Society, Technology and War in World History

November 3-4, 2011

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

MAWHA, the Mid-Atlantic World History Association, is pleased to announce its fifteenth annual conference. This year’s focus is the broad topic of war, and the social, political, technological and economic aspects of world history’s connection to conflict. MAHWA, an affiliate of the World History Association, encourages conference participation by graduate students, high school teachers, and college professors, as part of its mission to encourage the conversation between all practitioners in the field of world history.

This year’s conference also celebrates the launching of Rutgers University’s new Master’s Degree in Global and Comparative History; it will also feature Michael Adas, the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers, as our keynote speaker.

We invite participants to engage, consider and compare the relationships, methodologies, theories, and concepts involving society, technology and war in a world history context. Topics could include – but are not limited to-

* War and refugee populations -- staying put, moving out, international aid, and survival
* Cyberspace, the new face of technology and war
* Population, technology, migration, and the creation of nations or nationalism
* Technology and society pre-1500
* Gender and technology
* Technology and media in civic society
* Comparative studies of media and war
* Empire, post-colonialism and world history
* Economics, energy and resources, past and present
* Teaching world history

Submission Guidelines:

Each paper, panel, or roundtable proposal must include a title and a brief (300 words or less) description of the topic. Sessions are 90 minutes long. Ideally, panels will consist of three presenters, who will be allotted no more than 20 minutes each, leaving time for questions. Panels will have maximum of four presenters; roundtables may have five panelists, but each will be limited to a 10-minute initial statement. Please submit a paper, panel, or roundtable proposal with the relevant abstracts, titles, institutional affiliations (as appropriate), and participant names to:

Hard Copies: Jacqueline Swansinger Electronically: swansing@fredonia.edu MAWHA Program Chair
SUNY Fredonia
History Department, Thompson Hall
Fredonia, NY 14063

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2011

For further information see the MAWHA website: www.mawha.org