ACLS Society News. The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference begins today in Cincinnati.
“The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is a scholarly society that is interested in the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1660). Our geographical scope is as worldwide as our membership. The society welcomes scholars from all disciplines who have an interest in early modern studies. The SCSC holds one annual meeting a year with approximately 170 sessions for papers. The annual meeting usually and traditionally takes place on the last full weekend of October.
The SCSC is also closely associated with the Sixteenth Century Journal (SCJ) and Iter. Membership in the SCSC includes a subscription to the SCJ, discounted access to the Iter bibliographic databases, and the International Directory of Scholars–an annual worldwide directory and newsletter of scholars specializing in early modern studies. Their research and publications can be purchased for a nominal annual fee.”
(Source: sixteenthcentury.org)
ACLS Society News. The American Folklore Society begins its Annual Meeting today in New Orleans. This year’s theme is “The Continuity and Creativity of Culture.” Follow on Twitter: #afsam12.
“A series of cataclysms over the past decade have thrown into high relief both the fragility of culture and also the sometimes surprising, unpredictable resilience of culture. Whether the turn of events is natural or human in origin, any response must come from people, people guided by their experiences and beliefs, by what they have done, by what they think is the right thing to do. As workers in a discipline dedicated to the documentation of continuity, folklorists often have an intimate view of the creativity necessary to preserve the continuity of traditions. Such creativity need not occur only in marked moments but also, as most folklorists know all too well, in the face of everyday life: everywhere people arise to create their reality in careful coordination with others so that work can get done, children raised, meals made, souls fulfilled.
One of our field’s key concepts, tradition involves both conservation and change; the creativity that exists within tradition and shapes change invites closer examination. Communities (and cultural policy) increasingly engage the representation and future of tradition and culture in economic, educational and political terms that are overt and even formalized, all the while informal vernacular creativity often also persists in more intimate settings of family, neighborhood, ethnic, occupational or regional groups. The destruction wrought by hurricanes and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico have threatened local culture as well as the physical environment. This may mean that New Orleans is a particularly appropriate place for folklorists to address the role of tradition in cultural continuity and change. While destructive events have threatened traditional home places, occupations, and lifestyles along the Gulf Coast, threats to cultural continuity occur in many contexts in many places, giving us the opportunity to discuss a variety of related issues (not limited to the pressures placed upon tradition by such destructive forces).
The organizers of this year’s meeting believe that the larger question of continuity in culture offers many possibilities for examination, not necessarily involving cultural disruption. While we welcome all submissions, including individual submissions on all topics, we particularly invite panels, forums, diamond presentations, and posters that address cultural continuity, why and how it is maintained, how it can be disrupted, how its resilience can offer reassuring stability, even healing, or how its disruption can threaten well-being and long-standing social interactions. Conference presentations might address the very nature of tradition, or the components of tradition, or such facets of creative approaches to tradition as cultural revivals and key performers, or how performances reveal the mechanics of tradition in such a way as to highlight their creativity. Presentations might also deal with how traditions guide people, either in their everyday lives or in adverse situations, how strong or weak tradition is as a force in culture and how creative vernacular responses affect cultural agency and continuity.”
(Source: afsnet.site-ym.com)
ACLS Society News. The American Political Science Association begins its Annual Meeting today in New Orleans.
See the meeting site for updates Hurricane Isaac and the meeting status.
From the statement on the meeting’s theme of “Representation and Renewal:”
For the 2012 meetings, we encourage APSA members to address foundational questions about representation. We call for research that asks what representative relationships can and cannot achieve, how they might be renewed, reformed, or retooled to achieve those ends, and under what contexts political goals might be best served through direct or participatory democracy rather than through the mediation of representatives. We encourage division heads to reflect on how the most innovative work in their subfields can inform debates around this theme, and we invite them to collaborate with us in designing panels and roundtable discussions that speak to issues highlighted by this theme. We also welcome creative efforts to promote work across subfields and divisions.
(Source: apsanet.org)
ACLS Society News. The Latin American Studies Association begins its international congress tomorrow in San Francisco. This year’s theme is “Toward a Third Century of Independence in Latin America.”
A number of Latin American countries already are celebrating, or soon will celebrate, the achievement of 200 years of national independence. The bicentennial commemorations represent not only an opportunity to convey and promote a sense of national unity based on collective accomplishments, but also an occasion for political, intellectual, and cultural reassessments of the past and present. In general, they are characterized by more complex views of the meaning of the revolutionary wars and of the scale of the social, economic, and human costs of nation- building and modernization, especially in relation to indigenous and other subaltern populations. The result of this reconsideration is a relatively more diverse and inclusive notion of collective identity—one that takes into account the coexistence of many different (at times antagonistic) ethnic, sexual, and social histories. Although deep social inequalities still persist, the celebrations also coincide with an unprecedented period of democratic rule. The bicentennials offer an excellent opportunity for a multidisciplinary discussion about the multiple ways of constructing the past and forecasting the future; the new meanings of “independence,” “revolution,” and “national identity;” the role of Latin America in the new global economic order; and the transformative power and limitations of democratic institutions in Latin America’s third century of national independence.
ACLS Society News. The American Association for the History of Medicine begins its annual conference today in Baltimore.
The AAHM conference is the major annual meeting in the US for professional historians of medicine and physicians from around the world to present new research for open commentary. This will be the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM). The past meetings have all been hosted by medical institutions, medical societies or universities. The last one to be held at Johns Hopkins was in 1990. There is no other national meeting which exposes health science practitioners to the wide range of topics covered in current research in the history of medicine and provides such forum for discussion and interaction among participants. Presenters and participants will include physicians, historians, nurses, bioethicists, medical school and university faculty and graduates students.
(Source: hopkinscme.edu)
ACLS Society News. The Organization of American Historians begins its 2012 annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy” is this year’s theme. The collaboration between the OAH and the NCPH, the variety of scholarly sessions, and the great location are sure to make the 2012 gathering the most dynamic annual meeting to date.
(Source: annualmeeting.oah.org)
ACLS Society News. The Society of Architectural Historians begins its 65th Annual Conference today in Detroit. Events include plenary sessions, roundtable discussions, lectures, film screenings, and award ceremonies.
(Source: sah.org)
ACLS Society News. The Medieval Academy of America begins its Annual Meeting today at Saint Louis University. This year’s meeting will feature fifty sessions from a wide range of disciplines and approaches. ACLS Fellow Caroline A. Bruzelius will deliver the opening address, “Inside/Outside: Friars and the Dynamics of Urban Space.”
(Source: medievalacademy.org)
ACLS Society News. The Society for Cinema and Media Studies begins its annual conference today in Boston. The Society’s annual conference provides a forum for scholars and teachers of film and media studies to present and hear new research; to provide a supportive environment for networking, mentoring, and collaboration among scholars otherwise separated by distance, language, or disciplinary boundaries; and to promote the field of cinema and media studies among its practitioners, to other disciplines, and to the public at large, in part through public recognition of award worthy achievements and other significant milestones within the field.
Follow @SCMSconference and #SCMS12.
(Source: cmstudies.org)
ACLS Learned Society News. The 222nd Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society begins today in Boston. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and literatures of Asia has always been central in its tradition. This tradition has come to include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion, folklore and art. The scope of the Society’s purpose is not limited by temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at whatever period of history are welcomed to membership.
(Source: umich.edu)
ACLS Learned Society News. The Association for Asian Studies’ Annual Conference begins today in Toronto. Each spring, AAS holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general.
Benefits of attending:
- The AAS Annual Conference is the PREMIER CONFERENCE of Asia scholars in North America.
- Stay abreast of RECENT RESEARCH in the area of Asian studies.
- NETWORK with leading scholars who share your interests and concerns.
- Visit the AAS Book Exhibition, with MORE THAN 100 EXHIBITORS providing a diverse assortment of scholarly materials and services.
- Features a WIDE VARIETY of subjects in over 380 panel sessions.
- View the latest new documentaries and films covering all areas of Asia at the AAS FILM SCREENINGS.
(Source: asian-studies.org)
ACLS Learned Society News. The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts. Follow on Twitter: @collegeart #CAA2012
(Source: conference.collegeart.org)