The New England Regional World History Association (NERWHA), the Department of History and Social Sciences at Bryant University, and the Mid-Atlantic World History Association (MAWHA) invite paper and panel proposals for NERWHA’s Fall 2015 symposium, which will focus on Genocide in World History and is scheduled for October 16-17, 2015, on the campus of Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
Established scholars, teachers, and graduate students in all humanistic and social scientific fields are encouraged to submit proposals for panels and individual papers. The symposium organizers welcome contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives, and they further encourage panels and presentations that employ cross-cultural and transnational approaches to genocide as a historical, political, sociological, and/or legal phenomenon.
Regardless of disciplinary approach, contributions should attempt to place their subject matter within the context of societies and cultures in interaction with each other. The theme of genocide and its consequences as the products of sustained contact between societies and cultures in world history is at the core of the symposium.
Specific genocides may include mass liquidations and “disappearances” in antiquity and the post-classical era, mass death visited on indigenous peoples by Western colonialism, the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, genocide and mass killing carried out by totalitarian regimes (the Nazis, Stalin, and Mao), and recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Guatemala, East Timor, Bosnia, and Sudan. The symposium organizers also welcome contributions on timely subjects relevant to world history and genocide, such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram.
Proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be put into panels of the Program Committee’s choice, should consist of an abstract of up to 300 words and a one-page CV.
All proposals should be submitted as MS Word documents to:
Alfred J. Andrea
Professor Emeritus of History
The University of Vermont
e-mail: aandrea@uvm.edu
The deadline for proposals is May 30, 2015.
Questions about the symposium may be directed to Professor Andrea at the e-mail address above, or to Professor Michael Bryant at mbryant@bryant.edu.