Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Arline Custer Memorial Award Call for Entries

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Arline Custer Memorial Award Call for Entries Deadline: July 31, 2017 Arline Custer Memorial Award Presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee, this award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. Eligibility The Custer Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region: the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Works under consideration include, but are not limited to, monographs, popular narratives, reference works,…
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International Conference “The Gender of Sovereignty in European Politics and Aesthetics”, Leuven, 18-21 December 2017

The University of Leuven (Belgium) organizes a conference on the topic of gender and sovereignty in European theory and aesthetics (18-21 December 2017). We want to bring together investigations that revisit issues of gender and sovereignty from a variety of disciplines. The historical scope of the conference ranges from the beginnings of modernity to the present. We invite papers that address imaginations of sovereignty in political and cultural discourse either through case-studies or in comprehensive analyses envisioning a modified history. Topics of interests include but are not restricted to: - Women's sovereignty in politics, the arts and different media and…
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