Notices

Notices about awards, calls for papers, events, jobs and memorials

Call for Papers: Tonics, Elixirs, and Poisons: Psychoactive Substances in European History and Culture

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For a Conference 8-9 September 2012, the Antipodean East European Study Group at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, seeks proposals for papers that engage with the following. Psychoactive substances, whether narcotics, stimulants or hallucinogens, affect their users as individuals, yet their social context informs their cultural significance. At different times and in different places, …

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Call for Papers: Wine Culture in the Transnational World

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For its 2012 annual conference, the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto presents “Foodways, Diasporic Diners, Transnational Tables, and Culinary Connections,” Thursday October 4 – Sunday, October 7, 2012. Panel Description: “Wine Culture in the Transnational World” I am interested in showcasing work that introduces critical concepts to the study …

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CFP: Addiction: What is the Added Value of the Concept Today?

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The Colloquium of the University of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies announces a Thematic Meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society, Conference Hotel Majvik, Helsinki, Finland 14-17th October 2012 Background: Addiction is a concept that has relatively recently – within two or three decades – become a common expression that covers no longer only traditional substance …

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Call for Papers: Drugs and Drink in Asia

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Editor’s Note: We’re posting a just-issued call for papers for a conference (“Drugs and Drink in Asia: New Perspectives from History”) to be held at Shanghai University through the David F. Musto Center for Drug Policy Studies.  As one of the conference organizers, I’d like to invite readers to recall Prof. Musto himself.  Doubtless he’d …

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