The Atlantic Studies Workshop at the University of Michigan invites submissions of abstracts from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences for a graduate student conference to be held on Friday, April 13 and Saturday, April 14, 2012. The theme of this year’s conference is Mapping the Atlantic: Digital Humanities and Atlantic Studies. The conference seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion among scholars studying the American, European, and African continents as well as those engaged in global and transnational projects. Research incorporating new methods for researching the Atlantic with the aid of digital materials and methodologies is particularly welcome.

The two-day conference will begin with a keynote presentation on Friday, April 13 by Professor Caroline Winterer from the Department of History at Stanford University. Professor Winterer is currently working with the Mapping the Republic of Letters project at Stanford, where she is mapping the networks of the correspondence of Benjamin Franklin and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

One-page abstracts, accompanied by a short CV, should be submitted to mstango@umich.edu by March 1, 2012. Questions may be directed to the Atlantic Studies Workshop coordinators, Marie Stango
(mstango@umich.edu) or
Patrick Tonks (tonks@umich.edu).