Call for Papers: The Law of the Land: Virginia and America

Call for Papers: The Law of the Land: Virginia and America

The Supreme Court of Virginia Historical Commission and the Library of Virginia invite proposals for a needs-and-opportunities symposium on the legal history and culture of Virginia and the United States to be held at the Library of Virginia on Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 March 2010. The symposium will be the first event in The Law of the Land: Virginia and America, which will feature a major exhibition and other public programs beginning in 2012.

The Program Committee welcomes submissions for individual papers or for session proposals emphasizing needs-and-opportunities and new scholarship that treat large and important topics such as (but not limited to) the origins of American legal culture, the influence of Virginia on American legal culture, the common law, state constitutional law, federalism and state’s rights, courts and jurisprudence, criminal law, commercial law, labor law, environmental law, legal education, law and gender, and the law and slavery, segregation, and race. Attendance is limited to 250.

Please send proposals and a brief CV by e-mail to the Program Committee before 1 May 2009, addressed to brent.tarter@lva.virginia.gov.

‘Empires in Perspective’ Pickering & Chatto Publishers: a Call for Book Proposals

‘Empires in Perspective’ Pickering & Chatto Publishers: a Call for Book Proposals

This monograph series publishes volumes that address important dimensions of imperial history, from the early modern world into the twentieth century. We invite proposals from political, social, economic and cultural historians, as well as historians of science and political theory. You can find out more about this series at: .

If you would like to discuss an idea for a monograph proposal or an edited collection of essays then please contact Mr. Daire Carr (Junior Commissioning Editor for History).

Northeast Conference on British Studies Call for Papers

The Northeast Conference on British Studies will be holding its annualmeeting at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 2-3, 2009. We solicit the participation of scholars in all areas of British Studies, broadly defined. In particular, we welcome proposals for interdisciplinary panels that draw on the work of historians, literary critics, and scholars in other disciplines whose focus is on Britain and its empire, from the Middle Ages to the present.

The deadline for panel and paper submissions is Friday May 8, 2009. For further information and submission guidelines, please see:
http://users.wpi.edu/~phansen/necbs.

Call for Papers: Independence and Decolonization – Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Call for Papers

The Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will host a symposium, Independence and Decolonization, April 15-17, 2010. Inspired by the upcoming bicentenary of Mexican independence, the symposium aims to generate dialogue among scholars from a variety of disciplines working on processes of independence, decolonization, and the reconfiguration of territorial and social borders that such processes generate. We encourage proposals that adopt an explicitly synoptic approach to the interactions between metropolitan powers and colonial/nationalist societies. We welcome proposals from scholars working on the following broad problem areas: 1. Global and local dynamics of “first wave” independence movements and decolonization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (e.g. United States, Haiti, Spanish America); 2. Nineteenth century decolonization (e.g. Ottoman successor states, Brazil, Cuba); 3. National liberation movements and decolonization in the twentieth century. We are interested in bringing into dialogue a variety of approaches and themes which might include ethnic identities and anti-colonial movements, postcolonial state formation, and economic development of postcolonial states.

Interested scholars should submit an abstract of 200-500 words and a one-page CV to Professor Susan Deans-Smith, sdsmith@mail.utexas.edu by March 1, 2009. Participants will be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses. For further information about the Institute for Historical Studies, its programs, and fellowships see: www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/. 

Professor Susan Deans-Smith
History Department
University of Texas at Austin
1 Univ Sta B7000
Austin, Texas 78712-0220
Email: sdsmith@mail.utexas.edu
Visit the website at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/