[Sighfis-l] Call for Papers for Colloquium: Transcending Boundaries

[Boyd Rayward]

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR
Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change - A colloquium to be held at the Mundaneum, Mons (Belgium), 20-21 May 2010 

Papers for the colloquium will explore aspects of network development, information creation, organization and exchange, and related “boundary spanning” activities of individuals and institutions and the scholarly tools and techniques that this enabled them to develop during the period of the “Belle époque” approximately from 1880 to 1914,in which the Western European world underwent extensive social, political and “epistemic” change.
 
Abstracts which will be refereed, of not more than 500 words in English or French should be submitted by January 31, 2010 to W Boyd Rayward at wrayward at illinois.edu 

Authors will be notified by February 28, 2010. Accepted papers must be delivered at the Colloquium in English. 

For further information see 
ENGLISH: http://www.mundaneum.be/index.asp?ID=621    
FRENCH:http://www.mundaneum.be/index.asp?ID=616 

Enquiries should be sent to: 
W Boyd Rayward -- wrayward at illinois.edu or
Stephanie Manfroid -- stephanie.manfroid at mundaneum.be 

W. Boyd Rayward
Professor Emeritus
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel St
Champaign, IL 61820-6211
ph: 217 - 244- 9741
fax: 217  244 -3302