The workshop Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War is supported by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich and will take place at the Deutsches Museum in Munich from 27th to 29th of January 2011. Abstracts (500 words) and a short CV should be submitted by email no later than August 30, 2010.

The Finnish Institute at Athens and the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, University of Athens are organizing the conference "The Ottoman Past in Balkan Present: Music and Mediation" in Athens from September 30 to October 2, 2010. Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2010.

Historical scholarship has in recent years placed new emphasis on leisure activities as a research subject with tremendous potential to teach us a great deal about values, social connections, and everyday life. The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook will devote a section of the 2011 volume to essays on Jewish Leisure Activities in German-Speaking Europe from early modern times to the Nazi period. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2009.