7th International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture invites papers and panels addressing a wide range of content and methodological approaches. Past meetings have brought to the fore research into both very old and very new mediums of communication, with traditions ranging from ancient indigenous practice to the most recent cyber-ritual, from settings in the global north and south.  Scholars as well as practitioners and professionals in the fields of media, religion and culture may submit abstracts for consideration. Graduate students are always very welcome.<BR> <BR> Topics may include (but are not limited to):<BR> <BR> ·         The place of journalism at the nexus of media, religion and culture<BR> <BR> ·         Investigations of media and culture associated with non-Christian traditions<BR> <BR> ·         Studies involving hyperlocal examples of media/religion and culture<BR> <BR> ·         Ways in which media, religion and culture can be taught within university curriculum<BR> <BR> ·         Gender and our understanding of media, religion and culture<BR> <BR> Proposals for panels (including three or four participants) and papers will be accepted online at: www.journalism.ryerson.ca/CMRC2010/ <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://">http://</a>www.journalism.ryerson.ca/CMRC2010/</U></FONT>>    Abstracts must include the title, the participant name(s) and institutional affiliation, contact information and a description of the proposal, up to 500 words in length. <BR> <BR> Important dates:<BR> <BR> Paper and panel proposals due: Monday, March 15, 2010<BR> <BR> Applicants notified by April 6, 2010<BR> <BR>  <BR> Joyce Smith, PhD<BR> Associate Professor<BR> School of Journalism,<BR> Ryerson University<BR> RCC149<BR> Tel: 416-979-5000 x6394<BR> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="j1smith@ryerson.ca">j1smith@ryerson.ca</a><BR> </U></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR> </SPAN></FONT>

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Reminder: AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:47:00 GMT

A reminder that March 12, 2010 is the application deadline for the 2010<br>American Antiquarian Society Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in<br>American Culture, whose topic will be "The Global American South and Early<br>American Print Culture." The seminar will run from Monday, June 14 through<br>Friday, June 18, 2010, at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.<br>Details about the seminar, along with application forms, are available at<br><a href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org/sumsem10.htm">http://www.americanantiquarian.org/sumsem10.htm</a>.<br><br>The seminar will convene a group of 20 graduate students, faculty, and<br>others working in the field of print culture to examine what happens when we<br>view the imagined community of U.S. print culture from the vantage point of<br>the South. At a moment when industrial print culture was consolidating<br>itself in the Northeast, "the South" appeared in print in several registers.<br>While asserting an "American" identity, Southerners represented themselves<br>as a sectional alternative to the nation that boasted a distinctive regional<br>culture while simultaneously celebrating local diversity.<br><br>This seminar will investigate how these complementary practices of national,<br>regional, and local self-definition circulated through the material world of<br>early American print.  How were the South's efforts at sectional<br>self-fashioning, its attempt to lay claim to the nation, and its engagements<br>with the wider world mediated through and influenced by the modalities of<br>book distribution, copyright, authorship, and reading in nineteenth-century<br>America?  The American Antiquarian Society's unsurpassed holdings of printed<br>material both from and about the South-including newspapers and periodicals,<br>political propaganda, illustrations and photographs, and rich collections of<br>Francophone Louisiana materials-will help us to answer these questions.<br><br>Of particular interest to literary scholars and historians, the seminar<br>should also appeal to art historians and legal scholars, as well as those<br>researching the multi-ethnic, cosmopolitan, and transatlantic history and<br>culture of the U.S. The seminar will be led by Jeannine DeLombard and Lloyd<br>Pratt. DeLombard is Associate Professor of English at the University of<br>Toronto. Pratt is Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State<br>University.<br><br>Paul J. Erickson<br>Director of Academic Programs<br>American Antiquarian Society<br>508-471-2158

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CFP: The Making of the Humanities II

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT

The Making of the Humanities II<br><br>Second International Conference on the History of the Humanities<br><br>21-23 October 2010, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br><br><br><br>Goal of the Conference<br><br>This is the second of a biennially organized conference that brings together<br>scholars and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a<br>comparative history of the humanities. Although there exist histories of<br>single humanities disciplines, a comparative history would satisfy a<br>long-felt need, and fill a conspicuous gap in intellectual history.<br><br><br><br><br>Theme of the Conference<br><br><br>The first highly successful conference, held in 2008, discussed the early<br>modern period. The theme of this year's meeting is From Early Modern to<br>Modern Disciplines, focusing on the period 1600-1900. Topics include all<br>aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, rhetoric, musicology,<br>literary theory, historiography, art history, archeology and other<br>humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their interrelations. We<br>especially encourage submissions on:<br><br><br><br>*        Increasing specialization and institutionalization: How did<br>various branches of the humanities develop into modern differentiations<br>between disciplines?<br>*        Historization of the humanities: How did the historical approach<br>become the leading method underlying the humanities -- from philology to<br>musicology?<br>*        Humanties vs sciences: How were the humanities positioned with<br>respect to other sciences? Was there a continuing search for patterns and<br>'laws' in the humanities?<br>*        Interaction between regions: What was the impact of the European<br>humanities on the humanities in China, India and Africa, and vice versa?<br>*        Rise of canonical figures and themes: How did individual scholars<br>come to be identified with their disciplines? How did certain historical<br>moments or works obtain canonical positions, often in relation to the<br>ideals of cultural nationalism?<br><br><br>Abstract Submission<br><br>Send an abstract of maximally 400 words to: <a href="mailto:HistoryHumanities@gmail.com">HistoryHumanities@gmail.com</a><br><<a href="mailto:HistoryHumanities@gmail.com">mailto:HistoryHumanities@gmail.com</a>><br><br>Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 June 2010<br><br>For more information, see <a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/2010">http://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/2010</a><br><<a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/2010">http://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/2010</a>><br><br><br><br>Organization: Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn (University of<br>Amsterdam)<br><br><br>

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Media History Teaching Tips

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:26:00 GMT

For a history panel at the Southeast Colloquium next month and possibly a<br>digital archive, the AJHA Education Committee is collecting tips and ideas<br>on teaching undergraduate media history. In particular, we are looking for<br>ways of engaging undergraduates, especially first-years, in these courses.<br>What approaches, projects, perspectives have worked for you?<br><br>Please share your ideas with colleagues by sending your suggestions to Frank<br>Fee at <a href="mailto:ffee@email.unc.edu">ffee@email.unc.edu</a>. Include in your note the name of the course and<br>the typical student for whom the course is geared.<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Frank<br>***********************<br>Frank E. Fee Jr., Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor<br>School of Journalism and Mass Communication<br>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br>CB# 3365 Carroll Hall<br>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365<br>(919) 962-4071<br>(919) 962-0620 (fax)<br><a href="mailto:ffee@email.unc.edu">ffee@email.unc.edu</a>

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CFP: AEJMC History Division

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:49:00 GMT

History Division<br>Call for Papers and Reviewers<br><br>      The History Division invites submissions of original research papers<br>on the history of journalism and mass communication for the AEJMC 2010<br>convention in Denver. All research methodologies are welcome, as are papers<br>on all aspects of media history.<br>      Papers will be evaluated on originality of importance of topic;<br>literature review; clarity of research purpose; focus; use of original and<br>primary sources and how they support the paper�s purpose and conclusions;<br>and the degree to which the paper contributes to the field of journalism and<br>mass communication history.<br>      Papers should be no more than 7,500 words, or about 25 double-spaced<br>pages, not including notes. Multiple submissions to the Division are not<br>allowed and only one paper per author will be accepted for presentation in<br>the History Division�s research sessions. Authors should also submit a<br>75-word abstract.<br>      Papers must be electronically submitted using the services of All<br>Academic, Inc., whose website is <a href="http://www.allacademic.com/">www.allacademic.com</a>. The deadline is<br>midnight, April 1, 2010. Authors are encouraged to read the Uniform Paper<br>Call for detailed submission information. The organization�s website is<br><a href="http://www.aejmc.org/">www.aejmc.org</a>.<br>      Student Papers: Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled during<br>the 2009-10 academic year may enter the Warren Price Student Paper<br>Competition. The Price Award recognizes the History Division�s best student<br>paper and is named for Warren Price, who was the Division�s first chair.<br>Student papers should include a separate cover sheet that indicates their<br>student status but omits the author�s name or other identifying information.<br>Students who submit top papers are eligible for small travel grants from the<br>Edwin Emery Fund. Only full-time students not receiving departmental travel<br>grants are eligible for these grants.<br>      Call for Reviewers:  If you are willing to review papers for the<br>History Division research competition, please contact Ann Thorne at<br><a href="mailto:thorne@missouriwestern.edu">thorne@missouriwestern.edu</a>.  We will need approximately 60 reviewers for the<br>competition.  Graduate students are not eligible to serve as reviewers and,<br>in general, reviewers should not have submitted their own research into the<br>competition.<br>      Contact information: For more information about the History Division<br>research process, contact Research Chair Ann Thorne at Missouri Western<br>State University. Her e-mail is <a href="mailto:thorne@missouriwestern.edu">thorne@missouriwestern.edu</a> and her phone<br>number is 816.271.4222.<br>

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CFP: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:58:00 GMT

<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">2010 Annual Meeting � <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">Call for Papers</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Deadline: 31 March 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place> from September 30 to October 3, 2010. The Program Committee invites paper and panel proposals on any topic in the history of technology, broadly defined. Sessions dealing with non-Western technologies are particularly welcome. Of special interest for 2010 are proposals that engage in themes that resonate with the concerns of the specific locale. These include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">Consumption:</span></font></b> In the popular imagination, the Tacoma-Seattle area is associated with several important corporate entities (Boeing, Microsoft, Nintendo, Starbucks, etc.) whose goods and services are deeply embedded in global consumer culture. At a moment in time when consumption, sometimes excessive, sometimes globalized, sometimes exploitative, is of great concern to both the public and policy-makers, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:place></st1:city> is an appropriate place for historians to (re)consider technologies of consumption. We are especially interested in papers that see production and consumption as coterminous processes and which historicize consumption as part of broader processes in the history of technology. We define consumption very broadly to include the public�s active engagement with technologies and technological systems, which may include environmental, communications, and obsolete technologies.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The Program Committee encourages sessions dealing with topics appropriate to the meeting location, such as <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">aerospace and maritime history, labor history, forest products, information technology, and themes relevant to the Pacific world.</span></b> We also encourage historians of technology to reach out to scholars in aligned and/or related fields when constructing research proposals as one way to create a more interdisciplinary environment. Finally, we invite papers and panel proposals that emphasize <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">the <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">longue dur�e</span></i>, particularly those that problematize demarcations such as modern/premodern, colonial/postcolonial, and preindustrial/industrial.</span></b> As always, sessions dealing with pre-modern, Medieval, and ancient topics are especially welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The Program Committee's highest priority in evaluating paper and panel proposals is scholarly excellence. The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or sessions, as well as works-in-progress from researchers of all stripes (including graduate students, chaired professors, and independent scholars). It welcomes proposals from those new to SHOT, regardless of discipline. Multinational, international, and cross-institutional sessions are also desirable. We especially encourage proposals from non-Western scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">For the 2010 meeting the Program Committee continues to encourage unconventional sessions; that is, session formats that vary in useful ways from the typical three/four papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions, workshop-style sessions with papers that are pre-circulated electronically, or "author meets critics" sessions. We also welcome poster proposals for presentation in poster sessions. Please note that in general we discourage panels with more than three papers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The deadline for proposals is <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">31 March 2010.</span></b>  Please submit your proposals to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:shot.tacoma2010@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">shot.tacoma2010@gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Proposals for individual papers must include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">1. a one-page abstract (maximum 600 words)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">2. a one-page curriculum vitae, including current postal and e-mail addresses<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Proposals for complete sessions must include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">1. a description of the session that explains how individual papers contribute to an overall theme.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">2. the names and paper titles of the presenters<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">3. for each presenter, a one-page summary (maximum 600 words) of the paper�s topic, argument(s), and evidence used<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">4. for the commentator, chair, and each presenter: one-page c.v., with postal and e-mail addresses<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Please indicate if a proposal is sponsored by one of SHOT�s special interest groups.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Submission Instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">1. Materials should be sent as a <u>single</u> text attachment to an e-mail message to the Program Committee Chair, Asif Siddiqi at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:shot.tacoma2010@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">shot.tacoma2010@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">2. Proposals for complete sessions as well as individual papers should be submitted in one file.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">3. Please adhere to the 600-word limit for each paper. Use no unusual fonts or special formatting, and save your attachment either as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or as a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file. Nearly all word processing programs, including those used on Apple computers can save text in the Rich Text Format. Do not use Adobe Acrobat (pdf).<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">4. Name your attachment with your last name and the word �proposal�, e.g. �Smith_proposal.doc�.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">5. A session organizer should also deliver a description of the overall session.  If you are organizing a session and proposing a paper in that session, you will be delivering both an �abstract� and �proposal�, plus your c.v.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">6. If you are proposing a non-traditional session you may indicate that in the �abstract.� These also require a curriculum vitae.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">General information:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">While SHOT rules exclude multiple submissions (i.e., submitting more than one individual paper proposal, or proposing both an individual paper and a paper as part of a session), scholars may both propose a paper and serve as a commentator or session chair.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Generally speaking, the Program Committee discourages scholars from presenting papers at two consecutive meetings held in <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>.  Exceptions can be made for scholars traveling from overseas.  Individuals are always welcome to serve as chairs and commentators and are encouraged to let the Program Committee know if they are available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">For more information about the Society for the History of Technology and our annual meeting, please see the SHOT webpage:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.historyoftechnology.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.historyoftechnology.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">For questions, please contact SHOT Secretary Bernie Carlson at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:shotsecy@virginia.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">shotsecy@virginia.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><strong><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; ">Jane Carlson</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><strong><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; ">Admin Assistant to Exec. 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Call for Participation: Writing the Past beyond Boundaries?

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:15:00 GMT

<div>Call for Participation: Writing the Past beyond Boundaries? <br>Transnational versus Comparative Approaches in Communication History<br>Young Scholars Workshop<br>3 June 2010, Potsdam/Berlin (Germany)<br><b><br></b>The organizers would like to thank all the workshop applicants from Europe and overseas for their motivating and stimulating contributions. Yet, the call is still open until February 15th and young scholars interested in communication history and transnational or comparative approaches still have the chance to participate.<br> <br>For workshop details, please see the call for participation at the YECREA's website: <a href="http://yecrea.eu/node/1259">http://yecrea.eu/node/1259</a></div>

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"Keep Calm and Carry On": New Perspectives on British Cinema and Television

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:55:00 GMT

<div>"Keep Calm and Carry On": New Perspectives on British Cinema and Television<br></div><div>17th February 2009<br></div><br><div>All sessions take place in Arts 3.03<br></div><br><div>09:30   Keynote Speaker<br></div><div>Charles Barr, �The UEA History of British Cinema and Television�<br></div><br><div>10:30   Session One: Exploitation and Amateurism<br></div><div>�       Michael Ahmed, ��Counting on Compton�, Exploitation, Sexploitation and Art Films: The Untold Story of Independent Film Production, Distribution and Exhibition in 1960s British Cinema.�<br></div><div>�       Francis Dyson, �Rethinking the Definition of Amateur Film.�<br></div><div>�       Derek Johnston, ��And the BBC Created Hammer��: Examining the Interdependence of Public Service Broadcaster and Exploitation Film-maker.�<br></div><br><div>12:00   Lunch<br></div><br><div>1:00    Session Two:  Interwar British cinema<br></div><div>�       Clare Watson, �Women in Silent British Cinema.�<br></div><div>�       Oliver Gruner, ��British Films for British People�: The British Film Weeks  of 1924.�<br></div><div>�       Elizabeth Rawitsch, �The Nationality of Utopia: British Reception of Lost Horizon in 1937�<br></div><br><div>2:30    Coffee break<br></div><br><div>3:00    Session Three: Stardom, Celebrity and Fame<br></div><div>�       Su Holmes, ��Whoever heard of anyone being a screaming success for doing nothing?�: �Sabrina,� the BBC and television fame in the 1950s.<br></div><div>�       Melanie Williams, �Hardy Kruger: transnational star in British cinema�<br></div><div>�       Helen Warner, �A Thoroughly Modern Family, Yet Everyday Family Audience: Television and the Family Audience.�<br></div><br><div>4:30 Closing remarks / debate  Melanie and Keith<br></div><br><div>Attendance is FREE and all are welcome, particularly those consider applying to UEA for Graduate Studies.<br></div><br><div>If you would like to attend, please contact Keith Johnston (<a href="mailto:Keith.Johnston@uea.ac.uk">Keith.Johnston@uea.ac.uk</a>) or Melanie Williams (<a href="mailto:Melanie.Williams@uea.ac.uk">Melanie.Williams@uea.ac.uk</a>).<br></div><br><div>Best wishes<br></div><br><div>Mark<br></div><br><div>Professor Mark Jancovich<br></div><div>Head of School<br></div><div>Film and Television Studies<br></div><div>University of East Anglia<br></div><div>Norwich NR4 7TJ<br></div><div>Tel: 01603 592787<br></div><div><br></div>

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CFP: "Contained Memory" Multidisciplinary Conference

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:29:00 GMT

Call for Papers<br><br>"Contained Memory"<br>Multidisciplinary Conference<br>School of Visual and Material Culture, Massey University<br>Wellington (New Zealand)<br>9-11 December 2010<br><br>__________________________________________________<br><br><br>The Contained Memory Conference 2010 seeks to bring together<br>multidisciplinary perspectives in a discourse on contained memory.<br>While memory is understood to be integral to the constitution of the<br>self, it works in concert with external repositories of memory<br>ranging from personal mnemonic objects to collective, social, and<br>public memory residing in community traditions, artifacts in museums,<br>and archives, including electronic and other recording systems.<br>Memory is embodied in intergenerational rituals and practices and<br>intangible forms of storytelling, song, and performance, as well as<br>in natural elements and the physical memory forms of monuments and<br>memorials.<br><br>Although there are distinct ways of thinking about or containing<br>memory, the edges of containment are porous, enabling encounters<br>between different expressions of memory. By encompassing a wide<br>variety of ways of conceiving memory through different cultural and<br>theoretical orientations and disciplinary backgrounds, it is hoped<br>this conference can build a nexus of contained memories. Papers may<br>originate from a variety of knowledge sources including (but not<br>limited to): anthropology, archeology, art history/criticism,<br>communication studies, cultural studies, customary knowledge,<br>ethnography, film/video studies, fine/visual art, history, geography,<br>landscape architecture, literary theory, material culture studies,<br>memory studies, museum studies, musicology, neuroscience,<br>neuropsychology, performance/theatre, philosophy, photography,<br>psychoanalysis, psychology, rhetorical studies, sociology, and visual<br>culture studies.<br><br>Possible Contained Memory sessions:<br><br>The Land / Earth / Landscape:<br>- The expression of memory in personified land and landscape<br>features; cultural erasure and renaissance<br>- Diaspora: the threat of memory loss following migration and the<br>preservation of intergenerational memory expressed physically<br>through photographs, diaries, and artifacts, and the intangible or<br>ephemeral qualities of dance, theatre, and songs from �home�<br>- Sites of trauma<br>- Genealogy / whakapapa<br><br>Containing public memory:<br>- Museums, records, archives, memorials, oral histories and mnemonic<br>devices<br>- Transmission, preservation, mutability of memory<br><br>Rituals of memory:<br>- Enacting / performing of memory �acts�<br>- Mimetic performance<br>- Narratives, mythology / folklore, and cosmologies<br><br>Site / Space / Time:<br>- Bodily memory expressed through performance and ritual<br>- Interaction between the present and the past<br><br>Memory and the senses:<br>- Phenomenology of the senses<br>- Music / sound<br><br>Autobiography:<br>- Externalization of personal memory in art forms<br><br>The human mind:<br>- The nature of memory and the definition of self; cognitive<br>neuroscience and neuropsychology<br>- Psychoanalysis; forgetting as a means of suppressing trauma or<br>facilitating cultural destruction, annihilation, or oblivion<br>- Trauma, dementia, the mutability and fragility of memory<br>- The mind and digital memory<br><br>Because of the geographic location of the conference it is envisaged<br>that some papers will respond to contained memory in Aotearoa New<br>Zealand and the Pacific.<br><br>The Contained Memory Conference invites papers for competitive<br>selection by an international peer review panel.<br><br>If you wish to submit an abstract for the Contained Memory<br>Conference, please email:<br>- title of your paper<br>- a 250 word abstract<br>- a brief biography (a few sentences)<br>to Kingsley Baird at: <a href="mailto:k.w.baird@massey.ac.nz">k.w.baird@massey.ac.nz</a><br><br>Please give the email the subject �Contained Memory abstract - your<br>surname�. Conference presentations will be approximately 20 minutes<br>in length.<br><br>Last day for submission of abstract: April 30, 2010.<br>Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2010.<br><br><br>Contact:<br><br>Kingsley Baird<br>Massey University<br>College of Creative Arts<br>School of Visual and Material Culture<br>Private Bag 756<br>Wellington<br>New Zealand<br>Phone: +64 4 801 5799 (ext 62367)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:k.w.baird@massey.ac.nz">k.w.baird@massey.ac.nz</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.containedmemory.org.nz">http://www.containedmemory.org.nz</a><br>

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CFP: Fiske Matters: John Fiske's Continuing Legacy for Cultural Studies

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:37:00 GMT

<b>Fiske Matters:  John Fiske's Continuing Legacy for Cultural Studies</b><div><br>Madison, Wisconsin<br>June 11-12, 2010 <br>Call for Papers </div><div><br>From the late 1970s through the 1990s, John Fiske was one of the most influential media scholars in the world.  Books such as Reading Television (co-written with John Hartley in 1978), Television Culture (1987), Understanding Popular Culture (1989), Power Plays, Power Works (1993) and Media Matters (1994) proved seminal to the developing fields of media and cultural studies.  His work prompted generations of scholars to consider how media culture shaped our collective understanding of the operations of power, particularly in relation to issues of raced, classed, and gendered identities.  And his work on reception led to intense debates over how to theorize the activity of media audiences.  As a teacher and advisor, Fiske provided dynamic intellectual critiques of the work his students and colleagues produced, and encouraged an interrogation of the media environment that was remarkable in its accessibility. </div><div><br>Fiske retired from academic life ten years ago. To honor the tenth anniversary of Fiske's retirement from the field, and to explore both the continuing impact of his ideas and the profundity of the era in which he and his contemporaries operated, we are proud to announce a conference titled "Fiske Matters: John Fiske's Continuing Legacy for Cultural Studies."  The conference will feature Henry Jenkins as a keynote speaker, and Fiske himself is expected to attend. </div><div><br>Given the dramatic changes that have occurred in our media culture in the decade since his retirement, one might wonder whether Fiske's work remains relevant. We firmly believe it does, but we also believe the field would benefit from a careful assessment of just how his ideas can help us better understand what's going on in our current moment. Thus, the conference seeks to explore the continuing relevance of Fiske's work and to examine the intellectual heritage of and influences upon his work.  We invite individual papers and/or panels that build upon and/or adapt Fiske's scholarship and approach to contemporary ends, consider the reception of Fiske's work, and assess the current and future utility of his work and other related scholarship for media and cultural studies.  Paper and/or panel topics may address the impact and relevance of Fiske's work in the following areas: </div><div><br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Feminism<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Audiences and reception studies<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Cultural politics<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Race and culture<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Cultural studies in (inter)national contexts<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Textualities<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Popular pleasures<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hegemony and resistance<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s<br>*<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Economic and cultural capital<br><br>Other topics are also welcome for consideration.   <br>Conference organizers plan to publish an edited volume of collected papers from the conference. <br>The deadline for submissions of a 500-word abstract for either an individual paper, or for each component of a pre-constituted panel, is 19 January 2010.  Please include a one- to two-sentence bio for each contributor to a paper or panel. <br>Please submit abstracts to <a href="http://www.fiskematters.com/submissions">www.fiskematters.com/submissions</a>.  For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website: <a href="http://www.fiskematters.com/">http://www.fiskematters.com/</a>. <br><br><br>Elana Levine<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of Journalism and Mass Communication<br>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br>2522 E. Hartford Road<br>Milwaukee, WI 53211<br>414-229-4718<br><a href="http://elana.levine.googlepages.com/">elana.levine.googlepages.com</a><br></div>

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CFP: On, Archives! Celebrating 50 Years of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:22:00 GMT

<div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">On, Archives!  Celebrating 50 Years of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research  </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">a conference on media, theater and history</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">July 6-9, 2010Madison, Wisconsin</span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(0, 0, 173); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/conference">www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/conference</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In 2010 the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research celebrates its 50th anniversary.  Formed in 1960 as a joint project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and what was then the Department of Speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the WCFTR was one of the earliest institutions in the United States to perceive the value in preserving and collecting archival materials in American film, radio, television and theater.  Conjointly with the WHS�s extensive Mass Communication collections, the WCFTR has continued to build a resource used by scholars, researchers, students, and the general public alike to keep the history of media and the dramatic arts alive and to aid in our understanding of cinema, radio, television, drama, and popular culture as globally vital phenomena. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In this its 50th year, the Center will celebrate by hosting a conference focused on film, radio, television and theater history, and on the challenges of archiving in these areas. We invite a broad range of scholarship touching on the concerns of the collections here at Madison, and particularly invite those whose work has brought them here to consult our papers, films, recordings, and graphic materials in the course of their work. Equally important are considerations of archiving popular, aural, and visual culture.  We invite presentations of historical work  and contemporary work with roots in the historical  in the fields of film, theater, and broadcasting, and in archival issues and debates, for a four-day celebration of the study of media and performance culture in America and around the world, July 6-9, 2010, in Madison.</span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">We invite you to submit papers in any of the following areas, or on related subjects.  We are particularly interested in work that makes use of the Center�s or the Society�s collections, or that of other archival venues.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- the history of film production, exhibition, and distribution in the US and abroad</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- the history of broadcasting in the United States, and in other places and context</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- the history of American theater production and performance, and international counterparts</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- issues and challenges of media archiving, including the digital future</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- the role of history in the study of media and popular culture</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- historiographical methods and theory</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- creative authorship in film, broadcasting, and theater</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- the future of media and theater history</span></div></div>

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