Nationalism, Internationalism, and World History
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
October 24-25, 2003

We welcome proposals on any subject, period, or area from independent scholars as well as from teachers/scholars from universities, colleges and secondary schools. Proposals may include individual papers, collaborative projects, or roundtable discussions of a topic or theme concerned with world history.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The Role of Corporate Enterprise: 17th century to the Present
• Westernization and Militarization
• Overcoming History – Can Age-old Grievances be Transcended?
• Conceptions of Human Rights
• The Middle East Today: A Turning Point in History?
• Is Nationalism Dead?
• Whose resources? The Environment and Global Resource Scarcity
• Can America Remake the World?
• National and Transnational Identities
• Possible Teaching Panels:
  • Creating self-awareness and teaching tolerance
  • Teaching controversy
  • Examples of college/k-12 collaboration
  • Teaching Islam in the secondary schools
• Possible Roundtable Discussions:
  • Comparative examples of civilization shifts
  • How current events affect scholarship
  • Media/How to use/ how it is abused/how it informs our students