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Announcements The Journal has received the following announcements. Requests for inclusion of future announcements should reach us nine months prior to the deadline of the event (to ensure timely publication of posting and allow adequate time for applicants to respond). Send all announcements to: Managing Editors, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History , The Ohio State University, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1367, or e-mail . The women's history faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites proposals to re-examine existing paradigms and explore emerging ones in the field at a conference to be held in New York City, Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, 1999. To ensure a wide array of current scholarship, established scholars are urged to apply in pairs with a graduate student or recent Ph.D. Graduate students and junior faculty are encouraged to apply individually if necessary. Instead of panels where papers are read and criticized, the format will be working seminars where the presenters discuss new issues and methodologies which have arisen in women's history in the 1990s. The focus will be on recent scholarship and how it has changed previous conceptions or given rise to new concerns . We are especially interested in approaches which question accepted temporal and national historical divisions. Proposals should be sent by September 30,1998 to: Attn. Professor Bonnie S. Anderson, Ph.D. Program in History, City University of New York Graduate Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. The Irish American Cultural Institute (IACI) announces funds available for Irish-American research. The IACI is now accepting applications from research individuals to investigate the Irish experience in America. The Institute welcomes applications from all disciplines. Primary research is the focus of this program. Projects such as museum exhibitions, oral history collections, and the compilation of bibliograprties and other research tools are also eligible to apply for these funds. At present, the IACI has three completed funds to support such research. One is the Lawrence and EUzabeth O'Shaughnessy Irish Research Fund; another is the Irish Institute of New York Irish Research Fund; and the third is from the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Philadelphia, PA. Applications are accepted from any state. In the event that two applications weigh in evenly, consideration will be given to research which focuses on a matter from the region © 1998 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10 No. 2 (Summer) 240 Journal of Women's History Summer of the fund's origin. The prime considerations are the significance of the matter proposed and the capabüity of the researcher to pursue it. Original research and possibly assistance for travel or publication costs can be funded up to a maximum of $5,000. For an application, please write to: Irish Research Fund, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1 Lackawanna Place, Morristown, NJ 09760, or call: (973) 605-1991. Applications must be received by October 1,1998. E-mail: . The European literary magazine Leffre International and Weimar 1999, European City of Culture, in close cooperation with Germany's Goethe-Institut, is in the process of carrying out an International Essay Prize Contest. The question that must be answered in essay form is: "Liberating the future from the past? Liberating the past from the future?" Participants are to send their essays by the end of November 1998, in any of the seven official contest languages (six UN languages, i.e., English, French, Spanish, Chinese , Arabic, and Russian, plus German, the organizers' and contest host's language). For further details on prizes, jury procedures, and conditions of entry, see the announcement of the International Essay Prize Contest on the contest's internet homepage . ...