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Call for Papers
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The Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians will be held at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee, 3-6 April 2003. The program will be organized around the theme of Social Justice and American History. That choice is centrally informed by the location of the meeting in Memphis and, particularly, by the coincidence of the meeting with the thirty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. While the program will include a number of key sessions on the Civil Rights Movement and on Dr. King, the incoming president, Ira Berlin, and the program co-chairs envision the program as a broad and creative exploration of the struggle for justice in American history, with respect to chronology, topic theory and method. We also believe the theme can encompass traditional fields such as political, diplomatic, economic and intellectual history, and we warmly welcome sessions inspired by those fields. In this spirit, the committee invites proposals for panels, workshops, roundtables, and performances, on-site and off-site. Although we encourage proposals for entire sessions, the program committee will accept individual proposals and make every effort to place those papers on the program. Complete session proposals must include a chair, participants, and one or two commentators. All proposals must include five collated copies of the following information: 1) cover sheet, including a complete mailing address, email, phone number, and affiliation for each participant; 2) abstract of no more than 500 words (not required for single paper proposals); 3) prospectus for each paper of no more than 250 words; and 4) a single-page vitae for each participant. Proposals sent with less than five collated copies will be returned. We also welcome volunteers to act as chairs or commentators to be assigned by the program committee. All proposals must be postmarked no later than 15 January 2002 and sent to: 2003 Program Committee Participation in Consecutive Annual Meetings Affirmative Action and Membership Requirements The committee likewise will work to follow the OAH policy and guidelines of having the program as a whole, and individual sessions to the extent possible, represent the full diversity of the OAH membership. We strongly urge proposers of sessions to include ethnic and racial minorities, as well as junior academics, independent scholars, public historians, and American historians from outside the U.S., whenever possible. The OAH executive board has set aside a small sum of money to subsidize travel to the annual meeting for minority graduate students appearing on the program. All participants must register for the meeting. Participants specializing in American history and who support themselves as American historians are also required to be members of the OAH (by 1 October 2002). Participants representing other disciplines do not have to be members. 2003 Program Committee
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