Kim Singletary

CFP – Crossing Borders: Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia

Disasters are not readily contained within neatly drawn territorial boundaries. Both in their immediate impacts and in their compounding cascades, a disaster such as a chemical spill in a river or dangerous air pollution originating from a major metropolitan region can quickly spread across national borders. People displaced by an environmental disaster who are offered […]

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Call for Participants: Genocide in World History Conference

The New England Regional World History Association (NERWHA), the Department of History and Social Sciences at Bryant University, and the Mid-Atlantic World History Association (MAWHA) invite paper and panel proposals for NERWHA’s Fall 2015 symposium, which will focus on Genocide in World History and is scheduled for October 16-17, 2015, on the campus of Bryant

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Career Opportunity: Department Chair – Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University

Miami University invites applications for Professor and Chair of a new Department of Global and Intercultural Studies.  The new unit will develop new curricular, research and public outreach initiatives in global and intercultural studies, as well as incorporate established undergraduate majors and minors in American Studies, Asian/Asian American Studies, Black World Studies, East Asian Studies, European

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Call for Nominations: Charles DeBenedetti and Scott Bills Prizes in Peace History

The Peace History Society is pleased to announce a call for nominations for two prizes in peace history, the Charles DeBenedetti Prize and the Scott Bills Memorial Prize. Since 1987-88, the Peace History Society has awarded the Charles DeBenedetti Prize biannually.  The prize will be awarded to the author of an outstanding English-language journal article,

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CFP: Special Issue on ‘South Asian Creative and Cultural Industries’

This special issue seeks to gather new work on and about the creative and cultural industries of, related to, and connected with South Asia, both from across its diasporas and from around the world.  The creative and cultural industries can be viewed as bringing together different sectors (for instance arts and crafts; businesses and commerce;

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