CAUTG / APAUC

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Call for Participation (not Papers): The Bad Ideas Blog: All the stuff that wasn’t fit to print

This is an invitation to participate in a new interactive forum called “The Bad Ideas Blog” being hosted by the University of Chicago Press (http://badideasblog.com ).

The point of the forum is to explore the nature of so-called “bad” ideas — i.e. ideas that don’t make their way into books, whether as incomplete drafts, dropped chapters, or simply deleted keywords. Common to the experience of writing books is the accumulation of a vast amount of material that never makes its way into a [...]

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International conference

NIETZSCHE ON MIND AND NATURE St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK 11 – 13 September 2009

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/events/nietzsche_mind_conference

REGISTER BY MONDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2009.

48 parallel session presentations & 7 keynote addresses by

Günter Abel | Consciousness, Language, and Nature. Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature Brian Leiter |Who is the ‘Sovereign Individual’? Nietzsche on Freedom Graham Parkes | Nietzsche on Soul in Nature: an Ecological Perspective Peter Poellner | Nietzsche’s Ethics and the Philosophy of Mind Bernard Reginster | The Genealogy of Guilt John Richardson | Nietzsche’s Dualism? Galen Strawson | Nietzsche’s Metaphysics [...]

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UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES

PhD Studentships in Modern languages 2009-10 Entry

* For informal enquiries please contact the Postgraduate Secretary, School of Modern Languages. Email: bf@st-andrews.ac.uk, or the Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Modern Languages. Email: langsdopg@st-andrews.ac.uk *

Two New PhD Studentships for fees and maintenance The School of Modern Languages is pleased to announce that in addition to our existing studentships, two new School PhD awards are available for students who wish to begin their PhDs during the academic year 2009/10 and who have not yet applied to the University of St Andrews. The [...]

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Reviewer: Cornelia Niekus Moore
Title: Luisenkult: Die Unsterblichkeit der Königin von Preußen
Author: Philipp Demandt
Title: Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of the Consort
Author: Clarissa Campbell Orr, ed.
Title: Die Regentin: Vormundschaftliches Herrschaft in Hessen 1500-1700
Author: Pauline Puppel
Title: The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia: Translated from Czech and German With Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay
Author: John M. Klassen, Eva Dolezalová, Lynn Szabo, eds.

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Reviewer: Adam C. Stanley
Title: Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933
Author: Mila Ganeva

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Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Advisory Board, we would like to inform you of the:

SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong 6-9 July 2010 http://www.LearningConference.com

The International Conference on Learning is for anyone with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood, to schools, to higher education and lifelong learning – and in any of its sites, from home to school to university to workplace. [...]

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The Call for Papers for the 2010 ASECS Annual Meeting, March 18-21 is now available at: http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/. ________________________________________________________________________

Sessions seeking submissions:

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“Ballads and Song in Eighteenth-Century Culture” Ruth Perry; Literature Faculty, 14N-415, MIT, Cambridge, 02139; Tel: (617) 253-8876; Fax: (617) 354-5832; E-mail: rperry@mit.edu

To foster explorations of the literary, political, musical, visual, sociological, psychological and social meaning of ballads and song– and oral culture more generally–throughout the world in the long eighteenth-century century. [...]

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Dear Colleagues:

I would like to encourage those of you specializing in late-medieval/early modern German to participate in the German session sponsored by Fifteenth-Century Studies at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, in 2010. Papers on sixteenth-century topics will again be considered. Our deadline for abstract submissions is September 5. The German session ran successfully last year and Fifteenth-Century Studies would very much like to see it continue as part of its offerings. Please see below for details and contact information. [...]

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Call for Papers: Traveling and Yet Standing Still? – Travel in the Age of Globalization in German literature

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-11, 2010 Montreal, Quebec – Hilton Bonaventure

This panel seeks to investigate the possibility/impossibility of discovering the foreign in a world characterized by homogenization. As Marshall McLuhan points out, globalization turns the world into a “global village”, reduces distances and compresses time. Bombarded by images via easy accessible media, we are transported to a different place and time instantaneously, thinking we know the world. Yet, as Allan Liska and George Ritzer claim, when [...]

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Reviewer: Timothy S. Forest
Title: Britain, Hanover and the Protestant Interest: 1688-1756
Author: Andrew C. Thompson
Title: The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837
Author: Brendan Simms, Torsten Riotte, eds.