The History Graduate Student Association at Louisiana State University is pleased to announce its fourth annual Graduate History Conference, to take place on March 22 and 23, 2013. The conference is an opportunity for graduate student scholars to present original research and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in their respective fields. The keynote speaker is Harry L. Watson, Atlanta Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America and Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America.

We invite submissions for panels or individual papers from graduate students at all levels of study. Proposals may cover all fields and approaches of historical scholarship and span all chronological and geographical boundaries.

PAPER PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 2012.

Please limit proposals to 300 words. Paper submissions should include a working title and brief description of the central argument, as well as a copy of the scholar’s curriculum vita. For panel proposals, please include a 200-word description of the panel topic in addition to the individual paper abstracts and vitae.

If selected, participants must submit a final paper by February 1, 2013.