Recap: “This Terrible War: Marking the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War,” The Center for Civil War Research

As the calendar inched closer to the ides of October, I found the semester grind having its (usual) effects. I am in my last year of coursework, and while I love learning, the seminars I am currently enrolled in are more labor intensive than I imagined. The annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association (this year in St. Louis), usually marks the first major break during fall semester, but seems far off.

Being a graduate student often presents a lonely existence; weekly – if not daily – reminders about your current course load, or perhaps the looming spectre of the dissertation prove hard to ignore. Even if you maintain a schedule that allows for minor breaks within the week, the responsibilities of the semester eventually catch up. In short, sometimes you need more of a jolt than simply another cup of coffee. My solution: heading to a conference! Luckily, there was conference (relatively) close at Ole Miss. So I rounded up some other grad students, hopped in a car, and road tripped to Oxford.

CFP Roundup 9.18.2013

Below are a number of recent Calls for Papers:

5th Annual LSU History Graduate Conference
 
When? March 21-22, 2014.
Where?  Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Deadline: December 1, 2013.

We invite submissions for panels or individual papers from graduate students at all levels of study. Proposals may cover all fields and approaches of historical scholarship and span all chronological and geographical boundaries…The keynote speaker is Edward L. Ayers, President and Professor of History at the University of Richmond and author of Vengeance & Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South and What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History.

 

CFP Roundup 8.19.2013

Below are a number of recent Calls for Papers: 

Atlanta Graduate Student Conference in US History

• When? November 15-16, 2013
• Where? Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
• Deadline: September 13, 2013

 

The Workshop in U.S. History at Emory University will host the second Atlanta Graduate Student Conference in U.S. History November 15-16, 2013.  The Conference will be held on Emory’s campus in Atlanta, Georgia.  Professor Bethany Moreton of the University of Georgia will give the keynote address. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates are invited to submit proposals for individual papers or full panels on any topic pertaining to U.S. history.  We welcome submissions that focus on any region, time period, or topic.  Proposals with a comparative, transnational, or interdisciplinary approach to U.S. history, as well as papers with a public history focus, are also encouraged.