The Twenty-Second Annual Bluegrass Symposium, the University of Kentucky’s History Graduate Student Conference, invites paper submissions from advanced graduate students in any field of history. Students may submit individual paper proposals or panels. All fields of history are welcome, and we especially encourage submissions on the history of Gender, Race Relations, Foreign Policy, the American South and Appalachia, Modern Europe and Empire, and work with an interdisciplinary focus. The goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity for M.A. and Ph.D. students to gain experience in presenting original research and receiving feedback in a conference setting.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Lynn Sacco, Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, author of Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History published in 2009 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Proposals should include: submitter’s name, contact information/email, institutional affiliation, a 250-word abstract of the paper (with title), and a brief biographical statement indicating your academic status. Recognition of the strongest paper will receive $50 in travel support and lodging.

For more information please visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bluegrass-Symposium-of-the-University-of-Kentucky/212884202081551 or our department webpage at http://as17.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/History/History/Pages/default.aspx.

Deadline for submissions is *Friday, December 7, 2012*. If accepted, final papers will be due by February 1, 2013. Email proposals as an attachment to the Bluegrass Symposium Committee at: bluegrass.symposium@gmail.com or mail to:

Bluegrass Symposium Committee
Ashley Sorrell
University of Kentucky
History Department
1713 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506

For questions, please email: bluegrass.symposium@gmail.com

Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, University of Kentucky