The NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, France’s Haunting Past: Debating Twentieth-Century History and French National Identity since 1990, is accepting applications for its five week seminar from June 5 – July 5, 2012. The purpose of the seminar is to explore and discuss four historical controversies that erupted during the 1990s and that shaped, and continue to shape French perspectives on the nation with its troubled twentieth-century past, even today. These controversies focused on World War I and its legacies of violence and political extremism, Vichy and French complicity in the Holocaust, decolonization and the Algerian War, and Communism and its crimes in Europe and around the world. The seminar will also explore representative recent literary and cinematic treatments of the historical events that provoked these controversies, and visit monuments and museums in and around Paris that recall these traumatic events and commemorate the victims. For more information visit: http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012″>http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012″>http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012

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Deadline:  March 5, 2012

In the study of culture and artistic expressions including literature, the other arts, architecture, performance, etc., “landscape” — i.e., space in general and aspects and representations of nature, the rural, the urban, the maritime, etc. — has become of recent a prominent area of inquiry. Sponsored by National Sun Yat-sen University, the University’s Center for the Humanities http://humanitiescenter.nsysu.edu.tw/ holds its 6th international conference with the theme Landscape, Seascape, and the Spatial Imagination on 2-3 November 2012. Abstracts in 200 words of papers on landscape, seascape, nature writing, literature and the environment, empire and periphery, city versus countryside, voices of (im)migrants and geographical space, etc. and including a brief curriculum vitae are invited by 5 March 2012 to Professor I-Chun Wang at chsc705@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Extended, revised, and peer-reviewed versions of the conference papers are planned to be published by National Sun Yat-sen University.

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