CALL FOR PAPERS. Vanderbilt University Graduate History Conference "NEW APPROACHES TO HISTORY."

The graduate students of Vanderbilt University’s Department of History invite doctoral students to submit proposals for our annual conference, to be held at Vanderbilt University on Friday, February 15th, 2013.

This conference provides a venue for graduate students to showcase their most innovative work. The selected title for this year, New Approaches to History, implies our desire to turn this conference into an opportunity to explore the most relevant trends and themes studied by the newest generation of scholars. The overarching organizing theme for this conference will be originality, as opposed to a particular chronological or geographical focus. Presentations will be organized into coherent panels. Each of these panels will have a commentator. In order to encourage a real discussion of the papers, participants will be asked to circulate their work in advance.

Please submit an abstract of your paper, not exceeding 250 words, and a one-page CV by December 7th, 2012, to Christian Rocha at christian.rocha@vanderbilt.edu.

Those selected will be notified on a rolling basis. We expect to inform all participants by December 15th, 2012.