CFP: Tri-University Program in History Annual Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS  Tri-University Conference:

New Approaches to History

March 23, 2013

Deadline: January 18, 2013

The Tri-University conference is a wonderful opportunity for students and faculty to get to know each other, to share ideas, and debate the latest developments in our field. This year, the Tri-University conference will take place at the University of Guelph. The theme is “New Approaches to History” and to this end, we are featuring a keynote panel with three fantastic historians from the Tri-University.

Ian Milligan, a recent hire at the University of Waterloo, who writes on youth and labour in the 1960s, and new digital technologies, will give a paper on "Preparing for the Infinite Archive: Social Historians and the Looming Digital Deluge." Amy Milne-Smith, the author of London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in late-Victoria Britain (2011) will be speak on “Queensberry's Misrule: Exploring honour, duty, and the gentleman in late-Victorian Britain.” Norman Smith, the author of Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation (2007) will speak on “Sources, Souses and the Writing of Manchurian History.”

The Programme Committee seeks proposals for papers that offer new approaches to history. This may include the use of new sources, new interpretations of older sources, new technologies or topics, new interpretations and challenges to older ones. There are no geographical or chronological restrictions and the Programme Committee will attempt to establish transnational and cross-chronological panels. Please submit proposals of approximately 250 words in length and a one-page CV to Caitlin Holton cholton@uoguelph.ca by January 18, 2013.