Annnouncements
Upcoming Graduate student conferences
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Fifth Annual North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference
Saturday, February 21, 2009
At Ridddick Hall on the NC State Campus in Raleigh, NC
The NC State History Graduate Student Association welcomes proposals from
graduate students at any institution, for individual papers on any
historical topic, including public history, and on any time period. The
presentations will last approximately fifteen minutes each. Comments by
area faculty and general discussion will follow. Selected papers will be
published electronically.
If interested, please submit a 250-word proposal and a current CV. Email
submissions are preferred. Please send an email to
hgsaconference@gmail.com that includes your name, institution, and field
of specialization, with the proposal and CV attached. Hard copy
submissions may be sent to:
North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference
Dept. of History, Box 8108
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8108
All proposals must be received by November 30, 2008.
Lunch will be provided for attendees that have pre-registered at the
Conference website.
For more information, visit
http://history.chass.ncsu.edu/graduate/hgsa/conference.php, or email
hgsaconference@gmail.com
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The Department of History of The University of Alabama is pleased to announce its First Annual Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle, to be held at the UA campus on March 6-7, 2009. The conference will include a keynote speaker addressing the conference theme, with a reception following. We invite graduate students nationwide to submit proposals that engage the conference theme by examining power relations in all historical field and time periods. We also welcome submissions from exceptional undergraduate students for a Phi Alpha Theta panel.
The conference theme focuses on the dynamic between power in personal, social, political, or institutional relationships and the struggle to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. We seek proposals employing innovative approaches, interdisciplinary research, and critical theory. Particular attention will be given to papers developing comparative perspectives and utilizing multi-archival research. Possible topics may include but are not limited to histories of
- Power in institutions, society, and religion
- Struggle in cultural expression, memory, social relationships, and belief systems
- Power in discourse on race, class, and gender
- Struggle against labels in ethnicity, nationalism, sub-culture, or sexual identity
- Power in traditional structures such as politics, diplomacy, imperialism, and war
- Struggle in resistance such as crime, protest, liberation, and revolution
For further information about the conference theme, see our website at
http://www.as.ua.edu/history/new/html/ghaconference.html
Single paper submissions should include a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV of the presenter. Applicants are also strongly encouraged to submit full-panel proposals, which should include a 150-word abstract detailing the theme of the panel as well as 300-word abstracts and CVs for each panelist.
The deadline for proposal submission is November 15, 2008. Final papers should be submitted to commentators by February 1, 2009. All submissions should be sent via email in Word format to Co-Chair Becky Bruce at bruce004@bama.ua.edu .
University of Alabama Graduates Student History Conference Committee:
Becky Bruce, Co-chair
John C. Mitcham, Co-chair
Megan Bever, member
Colin Chapell, member
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Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History (March 5-7, 2009)
Location: Illinois, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2008-11-01
Date Submitted: 2008-08-20
Announcement ID: 163600
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163600
This year's theme, "Transforming Power," seeks to interrogate a variety of trends shaping the field of women's and gender history. The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically and temporally diverse body of papers; exciting proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, analysis of whether and to what extent power—as both a force in the world and an analytical scaffold—has been transformed over the past decades of feminist scholarship and activism. Of related interest, as well, would be proposals that engage the issue of difference in women's and gender studies and history, especially the benefits and difficulties of using difference as a scholarly and political frame of reference.
The Executive Committee of the Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers.
The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 5-7, 2009. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.
For the Tenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work:
Roderick A. Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters' proposals and the availability of funds.
To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com .
To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.
For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, David Greenstein or Laura Duros at gendersymp@gmail.com
Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Email: gendersymp@gmail.com
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2009 Florida State University Department of Religion Graduate Student Symposium
The Florida State University Department of Religion is pleased to announce its eighth annual Graduate Student Symposium, to be held Feb. 20-22, 2009. Graduate students nationwide are invited to submit proposals that engage this year's theme, "Identity, Boundaries, and Movement in Religion". Topics may include but are not limited to:mirroring, pilgrimage, polemics, migration of ideas and peoples, and inter-religious dialogue. Other papers relevant to the study of religion are also welcome under an open call.
Submissions are encouraged from all graduate students in religion or other fields with interdisciplinary interest in the study of religion. We welcome a variety of approaches, with particualr interests in papers pertaining to the following subfields: 1) Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy; 2) American Religious History; 3) Religions of Asia; 4) Religions of Western Antiquity. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length and will have faculty responses at the conclusion of the panel. An award will be given for the best paper.
Submission of an abstract (roughly 300 words) is required for review. Abstracts must be accompanied by a CV. Propsals should be sent to Lauren Davis at fsureligionsymposium@gamil.com.
The deadline for submissions is Dec.1, 2008, and final papers should be submitted by Jan. 15, 2009.
Lauren Davis
FSU Dept. of Religion
116 Dodd Hall
Email: lauren gray@fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com
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Call for Papers:
Rethinking American Political History: A Graduate Student Conference
We are accepting paper and panel proposals for a graduate student conference to be held at Boston University on March 21 and 22, 2009. This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together emerging scholarship in American history that challenges traditional approaches to understanding American politics. The weekend will provide an opportunity for graduate students to collaborate, debate, and engage with one another and established professionals in the field of political history. The conference builds upon the recent reinvigoration of political scholarship by promoting exciting research ideas and forging new academic relationships.
Panels will be organized broadly around six fields of American political history:
- policy
- political economy
- political culture
- the changing electorate
- political identities
- foreign relations
We encourage submissions from any era, colonial to present, that reinterpret the meaning of "political" and use new methodology and approaches to studying American history.
Please submit an abstract of your original research and a current c.v. by November 15th, 2008. We will accept both panel and paper submissions. Graduate students at all levels are encouraged to submit. Please send papers in MS Word format. Panels will include two or three paper presentations 15-20 minutes each. Presentations will be followed by a brief commentary offered by a graduate student or professor.
GPHConference@googlegroups.com
Boston University Political History Institute
Email: gphconference@googlegroups.com
Visit the website at http://www.bu.edu/history/gradconference
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"Out of Bounds: Exploring Global Connections"
World History Conference, March 21-22, 2009 at Northeastern University
Hosted by the NU History Graduate Student Association and the NU Department
of History
www.nugradhistoryconference.wordpress.com
The Northeastern University History graduate students and the NU Department
of History invite proposals for their upcoming graduate student conference,
"Out of Bounds: Exploring Global Connections." Graduate students working in
all disciplines of the arts and social sciences are encouraged to submit
topical papers, artwork and documentaries.
The conference invites scholarly work that challenges our notions of
boundaries and borders. The world is more connected today through
communication, technology, commerce, and politics than ever before. Exploring
global connections, in both the past and present, has therefore become
imperative for scholars throughout the social sciences. How can global
stories be told? How can we move beyond bounded paradigms such as the
nation, culture, and modernity, which have been ingrained, not only in our
literature, but also in our own minds? We welcome all scholarship that examines
these and related questions through the lens of race, gender, class, diaspora,
the environment, economics, globalization, violence, space/place, and related
fields.
Keynote Speaker: John Thornton, Boston University
Both individual and panel proposals will be considered. Regardless of
medium (visual media or scholarly paper), panelists will have fifteen
minutes each to present. The following documents should be sent to the
program committee at nuhstgradconf@gmail.com by December 1, 2008, to be
considered. Selected panelists will be notified via email by January 15,
2009.
Individual Panelists:
- 250 word abstract describing paper or artwork. Please specify
the type of media you will be presenting, and include your name, email
address, and phone number.
- List of supplies needed, if applicable
- Brief curriculum vitae
Panels:
- 250 word abstract for each paper or artwork to be presented with
the panel
- List of all panel members (3 per panel) with chairperson
designated.
- 250 word abstract that discusses the theme of the panel
- Brief curriculum vitae for each panelist
Please contact nugradconf@gmail.com with any questions.
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Fifth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference
April 24-25, 2009 Loyola University, Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, IL
Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola University Chicago Emerging Scholars, Evolving Scholarship: A Graduate History Symposium
Call for Papers
Masters and doctoral graduate students in any field of historical study are invited to submit proposals to present individual papers at Loyola's Fifth Annual History Graduate Student Conference. The goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity for students to gain experience presenting papers and receiving feedback from their peers on their work.
Sessions will include: Cultural History, Social History, Religious History, History of Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Public History, Economic History, Political History, and other topics TBA.
Proposals should include: submitter's name, contact information, institutional affiliation(s), a one page abstract of the paper (with a title), and a brief biographical statement indicating your academic status along with a return address and current e-mail address. Please note that submissions will be accepted as time and space permit.
Deadline for submissions is February 2, 2009. E-mail proposals as an attachment to HGSA Vice President Lisa Davis at: lucsymposium@gmail.com or mail to:
History Graduate Student Association c/o Lisa Davis Loyola University Chicago History Department 6525 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60626
For more information about the conference, please contact Lisa Davis at: lucsymposium@gmail.com
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The graduate students in History at the University of Toronto are pleased to invite proposals for the Fifth Annual Graduate History Symposium, to be held February 6-7, 2009. The aim of this two day conference is to bring together a diverse group of graduate students to explore scholarly research on the history of institutions, broadly conceived.
Institutions, as formal organizations, social practices, and established customs, have played a significant role in shaping history and in affecting how historians study the past. The practice of history is itself an institution; as scholars and students we must continually grapple with the implications that institutionalization has had on our subjects and on our methodologies. Histories of institutions are studies of power and control, of accepted norms and marginalized peripheries. They are also studies of agency and negotiation, and of cooperation and community.
We encourage submissions from graduate students in a variety of disciplines and across temporal, spatial and thematic boundaries. Some suggested areas of study include, but are not limited to:
* the environment, spaces, and human geographies * the construction of identities * intellectual ideas about self, society, and populations * technology and power * religion and belief systems * rebellion, resistance, and violence * law and order
Please send proposals, which should not exceed 250 words, along with a short biographical sketch to aghs@utoronto.ca. Proposals for entire panels are also encouraged.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by early January.
Julia Rady-Shaw
University of Toronto
Dept. of History
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St
aghs@utoronto.ca
Email: julia.rady@utoronto.ca
Visit the website at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/gradhistsymp/AGHS5/
