CFP: Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference

From: Allison Perlman <[email protected]>

Call for Papers
U.S. Intellectual History Conference: Geographies of Ideas

Fifth Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference and Annual Meeting of the
Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Hosted at the University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
November 1-3, 2013

***Submission deadline: June 15, 2013***

The Conference Committee of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
(S-USIH) invites individual paper and panel proposals for its fifth annual
conference to be held at the University of California, Irvine campus on
November 1-3, 2013. . S-USIH is thrilled to announce that David A.
Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University
of California-Berkeley, will deliver the keynote address.

This year’s conference theme is “Geographies of Ideas.” This theme draws
attention both to the importance of place in the forging of ideas and
intellectual communities and the numerous border crossings—geographic,
disciplinary, and theoretical—that are constitutive of developments within
intellectual history. In addition, this theme underscores how ideas about
spaces (local, regional, national, transnational, and global) have
intersected with myriad intellectual questions and concerns. The committee
invites participants to reflect on the multiple ways in which geographies,
both real and imagined, have played a role in the study of intellectual
history and in the course of U.S. history. Although proposals that relate
to the theme are particularly welcome, the committee also welcomes
submissions that are relevant to any aspect of the study of American
thought.

Prospective participants are encouraged to submit full panel proposals to
the conference committee. Panels should consist of four members: (1) either
three academic papers and one chair/commentator or (2) four academic
papers. Panel submissions must include an abstract for each presentation, a
separate description of the panel itself, and one-page CVs for all
participants that include the relevant means of contact. Abstracts for
individual papers must be no longer than 250 words; panel abstracts must be
no longer than 500 words.

Though preference will be given to pre-constituted panel proposals, the
conference committee also will accept individual paper submissions.
Abstracts for individual papers must be no longer than 250 words.
Submissions should also include a one-page CV that includes the relevant
means of contact.

The committee also encourages the submission of roundtable panels (a series
of ten-minute extemporaneous presentations on a topic followed by
discussion among the panel and audience), discussion panels (in which the
papers are circulated online in advance of the conference and the entire
session is devoted to discussions of them), brownbags (one-hour long,
lunchtime presentations), “author meets critics” events, retrospectives on
significant works or thinkers, interviews, or performances. Submissions for
alternate-format sessions must include a description of the proposed
format, along with one-page CVs of all participants that include the
relevant means of contact.

In addition, please observe the following:

1. The committee is especially eager to ensure a diverse representation of
scholars at the conference.

2. Individuals may participate in the conference in at most two capacities
(paper presenter, panel respondent, roundtable participant, etc).
Participants may, for example, deliver a paper and be a panel respondent,
but may not present two papers.

3. The committee will assume that submission to the conference is an
indication that participants will be attending the entire conference. We
will be unable to accommodate any scheduling requests.

4. All persons appearing on the program will be required to register for
the conference and to become members of S-USIH.

5. Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2013.  All submissions must be
emailed as attachments in MS Word or PDF documents.

Send all submissions to: 
2013 Conference Committee
[email protected]

Other queries may be directed to:
Allison Perlman
2013 Conference Committee Chair
[email protected]

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