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Citizenship Studies is at a crucial moment of globalizing as a field. Professors Engin Isin and Peter Nyers are editing a Handbook that will take account of this moment and set a new agenda for the field. The Handbook will provide state-of-the art analyses of the practices and enactments of citizenship across broad continental regions (Africas, Americas, Asias, Europes) as well as deterritorialized forms of citizenship (Diasporicity, Indigeneity).

The Handbook will be published in 2014. Chapters of up to 5,000 words in length will be arranged under the following parts:

The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry solicits nominations for the 2012 John and Martha Morris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Modern Chemistry or the History of the Chemical Industry. This award honours the memory of John and Martha Morris, the late parents of Peter Morris, the editor of Ambix, who has contributed the endowment for this award.

The Fraenkel Prize, sponsored by Mr. Ernst Fraenkel OBE, joint President of the Library and former Chairman, will be awarded for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history in one of the Wiener Library’s fields of interest, i.e. the history of Central and Eastern Europe; Jewish history; the two world wars; antisemitism; and the ideologies and movements of political extremism and totalitarianism.

Two distinct awards will be made:

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