Calls for Papers and Panels
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Commission of Military History Meeting Call for Papers
Randy Papadopoulos
Vice President, USCMH
The United States Commission on Military History (USCMH) solicits papers for presentation at the 39th annual Congress of the International Commission of Military History (ICMH), meeting in Turin, Italy, between September 1 and September 6, 2013.
The theme of this 75th anniversary ICMH Congress, hosted by the Italian Commission of Military History, is "Combined and Joint Operations in the History of Warfare." Papers should address what are today termed "Combined," that is, multinational, or "Joint," meaning inter-service, themes.
On behalf of the International Commission, the USCMH solicits papers on these themes for presentation at the Congress. All American presenters at the Torino meeting must be members of the U.S. Commission, and must apply through it to receive consideration. The U.S. Commission also offers up to two travel stipends in the amount of $1,500 to young scholars presenting in Turin. The Italian Commission is offering doctoral candidates reduced rates for registration and hotel accommodation and will publish a volume of proceedings following the Congress.
To submit your paper proposal for consideration, please forward the following to USCMH Vice-President, Dr. Randy Papadopoulos, at: randy.papadopoulos@navy.mil:
- a one page paper proposal outlining the topic and prospective sources, along with an outline of theoretical or methodological approach
- a short (1/2-page) professional resume
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Northern Great Plains History Conference, SMH Sections
26-28 September, 2013
Hudson, WI
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” broadly across time and encourage material, social and cultural approaches, as well as military themes informed by other social sciences like archaeology and political science. The SMH Conference Coordinator works closely with the Conference Program Chair to ensure the strongest possible conference. We coordinate session development and scheduling and welcome those attending to volunteer as session chairs and commentators.
The SMH and the First Division Museum, 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, so please indicate if you wish to be considered for this award. 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 NGPHC welcomes graduate and undergraduate students, and faculty, government historians, and independent scholars. *This is a particularly good opportunity for graduate students to make a conference debut and begin networking with colleagues.*
In addition to a full slate of sessions, the SMH sponsors a lunch during the conference, a field trip of military history interest (TBD) and a dining-out on Saturday afternoon. Hudson, WI is about 30 minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.
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: sankeymhist@gmail.com. Deadline: 1 April 2013.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Civil War Study Group will hold its 6th Annual Symposium at The Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, September 14, 2013. Participants in this informal symposium should read Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2001), in preparation for discussion of the book and its themes.
With the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in mind, the organizing committee seeks proposals for papers that investigate such topics as wartime anxieties about emancipation and constitutionalism in the western border states, Kentucky Unionism and slavery, the draft, African American soldiers, and the coming of the Thirteenth Amendment in the border states.
Please send a one-page proposal and a curriculum vita by mail to: R. Darrell Meadows, Director
Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
Kentucky Historical Society
100 W. Broadway
Frankfort, KY 40601, or by e-mail to: darrell.meadows@ky.gov by April 15, 2013. Presenters will be notified by May 1.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Histoire sociale / Social History
Special Issue on “Canada’s Great War: 100 Years On”
Social historians in Canada have increasingly come to see the Great War as a significant social phenomenon, nationally, imperially, culturally, politically, economically, demographically and globally. As we approach the centenary of the Great War in 2014, Histoire sociale/Social History would like to publish a special issue that integrates military studies with social history to interrogate the effects of the Great War on men, women, children, families, labourers, ethnic minorities, and Aboriginal peoples. We invite papers from any subfield of social history, whether studies of home, work, volunteerism, or life on the European battlefield, for this special issue entitled “Canada’s Great War: 100 Years On”, to be published in May 2014.
Through this special issue, we hope to revisit the complex social worlds of wartime Canada, welcoming studies on wartime mobilization, internment, reconstruction, women’s war work, Veteran’s Affairs, or the gendered underpinnings of the Military Voters and Wartime Election Acts. Any paper that is innovative in interpretation, sources, and method and that interrogates the social history of the Great War will be considered. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2013.
Authors are invited to visit the journal’s website for presentation guidelines and send their submissions in electronic format – an e-mail attachment in Word is preferred – to the following address: Histoire Sociale / Social History
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
Email: hssh@uottawa.ca
Website: http://www.hssh.uottawa.ca. Guest Editors: Jeffrey Keshen and Jarett Henderson, Mount Royal University.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The experience of minorities in the First World War is one of the most significant, yet least developed aspects of the conflict’s history. It is now over twenty years since the major conference on ‘National and Racial Minorities in Total War’ which spurred the highly influential volume: Minorities in Wartime. With the centenary of the First World War fast approaching, it seems a particularly appropriate time to revisit this subject.
Over the preceding decades, there have been massive shifts in the writing of ethnic and minority histories, which have started to excavate areas of convergence as well as departure. At the same time, our understanding of the social and military history of the First World War has expanded massively. No longer is the history of the conflict confined largely to the trenches of the Western Front. It now encompasses everything from non-combatants and the home front through to occupation and the memory of war.
The aim of this two-day conference is to mesh recent developments in the military history of the First World War with those in the field of minority studies. We welcome proposals covering any ethnic or national minority group involved in the conflict. There is no limit to geographical area, though we are aiming to focus primarily on the main belligerent nations.
Potential themes and questions may include, but are by no means limited to:
- Minorities as both opponents and enthusiastic supporters of the conflict
- Minorities as prisoners of war
- Racism, antisemitism and exclusionary politics during the conflict
- Religious and ritual practices during the First World War
- The experience of minorities in the armed forces
- The decoration and promotion of soldiers from minority groups
- Responses to colonial troops and their wartime experience
- The treatment of minorities in territory occupied during the war
- Enemy aliens: Internment, repatriation and social hostility
- The remembrance (and forgetting) of minority combatants
Keynote Speakers: Professor Tony Kushner (University of Southampton) Professor Humayun Ansari OBE (Royal Holloway)
Venue and Conference Information: The conference will take place on the 14th and 15th April 2014 at the University of Chester.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Australian Army Journal (AAJ) invites submissions for a special issue on culture and the Australian Army to be published in 2013. The special issue encourages a lively discussion and debate about the meaning, understanding, representation, benefits and ‘problems’ of culture in Army. We encourage contributions from a variety of people including Army and other Defence members, academics, public intellectuals, writers, digital artists and the broader Australian community. Authors can request to have articles peer reviewed. All submitted material is subject to a process of assessment and evaluation through the Editors and through peer review (if requested).
Understanding that ‘culture’ is represented in various forms, we hope to publish a range of contributions such as:
- Feature and scholarly articles: 3000-6000 words
- Review essays: 1500-3000 words
- Book/Film/DVD reviews: 500-800 words
- Letters/Emails: 200-500 words
- Poetry
- Songs or song lyrics
- Videos [running length up to 3 minutes in a format that can be uploaded to YouTube]
- leadership
- ethics
- moral courage
- traditions and history
- identity: race/Indigenous identity/multiculturalism
- nationalism
- popular culture
- gender
- sexuality
- spirituality/religion
- capability and future development
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Press Gangs, Conscripts and Professionals: Recruiting the Royal Navy from the age of sail to the present day.
This conference will explore how the Royal Navy recruited its personnel from its earliest times to the present day, including its various branches and services such as the Royal Marines, Women’s Royal Naval Services, Royal Naval Air Service, Fleet Air Arm and Submarine Service. The conference is open to scholars from all backgrounds and disciplines that are using analyses naval manpower within their research. Paper proposals that cover the following areas will be especially welcome:
- Recruiting for the Navy since 1660
- Impact of economic and other factors on recruiting
- Analyses of geographical spread or sources of recruits
- The experiences of recruits to the Royal Navy and its constituent branches
- The initial entry and training of recruits
- The impact of technology on recruiting needs and standards
- Educational levels of recruits
- Officer recruiting
- Recruiting to the lower deck
- Corporate attitudes to recruiting and views regarding the quality of recruits
- Comparisons between the Royal Navy and the experience of other branches of the Armed Forces or other Navies.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
“The Vietnam Era” A Conference to be held at the University of Houston-Victoria/Victoria College campus, Victoria, Texas, USA, 20-22 June 2013.
The University of Houston-Victoria and the Victoria College welcome paper and panel proposals for a conference on “The Vietnam Era” to be held this summer on their shared campus in Victoria, Texas. The program committee encourages papers that cover a wide range of topics relevant to the military, political, and social aspects of the era. Papers and panels that focus on the broad span of time from the Korean to the Vietnam wars are especially encouraged, as are papers that compare the two conflicts.
Paper proposals should include a brief abstract of 250-500 words, a biographical paragraph about the author, and contact information. Panel proposals should include brief abstracts for each paper as well as biographical paragraphs and contact information for each presenter.
Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2013.
Please send all correspondence, including questions and proposals, to Beverly Tomek at tomekb@uhv.edu.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The theme for the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Crossing Borders.” The history of the United States is a product of migrations – internal and international. Along with people, goods and ideas crossed these borders, reshaping the composition and character of the American people. Sometimes the borders and boundaries were physical, as when international migrants crossed oceans and continents, or when large numbers of individuals migrated from one region of the country to another, or when the lure of wealth and influence led to foreign invasions and conquests. Those on the move were accompanied by bacteria or viruses, microorganisms whose migration across borders also shaped human experience. Borders were also framed by culture – racial, ethnic, class, and gender differences that perennially redefined our population and social order. The theme for the 2014 conference seeks to examine, in all their complexity, a broad array of border crossings and “encounters” in US history, highlighting the contributions and challenges presented by those who transcended borders to redefine their lives or flee the constraints of their pasts.
The 2014 OAH Program Committee seeks a broad, wide-ranging program that treats the rich expanse of the American experience, from the pre-Columbian era to the twenty-first century, and the thematic breadth that defines the work of contemporary historians on the page and in their classrooms. The committee enthusiastically encourages proposals from those teaching at universities, colleges, community colleges, and secondary schools, as well as public historians and independent scholars.
In pursuit of inclusivity and diversity, the program committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with the themes of the conference, but also other important themes and issues 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. Professional development sessions are always welcome.
We encourage presenters to continue the ongoing transition from simply reading papers to more actively “teaching” the topic of their sessions. Roundtables, especially state-of-the-art sessions, and workshops offer an excellent format for alternatives to panels with presenters reading papers verbatim.
We prefer to receive proposals for complete sessions. However, we will consider individual paper proposals, as in the past.
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 are not required to be members of OAH.
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, e-mail the OAH meetings department.
Submission Procedure
Complete session proposals most often include a chair, participants, and if applicable, a commentator (chairs may double as commentators, and commentators may be omitted in order for the audience to serve in that role). The Program Committee encourages alternative formats that maximize audience participation, such as sessions with no formal comment.
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
- a vita of no more than 500 words for each participant
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
In an effort to expand understanding about military history in the Middle East and Africa, ASMEA (Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa) recently held several panel discussions on the topic at its 5th annual conference held in Washington, D.C., October 11-13, 2012.
In particular, we hosted the following military history panels:
- Clash and Discovery: Britain and France in Egypt
- Israel: Threats Real and Imagined
- New-Old Salafi/Al Qaeda Threats
- Iraq and Iran: How and Why They Fight
- Strategic Actions: Western Militaries in the 20th Century Middle East
Among the papers presented were: Submarine Warfare and Anti-submarine Warfare in the Persian Gulf Region in World War II; The Sharia of Lawful Military Jihad; Iraq as a Case Study of Proliferation and Disarmament, and; Indian Morale in the Mesopotamia Campaign. 1914-1917” (winner, best paper prize).
For related conference video on the military implications of Ghaddafi’s downfall for North Africa, and the consequences of misunderstanding the Arab Spring, please go to http://asmeascholars.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1519&Itemid=138.
ASMEA is committed to furthering our scholars’ interests in military history and would welcome your input or participation at our next conference November 21-23, 2013 in Washington, D.C. If you would like to present, moderate, or design a panel, please be in touch with us at your earliest convenience (info@asmeascholars.org). If you are interested in publishing in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Middle East and Africa we would be happy to put you in touch with the Journal’s editor.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
ASMEA
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Cryptologic History Symposium
The biennial Cryptologic History Symposium will be held 17-18 October 2013. Historians from the Center, the Intelligence Community, the defense establishment, and the military services, as well as distinguished scholars from American and foreign academic institutions, veterans of the profession, graduate and undergraduate students, and the interested public all will gather for two days of reflection and debate on relevant and important topics from the cryptologic past.
Past symposia have featured scholarship that set out new ways to consider out cryptologic heritage, and this one will be no exception. The intended goal is to foster discussion on how cryptology has impacted political, diplomatic, economic, and military tactics, operations, strategy, planning, and command and control throughout history. Any serious researcher whose work touches upon the historical aspects of cryptology defined in its broadest sense is encouraged to participate. The conference will provide many opportunities for interaction with leading historians and other distinguished experts. The mix of practitioners, scholars, and interested observes always precipitates a lively debate promoting an enhanced appreciation for the context of past events.
The theme for the upcoming conference will be “Technological Change and Cryptology: Meeting the Historical Challenges.” The practice and application of cryptanalysis and cryptography have been radically altered as the evolution of technology has accelerated. Conference participants will delve into the technical, scientific, methodological, political, and industrial underpinnings of signals intelligence and information assurance as presented throughout a broad swath of history. While presenters may choose to focus on purely technological topics, the theme is not meant to be exclusionary; the panels will include papers on a broad range of related operational, organizational, counterintelligence, policy, and international themes. The audience will be particularly interested in new findings on the intersection of technology and cryptology as signals systems evolved from manual to machine-assisted to digital formats.
The Symposium will be held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Kossiakoff Center, in Laurel, Maryland, a location central to the Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., areas. For more information on this conference, contact Dr. Kent Sieg, the Symposium Executive Director, by telephone at 301-688-2336 or via email at kgsieg@nsa.gov.
The first round of consideration will begin with papers received by mid-January.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Crossing Borders
Atlanta, Georgia | April 10-13, 2014
Hilton Atlanta
Submissions will be accepted beginning January 1, 2013. Proposal deadline is February 15, 2013.
The theme for the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Crossing Borders.” The history of the United States is a product of migrations – internal and international. Along with people, goods and ideas crossed these borders, reshaping the composition and character of the American people. Sometimes the borders and boundaries were physical, as when international migrants crossed oceans and continents, or when large numbers of individuals migrated from one region of the country to another, or when the lure of wealth and influence led to foreign invasions and conquests. Those on the move were accompanied by bacteria or viruses, microorganisms whose migration across borders also shaped human experience. Borders were also framed by culture – racial, ethnic, class, and gender differences that perennially redefined our population and social order. The theme for the 2014 conference seeks to examine, in all their complexity, a broad array of border crossings and “encounters” in US history, highlighting the contributions and challenges presented by those who transcended borders to redefine their lives or flee the constraints of their pasts.
The 2014 OAH Program Committee seeks a broad, wide-ranging program that treats the rich expanse of the American experience, from the pre-Columbian era to the twenty-first century, and the thematic breadth that defines the work of contemporary historians on the page and in their classrooms. The committee enthusiastically encourages proposals from those teaching at universities, colleges, community colleges, and secondary schools, as well as public historians and independent scholars.
In pursuit of inclusivity and diversity, the program committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with the themes of the conference, but also other important themes and issues 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. Professional development sessions are always welcome.
We encourage presenters to continue the ongoing transition from simply reading papers to more actively “teaching” the topic of their sessions. Roundtables, especially state-of-the-art sessions, and workshops offer an excellent format for alternatives to panels with presenters reading papers verbatim.
We prefer to receive proposals for complete sessions. However, we will consider individual paper proposals, as in the past.
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 are not required to be members of OAH.
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, e-mail the OAH meetings department.
Submission Procedure
Complete session proposals most often include a chair, participants, and if applicable, a commentator (chairs may double as commentators, and commentators may be omitted in order for the audience to serve in that role). The Program Committee encourages alternative formats that maximize audience participation, such as sessions with no formal comment.
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
- a vita of no more than 500 words for each participant
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013
2014 OAH Meeting Program Committee
Bruce Schulman, Boston University, Co-Chair
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University, Co-Chair
David Engerman, Brandeis University
Amy Faichild, Columbia University
Madeleine Hsu, University of Texas, Austin
Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan
Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego
Maureen Nutting, North Seattle Community College
Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
Barbara Clark Smith, Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy & Society in the American Northeast
October 17, 18, & 19, 2013
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, in conjunction with its 15th anniversary, presents the conference “17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, & Society in the American Northeast.” This interdisciplinary conference 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.
Prospective conference sessions may embrace:
- Causes and consequences of inter-Native and European-Native wars or discussions of specific conflicts such as: Pequot War, Kieft’s War, Mourning Wars, King Philip’s War, etc.
- Native, English, Dutch, French, etc., societies, colonies and borderland communities
- Contemporary Native views and interpretations of 17th century wars, society and diplomacy
- Native and European military tactics, fortifications, material culture, etc.
- Political alliances, negotiations, treaties, legal strategies and modes of communication
- The fur trade, early colonial economic studies, slavery and servitude
- Inter-cultural connections, gender studies, religious studies and race, ethnicity and class
Abstract Requirements:
- Title of presentation/paper
- 250 word abstract describing presentation/paper
- Name of author(s)
- Institutional affiliation of author(s), if applicable
- Contact information: mailing address, phone, and email
- Send electronically in Microsoft Word .doc or PDF formats
Submission: Email abstracts by February 1, 2013 to Dr. Kevin McBride, Director of Research at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center at KMcbride@mptn.org. Include “Abstract Submission, October 2013 Conference” in the subject line.
Notification: You will receive an email notification no later than February 5, 2013 if your abstract has been received. All submitted abstracts undergo review and selection by conference committee. Abstracts highlighting Connecticut and/or Native history and culture are highly encouraged. Conference registration information and program will be sent by email or address by May 1, 2013.
Paper Length: Presentations are not to exceed 15 minutes in length (approximately 15 double-spaced pages). Papers may be assembled into an edited conference volume at a future date following the conference.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Medical History of WWII San Antonio, Texas, US
Deadline: September 2013
In March 2014, the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences will be co-sponsoring a conference on the medical history of WWII. It will be hosted at the Army Medical Department Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
Presentations on all facets of medicine and the war are welcome, including consideration of the repercussions of the war on the practice of medicine, medicine in various campaigns, effects on the home front, and related topics.
Presentations should be 30 minutes long, and two-paper panels are welcome.
Contact: Dr Sanders Marble, Office of Medical History, US Army, sanders.marble@us.army.mil
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From Enemies to Allies: An International Conference on the War of 1812 and its Aftermath
June 12-16, 2013, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
Submission Guidelines:
Call for Papers Opens: July 1, 2012
Online Call for Papers Available: July 1, 2012
Final Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
Conference Theme:
The Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command will co-host a War of 1812 Bicentennial Conference at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from June 12 to June 16, 2013. The purpose of the conference is to recognize the historic importance of the war to the peoples involved and the changes it wrought in domestic and international affairs. Its title, From Enemies to Allies: An International Conference on the War of 1812 and its Aftermath, shows its implications are both broad and deep.
Possible Topics for Papers:
1. Causes of the war
- Role of War Hawks
- Maritime issues v. territorial expansion
- A Matter of Honor
- Role of international law
- Other Causes
2. Prosecution of the war
- Campaigns in the Chesapeake
- Campaigns on Canadian-American border
- Campaigns on the Gulf Coast
- War at Sea
- Role of Indians, slaves, and women
- Impact of war on civilians
- Logistics
3. Making Peace
- Failure of negotiations in 1812
- Russian mediation
- Negotiations at Ghent
- Treaty of Ghent
- Legacy of War
- Implementing Treaty of Ghent
- Postwar trade and tension
- Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
- U.S. - British Diplomacy during the Civil War
- Treaty of Washington (1871)
- The Great Rapprochement (1890s and after)
- Twentieth-Century cooperation and accord
Proposals may be submitted electronically. Full instructions for doing so may be found at www.starspangled200.com/papers. Proposals must be submitted in their completed form (that is, with full information concerning all participants and their presentations) by midnight, Eastern Standard Time, on February 1, 2013. Proposals cannot be submitted after the deadline has passed; the system will be closed to submissions and will not accept them. Papers may be of any length and should be prepared for possible publication in a proceedings volume. Selected presenters will be notified at least 90 days in advance of the amount of time allotted for their presentation.
Questions about the submission process, content of proposals, and policies and modes of presentation should be directed to Bill Pencek, Executive Director, Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission at BPencek@choosemaryland.org.
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The Journal of Chinese Military History, edited by David A. Graff and David Curtis Wright, is a peer-reviewed semi-annual from Brill that will begin publication in 2012. It publishes both research articles and book reviews, aiming to fill the need for a journal devoted specifically to China's martial past. It takes the broadest possible view of military history, embracing both the study of battles and campaigns and the broader, social-history oriented approaches that have come to be known as "the new military history," and it covers all of the Chinese past, from prehistory through the pre-imperial and imperial periods down to the present day, aiming to publish a balanced mix of articles that represent a variety of different approaches and address both the modern and pre-modern periods of Chinese history. The Journal of Chinese Military History also welcomes comparative and theoretical work, as well as studies of the military interactions between China and other states and peoples, including East Asian neighbors such as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Manuscripts for articles should be between 7,500 and 20,000 words, double-spaced, and submitted electronically as MS Word documents.
Article submissions may be sent to either of the editors:
David A. Graff (Kansas State University): dgraff@ksu.edu
David Curtis Wright (University of Calgary): wrightd@ucalgary.ca
If you are interested in reviewing books for the journal, please contact the Book Review Editor, Kenneth M. Swope (Ball State University): kmswope@bsu.edu
Editorial Board
Yingcong Dai (William Paterson University)
Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study)
Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma)
Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University)
Arthur Waldron (University of Pennsylvania)
Peter Worthing (Texas Christian University)
Robin D.S. Yates (McGill University)
Xiaoming Zhang (U.S. Air War College)
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