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Call for Papers, Civil War and Reconstruction Area, Popular and American Culture Associations Conference, Boston, april 11-14, 2012
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-12-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-09-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
188302 |
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The Civil War and Reconstruction Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is calling for papers on the American Civil War and Reconstruction for its national meeting, April 11-14, 2012 (Wednesday through Saturday) at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Papers are welcome from a range of disciplines, and may explore any topic or "reading" of the War. Past topics have included, photography, art, newspapers and journalistic history, counterfactual history, battle reenactments, music, popular poetry, home front, politics, battle narratives, film, historiographical issues, women's narratives, African-Americans at war, modern pop culture, memory and memorializing, the politics of battlefield preservation, and material culture. Suggested special topics for this year could include Boston in the War, Northern intellectuals at war, Lincoln and the Spielberg film, and the history of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry.
Sessions run for ninety minutes, and each presenter receives fifteen minutes, depending on the number of papers in each panel. Graduate students are welcome to submit proposals. Whole panel proposals are also welcome
Please send an abstract of 100-250 words to:
Dr. Randal Allred,
Department of English,
Brigham Young University Hawaii,
55-220 Kulanui St.,
Laie, HI 96762
randal.allred@byuh.edu
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