Conferences

Call for Proposals: 7th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

The 7th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 11-12, 2015 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The Conference Committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Louisiana Cultural Crossroads.” Although the organizers are especially interested in proposals that deal with the theme of […]

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CFP: Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World. (US Civil War, WWI, WWII)

The Center for Civil War Research and the Department of History at the University of Mississippi seek papers for a conference to be held October 1-3, 2015 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS.  This conference will be hosted in conjunction with WAR-Net, and it will be the first conference WAR-Net has sponsored outside

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Call for Proposals: Family assets: Social practices and social regulation in the West during the 19th and 20th centuries

Over the nineteenth century, industrialization fundamentally changed the way families earned their livelihoods and sought, when the occasion arose, to transmit their resources and legacies. The decline of economies based on farmland and fisheries and a massive dependence on wage work weakened many households, while liberal ideology made individual will and personal property the foundations

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CFP: LGBT*QI Faculty & Staff Diversity and LGBT*QI Graduate Student Diversity, MLA 2016

CFP: LGBT*QI Faculty and Staff Diversity How do we quantify LGBT*QI faculty and staff diversity at universities and colleges? How do we prioritize LGBT*QI diversity in hiring practices without undermining ethical practices regarding privacy? Likewise, how do we support and build community for LGBT*QI university employees without eschewing such mores? How do we provide students

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CFP: Locating and Connecting Latin America and the African Diaspora

Locating and Connecting Latin America and the African Diaspora 13th Annual Africana Studies Symposium 10th William Wilson Brown, Jr. Conference in Latin American Studies 6th Río de la Plata Workshop Thursday, April 30th – Friday, May 1st, 2015 UNC Charlotte Space plays a fundamental role in the study of the African Diaspora in the Atlantic world. Be it

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