Featuring Keynote Speaker Philippa Levine (University of Texas - Austin)

Northeastern University’s History Department and Graduate Students invite submissions to their upcoming graduate student conference, “Empires and Technologies in World History.” Graduate students working in all disciplines of the humanities, arts, and social sciences are encouraged to submit topical papers, artwork, documentaries, and poster presentations. While submissions may deal directly with the intersection of empire and technology, we also encourage papers that deal with one or the other subject in the context of world history, and submissions that do not deal with these topics will still be considered.

The conference invites scholarly work that engages world historical theories and methodologies, particularly methodologies of imperial history and interdisciplinary approaches. We are also interested in papers and panels that explore global, transnational and world historical themes. For instance:

● How are the movements of people, commodities, technologies and ideas affected by various networks and world systems?
● In what ways do world and transnational approaches help us better understand the history of science, medicine, or material culture?
● How do gender, race and class function in empire?
● How might these themes and methodologies contribute to, and be communicated through, public history investigations, projects, and presentations?
● What are the roles of popular memory and imagination in the construction of empire?

Both individual and panel proposals will be considered. Regardless of medium, panelists will have fifteen minutes each to present. To be considered, the following documents should be sent to the program committee at nugradconf@gmail.com by December 1, 2011:

Individual Panelists:
-250-word abstract describing paper or work to be presented
-Brief curriculum vitae
-List of audio/visual needs, if applicable

Panels:
-List of all panel members (3 per panel) with designated
chairperson, if applicable
-250-word abstract that discusses the theme of the panel
-250-word abstract for each paper or work to be presented
-Brief curriculum vitae for each panelist and chairperson
-List of audio/visual needs, if applicable

Selected panelists will be notified via email by January 15, 2012.
Please contact nugradconf@gmail.com with any questions.