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Added: July 9, 2010

1 November 2010

American Academy in Rome
Rome Prize 2011
Competition Deadline: 1 November 2010
Extended Deadline: 15 November 2010*

The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent...

Added: July 9, 2010

16-17 September 2010
Lancaster, UK

Bicycle Politics Symposium and Workshop

The major role and relevance of bicycles and cycling to future life seems increasingly unquestionable. On the ground, projects across the world are committed to promoting cycling and/or cycling-oriented...

Added: July 9, 2010

21 September 2010
Lancaster, UK

Centre for Mobilities Research @ Lancaster University, UK
Small in number but great in influence, the super-rich shape the contours of global capitalism. Occupying the top tier of the so-called human pyramid their activities are scrutinized,...

Added: July 3, 2010

31 March - 2 April 2011
Zaragoza, Spain

Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de Zaragoza

For more than two decades, the causes, effects and manifestations of traumatic experiences have been studied from a variety of perspectives: psychoanalysis,...

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14 May 2011
Toulouse, France

Organized by the North American Studies Group,
Université de Toulouse le Mirail,
Toulouse, France

Scientific committee: Nathalie Dessens, Université de Toulouse, Wendy Harding, Université de Toulouse, Scott Slovic, University of Nevada,...

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27 - 29 April 2011
Middleburg, The Netherlands

On 27-29 April 2011 the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands, will host for the ninth time the biennial conference of European historians of the United States.

The theme of this "Middelburg 9" conference is: The U...

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15 November 2010

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete...

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2 July 2011
York, UK

The global foreign aid budget, which has risen significantly in the first decade of the twenty-first century, is controversial. Although aid has the potential to facilitate capital formation and knowledge transfer, the development economics literature divides...

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6 - 8 January 2011
NY, NY

The State of African American Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the City University of New York...

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30 October 2010
Cambridge, UK

The way English is structured as a discipline encourages academics to focus their research on a particular period. Very few students attempt PhD topics which span several hundred years, and job advertisements and publishers’ catalogues also act as...