2006-11-14
Events - Part 27
posted by mh 19 years ago
More lectures/conferences this Friday and Saturday: in Istanbul (Goethe Institut, Nov 18, 10AM-, at the conference "Dark Days of the Past, Historical Profession and Public Opinion") Ileana Moroni will speak about The Second Fall of Constantinople: The Events of September 1955 in the Greek Public Opinion and Halil Berktay on 'The Moral Atmosphere of Dictatorship' for the Izmir fire and the Armenian genocide: Technologies for Perpetuating Myths, Smearing Scholarship, Monopolizing Public Space and Discourse. At Harvard (Nov 17, 10:50) Klaus Kreiser will ask: Did Abdurrahman Hibri Efendi (d. 1676) Introduce the Genre 'Urban History' in Ottoman Historiography?
Grants - Part 11
posted by mh 19 years ago
The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin is offering post-doc fellowships for research on the topic "Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions". Deadline: January 15, 2007.
Calls for Papers - Part 26
posted by mh 19 years ago
Tirana will be the site of next year's Annual Conference of the Commission on Urban Anthropology (August 27-31, 2007) on Urban Identity, Power and Space: The Case of Trans-European Corridors. The conference will be structured around three main sessions: 1) Corridors
of Power; 2) History and Memories; 3) Anthropology, Research and Local
Spaces. The full announcement can be accessed here. Deadline for abstract submissions: January 31, 2007.
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