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The Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies [MCTS] offers two semester-length study-abroad programs per year, focusing on a comparative, multidisciplinary approach to transatlantic relationships and developments. Staff and students in the Maastricht Consortium gather in a central location to form an interactive, international learning community. Conceived in 1995, MCTS aims to provide a unique educational program based on the interactive relationship of peoples and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. The Consortium is currently comprised of the following institutions: Central Missouri State University, USA; University of Central Lancashire, UK; Vaxjo University, Sweden; University of Glamorgan, UK; Lajos Kossuth University, Hungary; Eastern Illinois University, USA; Southeast Missouri State University, USA; ITESM, Mexico (Monterrey Tech); Lodz University, Poland; Saint Louis University, USA; Ball State University, USA; Montana State at Billings, USA. We are especially interested in expanding our European partnership.
Each teaching semester is divided into 4 intensive modules of 3-1/2 weeks' duration. Students usually attend for a semester of 12-14 weeks; faculty members teach for a minimum of 3-1/2 weeks. Time is provided between blocks to allow for student travel and movement of faculty. Student fees are approximately US$3500 per semester and include private room, board, use of Teikyo University facilities, resident permit fees, field trips, and on-site support. These fees also underwrite the room and board of faculty. For students from participating institutions, tuition (if necessary) is paid to their home institution. Participating institutions pay faculty salaries during absences, provide travel costs for teaching and Board of Directors' meetings, pay a membership fee (currently US$500), and grant academic credit for MCTS modules. For further information contact Dr. Will Kaufman or Dr. Heidi Macpherson, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, England. Fax: + 44 1772 892924. Tel: + 44 1772 893020. E-mail w.kaufman@uclan.ac.ukor h.r.s.macpherson@uclan.ac.uk and see website: www.tuh.nl/mcts/
I am a Ph.D candidate studying morality in the work of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. My main concern has been to institutionalize American Studies in Gaza, Palestine, and I have introduced American Literature in my university. I have been admitted to study for a Ph.D in the University of Essex for the second year. I would be very grateful to any person or organization that might help in finding me funding for my study so that I can go on to pursue the development of American Studies education in Palestine. Please send any information to me by e-mail: ahabeeb@mail.iugaza.edu
Publications and Resources
Each year The Chronicle of Higher Education comes forward with its "Events in Academe" concerning meetings, seminars, special events across the nation and world, and listing academic Web sites. "Events in Academe" is read by many, including the nation's administrators who are curious about our popular culture meetings. Furthermore, graduate students are interested in regional participation and they are our future! Individuals are urged to xerox this report to share with colleagues and administrators at their schools. Considering where this innovative and interdisciplinary movement started, the announcement in "Events in Academe" shows marvellous progress--to include regional, national, and international fora for the work of our members and friends. Every American region, the national perspective, and both Latin American and British options now exist for a group started by three professors at the Toledo airport in 1968! See "Events in Academe," The Chronicle of Higher Education (Fall and Winter 1998-99): C10, distributed with the issue for August 7, 1998, Vol. 44, No. 48. See also h-net.mus.edu/~pcaaca/
Publishing Opportunities
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites submissions for its 1999 prize essay competition. The prize is awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine as judged by the SSHM's assessment panel. The winner will be awarded (pounds sterling)200 and his or her essay may also be published in the journal Social History of Medicine. The competition is open to students and new researchers. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 1999. Further details and an entry form are available from the membership secretary, David Cantor, Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamund Street West, Manchester, M15 6LL, England. E-mail: .D.Cantor@mmu.ac.uk
The Walter Ristow Prize in the History of Cartography and Map Librarianship is awarded annually by the Washington Map Society. The competition is open to all full- or part-time upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and first-year postdoctoral students attedning accredited universities or colleges. Entries are to be research papers or bibliographic studies related to cartographic history and/or map librarianship and have been completed in fulfillment of requirements for course work. A short edition of a longer paper is permitted; papers of shorter length have been highly competitive. The text may not exceed 7,500 words, and must be in English. Papers must be fully documented in the style of the author's choice (endnotes preferred). Inclusion of clear graphics supporting the paper is appreciated. Deadline for the 1999 award must be postmarked by June 1, 1999 and sent to John Docktor, Ristow Prize, 150 S. Strathcona Drive, York, PA 17403-3833. Entries must be submitted in four unbound copies with appropriate title page and cover sheet. The cover sheet must include the entrant's name, address, telephone number(s), and e-mail address (if available) for timely contact. Please be certain that identifying material does not appear on any page except for the cover sheet. Entries will be judged on three broad criteria: importance of research (e.g., originality, sources); quality of research (e.g., accuracy, source reliability); quality of writing (e.g., clarity, command of cartographic terms). Entries will be assessed by three judges of suitable cartographic background. Judges will receive anonymous copies of entries, read them independently, and report their assessments to a collator. The winner will receive $500, a one-year membership in the Washington Map Society, and the paper will be published in The Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. Walter W. Ristow, co-founder and first president of the Washington Map Society, is Chief, Emeritus of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. For further information about the Ristow Prize or the Washington Map Society, contact Ed Redmond, Washington Map Society, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington, DC 20540-4650; or www.cyberia.com/pages/jdocktor/washmap.htm
Need Authors on Film and History. The designated author for the following topics has retired due ot illness. I need help for my Columbia Companion to American History on Film. I would like responses from folks who who are on top of these assignments by virtue of their research and teaching rather than from folks with a general interest. There is a time constraint. The topics are: the American Revolution and the Early Nation (3000 words) and Founding Fathers and the Enlightenment (3000 words). Tasks for both are two-fold: 1. What are the historical interpretations? 2. How does the film record--feature and documentary--compare/contrast with the historical understanding of these topics? Please contact Peter Rollins, RollinsPC@aol.com
The editor of Southern Jewish History, a new annual scholarly journal sponsored by the Southern Jewish Historical Society, is soliciting original manuscripts for consideration for volume II. If you are interested in submiting a manuscript, receiving author's guidelines, or serving as a peer reviewer, please contact Dr. Mark K. Bauman, Editor, 2517 Hartford Dr, Ellenwood, Ga 30294; e-mail: mbauman@peachnet.campus.mci.net
Journal of American Studies of Turkey invites submissions as articles, essays, book and film reviews. The deadline for the Fall 1999 issue is July 1, 1999. JAST is aimed at bringing an international perspective, providing a comparative angle, and foregrounding the newest ideas and trends in American Studies. Letters to the editor on internationalizing American Studies abroad--or in the US--are also welcome. The JAST homepage, containing various information and all articles of the first three issues, is available at www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/
For more information about submissions or subscriptions, contact the editor: Gonul Pultar, Department of English, Bilkent University, Ankara 06533, Turkey; Fax +90 (312) 2664934; e-mail: jast@bilkent.edu
Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History is soliciting essays for a special issue on gender and business to appear in 2001. We seek manuscripts that address ways in which gender challenges or adds to debate in the field of business history from a wide range of topics, methodologies, locales, and historical eras. Angel Kwolek-Folland (University of Kansas) will serve as guest editor of the special issue. The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2000. Send four double-spaced, one-sided copies of your manuscript (approximately 30-40 pages, including endnotes) to David B. Sicilia, Associate Editor, Enterprise and Society, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7315. For additional information please consult the Call for Manuscripts at www.eh.net/bhc/Publications/genbus.html or e-mail to gender_business@umail.umd.edu
Dumbarton Oaks will hold its next Symposium in Studies in Landscape Architecture on May 14-15, 1999. The symposium will examine three centuries of European garden history in light of processes of social change from 1550 to 1850. Garden art will be discussed as a domain of agency contributing to negotiations of social and cultural changes. Registration information will be available in March, 1999. Contact: Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007; www.doaks.org/LandscapeArchitecture.html
The Netherlands American Studies Association will hold its annual meeting from June 2-4, 1999 on "The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration" at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelberg, Netherlands. The program contains the following subthemes: Perils and Problems of the City; Still Images of the Metropolis; City Music; Moving Images; Cityscape; Religion and Education in the Metropolis; and Metropolitian Words. For more information, contact the RSC. Postbus 6001, 4330 LA Middelberg, the Netherlands, tel. (0) 118-631590/ fax 118-631593; secr@rsc.knaw.nl; www.knaw.nl/rscuk00.htm
The fourteenth annual Siena College multidisciplinary symposium, "World War II: The Sixtieth Anniversary," will be held June 3-4, 1999. The focus will be 1939. Papers on Fascism, and Naziism; the war in Asia; Spain; literature; art; film; diplomatic, political, and military history; preparedness; popular culture; and women's and Jewish studies dealing with the era will be presented. Contact: Professor Thomas O. Kelly II, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, NY 12211-1462; (518) 783-2512; fax (518) 786-5052; legendziewic@siena.edu
The nineteenth Annual Berlin-Prague Seminar organized by Bradley University will be held at the European Academy of Berlin, June 20-June 26, 1999, and the Prague University of Economics, June 27-July 3, 1999. The Seminar is intended to inform college faculty about a wide range of issues facing contemporary Germany and the Czech Republic. Past presentations have focused on politics, foreign policy, history, economics, societal issues, the media, and art. Participants may choose to attend one or both segments of the Seminar. Contact: Dr. Charles Bukowski, Director, Institute of International Studies, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625; (309) 677-2450; fax (309) 677-3256; cjb@bradleu.bradley.edu
The Humanities Research Institute at Dartmouth College will sponsor a week-long Institute on "The Future of American Studies" on June 21-June 26, 1999. Speakers in the plenary sessions will focus on curricular transformations and the role of theory in articulating relations between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies. Applications for the 1999 Institute will be accepted until all slots have been filled, but applications received by May 15, 1999 will be granted priority. Applicants should send a brief description of their own projects along with a current c.v., a writing sample, and a $10 application fee. Applications should be mailed to Dean Sandra Gregg, Dartmouth College, 6201 Wentworth Hall-Room 114, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3526, sandra.gregg@dartmouth.edu
From September 23-24, 1999, the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands, will hold a meeting titled "Regulating Morality: A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States." For more information and registration, contact: the Roosevelt Study Center, P. O. Box 6001, 4330 LA Middelburg, the Netherlands, tel. (0) 118-631590/ fax 118-631593; secr@rsc.knaw.nl
The second annual Museum and Library Archives Institute, will be held at the Monson & Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, June 25-26, 1999. For information, contact: Theresa Rini Percy, Director, Monson Free Library, 2 High Street, Monson, MA 01057-1095; (413) 267-3866; fax (413) 267-5496; tpercy@cwmars.org
The History Channel, a division of A&E, recently awarded the American Association for State and Local History a two-year grant totaling $20,000 in support of the Association's revision of its Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada, the Fifteenth Edition. The publication was last revised in 1990 and contained approximately 13,000 listings.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently announced that the American Association for State and Local History has been awarded $50,000 for its application to the Professional Services Program, a competitive awards program for national, regional, state, or local professional museum organizations to help their members provide better services to the public.
The Council on Library and Information Resources has received a 1998 National Leadership Award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In partnership with the Chicago Historical Society, the council will hold a conference on the critical issue of selecting materials from library and museum collections for digital conversion. The invitational conference will be held at the Chicago Historical Society in October, 1999.