CLA: IHRC Updates

The Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism is a new academic organization created to foster and facilitate collaboration among historians working in this field. Those interested in the history of migrations, ethnicity, transnationalism and related subjects are invited to join the CCMET listserve or visit the web site. (more)

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Friday, October 16, 10:10-12:10, Mondale Hall 55.
The Legal History Workshop will be hosting Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is currently working on transitional justice, postcolonial citizenship, and war crimes trials in Asia following WWII. Capozzola will be presenting a paper from his current research titled "A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945."

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The 2 volume set Daily Life in Immigrant America 1820-1870 (by James M. Bergquist) and Daily Life in Immigrant America 1870-1920 (by June Granatir Alexander) is being released in soft cover. Readers will find the approach similar to David Kyvig's Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.

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Please join us in congratulating IHRC Director and History professor Donna Gabaccia who has been named to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for the 2009-10 academic year.

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Videos with closed captions from the Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration seminars presented by leading scholars in fall 2007 at the University of Minnesota are now available.

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We are soliciting abstracts for papers to be included in a panel entitled, "Is humanitarianism compatible with refugee rights?" This panel will be part of the World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, organised by the universities of Bochum, Groningen and Wageningen.

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To complete an upcoming issue on Rac(e)ing Questions, the multidisciplinary online journal gender forum seeks two more contributions discussing intersections of race and gender in literature, film, or culture. We welcome contributions from all disciplines. Completed manuscripts should be submitted via email to gender forum by September 15, 2008.

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The Fulbright German Studies Seminar offers U.S. scholars the opportunity to meet in Germany to discuss current issues relevant to both Germany and the international community. This year's seminar will be dedicated to "Germany's Future: New Parties - New Solutions?"

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When: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:45-2:30 p.m.
Where: Wilkins Room 215, 2nd floor of HHH Center
301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN

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Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Legal History by Professor Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa. Flyer.

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AMST 8920: Oceanic Space & Movement in Atlantic/Pacitic/Indian Ocean Worlds, Reading and Theorizing Oceanic Space and Movement, Instructor: Kale Bantigue Fajardo. (course description)

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