Posts under ‘Conferences’

See below for a call for conference participation in an event to celebrate the history of one baseball franchise, the New York Mets, which will be hosted by Hofstra University next April. For full details and contact information, see the original announcement here. April 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of the New York Mets, [...]

Members of the History honors society Phi Alpha Theta are invited to participate in the 2011 PAT Regional Conference at Virginia Wesleyan College at Norfolk / Virginia Beach, VA. The event will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2011. The final deadline for paper submission and registration is Friday, February 18th; fees are due one [...]

In the Spring of 2011 the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will host its 15th annual undergraduate poster session on Capitol Hill. This event will help members of Congress understand the importance of undergraduate research by talking directly with the students whom these programs impact. As one student-participant has noted, As one of this year’s [...]

Georgetown University, together with King’s College, hosts a forum entitled “Empires and Globalizations in the Making of the Modern World” this Thursday and Friday (9/16-17) at the Copley Formal Lounge at Georgetown University. If you’d like to attend, see this link for a full schedule and further information.

Conference CALL FOR PAPERS: Health/Care/Nation Sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies and the University of Windsor 14-17 October 2010 http://uwindsor.ca/caas2010 Keynote Speakers: Gerard Boychuk, Director of the Global Governance Graduate Program at Balsillie School of International Affairs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo Donna Smith, journalist and activist, [...]

We’ll be announcing the schedule for the the Spring Symposium soon.  It will take place on Friday, April 23 in the Woodard Campus Center.  More details to come.

Field School in American Vernacular Architecture University of Wisconsin-Madison & Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Program (UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee) Art History 600 – Summer 2010 (June 14 – July 9) This course gives students an immersion experience in the field recording of historic buildings and an opportunity to learn how to write history literally “from the ground up.” Students [...]

The Graduate History Association at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is hosting its Annual Graduate History Forum on March 26-27, 2010. The forum is open to both graduate and undergraduate students who wish to present their papers at this conference. For more information on how to submit your paper, see the attached announcement [...]

Dr. Kevin McCluskey, Professor of Theater at UMW, shares this conference and funding opportunity for students who work in a range of disciplines that may overlap with costume history, including History and American Studies (as well as art, archeology, sociology, literature, among others.)  Feel free to contact Dr. McCluskey (kmcclusk@umw.edu) if you have questions.  Student [...]

America on the Eve of Civil War: Signature Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Nation’s Greatest Conflict The nation’s first major event commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War will take place at the University of Richmond on April 29, 2009. The program attempts to set an inclusive and innovative tone as we launch [...]