CFP Roundup 9.4.2013

Below are a number of recent Calls for Papers:

LAGO Graduate Student Conference, "Border Encounters in the Americas"

• When? February 13-15, 2014.
• Where? New Orleans, LA.
• Deadline: Ocotber 25, 2013.

Latin America and the Caribbean are rich with cultural, linguistic, and geographic diversity which has historically made and continues to make the region an object of prolific scholarly study across disciplines. Produced within this diversity are the boundaries—both physical and abstract—between nations, languages, ethnic and racial identities, ecologies, and geographies. Figurative and literal borders are confronted each day as people move across regions, navigate between cultures, and communicate with others around the world; global capital crosses national borders, redefines local economies, and produces labor migrations; geographical landscapes shift as land becomes deforested or designated as protected. These various “border encounters” highlight the ways in which borders can both restrain and liberate the objects, people, or ideas that face them, a distinction that is often bound up with power and politics…With this broad theme in mind, LAGO invites graduate scholars across disciplines to submit abstracts exploring the notion of borders—their strictures, leniencies, and significance—in Latin America and the Caribbean for LAGO’s 2014 graduate student conference. LAGO encourages participants to interpret this theme as they see fit. We invite submissions in the English and other languages of Latin America and the Caribbean regions.

8th Annual New Perspective Conference presented by the Triangle African American History Colloqium, "The Place of Education in African American History and Culture"

• When? Febraury 28 and March 1, 2014.
• Where? University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• Deadline: November 15, 2013.

The Triangle African American History Colloquium (TAAHC) invites proposals for single papers or complete sessions related to the broad theme of African American education across a range of time periods, geographical areas, and disciplines…The conference seeks to address questions such as: What did education mean to black people, both enslaved and free, in the colonial and antebellum eras? In the decades following emancipation, how did African Americans capitalize on their newfound freedoms to increase educational opportunities for themselves? What role did education play in the construction of new identities before and during the rise of Jim Crow? In the twentieth century, how did segregated education affect African American individuals and communities? What is the role of the teacher/professor in African American communities? How did African Americans envision and utilize the concept of educational equality? How have black communities developed unique pedagogies? What is the current state of African American Studies in higher education, and how has it changed over time? In answering these and other questions, the conference should illuminate the multifaceted ways in which education has been at the core of African American history and culture.

 40th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies

• When? February 27-March 1, 2014.
• Where? Knoxville, TN.
• Deadline: November 1, 2013.

SEASECS is an interdisciplinary organization and welcomes paper proposals on literature, history, music, philosophy, the arts, languages, and any other area of interest, including pedagogy and technology related to the eighteenth century. This year’s theme will explore the “Marketplace of Ideas” and the proliferation of knowledge in the eighteenth century, but proposals on all subjects are welcome.

 Annual Conference of Arkansas Historical Society

• When? April 3-5, 2014.
• Where? Washington, Arkansas.
• Deadline: Ocotber 18, 2013.

This conference continues the AHA’s look at the Civil War in Arkansas. As the war dragged into its fourth year, the people of Arkansas found themselves in a daily struggle for survival amid widespread shortages of food and other supplies and the depredations of roving bands who preyed on military and civilian targets with equal ferocity. We welcome presentations on any aspects of the war that focus on the interpretation of the theme of life on the home front. The AHA also invites proposals concerning the state’s experience during other of the nation’s conflicts, such as its Japanese American internment camps or its Titan II missile bases, as well as more general studies of Arkansas families, households, and communities. The AHA plans at least one session on women’s history.