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ALBA George Watt Memorial Essay Contest [Current Deadline - April 1, 2000]
The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of Daemen College is sponsoring a conference on "Teaching with Film: Interdisciplinary Approuches to Cinema". This conference will examine various pedagogical methodologies of film study from a variety of disciplines, providing an opportunity for those who apply different approuches in the classroom to share insights on the use of film as historical, cultural and literary text.
Complete panel proposals and individual papers will be considered. Possible panel topics include:
All panels will be held on Saturday, October 16, 1999. A reception will be held on the evening of Friday, October 15.
Paper proposals should include a 200 word abstract, resume and contact address. Panel Proposals should include abstracts, resumes and contact addresses for each member, including names and addresses of chairs and discussants. Panels will each be 90 minutes long, consisting of 3 twenty minute presentations, followed by commentary and discussion.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 18, 1999. Persons whose proposals are accepted will be notified by July 2, 1999.
Please send all formal proposals and written enquiries to:
Dr. Andrew Kier Wise
Dept. of History & Government, Daemen College, Box 665
4380 Main Street
Amherst, NY 14226
Email: awise@daemen.edu
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Archives (ALBA) is pleased to announce the continuing annual competition for
the ALBA George Watt Memorial prizes for the best college student essays about the Spanish
Civil War, the anti-fascist political or cultural struggles of the 1920's and 1930's, or
the lifetime histories and contributions of the Americans who served beside the Spanish
Republic from 1937-1938. Two prizes of $500 each will be awarded each year - one to the
best undergraduate paper and one to the best graduate student paper written on one or more
of the above topics. Papers will be judged on the basis of originality, effectiveness of
argument, and quality of writing. The paper must have been written to fulfill an
undergraduate or graduate course or degree requirement. Submissions are encouraged from
U.S. and international contestants.
The deadline for receipt of essays is April 1, 2000. Essays written either during the year
of submission or during the previous calendar year are eligible for the competition.
Essays must be at least 5,000 words long to be considered for the prize. Applicants should
submit five copies of their paper, typed, double-spaced, and with an SASE for return.
Please mail entries to:
Eunice Lipton
201 West 85th St. 7E
New York, NY 10024-3909
The award winners will be announced each Spring. The Executive Committee of ALBA will
appoint the judges for the contest.
ALBA is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination of the
record of the American role in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. ALBA
supervises a major archive at Brandeis University (the most comprehensive historical
archive documenting the American involvement in the Spanish Civil War) and supports
cultural and educational activities related to the war and its historical, political,
artistic, and biographical heritage. Some 2,800 American men and women, realizing the
danger international fascism presented to the world, came to the defense of the Spanish
Republic in the years just prior to the Second World War. On the other side were forces
led by rebel Spanish generals supported by Hitler and Mussolini.
The prizes honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran George Watt (1914-1994),
not only for his own long anti-fascist record but also as a symbol of the many American
men and women who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives in this struggle. Watt himself
was a veteran of Spain who then served in the U.S. Army Corps in World War II. An
effective voice for a variety of social causes in his lifetime, Watt was also a driving
force behind ALBA.