Calls for Papers

Urban History Association Biennial Conference
SUSTAINABLE CITIES? Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference Las Vegas, Nevada October 20-23, 2010 The Program Committee seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history for the Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 20-23, 2010. The local host is the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While “sustainability” has often been defined as planning for the future, we will be investigating the history of urban futures across many time periods in many metropolitan areas and many countries. We encourage submissions on questions of land use, energy, space, place, the built environment, and the natural environment in historical perspective. We would like sessions on the host city, Las Vegas, and its history of rapid, expansive growth. We welcome sessions on the history of urbanization in North America, as well as Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, in ancient and pre-modern as well as modern periods. Beyond the theme of the conference, the committee encourages all types of historical analyses, including: Work on qualitative research methods across urban history and the social sciences Work on digital humanities, geography, GIS mapping, and photography Comparative, regional, transnational studies Work focusing on race, gender, class, and space Research on architecture, the environment, technology, and science Presentations on historic preservation including small cities and towns Sessions that revisit classic works of urban and suburban history And more Preference will be given to complete panels. Panel proposals should designate a single person as contact and include a brief explanation of the overall theme as well as one-page abstracts of each paper and a 250-word biography for each participant. Round table proposals follow this format but organizers should submit one page on the theme and a 250-word biography for each presenter. Those submitting an individual paper, please include a one-page abstract and a 250- word biography. Submissions are due February 1, 2010 and should be sent via e-mail to Professor Janet R. Bednarek at Janet.Bednarek@notes.udayton.edu. As part of the conference, the UHA will organize workshops for graduate students writing dissertations in urban and suburban history. Students who have written a prospectus and who wish to participate in a workshop should apply with a 2-4 page letter of interest by February 1, 2010 to Janet.Bednarek @notes.udayton.edu. [2689 | 3]

Conference on Illinois History
SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2010 Proposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois' history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology are requested for the Conference on Illinois History. The Conference welcomes submissions from professional and avocational historians, graduate students, and those engaged in the study of Illinois history at libraries, historic sites, museums, and historical societies. Each proposal should include a summary of the topic and a one-page resume of the participant. The summary should specify the major primary and secondary sources used in the research. Proposals should be for formal, footnoted papers. The deadline for proposals is March 10, 2010. Send proposals to: Thomas F. Schwartz, State Historian Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Illinois Historic Preservation Agency 112 North Sixth Street Springfield, IL 62701 Phone 217/782-2118, Fax 217/558-1574 E-mail: tom.schwartz@illinois.gov [2690 | 3]

Conference Military History, Potsdam (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, German Forces)
Announcement and CfP for the conference “On the Path to Reunification – West and East Germany in their Alliances from 1970 to 1990” convened by the Military History Research Institute in Potsdam from 22 – 24 September 2010. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Germany’s reunification on 3 October 2010, the 51st International Conference for Military History focusses on the question which role changes in security and military policies played in the long run-up to the events of 1989 and 1990. Confrontative behaviour patterns prevailed throughout the Cold War era of the 1950s, in themselves constituting an immanent risk factor in the nuclear age. Starting in the early 1970s, the period of détente – much furthered by West Germany’s own Ostpolitik – introduced a new dynamic to East-West relations, based on antagonistic cooperation and transformation. Within the context of the recent transatlantic historiographical discussions on the long-term developments leading up to 1989, the conference focusses on changes and events related to security politics and the German question. The conference venue features panels - on the change from the Cold War era to the détente period - on Eastern and Western strategies and goals behind a more cooperative outlook - on the role and the room of maneouvre of both German states within their alliances - on the connection between external and domestic/societal security - on operative planning and the relevant perception of one self and the other - on the global role of both the FRG and the GDR. The conference will finish with a public debate on the German question as a historical factor on the way to the watershed years of 1989 and 1990. Paper/presentation proposals for any of the listed panels are welcome until 15 December 2009. Please attach a summary and cv, one page each. The proposals should be send to oliverbange@bundeswehr.de or bernd1lemke@bundeswehr.de The conference is open to everyone interested in the topic. Further information regarding location, (modest) conference fee, and program will be available in due course on the MGFA’s homepage (http://www.mgfa.de). [2696 | 3]

Southern Labor Studies: Memory and Forgetting, Labor History and the Archive
CALL FOR PAPERS SOUTHERN LABOR STUDIES CONFERENCE Atlanta, Georgia, April 7-10, 2011 Co-Sponsored by the Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University Library; Southern Labor Studies Association; Labor and Working Class History Association MEMORY AND FORGETTING: LABOR HISTORY AND THE ARCHIVE “The struggle against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting” From “The Uprising of `34”, courtesy of Milan Kundera Keynote addresses will be given by Robert Korstad, Duke University and Alessandro Portelli, University of Rome. Students of colonial and post-colonial societies have thought about how the very materials historians rely on to reconstruct the past—“the archive”—themselves are constituted by that past, rather than a transparent window onto it. To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Southern Labor Archives at GSU, the 15th Southern Labor Studies Conference proposes to turn a similar self-critical gaze on the materials labor historians rely on to produce the field of “labor history.” How does the very process of locating, constructing, and organizing the “archive” of labor and working class history shape (and constrain) the very meaning of what historians and archivists treat as labor, the worker, or the working class? How have shifting archival fashions changed our understanding of labor's history? How has the “archive”, in the broadest sense, abetted or impeded the “struggle of memory against forgetting.” In asking these questions, the Conference Committee invites proposals that consider the “archive” in the widest terms possible. Thus we envision proposals that look at actual archival practice in libraries, museums, state governments, universities, businesses, unions, and other institutions that play an important role in documenting—and thus filtering—labor’s past, especially the past of the working class in the U.S. South. Other proposals might examine how labor historians have used particular methodologies to construct their own “archive”—most obviously through the practice of oral history, but also social activism, filmmaking, collecting, public history, memorialization, or other forms of historical practice and engagement. A third genre of proposals could look at what Antoinette Burton has called “archive stories”, experiential descriptions of archival encounters that have illuminated (or obscured) certain aspects of the working class past. Still others may want to explore the role of the archive itself in the process of memory and forgetting—how has archivalization of the past fixed certain aspects of labor history in memory, while consigning others to the realm of forgetting? Finally, we invite proposals that consider how archival work of all sorts can be linked to particular moments of working class struggle. These questions remain especially pressing in a time, region, and country that seem intent on denying the very existence of a “working class”, both because narratives of American exceptionalism continue to insist on the absence of class relations in the nation’s past, and because recent economic transformations threaten to obliterate the material bases of work and the working class altogether. In addition to papers and panels addressing the above themes, the SLSC also invites proposals that examine the history of the southern working class more generally. The Committee urges submissions of complete panels, including 2-3 papers and a commentator. We also invite roundtables, collective discussions of teaching, audio or visual presentations, and any other less orthodox formats. Proposals should include 300-word abstracts for each paper and a one-page c.v. for all participants. Please submit proposals by October 1, 2010, to: alichtens@gmail.com and tdrummond@gsu.edu [2724 | 3]

Pennsylvania Historical Association
Call for Proposals “New Perspectives on Pennsylvania’s Past” Pennsylvania Historical Association 2010 Annual Meeting October 14-16 2010 Selinsgrove PA The Program Committee invites proposals for the 2010 PHA Annual Meeting hosted by Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove PA, October 14-16. Full session proposals are encouraged relating to the conference theme “New Perspectives on Pennsylvania’s Past.” Individual paper proposals are also welcome. Program Committee members will solicit session proposals from affiliated organizations. The Program Committee is particularly interested in panel discussions that examine previously under-represented themes and topics that challenge traditional boundaries of Pennsylvania historical scholarship. Proposals should identify session chairs and participants and provide brief professional biographical information. Note: all participants must be members of the association at the time of the meeting. The committee requests all submissions as Word documents. Inquiries and proposals may be sent by February 1, 2010 to the address below: Dennis B. Downey, PhD 2010 PHA Program Chair Department of History Millersville University Millersville, PA 17551 Dennis.Downey@millersville.edu [2733 | 3]

Annual National Underground Railroad Summit
The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (Network to Freedom) program and friends, invite proposals for the upcoming annual conference to be held in Topeka, Kansas, July 28-31, 2010. As the United States expanded westward incorporating new territories through the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican War, North and South clashed over their vision of the future— with or without slavery. The Missouri Compromise in 1820 restricted slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30’ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. The Compromise of 1850 admitted California to the Union, organized New Mexico and Utah as territories and strengthened the Federal Fugitive Slave Law. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for “popular sovereignty” to answer the question regarding expansion of slavery. Settlers from both sides rushed to Kansas to cast their vote. In the midst of the political battle over the legal status of slavery, the status of individual enslaved people became a dramatic opportunity to fight for freedom. The conference will explore the Underground Railroad (UGRR) in the west, with particular focus on its role as a component of the national struggle to allow Kansas to enter the Union—either as slave or free. The conference also seeks to explore ways in which present day people interested in the story of the UGRR transcend local histories and make connections to a larger national story with global significance. Topics of interest include educational programs, preserving UGRR sites, heritage tourism opportunities, and the use of technology to document and tell the story. The Kansas 2010 conference committee welcomes proposals from a wide variety of academic, public, and community partners and researchers interested in UGRR history. Presentation topics can include but are not limited to; Conflicts of cultures and ideologies on the UGRR State, interstate, and international connections on the UGRR Evaluating your local UGRR sites, facilities, and programs Moral, religious, political, and economic issues and debates regarding slavery and freedom in the expansion of the west Modes of transportation (including maritime travel) used in the UGRR The UGRR in today’s American education system Technologies and databases as a way of documenting, analyzing, preserving, and interpreting slavery and the UGRR Historical memory and the UGRR Native Americans, slavery, and the UGRR Patterns of migration and settlement and their effect on slavery and UGRR in the west Strategies and Tactics of Abolitionists and Freedom Seekers in the west Gender, class, race, ethnicity and the UGRR in the west Submission Procedure—MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE* (www.ugrconference.org) Proposals can be submitted for (1) panels up to three individuals and a moderator on a particular theme or topic and (2) individual 20 minute presentations. Individual submissions that are accepted will be placed on a panel by the Program Committee. Conference applications will be reviewed by the Kansas 2010 Conference Program Committee. *for those without access to the internet, proposals may be mailed to the Network to Freedom address. Registration fee for presenters will be waived. Presenters are responsible for their own conference travel, lodging, transportation, and meals. [2736 | 3]

Urban History Association -- Deadline Extended
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals Due February 15, 2010 SUSTAINABLE CITIES? Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference Las Vegas, Nevada October 20-23, 2010 The Program Committee seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history for the Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 20-23, 2010. The local host is the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While “sustainability” has often been defined as planning for the future, we will be investigating the history of urban futures across many time periods in many metropolitan areas and many countries. We encourage submissions on questions of land use, energy, space, place, the built environment, and the natural environment in historical perspective. We would like sessions on the host city, Las Vegas, and its history of rapid, expansive growth. We welcome sessions on the history of urbanization in North America, as well as Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, in ancient and pre-modern as well as modern periods. Beyond the theme of the conference, the committee encourages all types of historical analyses, including: Work on qualitative research methods across urban history and the social sciences Work on digital humanities, geography, GIS mapping, and photography Comparative, regional, transnational studies Work focusing on race, gender, class, and space Research on architecture, the environment, technology, and science Presentations on historic preservation including small cities and towns Sessions that revisit classic works of urban and suburban history And more Preference will be given to complete panels. Panel proposals should designate a single person as contact and include a brief explanation of the overall theme as well as one-page abstracts of each paper and a 250-word biography for each participant. Round table proposals follow this format but organizers should submit one page on the theme and a 250-word biography for each presenter. Those submitting an individual paper, please include a one-page abstract and a 250- word biography. Submissions are due February 15, 2010 and should be sent via e-mail to Professor Janet R. Bednarek at Janet.Bednarek@notes.udayton.edu. As part of the conference, the UHA will organize workshops for graduate students writing dissertations in urban and suburban history. Students who have written a prospectus and who wish to participate in a workshop should apply with a 2-4 page letter of interest by February 15, 2010 to Janet.Bednarek @notes.udayton.edu. [2737 | 3]

SfAA Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for the Program of the 71st Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, March 29-April 2, 2011. The theme of the Program is “Expanding the Influence of Applied Social Science.” The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2010. For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit our web page (www.sfaa.net, click on “Annual Meeting”). [2742 | 3]