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'Revisiting Geneva: Robert Kingdon and the Coming of the French Wars of Religion', edited by S.K. Barker (free book)

The Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, together with the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University and the Fondation Napoléon in Paris, is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth volume in its series: 'St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture'.
 
The fourth title, now available, is:
Revisiting Geneva: Robert Kingdon and the Coming of the French Wars of Religion
edited by S.K. Barker
(St Andrews, 2012: ISBN 978-1-907548-06-2 [paperback], ISBN 978-1-907548-07-9 [e-book])

CFP EXTENSION: Between Subaltern and Sahib: Equivocal Encounters Across the British World

The British Empire, we are told, was founded on difference – between metropole and periphery, citizen and subject, self and other. This conference aims to contest and complicate these Manichean divides. By embracing the intermediate and indeterminate, we aim to excavate scenarios, stories and forms of subjectivity located in the spaces inbetween the now well worn binaries of coloniser and colonised, oppressor and oppressed.

Funding opportunity for UK/EU and overseas students

As a member of the Russell Group of the UK’s 20 leading research-intensive universities, Queen’s is one of the leading universities in the UK and Ireland, providing world-class education underpinned by world-class research.

Last call for Applications: Deadline 30th and 31st Jan 2012

TWO PHDS AND ONE POST DOC: LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DEADLINE 30TH AND 31ST JANUARY 2012

Opportunity for two Ph Ds and one Post Doc to work on exceedingly well funded Eurotast Project on the Impact and Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Suitable for those who have already completed Undergraduate or MA degree because the positions are effective from 1st May 2012.

Call For Papers: Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies

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:

Call for Papers: Comparative research about the Nordic countries

The Institute of Social Movements, Bochum University (Director: Professor Stefan Berger) will be publishing a special issue of its journal in 2013 devoted to Scandinavia/the Nordic countries. We are looking for new research in the form of articles that compare phenomena within a single Nordic country or (preferably) across one or more of these. Articles should be 8, 000 words in length (footnotes not included in word count) in English and relate to social movements (broadly interpreted).

The Morris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Modern Chemistry or the History of the Chemical Industry

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 Wiener Library Open Day

The open day will take place between 12pm and 4pm, and there will be opportunities to:

The Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History

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:

International Federation for Public History

The International Federation for Public History was created in 2010 and aims at encouraging, promoting, and coordinating research, practice, and teaching in Public History. Public History is a field in the historical sciences made up of professionals who undertake historical work in a variety of public and private settings for different kinds of audiences.

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