***************************************************************************** Histnews: The Electronic History Newsletter Thursday, December 9, 1993 Vol.1, No.18 Subscriptions: listserv@ukanvm.bitnet or listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Submissions: histnews@ukanvm.bitnet or histnews@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu FTP Archive: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu:/pub/history/internet/hist_news Editor: Bob Pasker (rbp@brown.edu) ***************************************************************************** [Sorry for the delay, there have been LISTSEV problems. -- Ed.] Table of Contents 1. CFP: East-Central/American Society for 18th Century Studies "CROSSING BORDERS" (26 lines) 2. The Sigerist Circle (31 lines) 3. New Interdisciplinary LEGALSTUDIES list (9 lines) 4. CFP: Conference on Problem Solving and Critical Thinking "Building Bridges From Innovation to Change" (79 lines) 5. CFP: Cultural Studies in Canada (21 lines) 6. CFP: Education & Cultural Transfer, 1500-1994. (5 lines) 7. Historical International Social Mobility Analysis (14 lines) 8. Two Essential Internet Resources (17 lines) 9. AMERICAN SONG AND AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY; NEH Summer Seminar (3 6 lines) 10. Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (4 lines) /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 1. CFP: East-Central/American Society for 18th Century Studies "CROSSING BORDERS " FFI: DICK FRAUTSCHI, 814/865-1959 13-16 OCTOBER 1994 The boundaries of 18th-century life and culture were reflected in its literature, art, philosophy, and political life. We encourage sessions that invite specialists from all fields to unite in exploring common ways in which these borders were obscured, transgressed, or crossed. We suggest that there are multiple interpretations of "crossing borders" and will give preference to session proposals that foster this diversity and encourage participation from more than one academic discipline in the session. Each individual paper need not be interdisciplinary, but the session as a whole should focus on broad, interdisciplinary issues, such as the crossing of national borders (both in travel and politics), borders of genre, tradition chronological boundaries, gender, cultures, discursive modes, methodologies, social classes, and race. PLEASE SEND SESSION TOPIC PROPOSALS (90 MIN.) BEFORE 18 DECEMBER 1993 TO: DICK FRAUTSCHI, ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE CHAIR DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH PENN STATE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 (TEL. 814/865-1959--O OR 814/238-2908--H) SESSION TOPICS WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY 7 JANUARY. PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS ARE DUE BY 1 MARCH 1994. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 2. The Sigerist Circle FFI: em@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Ed Morman) The Sigerist Circle is a group of left historians of medicine formed in 1990. Sigerist Circle activities include scholarly sessions held adjacent to meetings of the American Association for the History of Medicine (on topics including body history, history of national health insurance, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment revisited, and issues in the history of occupational health), AAHM luncheon workshops, and intervention at meetings of other organizations such as the History of Science Society and the American Public Health Association. The Sigerist Circle seeks to encourage scholarship in history of medicine related to race, class, and gender, as well scholarship utilizing feminist, Marxist, and other left-critical methodologies. To encourage such scholarship and to keep its membership aware of current work, the Sigerist Circle publishes, as part of its newsletter, a semiannual bibliography. Entries in the bibliography are grouped under the following rubrics: (1) the health left, (2) race and racism, (3) gender and sexuality, (4) the politics of AIDS, (5) lifestyle and social control, (6) class issues, (7) health and international politics, (8) psychiatry and mental illness, (9) physical disabilities, (10) animal rights, (11) child abuse and children's rights, (12) physical appearance, and (13) body history. The first five Sigerist Circle bibliographies have been merged into a single file, which is currently available by anonymous ftp from the Welchlink computer at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. For more information on how to obtain this file, please contact me. I would also be happy to learn of relevant citations, especially from books and journals not likely to be in a specialized medical history collection. To join the Sigerist Circle, send fifteen dollars to; Walter Lear, M.D., Sigerist Circle Secretary-Treasurer, 206 North 35th Street, Philadelphia PA 19104. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 3. New Interdisciplinary LEGALSTUDIES list FFI: Ethan Katsh, Katsh@legal.umass.edu Legalstudies is a list designed to promote communication among those teaching about law at the undergraduate level. It is primarily oriented around concerns experienced by those teaching law and society or legal studies courses from an interdisciplinary or liberal arts perspective although there are, of course, many concerns shared by all who teach about law outside the law school context. LISTSERV: listserv@fatty.law.cornell.edu / subscribe legalstudies /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 4. CFP: Conference on Problem Solving and Critical Thinking "Building Bridges From Innovation to Change" FFI: Martin Rosenzweig, mrosenzw@research1.bryant.edu This Conference will focus on how faculty members have incorporated problem solving, critical thinking and other innovative new ideas into their teaching to effect long-term change in undergraduate education. Major trends in curriculum development must move into the mainstream of higher education if they are to have a lasting effect. June 23-25,1994 Hobart & William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York USA 1994 Conference Deadlines (postmark dates) Submissions Due: Feb 1, 1994 Acceptance Notification: Feb 22, 1994 Paper (on disk) Due: Apr 4, 1994 Preregistration Deadline: June 1, 1994 INVITATION The Conference invites you to join your peers and the plenary speakers to participate in exploring the 1994 theme. We look forward to your submission of proposals for short presentations, hands-on workshops and demonstration/poster sessions. All proposals will be reviewed for inclusion in the conference program. Scope The Conference serves as a forum to: Share information on research and applications related to teaching innovations, especially problem solving and critical thinking. Discuss the differences between innovation and change. Examine the issue of effecting permanent changes in curriculum. Proceedings Accepted proposals, and the reviewed papers resulting from these proposals will be published in the Conference Proceedings. This publication will serve as a major resource on faculty efforts to incorporate new ideas into the curriculum. Presentation Proposal Instructions Abstracts must be received by: February 1, 1994 The following information should be included: A 100 word abstract of the presentation Presentation type: Paper, Workshop or Demonstration/Poster. Presentation title (12 words maximum) Equipment needs Name, affiliation and address of each presenter Phone number and E-mail address of principal presenter/author (to whom all correspondence will be addressed) A self-addressed, stamped postcard so the program chair can acknowledge receipt of your proposal Academic area(s) addressed by this presentation Send Abstracts to: For Papers Martin Rosenzweig Mathematics Department, Bryant College Smithfield, RI 02917 (401) 232-6187 E-Mail mrosenzw@research1.bryant.edu For Workshops Susan Palocsay IDS, James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (703) 568-3061 FAX (703) 568-7938 E-Mail fac_spalocsa@vax1.acs.jmu.edu For Demonstrations/Posters Sheila Brady-Root St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14618 (716) 385-8160 FAX (716) 385-7311 E-Mail SBR@SJFC.EDU /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 5. CFP: Cultural Studies in Canada FFI: 12-15 May 1994 University of Toronto The University of Toronto Cultural Studies Group proposes to hold an interdisciplinary cultural studies conference, 12-15 May 1994. We will consider papers both on very specific topics, texts, artifacts, and phenomena in the medieval, early modern, modern, and 'postmodern' periods, and on general theoretical questions such as the state of cultural studies in the Canadian and international contexts, the institutionalization of cultural studies, cultural studies' accelerated abandonment of left politics, and so forth. Submissions may be in English or French. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate. SEND PAPERS OR ABSTRACTS BY 31 JANUARY, 1994 TO: Ross Leckie Department of English University of Toronto 7 King's College Circle Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 6. CFP: Education & Cultural Transfer, 1500-1994. FFI: University Conference Service, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam 10-13 August 1994: Amsterdam, "Education and Cultural Transfer 1500-1994." Meeting of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. Deadline for abstracts (max. 300 words) of papers based on original research is January 1, 1994. Address: University Conference Service, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 7. Historical International Social Mobility Analysis FFI: Andrew Miles, MILESAG@uk.ac.bham.css HISMA - Historical International Social Mobility Analysis - is a new project set up to stimulate collaborative work on social mobility and stratification. It aims to draw together a network of researchers with an interest in the patterns, determinants and consequences of mobility and stratification over a broad historical sweep, and from a comparative perspective, and then to coordinate and implement new initiatives within the field. Project details and a questionnaire were sent out to a number of people earlier this year. Will those who have not yet responded please forward their replies to Dr Andrew Miles, Department of Economic and Social History, School of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom (FAX: 021 414 6625 E- Mail: MILESAG@uk.ac.bham.css) as soon as possible. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 8. Two Essential Internet Resources FFI: Two essential internet resources: Yanoff Guide - provides telnet addresses for basic information sources on the Net arranged alphabetically by subject. FTP: csd4.csd.uwm.edu: /pub/inet.services.txt John December Guides - provides the best index to the other guides and sources of information on the net, whether by ftp, gopher, telnet or print. The other provides a list of the basic tools for using the Net, including gopher, veronica, jughead, cello, alex, etc. FTP: ftp.rpi.edu: /communications/internet-cmc.readme /internet-cmc.txt /internet-tools /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 9. AMERICAN SONG AND AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY; NEH Summer Seminar FFI: John Spitzer, amsong@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu College teachers and independent scholars are invited to apply to participate in this 7-week seminar in Baltimore, Maryland. Dates: June 20 to August 5, 1994 Location: Peabody Conservatory of Music Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland Directors: John Spitzer and Ronald G. Walters Stipend: $3,600 Application Deadline: March 1, 1994 The seminar will study 19th-century American song as a manifestation of popular culture. Songs will be examined in the contexts of political and social history, the history of the entertainment industry, and 20th-century theories of popular culture. Participants will work with primary sources: sheet music in the collections of the Baltimore-Washington area. The seminar aims to attract teachers and scholars from diverse fields: historians, musicologists, librarians, folklorists, and others. It is designed for teachers at 4-year colleges, independent scholars, persons in non-academic employment, and university teachers in departments that do not offer a Ph.D. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years immediately preceding the application deadline. For more information and/or application materials, respond via one of the routes below. Include your current mailing address, so we can send you an application. E-mail:amsong@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Write: John Spitzer, Peabody Conservatory, One E. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, 21202 Call: 410-659-8158 Fax: 410-685-0657 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 10. Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies FFI: Joe Block, jblock@csupomona.edu The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies will hold its annual meeting at the Claremont Colleges, April 22-24, 1994. Papers and panels on all aspects of the British experience are invited, from any relevant discipline. Each paper proposed should have a one or two page abstract (for a 20-minute paper). Send to the Program Chair of PCCBS: Prof. Joe Block, Department of Liberal Studi es, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768. 909-869-3174. Deadline for submissions is January 6th ------- End of HistNews Vol.1 , No.18 -------