The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Washington University in St. Louis is hosting the 64th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, October 16-18, 2015. The MCAA seeks to promote Asian studies both at the university and the secondary and primary levels and particularly to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists […]
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The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences and the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto invite proposals for PIASA’s 73rd Annual Conference to be held at the University of Toronto, June 11-13, 2015. Proposals are solicited for sessions or individual papers dealing with Polish or Polish Diaspora or comparative
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From its inception, gender studies analyzed the boundaries and binaries of gender to show that both are socially constructed. Earlier studies investigated the creation and institutionalization of gender boundaries in the realms of culture, politics, and economy as well as the link between gender boundaries and gender inequality. Drawing on critical race theory, feminists who
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The Center for Civil War Research and the Department of History at the University of Mississippi seek papers for a conference to be held October 1-3, 2015 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. This conference will be hosted in conjunction with WAR-Net, and it will be the first conference WAR-Net has sponsored outside
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Over the nineteenth century, industrialization fundamentally changed the way families earned their livelihoods and sought, when the occasion arose, to transmit their resources and legacies. The decline of economies based on farmland and fisheries and a massive dependence on wage work weakened many households, while liberal ideology made individual will and personal property the foundations