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AHA Newsletter 28: 13 November 2009 17th George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilization Sydney, Australia 14–16 July 2010. Second Call for Papers Registration 2010 Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference Main theme: Financial Crises: Historical Perspectives 17–19 February 2010 Paper abstracts of one page may be submitted at any time up to 30 November 2009. A decision on proposals will be made within a month of submission. Session proposals of one page may be submitted up to the same date, outlining the main objectives of the session.
It is an important time for gifted education and we are requesting relevant organisations to assist us in promoting this conference. As this is the biennial Asia Pacific conference, it will replace the AAEGT National Conference that would normally be held in 2010. The AAEGT is committed to raising the profile of gifted education through the promotion of professional knowledge and skills, policy development and advocacy, research and scholarship, and the dissemination of information. Hosting the Asia Pacific Conference in 2010 is part of that commitment. The Asia Pacific Federation is affiliated with the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children and holds its biennial conference in even years while the World Council holds its biennial conference in odd years. This provides members from the Asia Pacific rim an opportunity every year to gather together, to share ideas, and renew enthusiasm for meeting the needs of gifted children, their families, and their teachers. We have recently announced the call for papers inviting abstracts addressing
Visit the Website for more information and members' access for on-line submission for papers. Call for Expressions of Interest Provisional theme: Communism Compared: Australia and the United States American Communist History is the peer-reviewed journal of the Historians of American Communism. According to its editorial policy, it focuses on ‘the various interpretations defining the role of the [American] Communist Party, its front groups, its opponents, and Soviet agents in the United States’. Furthermore, it deals ‘not only with Communism in the U.S., but with all aspects of its influence and the forces that influenced it.’ It is proposed that a special issue in 2010 be devoted to articles by Australian historians on any aspect of American communism or comparative articles by Australian historians on American/Australian communism. Examples of topics include:
The 3rd International History Post-Graduate Intensive University of Sydney, Australia July 2010 Application Form For more information contact:
The project welcomes all kinds of history – engineering history, social and cultural history, economic history and so on. We are also interested in historical contributions from neighbouring disciplines such as archaeology, sociology, literary studies, historical geography and cultural studies. The content on the site is a work in progress and will be updated regularly. Contact: Dr Emma Grahame or phone 02 9265 9906. Date and venue: 12–14 February, 2010, St Francis Theological College, Milton, Brisbane. Plenary Speakers
Major themes could include: education and schooling; missionary activities; church government; charity; Indigenous history; historiography; ecumenism; canon law; archives; religion in fiction; the colonial church; church music; art and architecture; formation of religious identities; histories of religious orders; reformations and long reformations; heresy; economic history; female ordination and feminism; Christology; apologetics; environmentalism and the Church, the Military and the Church. Please send abstracts (300 words) and brief author biography (50 words) by November 25, 2009 to conference@anglicans-in-australia-and-beyond.org. Please remember that if you wish to have your paper included in the printed conference proceedings, you will need to have your 5000–6000 word essay with us by December 12. The editor of an international peer reviewed journal, Anglican and Episcopal History from the United States of America, has agreed to collaborate with the conference committee to produce an edition based on papers from this conference. All conference participants are to submit a write up of their paper to AEH, which will then of course be subject to AEH's normal peer review processes. The Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes applicants at all ranks for residential fellowships for 2010-11. The theme for the year will be "Power and Place." For more information about the theme, the fellowships and the Institute for Historical Studies, please see: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/fellowships/resident-fellows.php For further information or queries, please contact the IHS Director, Julie Hardwick 
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