Conferences

In recent years there has been an international resurgence of interest in modern architecture and urbanism in Africa. Since the 1990s, much has been written about the work of modern architects in Africa and about colonial and post-colonial architecture in sub-Saharan regions. However, the concept of traditional African architecture has largely been treated as the […]

CFP: Film and History Conference, “Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns” The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, Madison, WI (USA) November 5-8, 2015 In Making Things Perfectly Queer, Alexander Doty argues that queerness is a “reception practice that is shared by all sorts of people in varying degrees of consistency and intensity” including those who do not

The Department of History at Calhoun Community College requests proposals for the 2015 Continuing Education in History Conference. Proposals for individual papers and complete workshops are both welcome. The proposals should address one or more of the conference themes, which are: Innovative teaching methods used to teach history and related subjects at the high school,

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