NOTE: THIS CALL FOR PAPERS IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
PAPER SELECTIONS HAVE NOW BEEN MADE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO AN EXCITING CONFERENCE!
“Out of Bounds: Exploring Global Connections”
World History Conference, March 21-22, 2009 at Northeastern University
Hosted by the NU History Graduate Student Association and the NU
Department of History
Call for Papers
The Northeastern University History graduate students and the NU
Department of History invite proposals for their upcoming graduate
student conference, “Out of Bounds: Exploring Global Connections.”
Graduate students working in all disciplines of the arts and social
sciences are encouraged to submit topical papers, artwork and
documentaries.
The conference invites scholarly work that challenges our notions of
boundaries and borders. The world is more connected today through
communication, technology, commerce, and politics than ever before.
Exploring global connections, in both the past and present, has
therefore become imperative for scholars throughout the social
sciences. How can global stories be told? How can we move beyond
bounded paradigms such as the nation, culture, and modernity, which
have been ingrained, not only in our literature, but also in our own
minds? Northeastern University’s 1st World History Conference welcomes
all scholarship that examines these and related questions through the
lens of race, gender, class, diaspora, the environment, economics,
globalization, violence, space/place, and related fields.
Keynote Speaker: John Thornton, Boston University
Both individual and panel proposals will be considered. Regardless of
medium (visual media or scholarly paper), panelists will have fifteen
minutes each to present. The following documents should be sent to the
program committee at nuhstgradconf@gmail.com by December 1, 2008, to be
considered. Selected panelists will be notified via email by January
15, 2009.
Individual Panelists:
- 250 word abstract describing paper or artwork. Please specify the type of media you will be presenting, and include your name, email address, and phone number.
- List of supplies needed, if applicable.
- Brief curriculum vitae.
Panels:
- 250 word abstract for each paper or artwork to be presented with the panel.
- List of all panel members (3 per panel) with chairperson designated.
- 250 word abstract that discusses the theme of the panel.
- Brief curriculum vitae for each panelist.
Please contact nugradconf@gmail.com with any questions.
