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Calls for Papers
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies invites submissions for a special issue on women of color and gender equity. With this special issue, we commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the 1974 Women's Educational Equity Act which provided funds for Title IX and codified women's equality under the law in the US setting forth a foundation for antidiscrimination policies and remedies as well as cultivating a language and rhetoric for gender equity. All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiers@osu.edu.
Fifteenth Annual Conference on Illinois History
Proposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois' history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology are requested for the Conference on Illinois History, September 26-27, 2013 in Springfield. Conference organizers welcome submissions from professional and avocational historians, graduate students, and those engaged in the study of Illinois history at libraries, historic sites, museums, and historical societies. Deadline for submissions is March 11, 2013.
2013 Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting
The Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) invites proposals for its 2013 Annual Meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hosted by Gettysburg College, the PHA will convene October 17-19, 2013, at the Wyndham Gettysburg. The program committee is especially interested in proposals that examine any dimension of Pennsylvania's experience with the Civil War, including sectionalism, national reconstruction, or developments after the war related to memory or veterans' affairs. The program committee also welcomes proposals that address history and culture in Pennsylvania and the broader Mid-Atlantic region in general. Deadline for submissions is February 22, 2013.
Federal History
Federal History, a journal of the Society for History in the Federal Government, welcomes manuscript submissions for its 2014 edition. It features articles exploring the development of the federal government.
Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow
The fifteenth annual women's history conference at Sarah Lawrence College, March 1-2, 2013, honors Amy Swerdow's life and her work as a committed and indomitable activist/scholar by making issues of peace and justice its central theme. Conference organizers invite scholars, artists, writers, and activists to submit proposals for papers, readings, workshops, and performances. Proposals should be no more than two pages maximum. Deadline is December 3, 2012.
Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow
The fifteenth annual women's history conference at Sarah Lawrence College, March 1-2, 2013, honors Amy Swerdow's life and her work as a committed and indomitable activist/scholar by making issues of peace and justice its central theme. Conference organizers invite scholars, artists, writers, and activists to submit proposals for papers, readings, workshops, and performances. Proposals should be no more than two pages maximum. Deadline is December 3, 2012.
Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes
The 45th annual conference of the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will be held in Utica, New York, October 9-12, 2013. The Mohawk Valley Conference Committee is soliciting proposals for papers, special sessions, and panel discussions relating to the conference theme beginning January 1, 2013. Visit the PAS: APAL web site for more information.
Women's History in the Digital World
Bryn Mawr College will host Womens History in the Digital World, March 22-23, 2013. Conference organizers will bring together experts and novices to share insights, lessons, and information on the landscape of women’s history in the world of twenty-first century technology. The program committee invites individual papers or panels on new projects, theoretical approaches, teaching, research and new challenges in the digital realm of historical and cultural research on women. Deadline for abstracts is December 14, 2012. Visit the conference web site for more information.
Call For Papers: Freedom, Rights and Power
A conference, “Freedom, Rights and Power: Recasting Women’s struggles across the Americas since 1900” will be held April 26-27, 2013 at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London, UK. This two-day multidisciplinary conference seeks to explore the intersection between gender, revolt and power across the Americas. Proposals for papers should not exceed five hundred words and must be accompanied by a working title and CV. Abstracts should be submitted to the organizers by January 4, 2013. For more information, contact freedomrightspower2013@gmail.com.
Fighting Women: A Symposium on Women's Boxing
This two-day symposium seeks to explore the diverse ways women have participated in amateur and professional boxing. The purpose will be to investigate women’s involvement in boxing in its broadest sense, from historical, ethnographic, cultural, and artistic perspectives. This multidisciplinary approach hopes to take into account the multiple, often intersecting, aspects of this exploitative and dysfunctional, yet equally compelling and beautiful, sport. This symposium will be held June 21-22, 2013 at The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is hosted by Brock University. Proposal deadline is January 31, 2013.
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Essays are wanted for Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, a new digital, peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Nebraska Press. The journal's mission is to provide a forum for scholars from across Humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues, and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the Humanities contributes to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources. The publishers are interested in narratives produced through or around objects, geographic spaces, information cultures, political agendas, and social movements central to environmental practices and ideas. We welcome essays of around 5K words that are written in a clear style, that attempt to make disciplinary knowledge accessible to a range of readers, and that pay attention to the intellectual commitments that drive their analyses. Resilience is also interested in photo essays and reports on community activism. Please send queries or essays to the editors (Stephanie LeMenager, University of California at Santa Barbara and Stephanie Foote, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) at resiliencejournal@gmail.com.
JAH Call for Papers: Civil Rights Struggles
of the 1950s and 1960s
Please join the Journal of American History in its exploration of the African American freedom movement, focusing on the history, meaning, and legacies of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Over the next three years, we invite scholars to submit articles that address the events of those years and illuminate new ways of thinking about the historical significance of that momentous time. Specialists in all fields of history are encouraged to submit their work for consideration.
National Catholic Reporter History Research Award
The National Catholic Reporter will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding in 2014-2015. As part of the commemorative activities, a book-length scholarly historical study will be published of the newspaper's first fifty years. The NCR invites scholars, of both junior and senior standing, including doctoral students in the dissertation-writing phase, to submit a proposal. The deadline for the proposals is December 31, 2012.
17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, and Society in the American Northeast
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, in conjunction with its 15th anniversary, presents the conference “17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, and Society in the American Northeast.” This interdisciplinary conference, October 17-19, 2013, examines the complexity of a changing cultural landscape, consequences of colonization and warfare by bringing together scholars in fields such as American studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnohistory, geography, literature and Native American studies. Email abstracts to Dr. Kevin McBride (KMcbride@mptn.org), Director of Research, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Please include “Abstract Submission, October 2013 Conference” in the subject line. Deadline for submissions February 1, 2013.
Civil Rights Struggles of the 1950s and 1960s
Please join the Journal of American History in its exploration of the African American freedom movement, focusing on the history, meaning, and legacies of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Over the next three years, we invite scholars to submit articles that address the events of those years and illuminate new ways of thinking about the historical significance of that momentous time. Specialists in all fields of history are encouraged to submit their work for consideration.
NINE Conference on Baseball History and Culture
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture announces its twentieth annual spring training conference on the historical and sociological impact of baseball, Wednesday, March 13-Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Tempe, AZ. Conference organizers welcome proposals for original, unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history and social policy implications. Deadline for proposals is December 3, 2012.
2013 UVA History Graduate Student Conference
The Corcoran Department of History at The University of Virginia is pleased to announce its Annual Graduate Student Conference on the theme, Historicizing the Present. The conference will be held at the University's campus on February 23, 2013, and will include a keynote address by Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) with a reception following. The Program Committee for 2013 invites proposals from graduate students nationwide for individual papers on all topics related to the theme, Historicizing the Present from its pre-colonial era to today. The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2012.
2013 McMullen Naval History Symposium
The History Department of the United States Naval Academy invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 2013 McMullen Naval History Symposium in Annapolis, Maryland, on 19-20 September 2013. The 2011 symposium was extremely successful, with over 250 in attendance, and over 125 papers presented. Deadline for proposals is February 4, 2013
2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its 2013 annual conference to be held in Austin, Texas, February 28-March 3. The conference will explore the ideas of liminality and borderlands in popular music, focusing on those things (artists, genres, textures, developments, etc.) that are neither and both at the same time. Deadline for proposals is Thursday, November 1.
Society for the History of Women in the Americas Workshop
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas invites interested to facilitate one-off research training workshops with postgraduates and early career scholars, to be held in London during the week beginning 3rd December 2012. If you would like to be involved or have any further questions, please contact the organizers, Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, University of Oxford, via shawsociety@gmail.com.
SHFG Thomas Jefferson Prize
The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2013 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2011 or 2012. The prize recognizes the editor(s) of a single volume or one or more volumes in a project that contributes significantly to the understanding of the history of the federal government. It will be awarded at the SHFG annual meeting in College Park, Maryland in March 2013. Deadline for submissions is November 15.
International Bibliography of Military History
The Bibliographical Committee of the International Commission of Military History encourages submissions to the International Bibliography of Military History. The deadlines for the two issues (due to be published in summer and in winter) are 1 April and 1 September, respectively.
Society for Applied Anthropology
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for its 2013 program to be held in Denver, CO, March 19-23. The theme of the program is "Natural Resource Distribution and Development in the 21st Century." The SfAA is a multidisciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2012 For more information, please visit www.sfaa.net/sfaa2013.html.
Envisioning Peace, Performing Justice: Art, Activism, and Cultural Politics in the History of Peacemaking
The Peace History Society seeks proposals for panels and papers for its upcoming meeting October 25-27, 2013 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The program committee seeks proposals from across the humanities, social sciences, and fine and performing arts disciplines that reveal both the artistic and performative dimensions of peacemaking and the vital roles that artists and activists have played as visionaries, critics, interpreters, and promoters of peacemaking efforts around the world. For more information, please visit www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2013/.
Alabama Historical Association
The Alabama Historical Association invites proposals for individual papers and themed panels to be given at its 66th annual meeting in Eufaula, Alabama, on April 11-13, 2013. This meeting is open to scholars, educators, public historians, students, local historians, and members of the general public who share an interest in the history of Alabama from its founding through modern times. Proposals must be submitted by October 10, 2012. For more information, please visit www.alabamahistory.net.
2012 Conference on the Civil War
The Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi seeks papers for its 2012 Conference on the Civil War to be held October 19-20. With the theme "The War at Home: Civilian Life During the American Civil War," the center encourages submissions that interpret the theme broadly, and suggests topics such as the civilian experience, women and men on the homefront, slavery and emancipation, churches and religion, wartime politics, irregular warfare, and Union and Confederate domestic policies. Deadline for proposals is August 15. For more information, please visit www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/conference2012.html.
2013 NCPH Annual Meeting Call for Proposals
The program committee of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) has issued its call for proposals for the 2013 annual meeting. The meeting is scheduled for April 17-20, in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, visit: http://ncph.org/cms/conferences/2013-annual-meeting/ The program committee of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) has issued its call for proposals for the 2013 annual meeting. The meeting is scheduled for April 17-20, in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/conferences/2013-annual-meeting.
New Materials: Their Social and Cultural Meanings
Historians of science, technology, and medicine as well as scholars in science and technology studies, anthropology, the visual arts, cultural studies, and related fields are invited to submit essays for an edited volume on the historical and cultural meanings of new materials. The resulting collection of essays, focused on the creation, testing, and definition of materials in all historical settings, will be published in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series of the University of Pennsylvania Press and edited by Amy Slaton (Drexel University). Essays should not exceed 10,000 words (exclusive of endnotes), and must be received for consideration by November 1, 2012. Please address inquiries to Amy Slaton at slatonae@drexel.edu.
The Presidential Election of 2012
On November 16 and 17, Hiram College will host a two-day conference featuring panels on many aspects of the 2012 presidential election: voting behavior, demographic trends, and the election outcome; general election strategies of the two nominee’s campaign organizations; the role of the media and public opinion; the role of economic policy; the role of domestic policy; the role of foreign and national security policy; and the makeup, policy inclinations, and relationship of the new 113th Congress with the president. Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2012. For more information, please visit thehiramcollege.net/garfieldinstitute/conference-2012/the-presidential-election-of-2012/.
Smithsonian Symposium on Technology and the Civil War
Proposals are sought for a symposium on technology and the American Civil War, as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s contribution to the war’s sesquicentennial commemoration. It will be hosted by the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, November 9-11 2012. For more information, contact the symposium organizer, Bart Hacker, at: hackerb@si.edu, no later than June 30, 2012.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies will move its editorial offices to The Ohio State University for the next five years starting in May 2012. Frontiers explores the critical intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and transnationalism. In celebration of its fortieth anniversary in 2015, Frontiers will publish a special issue per year for the next five years reflecting on significant events and topics from forty years ago, with the first issue commemorating Roe vs. Wade. The editors welcome scholarly, creative writing, and visual art submissions on reproductive rights, reproductive justice, and reproductive technologies. For more information contact the editors at .
Examining World War II and Religion
The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Department of Religion at the Florida State University seek paper proposals for a conference examining “World War II and Religion” to take place in Tallahassee, Florida (November 30-December 1, 2012). Scholars who focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and the Soviet Union, as well as Europe and North America are encouraged to submit paper proposals by March 15, 2012. For more information about the conference or the Institute please contact G. Kurt Piehler at . For more information, please visit ww2.fsu.edu/.
Northwest Ohio History
The journal Northwest Ohio History is actively seeking unpublished scholarship addressing northwest Ohio’s political, military, social, economic, cultural, and ethnic history. Submissions, letters of inquiry, or other questions may be sent to: Larry L. Nelson, Editor, Northwest Ohio History, Department of History, Bowling Green State University, 128 Williams Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43404, or e-mail: .
Civil War Study Group Symposium
The Civil War Study Group will hold its fifth annual symposium at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL, on September 15, 2012. The organizing committee seeks proposals for papers related to the theme of “Abraham Lincoln and the Intersection of War and Society.” For more information contact Daniel W. Stowell, Director, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, via e-mail at: dstowell@papersofabrahamlincoln.org. Deadline is April 15, 2012.
The Cosmopolitan Metropolis: Urban History Association Conference
The sixth biennial conference of the Urban History Association will be held in New York City, October 26-28, 2012. Its program committee seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history. Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012. For more information, please visit uha.udayton.edu/conf.html.
Borders, Boundaries, and Beyond: A Graduate Student Historical Studies Conference
The 2012 Central Michigan Graduate Student Historical Studies Conference, to be held April 13-14 in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, welcomes proposals from scholars in the humanities and the social sciences that explore the benefits, challenges, and the limitations of crossing borders and moving beyond boundaries. Individuals wishing to participate should send a 250-word abstract and a short CV to histconf@cmich.edu. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2012.
2012 New Jersey Forum
The New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Archives, and the New Jersey State Museum invite proposals for research papers to be delivered at the New Jersey Forum on Saturday, November 17, 2012 (location TBD). The annual forum provides an opportunity for college and university faculty, teachers, graduate students, independent scholars, museum professionals, historical society members, and all others with an interest in New Jersey studies to present new research to their peers. For more information contact Niquole Primiani (Niquole.Primiani@sos.state.nj.us). Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.newjerseyhistory.org.
Northern Great Plains History Conference
The Society for Military History (SMH) sponsors sessions at the Northern Great Plains History Conference (NGPHC) which will be held September 27-29, 2012 in Fargo, ND. The SMH encourages graduate students as well as faculty, government, and independent historians to submit proposals for papers or sessions. Please send a one-page paper proposal and c.v. or, for a full session proposal, send a one-page session proposal, and a one-page abstract for each paper, and c.v.s for all participants, to: jcfitzharris@stthomas.edu by April 1, 2012.
2012 International Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
The 2012 International Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universit․t Berlin, will be held May 11-12, and invites papers on a range of diverse topics around the theme, “Making It Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Belonging and Displacement in America.” For more information, please visit www.gsnas.fu-berlin.de/en/conference/2012/.
Conference on Illinois History
Proposals are invited for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois’ history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology for the 2012 Conference on Illinois History, October 11-12, in Springfield, Illinois. For more information, please visit www.IllinoisHistory.gov/conference.htm.
2013 OAH Annual Meeting
The program committee invites proposals for the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting, April 11-14, in San Francisco, California. The theme for the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History.” More information, including proposal instructions and deadlines, are available at our web site.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History are planning a joint publication, scheduled for 2014, on teaching Pennsylvania history. Submissions are especially encouraged from teachers who have a special interest in a topic such as women's history, African American history, etc., who can prepare an article that also describes their methodology with suggestions for illustrations, documents, and connection to Web sites that would help others teach that subject in the context of Pennsylvania and U.S. history. Please send inquiries to either Tamara Gaskell (tgaskell@hsp.org) or Bill Pencak (wap1@psu.edu). Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2013.
National Council for Public History Call for Proposals
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) invites panel, roundtable, workshop, working group, and individual paper proposals for its 2013 conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada. The Call for Poster sessions will be issued in fall 2012. Deadline for proposals is July 15, 2012. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/.
Call for Papers: Women, The Arts, and Activism
Women, The Arts, and Activism, a Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College, will be held in Bronxville, New York, March 2-3, 2012. Free and open to the public, conference organizers invite the submission of proposals for papers, panels, workshops and performances that express the diverse nature of the story of women in the arts, and their activism, from ancient to modern and postmodern, from all areas of the arts. Deadline: Monday, December 5, 2011. Please send proposals to: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu.
The Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States has issued a call for papers for its fifth annual conference at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands, June 20-22, 2012. Proposals are requested on all topics concerning the history of the United States from 1890 to the present. Please send a c.v. and a 300-word abstract of the proposed paper or session to Dr. Sandra Scanlon (sandra.scanlon@ucd.ie), School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland by November 30th, 2011. For more information, please visit www.hotcus.org.uk.
Converse College Conference on Southern Culture
Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Converse College Conference on Southern Culture, April 12-14, 2012. The focus of this conference is the “big picture” of southern culture, from okra to opera. We invite papers that examine the unique qualities of diverse southern cultures, interrogate the threads that bind these cultures together, and, we anticipate, propose divergent ways of thinking about the South. For more information, please visit www.converse.edu/academics/school-humanities-and-sciences/englishcreative-and-professional-writing/southern-culture-c.
Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History
The Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks paper proposals for its upcoming symposium, March 1-3, 2012. Submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history are invited. Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011. For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs Ashley Hetrick and Derek Attig at gendersymp@gmail.com.
International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
ICHORA 6: International Conference on the History of Records and Archives 6 invites proposals for papers for its upcoming international conference to explore work in progress, theoretical perspectives, and needs and opportunities for research in the broad area of the history of the shared, conflicting, and complementary heritage of archival enterprise with these related fields. Deadline for submission of proposals is Monday, December 12, 2011. For more information, please visit www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ichora6/.
2012 Reconciliation in America National Symposium
The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation invites session proposals for its 2012 Reconciliation in America national symposium on “The Politics of Reconciliation,” scheduled for May 30-June 1. Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.jhfcenter.org/the-centers-work/national-symposium-june-2-4-2010/.
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
The 2102 Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 11-April 14 at the Copley Marriott Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of popular culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. Prospective presenters should email a one-page abstract with full contact information by December 20, 2011. For more information, please visit www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php.
Committee on Community Colleges Seeks Panels for 2012 OAH Annual Meeting
Each year, the OAH Committee on Community Colleges sponsors two panels at the OAH Annual Meeting. As stated in the OAH general call for proposals, the theme for the Milwaukee 2012 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy.” The committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with these and other issues and themes in American history. We urge presenters to continue the ongoing transition from simply reading papers to more actively “teaching” the topic of their sessions. Roundtables and workshops offer an excellent format for this. We prefer to receive proposals for complete sessions, but will consider individual paper proposals as well. Please submit proposals, both for individual and complete panels, to OAH Committee on Community Colleges Chair DeAnna Beachley at deanna.beachley@csn.edu by September 26, 2011.
Call for Workshop Presentations at 2012 OAH Annual Meeting
The OAH Committee on Community Colleges will sponsor its fourth annual Community College Workshop at the 2012 OAH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, April 18-22. These half-day workshops are intended to present in-depth discussions of issues of special interest to two-year college faculty, with a particular focus on teaching issues, such as designing and implementing online classes, hybrid classes, student writing issues. Past workshops have explored topics such as designing online classes, assessment, using public history in the community college classroom, and teaching in multilevel classrooms. The committee invites the submission of proposals for the 2012 workshop. Presenters can expect to have approximately 45 minutes in which to present their topic. Proposals should take into account the fact that these are workshops rather than panels, and as such should include activities and resources that will actively engage the audience in discussion and learning. We will consider both proposals for complete sessions and individual papers. Please submit proposals, for both individual and complete panels, to OAH Committee on Community Colleges Chair DeAnna Beachley at deanna.beachley@csn.edu by September 26, 2011.
2012 Spring Academy in American History, Culture and Politics
The ninth Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) Spring Academy on American History, Culture, and Politics will be held from March 26-30, 2012. The HCA invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their projects. Participants are requested to prepare a 20-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by a 40-minute discussion. Proposals should be a maximum of 300 words with a provisional title. These will be arranged into ten panel groups. Deadline for applications is December 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.hca-springacademy.de.
2012 Virginia Forum
The 2012 Virginia Forum will be held on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 29-31. The Virginia Forum is interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and professionals in all fields. The theme, “Greater Virginias,” emphasizes Virginia’s relationship across political and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. Application deadline is September 30, 2011. For more information, please visit www.virginiaforum.org/.
Manuscripts sought for Antisemitism Series
Professor Eunice G. Pollack, University of North Texas, is editing a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in America for Academic Studies Press. Please submit book manuscripts or book proposals for consideration for publication in this series to Professor Pollack via e-mail to epollack@unt.edu.
2012 Conference of the Appalacian Studies Association
The Center for Northern Appalachian Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) invites session and paper proposals for its 2012 conference of the Appalachian Studies Association, to be held March 23-25 on the IUP campus in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Proposals are welcome for scholarly research papers and sessions; poster sessions related to community work or presenting scholarly research; panels and community presentations; new and relevant films, videos, poetry, music, plays, art, and writing; and roundtable conversations on relevant, contemporary issues and topics. For more information, please visit www.appalachianstudies.org/conference/2012/ASA_CallforPartic2012.pdf.
2012 Virginia Forum
The Virginia Forum is interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and professionals in all fields. The theme, “Greater Virginias,” emphasizes Virginia’s relationship across political and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. The program committee invites proposals from fields including all the arts and sciences: economics, politics, geography, law, literature, history, politics, archaeology and anthropology, environmental studies, museum and library studies, preservation, and others. Deadline for proposals is September 30, 2011. For more information, please visit www.virginiaforum.org/.
2012 SfAA Call for Papers
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts for sessions, papers and posters, for its 2012 annual meeting program in Baltimore, MD, March 27-31. The theme of the program is “Bays, Boundaries, and Borders.” The Society is a multidisciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution and welcomes papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.sfaa.net.
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era invites submissions for a planned special issue around the theme, “Women’s and Gender History in Global Context.” Any subject is welcome, so long as the manuscript in some way addresses the theme, focuses on the time period (roughly 1870-1920) covered by the journal, and has a U.S. component. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.jgape.org.
George Washington Encyclopedia
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate, Museum, and Gardens (http://www.mountvernon.org/) welcomes submissions for entries on a variety of topics to be included in this new online encyclopedia. Scholars of eighteenth century America are particularly encouraged to apply, however applications are also welcome from academics and graduate students with an advanced degree in any period of American History. The George Washington Encyclopedia will be the first and only online encyclopedia exploring the life, career, and legacy of the first president. More information contact Adam D. Shprintzen, Ph.D., Project Editor/Coordinator, George Washington Encyclopedia, (703) 799-6882, e-mail: . For more information, please visit www.mountvernon.org/learn/collections/index.cfm/pid/1365/.
Business History Conference Annual Meeting
Proposals for presentations to the 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference are invited. The conference will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia, PA at the Hyatt Regency Penn’s Landing. The theme of this year’s conference is “Business and the State.” The program committee is interested in substantive research on all aspects of business and the state. For more information contact bhc2012@hagley.org, or in writing to: Roger Horowitz, Secretary-Treasurer, Business History Conference, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807. Phone (302) 658-2400.
Native American Symposium and Film Festival
The Ninth Native American Symposium and Film Festival (http://www.se.edu/nas/) will be held November 2-4, 2011, at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. The symposium invites proposals for papers, presentations, panel sessions, creative projects, and films, on all aspects of Native American life. Send abstracts of no more than 250 words by June 25, 2011 to Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, e-mail: mspencer@se.edu.
2011 National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Conference
The National Park Service and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program invites proposals for its 2011 conference to be held in Clermont County, Ohio, June 15-18. For more information, please visit www.ugrconference.com.
Conference on Critical Refugee Studies
The Conference on Critical Refugee Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee requests proposals for its upcoming conference to be held in November, 2011. Conference organizers invite paper proposals that chronicle and reflect on the experiences and representations of refugee populations. Abstracts are due by May 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www4.uwm.edu/letsci/ethnic/pdf/conference2011_call.pdf.
British Historians of Women in the Americas
The British Historians of Women in the Americas (BHWA) will hold their annual conference on Wednesday July 6, 2011 at Brunel University, West London, and will run in parallel with the Feminist and Women?s Studies Association?s Futures of Feminism conference. For more information, contact Rachel Ritchie rachel.ritchie@brunel.ac.uk
Great Lakes History Conference
The 37th annual Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand Valley State University, will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on October 7-8, 2011. The Great Lakes History Conference is a general history conference with an interdisciplinary emphasis. The program committee seeks panels and papers on the history of education broadly considered, from national and transnational perspectives, with particular focus on providing a historical context to current crises in education, whether at the elementary and secondary level or in higher education. For more information and a link to the conference, visit the Grand Valley State University History Department website at: For more information, please visit www.gvsu.edu/history.
Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Expositions is an online journal where scholars from various disciplines gather as colleagues to converse about common texts and questions in the humanities. Expositions seeks to publish two types of contributions: articles that either have an interdisciplinary character and appeal or are exemplary in their respective disciplines while being of interest to those from other disciplines or notes, insights and reflections on Teaching the Great Books that benefit teaching, research, and the life of the academy. For submission guidelines contact managing editor Greg Hoskins (). For more information visit For more information, please visit expositions.journals.villanova.edu.
White House History
White House History, the journal of the White House Historical Association, is published twice each year and features articles on the historic White House, especially those that relate to the building itself, its uses, and life as lived there through the years. Authors interested in submitting an article are asked to complete the White House History abstract submission form available online. Abstracts are due March 1, 2011. For more information, please visit: For more information, please visit www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_publications/publications_whitehousehistory-call.html.
2011 Peace History Society Conference
The Peace History Society invites paper proposals for its 2011 meeting, October 20-22, to be held at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. The program committee seeks presentations that focus on the theme for its conference: Inter-personal as Political. Strong conference papers will be considered for publication in Peace and Change to be co-edited by the program co-chairs. Deadline for proposals is April 30, 2011. For more information visit: For more information, please visit www.peacehistorysociety.org.
Historians of Twentieth Century United States (1890-present)
The Historians of the Twentieth Century United States has issued a call for papers for its fourth annual conference to be held at St. Anne?s College, University of Oxford, in July 2011. Proposals from scholars outside the United Kingdom as well as those undertaking postgraduate study are especially welcome. For more information, please visit www.hotcus.org.uk.
Conference on Illinois History
The Conference on Illinois History invites proposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology as well as proposals for teacher workshops. For more information, please visit www.IllinoisHistory.gov/conference.htm .
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
The thirty-third annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) will meet in Philadelphia, July 14-17, 2011. The Program Committee invites proposals for sessions and papers exploring all aspects of the history and culture of the early American republic. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2010. For more information, please visit faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/ctfriend/SHEAR1.htm.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers of the Second World War
Contributors are needed for a monograph on American war correspondents during World War II. This monograph is already under contract (Dictionary of Literary Biography) and due for production by the end of 2010. Please direct proposals and inquiries to Professor Jeffery B. Cook, Department of History, North Greenville University, by e-mail at jcook@ngu.edu
Joint Journalism Historians Conference
The American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division invite submissions for completed papers, research in progress, or panel discussions for presentation at the Joint Journalism Historians Conference–the American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division joint spring meeting. For more information, please visit journalism.nyu.edu.
Journal of Illinois History seeks manuscripts
The Journal of Illinois History seeks manuscripts on all facets of the history of Illinois and its citizens. Contributions in social, political, economic, and cultural history are welcome, as are related midwestern and Civil War topics, the history of the Northwest Territory, and Illinois biography. Articles for publication are carefully chosen by the editors, who solicit the comments of at least two referees. Articles are judged on their quality and depth of research, originality, significance of the subject matter, and appropriateness for the JIH. For more information, please visit www.illinoishistory.gov/journal.htm.
White House History
White House History, the journal of the White House Historical Association, is published twice each year and features articles on the historic White House, especially those that relate to the building itself, its uses, and life as lived there through the years. Current topics to be considered are “Congress and the White House” and “The History of the Presidential Libraries.” Authors interested in submitting an article are asked to complete the White House History abstract submission form available online. Abstracts are due December 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_publications/publications_whitehousehistory-call.html.
Call for Papers: Southern Labor Studies Conference
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, the 15th Southern Labor Studies Conference proposes to turn a similar self-critical gaze on the materials labor historians rely on to produce the field of labor history. Read more >
Call for Papers: Popular Music Histories
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music welcomes proposals concerning all facets of popular music in the United States. and abroad, but especially encourage submissions that address the themes: canonical histories; alternative histories; archival approaches; historical methods; and local histories. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2010. Read more >
Call for Papers: Heidelberg Center for American Studies 8th Annual Spring Academy Conference
The eighth Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) Spring Academy on American History, Culture, and Politics will be held from March 21—25, 2011. The HCA invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. Read more >
Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women
The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work, and gender theory. Read more >
Roger Williams University—Call for Papers
Roger Williams University is seeking papers for its third conference on religion and the state. Researchers are invited to submit from any academic fields, especially, though not exclusively, from history, political science, literature, and religious studies. The conference, entitled “Religion and the State in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and America,” will be held April 13, 2011, at the university. The deadline for submission is October 1, 2010. Read more >
Pennsylvania History: A Call for Civil War Papers
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, is seeking paper submissions for a 2011 special issue on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region. Papers concentrating on Pennsylvania history as well as papers on the broader Mid-Atlantic region are encouraged. Read more >
Vernacular Architecture Forum: Call for Papers
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its 2011 annual meeting in Falmouth, Jamaica. Papers should address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but papers that explore topics related to the conference theme of heritage tourism are encouraged. The deadline for paper proposals is September 13, 2010. Read more >
Journal of American History: Textbooks and Teaching, 2011
In March 2011, the annual “Textbooks and Teaching” section of the Journal of American History will focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, in the context of college-level history courses. Essays of 15–20 pages may be submitted for consideration no later than July 31, 2010. Read more >
International Conference on the History of Freemasonry
Call for papers: The Third International Conference on the History of Freemasonry. Read more >
Call for Papers: New Directions in Long Beach Studies
Papers are invited for the first annual Long Beach Community Studies Conference to be held September 11, 2010 at the Historical Society of Long Beach, California. Read more >
Submission deadline extended for the JAH special issue: “Borderlands”
The deadline for paper submissions to the “Borderlands” special issue of the Journal of American History has been extended to September 10, 2010. Read more >
Call for Papers: Conference on Slavery and the University
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies is an international conference that will be held at Emory University in February, 2011. Prospective presenters are invited to submit panel and paper proposals by April 26, 2010. Read more >
Call for Papers—Ab Initio: Law In Early America
The Legal History Consortium and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies together with the American Society for Legal History, the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Minnesota Law School, will sponsor a conference focusing on the legal history and historiography of North America to 1820. Paper proposals should be submitted by February 15, 2010. Read more >
Social Science History Association Conference, Culture Network
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association will be held in Chicago, Illinois, November 18–21, 2010. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 15, 2010. Read more >
Annual National Underground Railroad Summit
The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program and friends, invite proposals for the upcoming annual conference to be held in Topeka, Kansas, July 28–31, 2010 Read more >
Urban History Association—deadline extended
The deadline has been extended to February 15, 2010, for proposals for the Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20–23, 2010. Read more >
Pennsylvania Historical Association: Call for proposals
Call for proposals for “New Perspectives on Pennsylvania’s Past,” the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2010 Annual Meeting, October 14–16 2010, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Read more >
Conference Military History, Potsdam
Announcement for the conference “On the Path to Reunification: West and East Germany in their Alliances from 1970 to 1990” convened by the Military History Research Institute in Potsdam from September 22–24, 2010. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of German reunification, the 51st International Conference for Military History focuses on the role security and military policies played in the long run-up to 1989–1990. The conference is open to everyone interested in the topic. For more information, please visit www.mgfa.de.
Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference: Labor and Immigration: Past and Present
The Southwest Labor Studies Association will host its 36th Annual Conference, May 7–8, 2010, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This year’s theme is “Labor and Immigration: Past and Present.” The conference will feature plenary sessions on labor and U.S. immigration policy and on immigrant worker organizing in Silicon Valley and the Monterey Bay area. For more information contact David Brundage at brundage@ucsc.edu or Pedro Castillo at pcastle@ucsc.edu. Read more >
San Francisco Rights Conference
San Francisco State University will host a conference September 16–17, 2010, exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society. The deadline for papers and proposals is March 15, 2010. Read more >
Student Activism, Southern Style: Organizing and Protest in the 1960s and 70s
Call for papers on any aspect of student activism among southern students in the 1960s and 70s for a conference at the University of South Carolina, March 19-21, 2010. Proposals for full panels welcomed, individual papers will be considered. Send a brief panel or paper abstract, along with a CV to sasshist@mailbox.sc.edu by December 1, 2009. For full panels, include information for each presenter. Selected presenters will be informed by January 1, 2010. If you are interested in serving as a chair/commentator, please send a CV to sasshist@mailbox.sc.edu.
W. Curtis Worthington Research Paper Competition
The Waring Library Society and the Waring Historical Library at the Medical University of South Carolina invite entries for the W. Curtis Worthington Jr. undergraduate and graduate research papers competition. Entries must be received by April 30, 2010. Read more >
New England Journal of History
The New England Journal of History is accepting articles for its Fall 2010 Journal on American domestic issues. The deadline is March 2010. The Spring 2011 issue will be a general issue, open to any aspect of history, and the deadline is September 2010. The Journal uses The Chicago Manual of Style, and articles and questions can be sent to Dr. Joseph Harrington, Editor, cacg1@aol.com.
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