Calls for Papers and Panels
CALL FOR PAPERS
The College of Arts, University of Glasgow, is excited to announce Spaces of (Dis)location, a two-day multidisciplinary graduate conference taking place on 24th-25th May 2012.
As national and cultural boundaries are blurred in our increasingly global society, the ideas of space and location – whether physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary – are evolving. This notion provides the stimulus for a conference that we hope will inspire creativity and debate across many subjects in the arts and humanities.
A major aim of this conference is to foster networks and connections across different institutions and subjects. It is also our intention to publish an edited volume with articles from this conference through the University of Glasgow’s international postgraduate research journal eSharp.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Ideas of space: physical and imaginary
- Spatial dichotomies (urban/rural, public/private)
- Globalization
- Localism
- Cultural and natural spaces
- Adaptation (literary, linguistic, cinematic, etc.)
- Cultural diaspora
- Immigration
- Spaces of performance
- The space of the body
A Pecha Kucha presentation consists of 20 slides, each shown for exactly 20 seconds, so the entire presentation will therefore last 6 minutes and 40 seconds. It is an engaging and challenging format for researchers at every stage of their career, but provides a particularly creative format for those just starting their research to receive feedback on their project design and initial findings.
The poster sessions will take place during conference coffee breaks. Presenters will have the opportunity to briefly introduce their poster and then the posters will all be on display during the break. The poster session will offer a space for presenters to introduce their research to other participants and, like the Pecha Kucha format, is particularly helpful to those just starting their research.
In addition to the poster and Pecha Kucha formats, we will also accept proposals for short performance pieces or films that reflect the themes of the conference. If you wish to submit such a proposal, please also provide us with any technical specifications that your piece will require.
Please submit abstracts or proposals of no more than 250 words as e-mail attachments to: arts-pgconference@glasgow.ac.uk. Please include a 50 word biography and specify which presentation format you would like to use.
Deadline for submissions is Friday 9th March 2012.
More information regarding the conference (including information on accommodation and transportation) can be found on the conference’s Wordpress page: http://spacesofdislocation.wordpress.com/
CALL FOR PAPERS
From our friends and colleagues at the American Historical Association: We seek your help to increase the number of sessions on Military History represented at the AHA. We hope you and your colleagues will put together sessions that represent the best and most innovative work in your field. Our theme for the 127th annual meeting is "Lives, Places, Stories," and will take place in New Orleans January 3-6, 2013. Wherever possible we are particularly interested in sessions that represent more than one geographic area or approach to the subject; but we also intend this theme to be broad, and welcome a wide range of papers and sessions. For more information about proposing a session please visit the AHA website at http://www.historians.org/annual/proposals.htm. The submission deadline for session proposals is February 15th, 2012.
CALL FOR PAPERS
HISTORICON, "Historical Miniature Gaming's Biggest Summer Vacation" - www.historicon.org - invites military historians to present papers at the 28th anniversary convention of 19-22 July 20112. The theme of this convention is: “Empires at War: Colonial Warfare, Imperialism, and Gunboat Diplomacy.”
HISTORICON has a great Seminar Series which welcomes papers on all aspects of military history - from ancient to modern. Seminar participants are very interested in your take on a specific battle, tactical systems, army organization, the development and deployment of weapons, or military biography. Past presenters include military professionals, academics, government policy makers, and part-time historians. The following link showcases our 2010 presenters - http://www.historicon.org/HIST2010/guests.asp
Interested? Send us a proposal. We need but an abstract and vita, and are willing to consider first-time presenters, graduate students, and anyone who has a passion for military history. Papers, with time for questions and answers, should be no longer than an hour. PowerPoint shows work very well, but note – we cannot provide a laptop.
If your paper is selected for presentation at HISTORICON 2011, you will obtain a free pass (admission) to attend all convention events (a $35 value). If you have not previously attended HISTORICON, or never considered historical miniature war games as a hobby, you will probably find the convention intriguing.
Paper proposals considered until 5 March 2012. For more information, contact John Dunn, History, Valdosta State University, Valdosta GA, 31698-0035, or jdunn@valdosta.edu.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Department of Religion
Florida State University
“World War II and Religion”
November 30-December 1, 2012
The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Department of Religion at Florida State University seek paper proposals for a two-day conference in Tallahassee, Florida focusing on Religion and World War II. Conference organizers G. Kurt Piehler and John Corrigan seek papers that touch on the institutional, theological, and human impact of religion in World War II. We are interested in the global dimension of this conflict and encourage scholars whose work focuses on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and the Soviet Union, as well as Europe and North America. We are interested in addressing the ways that combatants and civilians drew upon religious ideals and institutions to sustain them in an age of total war, and especially how soldiers, sailors, and aviators behaved religiously in the course of their service. Additionally we solicit papers that consider the roles religious organizations and values played in fostering ethical conduct during the war, providing humanitarian relief, and protecting non-combatants and conscientious objectors, as well as analyses of various kinds of religious justifications for violence, including genocide. Among the questions we seek to address: did religious leaders and institutions foster a climate that encouraged rather than retarded the drift to total war? Are there really no atheists in foxholes? What was the legacy of the war for religious institutions and ideals, especially in the defeated Axis Powers? How did religious institutions discredited by their support of the Axis Powers seek to regain their legitimacy? What kinds of compromises did persons negotiate with their religious beliefs in wartime? In what way was pre-existent religious rhetoric deployed to characterize enemies as evil? How did the war diminish and exacerbate the perception of religious differences?
We encourage contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The conference organizers hope to provide travel funding to graduate students and junior scholars to encourage their participation. Plans call for the publication of an anthology drawn from the conference proceedings edited by John Corrigan and G. Kurt Piehler.
Those seeking to participate in the conference should submit a 750 word abstract along with a short 3-5 page c.v. via Microsoft word attachment or PDF File to G. Kurt Piehler at kpiehler@fsu.edu by March 15, 2012. For further information about the conference, please contact John Corrigan at jcorrigan@fsu.edu or G. Kurt Piehler at kpiehler@fsu.edu.
G. Kurt Piehler
Director
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
Department of History
Florida State University
401 Bellamy Hall
113 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2200
Telephone: (850) 644-9541
E: Mail: kpiehler@fsu.edu
Website: www2.fsu.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
Northern Great Plains History Conference
27-29 September 2012
Fargo, ND
The Society for Military History sponsors sessions at the NGPHC. We encourage graduate students as well as faculty, government, and independent historians to submit proposals for papers or sessions. We view “military history” in much the way the Journal of Military History views the subject. The SMH Conference Coordinator works closely with the Conference Program Chair to ensure the strongest possible conference. We coordinate session development and scheduling.
The SMH and the First Division Musesum, Cantigny, co-sponsor the SMH-FDMC prize for the best paper by a graduate student in military history, valued at $400. Instructions for submission will accompany acceptance of your proposal.
The NGPHC sponsors a separate graduate paper prize. The SMH and FDMC sponsor the SMH-FDMC prize for the best paper by an undergraduate student in history, valued at $200. The Conference Program Chair, Dr. Mark Harvey (Mark.Harvey@ndsu.edu) handles these prizes. Contact Dr. Harvey for more information on the general conference, or to submit a proposal that is not within military history. The NGPHC welcomes graduate and undergraduate students, and faculty, government historians, and independent scholars.
In addition to a full slate of sessions, the SMH sponsors a lunch and, following the end of the conference, a tour, and a dining-out on Saturday afternoon. This year, the tour will be to the “Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site” which actually consists of two sites telling the story of the Cold War years in North Dakota. They are the Oscar-Zero Missile Alert Facility and the November-33 Launch Facility. They are the last remnants of the 321st Missile Wing.
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 1 April 2012.
For more information, see http://personal2.stthomas.edu/jcfitzharris/NGPHC
Contact: SMH Conference Coordinator:
Joe Fitzharris, jcfitzharris@stthomas.edu
432 JRC
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105 USA
651.334.3360
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Knowing your Public(s)—The Significance of Audiences in Public History”
2013 Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 17-20, 2013
In 2013 the National Council on Public History will meet at the Delta Ottawa City Centre, in the heart of downtown Ottawa, Canada, with Canada’s Parliament buildings, historic ByWard market, national museums and historic sites, river trails, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Rideau Canal, and numerous cafes and restaurants within easy walking distance. The program committee invites panel, roundtable, workshop, working group, and individual paper proposals for the conference. The Call for Poster sessions will be issued in fall 2012.
As Canada’s capital, Ottawa is the national centre of the museum, archival and heritage community, and its historical and cultural attractions draw 5 million national and international tourists annually. Ottawa’s two universities have strong connections to public and applied history. The federal government employs many history practitioners and creates a market for private consultants. With so many diverse fields of Public History theory and practice represented, Ottawa is an ideal place to consider issues and ideas associated with the theme of “Knowing your Public(s)—The Significance of Audiences in Public History.”
These could include:
- the changing nature of the public and the evolution of the discipline over the last forty years;
- how the public and Public Historians influence each other in the production of history;
- the effects of changing approaches to public participation, reciprocity, and authority on Public History theory and practice;
- the impact of digital media on expanding or excluding public engagement;
- generational differences including Public History for the millennial generation;
- intersections between Public History practised at universities and in the broader community;
- issues related to working with ‘closed’ audiences in fields such as litigation, or government-directed, research;
- accessing and use of grey literature
- the increasing need for audience relevance in times of economic recession;
- and diverse cultural and multi-national approaches to commemorating events such as the bi-centennial of the War of 1812 or the 60th anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War.
Proposals are due by July 15, 2012.
All presenters and other participants are expected to register for the annual meeting. If you have questions, please contact the program committee co-chairs or the NCPH program director.
2013 Program Committee Co-Chairs
Michelle A. Hamilton
Director of Public History
The University of Western Ontario
mhamilt3@uwo.ca
Jean-Pierre Morin
Treaty Historian
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
JeanPierre.Morin@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca
NCPH Program Director
Carrie Dowdy
dowdyc@iupui.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 23RD UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY MILITARY HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
BEYOND SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN: MILITARY AND CIVIL SOCIETIES IN A CHANGING WORLD
The Department of History at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) invites proposals for papers for the 23rd Military History Symposium, to be held at USAFA in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 6-7 September 2012.
Paper proposals are welcome on all aspects of relationships between military organizations and civil societies in all geographic areas and including all chronological periods:
We are also seeking papers representing a variety of methodological perspectives, including but not limited to:
- Biography
- Cultural history
- Economic history
- Ethnic / race history
- Gender history
- History of sexuality
- Institutional history
- Military history
- Organizational history
- Political history
- Social history
- War and society
Lt Col Kristi Lowenthal, USAF
Program Chair, 23rd Military History Symposium
HQ USAFA/DFH
2354 Fairchild Hall, Suite 6F101
USAF Academy CO 80840
Kristi.lowenthal@usafa.edu
Electronic submissions are preferred, but not required.
For questions about the Symposium, please contact:
Lt Col Chris Rein, USAF
Director, 23rd Military History Symposium
HQ USAFA/DFH
2354 Fairchild Hall, Suite 6F101
USAF Academy CO 80840
christopher.rein@usafa.edu
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Tufts Historical Review
THEME
The 2011 theme is THIEVES AND TYRANTS. History has been marked by individuals and groups that have exhibited extraordinary charisma, aberrant behavior, and a knack for bending or breaking laws and customs. Whether these actors are dictators, imperialists, pirates, rebels, vigilantes, or demagogues, all have had a hand in transforming or transgressing traditional power structures and social, political, and economic norms. Tufts Historical Review seeks outstanding articles that explore the historical development, application or understanding of tyranny and deviance that have shaped civilizations, cultures, and polities.
REQUIREMENTS
The Tufts Historical Review is committed to publishing the finest in undergraduate and graduate research in history and the humanities. As such, we require that all submissions subscribe to the highest standards of academic quality. Failure to ascribe to the following requirements may result in the rejection of a submission to the Tufts Historical Review.
- All submissions must be cited in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition.
- All submissions that have previously appeared in another publication will not be considered eligible.
- Submissions from both undergraduate (B.A.) and graduate (M.A., PhD.) students are welcomed.
- Submissions should range between 2,500 and 8,000 words. Longer submissions are acceptable, but may be subject to editing by the Editorial Board of the Tufts Historical Review for purposes of brevity if selected.
- Applicant’s name and information (including academic affiliation and contact information) should only appear on a cover page.
CALL FOR ARTICLES
International Bibliography of Military History
The Bibliographical Committee of the International Commission of Military History (ICMH) encourages contributions to the International Bibliography of Military History (IBMH), published by Brill. For the next issue, due to be published in July 2012, the deadline for the contributions is 1 May 2012.
We would like to invite scholars to submit historiographical articles, dealing with the state of military history in a specific country or an issue of military-historiographical relevance. These articles should be no longer than 7,000 words. In addition, we also welcome review articles, which discuss a historiographical issue of major controversy and significance covered by a number of recent publications. These contributions should not exceed 5,000 words.
The articles should be submitted either to the Editor-in-chief and President of the IBMH, Dr. Mauro Mantovani (Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland) (mauro.mantovani@vtg.admin.ch), or the Scientific Editor and Secretary General of the IBMH, Dr. Marco Wyss (Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) (marco.wyss@sipo.gess.ethz.ch), who will then decide, together with the committee and external reviewers, about the article’s suitability for publication. For additional information and editorial guidelines, please contact the Editor-in-chief or the Scientific Editor.
We are looking forward to your submissions.
International Bibliography of Military History (Brill)
http://www.brill.nl/publications/journals/international-bibliography-military-history-commission-internationale-dhistoir
CALL FOR PAPERS
The War of 1812
Bicentennial Conference Series: Part I
“Origins and the War at Sea”
Saint John, N.B.
27-29 September 2012
The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, in conjunction with the Canadian-American Centre at the University of Maine and the New Brunswick Museum, is pleased to announce the first in a series of three conferences/symposia in commemoration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812. This first conference will deal with the origins of the war, the period of ‘undeclared’ warfare in 1812 and the war on the high seas. Dr. Andrew Lambert, the author of The Challenge: America, Britain and the Naval war of 1812 (Faber & Faber, 2012), will be the keynote speaker.
Those interested in presenting at the conference should send a title and brief description of the paper (250 words) and a short bio to Dr Marc Milner, Director of the Gregg Centre at milner@unb.ca before 1 April 2012.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History
Hilton San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Thursday, April 11 to Sunday, April 14, 2013
The theme for the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History.” The history of the United States is one of entanglement: trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, and cross-border interactions; conflicts and collaborations based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and class; intersections and crossings at all scales from the global to the intimate. The theme for the 2013 conference seeks to examine and complicate a broad range of “entanglements” in U.S. history, paying attention to both the possibilities as well as the limitations of these interactions. OAH will begin accepting proposals for the 2013 meeting on October 1, 2011.
The 2013 Organization of American Historians Program Committee seeks a wide-ranging program that will cover the full chronological sweep of the American past, from pre-Columbian years to the twenty-first century, and the rich thematic diversity that has come to characterize contemporary American history writing and teaching. The program aims to include those teaching at universities, colleges, community colleges, and secondary schools, as well as public historians, and independent scholars.
The program committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with these and other issues and themes in American history. We welcome teaching sessions, particularly those involving the audience as active participants or those that reflect collaborative partnerships among teachers, historians, and history educators at all levels. 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.
The program should reflect the full diversity of the OAH membership in the United States and abroad. Wherever possible, proposals should include presenters of different genders and different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Panels should also represent a range of historians (public and academic) and history professionals, wherever they are employed and at varying levels of seniority in the profession. We encourage more senior historians in particular, to present their own research. We welcome debate on challenging and controversial issues.
Registration and Membership Requirements
All participants are required to register for the Annual Meeting. Participants who specialize in American history and support themselves as American historians are also required to be members of the OAH. Participants representing other disciplines do not have to be members.
Repeat Participation
OAH policy prohibits individuals from participating in two consecutive annual meetings in the same role and limits individuals to appearing only once on the program in a given year. If you have questions about this policy, please email the OAH meetings department: mcwalsh@oah.org.
Submission Procedure
Proposals should be submitted electronically to the OAH Proposal System beginning October 1, 2011. Please download proposal system instructions before beginning your submission. Complete session proposals most often include a chair, participants, and, if applicable, one or two commentators (chairs may double as commentators, and commentators may be omitted in order for the audience to serve in that role). Session membership should be limited by the need to include substantial time for audience questions and comments.
All proposals must include the following information:
- a complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and affiliation for each participant
- an abstract of no more than 500 words for the session as a whole
- a prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation; and
- a vita of no more than 500 words for each participant
Submission Deadline
The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Illinois Civil War Sesquicentennial website (www.illinoiscivilwar150.org) is the official website commemorating the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War in Illinois. The website seeks to provide an overview of Illinois’ role in the Civil War via a timeline, feature articles, a bibliography, links to existing works on the topic, curriculum materials, research aids, and other information of interest.
Subject Matter
Feature articles are aimed at the general public rather than a scholarly audience. Submissions may cover individuals, organizations, events, movements, battles where Illinoisans played a key role, etc. but should have a clear connection to Illinois. Examples include soldiers, regiments, military camps, women’s roles, African Americans, homefront, etc.
Length
Articles should be no more than 1500 words and no less than 700.
Annotations
Authors should provide a bibliography of works consulted. Footnotes or endnotes are not needed.
Manuscript Form
All submissions should be in digital format, preferably in Microsoft Word. Please do not mail in original photos or manuscripts.
Illustrations
Authors may submit illustrations for their articles. These should be 72 dpi /resolution in .jpg format and should not exceed 10MB in size. Authors are responsible for obtaining proper permissions for use and dissemination of photographs and other illustrations they provide.
Submission
All submissions should be emailed to karen.everingham@illinois.gov and include the author’s name, address, and phone number. This information is only for our records and will not be shared. Please also provide a brief biography and statement concerning your interest in your topic.
Evaluation
Articles for publication will be carefully chosen by the editors. Authors will be contacted should their articles be selected for the website. All articles will be edited prior to posting.
Disclaimer
The editors assume no responsibility for statements, whether fact or opinion, made by the contributors.
