December 2000 Newsletter
Announcements
The DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History
The Peace History Society invites submissions for the prize to be given to the
author or authors of an outstanding article published in English in 1999 or 2000,
which deals with peace history. This may include articles appearing in journals
or in edited works which focus on the history of peace movements, the response
of individuals to peace and war issues, the relationship between peace movements
and other reform issues, comparative analyses, quantitative studies, or other
relevant subjects.
The Prize carries a cash award of $500. Articles should be submitted in triplicate
by February 1, 2001 to: Prof. Robert Shaffer, History Department, Shippensburg
University, Shippensburg, PA. 17257.
For further information, you may also contact Prof. Shaffer via e-mail at:
roshaf@ark.ship.edu. For information
about the work of the Peace History Society, including membership information,
visit the web site: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Peace.
Graduate Student Fellowships
Established in 1987 with generous funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Contemporary History Institute of Ohio University offers a certificate
to accompany graduate degrees in history, economics, political science, and journalism.
It has become a major center for teaching and research in all aspects of the post-1945
era.
The Institute is able to award several renewable fellowships with stipends
of $10,000 or $13,000, along with tuition and fee waivers, to students pursuing
MA of PhD degrees in the above fields. It has succeeded in recruiting an exceptional
group of students from all over the world and is able to provide them instruction
in a setting characterized by small classes, careful faculty supervision, excellent
research facilities, and a strong sense of community.
Successful applicants have normally had GRE scores within or near the top decile
in the verbal and analytical sections of the general examination and have accumulated
honors-level grade point averages. Applications should be received no later
than February 1, 2001. For further information contact: Harold Molineu, Interim
Director, Tel: 740-593-4362; E-mail: molineu@ohio.edu
or consult the CHI web site at: http://www.ohio.edu/~conhist.
Oral History on CD-ROM
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training is releasing a CD-Rom with
893 transcripts from its Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection. The CD-RPM also
has 48 country readers ó country-specific compilations of excerpts from the individual
histories. These oral histories are by both career and non-career American diplomats
and others who were involved in the forming and implementing of American foreign
policy from World War II to the present.
The accounts cover U.S. relations with almost every country in the world. Subjects
range from epic events to the tedium of everyday actions. The interviews also
describe the lives abroad of diplomatic officers engaged in specialized activities
such as economic development and assistance, public diplomacy, agriculture,
labor issues, consular matters and negotiations on disarmament and trade. The
collection incorporates some two dozen interviews from U.S. presidential libraries.
A powerful search engine enables users to find instantly all references to any
subject, theme, time or place.
For information about this offering, entitled Frontline Diplomacy: The U.S.
Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection, please check the Association's website:
http://www.adst.org or write: Association
for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 4000 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA 22204.
Tel: (703) 302-6990
Fax: (703) 302-6799
ICAS Fellowships
New York University's International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS) and its
Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict invite applications for fellowships
for the academic year 2001-2002. The Center welcomes scholars in the humanities
and social sciences, governmental and non-governmental policy analysts, NGO staff,
and independent researchers with training and experience equivalent to the PhD.
The Center encourages scholars from outside the U.S. to apply. Stipends are $35,000
for 9 months. Fellows will have offices and will be eligible for low-cost NYU
furnished studio apartments. The application deadline is January 16, 2001.
For 2001-2002 the theme is War and Peace: 1945-2000. It includes the nature
of war and peace since WWII, their definitions and their complex relationships
to the Cold War in its own varied meanings. The Center is particularly interested
in research on how the East-West Cold War shaped and was shaped by North-South
dynamics of decolonization, both at the general and theoretical level and at
the level of local case studies. Subsequent themes will be Everyday Life, Knowledge,
Culture and History, Governance, Alternatives.
Please visit the ICAS website, http://www.nyu.edu/institutes.nyu,
for a fuller description of the project and for application forms. For ìhard
copiesî of the application or more information, contact:
Fellowships, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University,
53 Washington Square South, Room 401, New York, NY 10012-1098.
Fax: (212) 995-4546
E-mail: icas@nyu.edu
First Call for Paper/Panel Proposals
The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) will host the ASPAC 2001
conference, June 8-10, 2001. Asia ó Breaking with the Past? is the theme of the
conference. Organizers welcome proposals for papers and panels that reflect on
the past and explore future possibilities in domestic, international, and regional
developments throughout Asia.
Paper proposals from graduate students are encouraged. A prize of $150 is provided
for each of three graduate student papers selected from among those that directly
address the conference theme. Selected students will present their papers on
a graduate student panel. All proposals should include the name, affiliation,
address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address of each panelist and should be
submitted by March 31 to:
Tsuneo Akaha, ASPAC 2001
Center for East Asian Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies
425 Van Buren St.
Monterey, CA 93940, U.S.A.
Tel: (831) 647-4146
Fax: (831) 647-4100
E-mail: Takaha@miis.edu
Information of ASPAC 2001 is available at: http://ceas.miis.edu/aspac/
Bradley Seminar
The 2001 Bradley University Berlin-Prague Seminar will be held June 10-22. The
seminar is intended for social scientists, historians, and others interested in
the culture, society, economy, and politics of Central Europe. It includes formal
discussions with German and Czech leaders from the realms of academia, business,
and politics, as well as short trips to points of interest. All sessions are conducted
in English or with a professional translator. The cost of both segments is $1600;
or either segment may be attended separately for $600 in Prague or $1000 in Berlin.
Up to 40 individuals can be accommodated. Applications are due by January 5, 2001.
For further information, contact John A. Williams, Department of History, Bradley
University, Peoria, IL 61625, Tel: (309) 677-3182; E-mail johnw@bradley.edu.
You may also visit the website: http://www.bradley.edu/academics/las/his/Berlin.
SHAFR Roster Information
Regarding registering for the SHAFR roster, the staff at Blackwell wishes to make
this process as quick and easy as possible for SHAFR members. If you have discarded
or mislaid your journal wrapper, you can simply contact the Blackwell e-help desk
at: e-help@blackwellpublishers.co.uk
to request your customer number. For your convenience, this information also appears
on the main SHAFR register/logon screen. You will find your customer number on
your address label, in the top left-hand corner. If you have mislaid it e-mail
e-help@blackwellpublishers.co.uk
for assistance. I hope this will help with the registration process, but if anyone
has any problems or queries, please also feel free to send them to the e-help
desk (as above).
Boundaries to Freedom:
The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945-1960
The Roosevelt Study Center in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of War
Documentation Middleburg, The Netherlands, will sponsor a conference on October
18th/19th 2001. This conference aims at a multi-disciplinary evaluation of the
lasting significance and consequences of the cultural activities of the Cold War
in Western Europe as a battle-ground for the shaping of democratic societies.
It also seeks to reassess the critical interpretations of the Cold War that were
developed in the 1960s and 1970s and take a fresh look at the complex mix of public
and private organizations that were engaged in this struggle. The journal Intelligence
and National Security is keen to publish the conference papers with the idea of
bringing out a Special Issue. In connection with this, the material is also likely
to appear as both a hard-back and soft-back book.
The papers should fit into one of the following five panels:
- Scripting the Cold War: The Discourse of Peace and Freedom. In what terms
was the Cold War perceived in the western world? What can discourse analysis
reveal about the conditions of the Cold War ìmoodî? How did memories of and
traditions of resistance in the Second World War affect the conceptualization
of the Cold War? What role did gender play as a category in the perceptions
of the Cold War?
- Organizing the Cold War: How did a combination of private and public organizations
fight the Cold War? Which initiatives were taken on both sides and how did
these trigger reactions?
- The Politics of Productivity: How were labor and business relations shaped
under the influence of Cold War, thinking, and what were the consequences
for democratic society?
- Opinion Makers and Convert Action: What use was made of intellectuals and
their ideas in the (convert) politics of the cultural Cold War? How does one
assess the linkage between intellectual activities and clandestine networks?
- Cold War and Popular Imagination: How did various forms of popular culture
(sports, arts, film, religion, etc.) reflect the Cold War ìmoodî and how did
political and civil institutions use them to direct public opinion?
Those interested in submitting a proposal (1 page) for a presentation (20 minutes)
and a cv are invited to write before January 15, 2001, to: Giles Scott-Smith,
Javakade 472, 1019 SC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel. (31) 20 4196656. E-mail:
gilscosmi@compuserve.com or Hans Krabbendam, Roosevelt Study Center, P.O. Box
6001, 4330 LA Middleburg, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31) 118-631590; Fax: (31) 118-631593; E-mail: jl.krabbendam@zeeland.nl.
New and Free Foreign Publication
Announces the publication the number ì0î of ìInternational history, politic and
cooperationî the Department of History of the University Roma Tre in Rome, Italy.
If there is someone who would like to receive this number free, please send your
address to: giulia.aubry@tin.it. This young group of historians of international
relations would like to know your opinions and ideas about it. The publication
is, of course, in Italian and English. For more information contact:
Dott.ssa Giulia Aubry
Department of History
University Roma Tre
Via Torino, 95-00184-Roma
Tel: 06-4824704
Fax: 06-4741082
The 23rd Annual Hoover Presidential
Library Association Travel Grant Program
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association annually awards grants to
researchers to cover the cost of trips to the Hoover Presidential Library in West
Branch. Funds must be used for research at the Hoover Library. Although there
is no specific dollar limit, grants have ranged from $500 to $1,500 per applicant
in recent years. The HHPLA also will consider larger requests for extended graduate
and post-doctoral research.
Current graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and qualified non-academic
researchers are eligible to apply. Proposals are considered for funding by an
independent panel of scholars.
The program seeks to encourage scholarly use of the holdings of the Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library. Potential applicants are encouraged to consult
the most recent edition of Historical Materials in the Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library which is available free upon request from the Library. Finding aids
for all of the Library's major holdings are available online at www.hoover.nara.gov.
Applicants should consult with the archival staff prior to submitting a request
for funding. The staff can be reached at: P.O. Box 488, West Branch, Iowa 52358.
Tel: (319) 643-5301 or at library@hoover.nara.gov.
The deadline for receipt of applications and all supporting materials is March
1, 2001. Awards will be announced no later than May 1, 2001. Application materials
are available on our website or upon request from:
Hoover Presidential Library Association
P.O. Box 696
West Branch, Iowa 52358
Tel: (391) 643-5327
Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
The editors have chosen the themes of imperial and post-colonial studies because
they are applicable to every region where a human society has developed at some
point in time. They encourage discussions of state formation and diplomacy, yet
do not preclude issues of race, gender, or class.
JIPCHS is a new semi-annual journal for recent Ph.Ds and graduate students
to expand the limits of colonial and post-colonial studies by incorporating
interdisciplinary methods into their works. Contributors should address issues
of statecraft, social change, cultural interaction, and economic relations within
the historical context of imperialism and colonialism in any region of the world
and in any time period, from antiquity to the present.
JIPCHS will accept manuscripts submitted in any language. The author, however,
must provide a copy of an English translation. JIPCHS will publish the English
language text in the journal and post the original language text of its web
site. Foreign language manuscripts must meet the same criteria stated for articles
submitted to JIPCHS.
JIPCHS is a fully-refereed publication. Copies and/or summaries of the anonymous
readers' reports will be sent to authors. Evaluations will require three to
five months, although in some exceptional cases they may take longer. Copies
of manuscripts will be returned only to those authors who provide self-addressed,
stamped envelopes. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, copy-edited
versions will be sent to the authors for approval before the finished article
goes to press.
Send three (3) copies of the manuscript and all correspondence to:
Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies
c/o Department of History
301 Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1036
E-mail: jipchs@pilot.msu.edu
Contact information:
Nicholas M. Creary
Erasmus Institute
1119 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46656-5611
Tel: (219) 631-3436
E-mail: crearyni@pilot.msu.edu
Call For Papers
The New England Journal of History in its 57th year is looking for papers for
its spring, 2001 issue focusing on varied aspects of American Foreign Policy
between 1846 and 1946. Deadline is February 1, 2001. Contact:
Joseph Harrington
119 Holmes Ave.
Stoughton, MA 02072
E-mail: cacg@ca-cg.com