U. S. Intellectual History: Communities of Discourse. CFP
From David Sehat and our friends at the U.S. Intellectual History Blog -- a call for papers for their growing and very exciting annual conference they put on:
Call
for Papers
U.S. Intellectual History: Communities of Discourse
U.S. Intellectual History: Communities of Discourse
Fifth Annual Conference and Annual Meeting of the Society
for U.S. Intellectual History
Co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center
Co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center
New York City
November 1-2, 2012
Submission deadline: June 1, 2012
November 1-2, 2012
Submission deadline: June 1, 2012
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) invites
panel proposals for its fifth annual conference to be held at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York on November 1-2, 2012. S-USIH is very
pleased to announce that the keynote address will be delivered by David A.
Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of
California-Berkeley.
This year’s conference theme is “Communities of Discourse.” The theme highlights the fact that communities are essential to intellectual life. Intellectual historians often focus on individual figures, yet individuals are always embedded in wider communities of intellectual exchange. In addition, intellectual historians are themselves situated in communities of exchange that include not only other historians, but also academics from a broad range of fields (including literature, political science, communications, religion, sociology, anthropology, art history) and the wider public as well. The conference committee invites participants to reflect on all aspects of communities of discourse and the study of intellectual history. Although proposals that relate to the theme are particularly welcome, the committee will accept submissions that are relevant to any aspect of the study of American thought.
Given
the growing popularity of the conference, the committee is introducing a number
of new submission rules in order to ensure fairness. Please read carefully. We will only accept submission of complete
panels and will no longer accept individual paper submissions. Panel submissions must include an abstract of
each presentation, a separate description of the panel itself, and one-page CVs
including the relevant means of contact for all participants. Abstracts for individual presentations should
be no longer than 250 words; panel abstracts should be no longer than 500
words.
Please
observe the following:
1. The number of participants in each session will vary with
the format but each panel should have a chair.
We will accept the following formats:
a. Traditional
panels: Sessions featuring three academic papers and one commentator, who
will also serve as the panel chair.
b. Roundtables:
A series of ten-minute extemporaneous presentations on a topic followed by
discussion among the panel and audience.
c. Discussion
panels: Sessions in which the papers are circulated online prior to the
conference. The entire session is devoted to discussions of the papers.
d. Brownbags: One-hour long presentations
during the lunch period.
2. Each panel submission must indicate a panel organizer,
who will serve as the point of contact for the conference committee.
3. The committee is especially eager to ensure a diverse
representation of participants at the conference. All academic considerations being equal,
panels will be selected whose participants contribute to that goal.
4. Participation will be limited to once on the program, so
a person should only join one panel submission.
5. The committee assumes that submission to the conference
is an indication that participants will be attending the entire
conference. We are unable to accommodate
scheduling requests.
6. All persons appearing on the program must become members
of S-USIH and register for the conference in advance.
7. Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2012. All submissions must be emailed as attachments in MS Word or .pdf format.
7. Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2012. All submissions must be emailed as attachments in MS Word or .pdf format.
Send all submissions to:
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Other queries may be directed to:
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2012 Conference Committee
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David Sehat
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2012 Conference Committee Chair
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