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Call for Nominations: Brenda McCallum Prize [15 July 2003]
The Brenda McCallum Prize committee of the American Folklore Society Archives and Libraries Section invites nominations for the Brenda McCallum Prize. The 2003 Prize Committee is composed of Kristi Bell, Catherine Hiebert Kerst, and Randy Williams.
Nominations are accepted continuously during the year, though the deadline for submitting materials each year is July 15. Presentation of the awards is given during the Archives and Libraries Section meeting at the Annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in October of that year.
Since 1994, the Brenda McCallum Prize has honored the late folklife archivist, Brenda McCallum. The award is given for an exceptional work dealing with folklife archives or the collection, organization, and management of ethnographic materials. It is awarded to an individual or an institution for noteworthy products or documented activities that provide education, techniques, or services to those who collect, organize, and preserve folklife materials, either on the individual or institutional level. These may or may not be directly associated with archival work, since products that facilitate the organization of ethnographic materials collected in the field ultimately assist the cause of folklife archivists as well. The prize may be awarded for such accomplishments as a book, an article, the development of a software package, or a lecture series.
In order to receive the McCallum Prize, the work should have been created during the twelve months prior to the deadline for its submission, or twenty-four months if it was not previously nominated. Through this prize, the AFS Archives and Libraries Section seeks to promote works that further the cause of the preservation, organization, and dissemination of folklife collections. Please submit, by letter or email, nominations for the Brenda McCallum Prize accompanied by a brief explanation of why the work has been
nominated.
In the past few years, recipients and their research topics have included:
1999: James Corsaro and Karen Taussig-Lux for their manual entitled:
Folklore in Archives: A Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials.@ (1998)
2001: Steve Weiss and the Mss. Dept. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for their online multi-format collection of materials from the Goldband Recording Corporation Records at the Southern Folklife Collection at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/sfc/goldband/ (2000)
2002: Michael Owen Jones, and the many students and contributors at UCLA who edited, expanded, and created an online archive for research into beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative health care begun by Wayland D. Hand in the 1940s. The Online Archive of American Folk Medicine at UCLA can be found at: www.folkmed.ucla.edu (2001)
For inquiries and information about nominations, please contact:
Kristi Bell (801) 422-6041 kristi_bell@byu.edu
Catherine Hiebert Kerst (202) 707-1730 cker@loc.gov
Randy Williams (435) 797-3493 ranwil@cc.usu.edu
Submit nominations by email or mail to:
Randy Williams Fife Folklore Archives Utah State University 3032 Old Main Hill Logan UT 84322?3032 Fax: (435) 797?2880
For more information about the AFS Archives and Libraries Section, visit http://www.afsnet.org/sections/archives/top.htm
posted 5/23/2003
CFP: Journal for the Academic Study of Magic [31 October 2003]
Following a very successful launch earlier this year, the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (JSM), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed print publication, is seeking submissions for its second annual edition, to be published in Spring 2004. Scholarly articles of up to 8000 words, written in English, plus shorter book reviews (up to 800 words) and the like are welcomed. We aim to cover all areas of magic, witchcraft, paganism etc; all geographical regions and all historical periods, and we encourage articles from postgraduates, tenured academics and freelance writers alike, using an academic style.
Submissions should be prepared according to the MHRA style guide (5th edition). Please see their printed style guide (available in libraries and bookshops) or their website http://www.mhra.org.uk/index.html, plus our own guideline pages at http://www.sasm.co.uk/journal.html and http://www.sasm.co.uk/chklist.html for style and content details. In light of the breadth of submissions we received for Issue 1, we welcome early, BRIEF correspondence with authors to discuss intended articles and their potential suitability for our journal- the above links also give guidelines for subject areas, including some areas that we do not cover, so please consult these first.
Submissions should be sent electronically to Dave Evans at socacademicstudymagic@btopenworld.com as Rich Text Format email attachments, including your name and brief title in the file name (for example "JSmithModernFrenchWitchcraft.rtf" rather than "essay.rtf") . If you are unable to send by email please use regular mail to: Dave Evans, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, 13 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, UK BS8 1AD. Please enclose an SAE or IRC if you require postal acknowledgement of receipt, and if sending by regular mail please include one copy of your article on disk (PC formatted only, and virus-checked please!) and one print copy, with a covering letter.
Issue 1 of the journal, published by Mandrake of Oxford can be ordered from the website http://www.sasm.co.uk/journal2.html via secure credit card server, or from any good bookshop quoting the references ISBN 1869928 679 and ISSN 1479-0750. Academic Institutions and Libraries can send an official purchase order to Mandrake (whose regular mail address is to be found on the above link) to be invoiced on delivery.
posted 5/23/2003
2003 Gutenberg E-Prize Competition in Women's History and the History of Gender [1 September 2003]
The Gutenberg-e Prize Competition for 2003 is in the fields of women's history and the history of gender. The competition is sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press with a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This year six prizes will be awarded. Five of the prizes will be awarded to scholars who have completed the dissertation between January 1, 2000 and August 15, 2003. One prize will be reserved for a dissertation or first-book manuscript by an independent, public, or part-time scholar. Each prize of $20,000 is intended to be used by the author to convert the dissertation or manuscript into an electronic monograph of the highest quality to be published by Columbia University Press.
General Guidelines: The dissertations must be in English and should have been defended at a university in the United States or Canada. A dissertation (in English) defended at a university not located in the United States or Canada will also be eligible if the author is a member of the AHA.
Each entry must consist of:
1. A cover letter with a brief summary (100 to 150 words) of the dissertation
2. A c.v. from the author
3. A bound (simple spiral binding is preferred) hard copy of the manuscript
4. A letter from the candidate authorizing the AHA to make copies of the manuscript for the purposes of the competition
Entries must be sent to: Gutenberg-e, AHA, 400 A Street, SE, Washington, DC, 20003-3889.
*Please note that the submitted materials cannot be returned.
Entries must be received at this address by September 1, 2003, to be eligible for consideration by the prize committee.
For more information, visit the AHA's website: http://www.theaha.org/prizes/gutenberg/heaha.org/prizes/gutenberg/
Contact Information:
Robert Townsend
Assistant Director for Research and Publications
Research Division
American Historical Association
400 A Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Email: rtownsend@theaha.org
Phone: (202) 544-2422, ext. 118
Deirdre Murphy
Research Associate
American Historical Association
400 A St., SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: dmurphy@theaha.org
Phone: (202) 544-2422 ext. 117
Fax: (202) 544-8307
Web: www.theaha.org
posted 5/19/2003
CFP: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
The Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (JTCC) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal edited by Professor Mike Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Dr Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow, UK). This new journal focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex global context.
Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple 'ways of being', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume "culture". The JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate. The JTCC seeks to address fundamental issues such as
- Local-global connectivity, transculturation and global ideological frameworks;
- The making and re-making of places, identities and pasts;
- The erosion, resistance and survival of traditions and local/ethnic cultural pattern;
- The changing forms of cultural expression in the contexts of the pre- and post- industrial, pre- and post-modern and the post-colonial world.
- The powerful creative dimension to tourism and cultural change that emerges in language and translation through approaches of literature, travel writing, language education, film, art and varieties of performance.
For further information about submitting a paper or ordering this journal please contact Mike Robinson (mike.robinson@shu.ac.uk) or go to the 'journal section' of the Channel View Publications website (www.channelviewpublications.com).
posted 5/07/2003
CFP: Activating Jazz: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music-Making [May 31, 2003]
The Guelph Jazz Festival, in conjunction with the Centre for Cultural Studies / Centre d'études sur la culture at the University of Guelph, and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, invites proposals for papers to be presented at our annual three-day international multidisciplinary colloquium. This year's colloquium will take place September 3-5 as part of the tenth annual Guelph Jazz Festival (September 3-7).
Scant attention has thus far been paid by musicians, scholars, and activists to the specific relations between different forms of jazz and human rights theory and practice. The 2003 edition of The Guelph Jazz Festival colloquium will examine musical discourses of resistance in relation to pertinent issues of human rights, globalization, political theory, identity politics, cultural critique, and the development of new networks of social interaction and responsibility. Bringing together leading thinkers and creative practitioners, the colloquium will represent an original and needed contribution to discourses of resistance seeking to effect social change via non-traditional means. Talks, panels, and presentations will focus attention on broader theoretical concepts relating to the ways in which musical resistance is enacted in a variety of different cultural contexts and the ways in which jazz and improvised music have informed (and/or been informed by) broader social movements opposed to neoliberalism, globalization, and transnational corporatism. Participants will examine the sonic meaning of oppositional musics in relation to specific political, cultural, and theoretical sites and issues, and provide a unique glimpse into the array of resistant social formations in which jazz and improvised music are key features. Another key feature of the colloquium will be the way in which musicians and scholars alike will seek to address specific policy issues relating to musical culture. Timed specfically to coincide with the 10th anniversary edition of The Guelph Jazz Festival, a festival long-recognized for the way in which it stages resistant musical practices, the colloquium will provide a resonant entry into the contentious arena where music, politics, and cultural theory meet.
We are particularly interested in papers that cut across communities of interest and involvement and that speak to both an academic audience and a general public.
Please send (500 word) proposals or completed papers (for 15 minute delivery) and a short bio by May 31st to: The 2003 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium c/o Dr. Ajay Heble, Artistic Director The Guelph Jazz Festival 123 Woolwich Street, second floor Guelph, Ontario N1H 3V1 CANADA email: jazzcoll@uoguelph.ca Fax: 519-763-3155
posted 5/07/2003
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