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The University of North Carolina-Charlotte Graduate History Association invites all interested parties to submit proposals for presentation at the nineteenth annual Graduate History Forum to be held March 16-17, 2007.
Saturday’s luncheon will feature an address by guest speaker Dr. Mary Kay Vaughan, Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Professor Vaughan specializes in the cultural, gender, and educational history of modern Mexico. Her most recent publications are The Eagle and the Virgin: Cultural Revolution and National Identity in Mexico, 1920-1940 coedited with Stephen Lewis, and Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics and Power in Modern Mexico, coedited with Jocelyn Olcott and Gabriela Cano. She is also senior coeditor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Friday evening’s registration and reception will feature a presentation by Dr. Karen Flint, Assistant Professor of History at UNC-Charlotte. She is also the Interim Co-Director of Public History, 2006-2007. Dr. Flint earned her Ph.D. at the University of California Los Angeles in 2001. Her talk will be entitled “Tea and Witches:’ Early African-European Medical and Cultural Encounters of the Other.”
The GHA invites all graduate and undergraduate students to submit papers based on original research for presentations at the Forum. All topics are welcome, including public history and historiographical essays. Prizes will be awarded for the best papers. A one-page abstract and curriculum vitae should be submitted by January 8, 2007. The deadline for submission of completed papers is January 29, 2007. Please send all correspondence to:
gha@email.uncc.edu
Or mail to:
Graduate History Forum
Department of History
UNC-Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
See the GHA website for more information:
http://www.history.uncc.edu/gha.htm
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