Call for papers for the 2010 NEMLA Montreal
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 14:13span xmlns=''pspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'strongNEMLA Montreal 2010 Conference
/strong/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'7-11 April 2010
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Montreal, Canada
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/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'strongCall for papers for the 2010 NEMLA Montreal Conference for the following roundtable:
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/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'strong"Translation and Identity: Transforming the Personal toward the National and the Global"
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Famine food and information
Submitted by Sabine Eller on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 08:51I was just trying to find translations for the Latin names in Robert L. Freedmans famine food list (the pages takes quite some time to load since it is long and it is just a buffer application for now) What I noted is that for many plants there is just the Latin name. This helps scientists, but not people. Almost none of them are in Wikipedia, but just in botanical databases at Universities ...
US Counter-Terrorism Center: The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 21:23span xmlns=''pspan style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System is the National Counterterrorism Center's database of terrorist incidents.br/br/According to NCTC definition, terrorism occurs when groups or individuals acting on political motivation deliberately or recklessly attack civilians/non-combatants or their property and the attack does not fall into another special category of political violence, such as crime, rioting, or tribal violence.
UCLA CEES LECTURE: Islam in Soviet and Post Soviet Azerbaijan
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 21:17span xmlns=''pspan style='color:black; font-family:Verdana; font-size:9pt'emA public lecture by ALTAY GOYUSHOV, Baku State University, History
/em/span/ph4Thursday, June 11, 2009br/12:00 PM - 2:00 PMbr/10383 Bunche Hallspan style='color:#669966'
/span/h4pspan style='color:black'Altay Goyushov is Professor of History at the Baku State University and Visiting Professor in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
/span/ppspan style='color:black'emCost: Free and open to the public/em
/span/ph5span style='color:black'Special Instructions
Call for Papers: The Russian Cyberspace Journal
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 20:19span xmlns=''p
/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman' The Russian Cyberspace Journal invites contributions for its second issue From Comrades to Classmates:
/span/ppspan style='font-family:Times New Roman'Social Networks on the Russian Internet The deadline for submissions is 1 July 2009.
Call for Proposals: The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 20:17span xmlns=''p
/ppspan style='font-size:10pt'2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 24-26, 2010
Call for ProposalsThe Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 15:51span xmlns=''p
/ppspan style='font-size:10pt'2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 24-26, 2010
Call for papers for the 2009 AATSEEL-WI Conference
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 13:51span xmlns=''pAATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference
/pp16-17 October 2009
/ppUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
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/ppAbstracts for 20 minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures and cultures (including film, music, the visual arts, and language pedagogy) are invited for the annual conference of the Wisconsin chapter of AATSEEL (The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages).
/ppComparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin- Madison on Friday and Saturday, 16-17 October 2009.
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Call for Papers: The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems(MEDES 2009)
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 17:57span xmlns=''pspan style='font-size:10pt'br/ Technically sponsored by both ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapterbr/ Technically sponsored by IEEE France amp; IEEE SMCSbr/ with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6br/ a target='_blank' href='http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes'http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/abr/ October 27-30, 2009br/
Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2009-10, renewable)
Submitted by Liladhar Pendse on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 17:50span xmlns=''pspan style='font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt'The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in textual studies. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Victoria, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, and beyond.

