Gone but not forgotten…
Comparative Perspectives on Regulating Age of Consent and Child-Marriage in the British Empire, 1880 to 1930
Location: University of London, UK
Conference Date: June 15, 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 8 2018
Themes: The debates that led to the reform of age of consent laws around the British Empire from 1880 to 1930. The conference is interdisciplinary as well as transnational.
Requirements: An abstract of no more than 300 words with a short bio.
Contact: ageofconsentsoas (at) gmail (dot) com
Link: http://osgoodesocietycanadianlegalhistory.blogspot.ca/2017/10/cfp-comparative-perspectives-on.html
1968 in the Americas: Impact, Legacies and Memory
Location: Institute of the Americas, London, UK
Conference Date: June 21-22 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 12 2018
Themes: An analysis of the lasting impacts of the dramatic events of 1968; from militant student activism in Mexico City, Montreal, and New York, protests against the Vietnam war and racial discrimination, second wave feminism, Quebec separatism, the Cultural Congress in Havana, the conference seeks to understand how global events were refracted locally in the Americas.
Requirements: An abstract of no more than 300 words and a short bio of no more than 150 words.
Contact: Kate Quinn, katherine (dot) Quinn (at) ucl.ac.uk
Link: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/500390/1968-americas-impact-legacies-and-memory
Thinking Mountains Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: Banff, AB
Conference Date: October 2-5 2018
Paper Proposal due by: January 12 2018
Themes: Dialogues centred on mountain places, peoples, and activities around the world. See link below for more comprehensive discussion of themes.
Requirements: 150 word abstracts for a 20 minute paper accompanied by brief biographical note.
Contact: thinkingmtns@ualberta.ca
Link: http://niche-canada.org/2018/01/06/thinking-mountains-2018-cfp/
The Bibliographical Society of Canada: The Book at the Crossroads of Diversities
Location: University of Regina
Conference Date: May 2018 (Congress)
Paper Proposals due by: January 15 2018
Themes: The evolution of publishing, the representation of diversity in specific publications such as textbooks over time, studies of specific genres, the many diverse approaches to book history through historical, literacy, cultural, sociological, technical, and bibliographical studies, and other possible themes (for comprehensive list see link below).
Requirements: One page proposal and brief biography.
Contact: proposals (at) bsc-sbc (dot) ca
Telling the Stories of Race and Sports in Canada: A Symposium
Location: University of Windsor, Ontario
Conference Date: September 28-29, 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 15 2018
Themes: Canadian experiences that address sports in a racialized world.
Requirements: An abstract of no more than 250 words for an individual presentation of approximately 20 minutes.
Contact: Miriam Wright, email racesportscanada (at) uwindsor (dot) ca
Link: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/racesportsymposium/
Symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map
Location: University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine USA
Conference Date: June 21-23 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 15 2018
Themes: Any aspect of the production, circulation, or curation of early maps and mapping, with preference given to proposals that address the conference’s key words (see link below).
Requirements: A 250-400 word abstract which includes your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and project title.
Contact: ishm2018 (at) maine (dot) edu
Link: http://www.oshermaps.org/ishmap2018/cfp
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
Location: Regina, SK
Conference Date: May 26-June 1 2018 (Congress)
Paper Proposals due by: January 15 2018
Themes: Varied; see link below for details.
Requirements: Proposals for 20-minute papers or 90-minute panels must be submitted through the link provided on the CFP page, which can be found below. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words.
Contact: Program Committee – Constance Crompton, Aaron Mauro, Servanne Monjour, Jim Clifford, Brent Nelson, Jason Boyd, Susan Brown.
Link: http://csdh-schn.org/2017/11/15/csdhschn-cfp-gathering-diversities-regina-may-26-28-2018/
The Neil Sutherland Article Prize
Prize awarded: CHA 2018 meeting (Congress)
Submissions due by: January 15 2018
Eligibility: Articles published in English or French in scholarly journals and books between January 2016 and December 2017 on any time period, national/international context, demonstrating a clear contribution to the study of the history of young people.
Requirements: Submission of a PDF copy of the published article
Contact: Jamie Trepanier, Co-Chair, History of Children and Youth Group, email james (dot) trepanier (at) historymuseum (dot) ca
Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize
Deadline for Nominations: January 15 2018
Themes: Awarded to scholarly articles and book chapters in both English and French, which have made an original and significant contribution to the historical study of migration and ethnicity.
Requirements: A digital copy of the chapter or article must be sent to the chair of the CCMET Article Prize committee, Dr. Jane Nicholas.
Contact: jane (dot) nicholas (at) uwaterloo (dot) ca
Nuclear Histories of Canada
Location: Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, Toronto Canada
Conference Date: September 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 15 2018
Themes: The role of nuclear issues in Canadian history, Canada’s role in the nuclear age.
Requirements: 300 word proposal and a CV.
Contact: Susan Colbourn, email susie (dot) colbourn (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
Link: http://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/bill-graham-centre-call-for-papers-nuclear-histories-of-canada/
Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (CHESS Summer School)
Location: Regina/Saskatoon, SK
Conference Date: May 30-June 1, 2018 (right after CHA)
Paper Proposals due by: January 15 2015
Themes: Environmental history
Requirements: There is an online application form, see link below.
Contact: Jim Clifford, University of Saskatchewan.
Storying Our Pasts: Historical Narratives and Representations
Location: Carleton University, Ottawa ON
Conference Date: March 15-17 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 21 2018
Themes: Historical output and means of storytelling, ways in which history is presented to an audience.
Requirements: Proposals of no more than 300 words with a brief author bio.
Contact: underhill (dot) colloquium (at) gmail (dot) com
Link: https://carleton.ca/underhill/call-for-papers/
2nd Annual Northern Historical Student conference
Location: University of Northern British Columbia
Conference Date: February 23-25 2018
Paper Proposals due by: January 22 2018
Themes: “Discovery” – the exploration of the contention behind the word in the historical discipline.
Requirements: Submission using Google Forms here: https://goo.gl/forms/Fdgk5OqzvlbQX9Cg1
Contact: nhss (at) unbc (dot) ca
Link: https://twitter.com/unbcHistory/status/922222894456827904
Centre d’Histoire des régulations sociales: The Great Transition/La Grande transition
Location: Montréal, QC
Conference Date: May 2018
Paper Proposal due by: January 26 2018
Themes: The political history of capitalism (see link below for more comprehensive list of themes)
Requirements: A proposal of approximately 250 words accompanied with a short author bio
Contact: petit.kim@uquam.ca
Link: https://chrs.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-12-19-Appel.pdf
Series CFP – Age of Revolutions: “Race and Revolution”
Date: Proposals are to be submitted by December 1 2017, the post themselves will be due by the end of January 2018
Themes: Any revolution can be the topic; “how has race impacted revolutionary experience, identity, and action?” (see link below for more details)
Requirements: Length of posts are 800-1,200 words
Contact: Bryan Banks, banksb (at) sunyacc (dot) edu.
Link: https://ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/
Special Issue, Urban History Review: Bad Behaviours and Disorderly Public Spaces in Urban Canada
Proposals due by: December 1 2017
Themes: How bad behaviours shape the urban environment, how transgressive use of public space bring urban actors together in both dialogue and in conflict, how cities have managed this dialogue and conflict.
Contact: Matthieu Caron (University of Toronto), email matthieu (dot) carron (at) mail (dot) utoronto.ca; Daniel Ross (UQAM), email ross (dot) daniel (at) uqam.ca
Violence and the Mind: McGill-Queens Grad Conference 2018
Location: McGill University, Montréal QC
Conference Date: March 1-3 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 8 2017
Themes: The historiographical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to the role played by violence in forging and re-shaping human society (comprehensive list of themes found at link below).
Requirements: Abstract not exceeding 400 words with a brief author bio.
Contact: mcgillqueens2018 (at) gmail.com
Link: https://mcgillhcgsa.wixsite.com/home/mq2018
Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment, 20-22 September 2018
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Date: September 20-22, 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 15, 2017
Themes: The Transnational nature of Canadian identity (interdisciplinary; see link below for more details.)
Requirements: Author CV and paper abstract of no more than 250 words
Contact: ceacs2018 (at) gmail (dot) com
Link: https://www.ceacs.fsv.cuni.cz/call-for-papers
The Politics of the Canoe: Activism and Resistance
Location: Winnipeg MB
Conference Dates: June 8-10 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 15 2017
Themes: The different meaning of the canoe, and its infusion with colonial, gendered, and class politics. (See link for comprehensive list of themes and topics, as well as a bibliography.) The goal of this workshop is to produce an edited collection of essays.
Requirements: A 300 word abstract, and a brief author bio not exceeding 250 words.
Contact: Bruce Erickson, email bruce (dot) erickson (at) umanitoba (dot) ca
Link: https://networks.h-net.org/node/3449/discussions/818218/cfp-politics-canoe-activism-and-resistance
The Hockey Conference 2018
Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton
Conference Dates: July 5-7 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 15 2017
Themes: interdisciplinary studies on hockey.
Requirements: Proposals of 150-200 words which include a title, author name, institutional affiliation, and contact info.
Contact: Cheryl MacDonald, cheryl3 (at) ualberta (dot) ca
Link: https://networks.h-net.org/node/3449/discussions/591790/hockey-conference-2018-call-abstracts
Abortion in the British Isles, France and North America
Location: University of Paris-Sorbonne (France)
Conference Dates: November 6-8 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 23 2017
Themes: The developments in France, the UK, Canada, and the US, around the abortion debate, the law, and how things have changed over the last two centuries in the different countries concerned. (See link below for comprehensive list of themes and suggestions.)
Requirements: A 500 word abstract with a short CV which must be sent to all three conference organizers.
Contact: Claire Charlot, email clairecharlot (dot) sorbonne (at) gmail.com; Adrien Lherm, email adrienlherm (at) wanadoo.fr; Fabienne Portier-LeCocq, email fabienne.portier-lecocq (at) univ-tours.fr
4th Black Canadian Studies Association Conference
Location: University of Regina, SK
Conference Dates: May 26-June 1, 2018 (Congress)
Paper Proposals due by: December 24 2017
Themes: “Reparations Start with a Formal Apology for Slavery & Antiblackracism” (see link below for further details).
Requirements: An abstract of no more than 250 words
Contact: blackcanadastudies (at) gmail (dot) com
Rising Up: A Graduate Student Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Research
Location: University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus
Conference Dates: March 9-10 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 29 2017
Themes: Interdisciplinary and international, open to a wide range of topics.
Requirements: Online submission of a 250 word abstract, with key words, university affiliation, and other relevant information (see link below).
Link: http://www.risingup.online/
Jews and Strangers
Location: Leo Baeck College, London, UK
Conference Date: July 3 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 31 2017
Themes: How does the stranger transport Jews back to their past as strangers? In which ways do strangers participate in shaping Jewish Identity? How did Jews help strangers (adoption, shelter)? For a comprehensive list of themes, see link below.
Requirements: Abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography.
Contact: Dr. Catherine Bartlett, jewsandstrangers2018 (at) gmail (dot) com
Link: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/489382/jews-and-strangers
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
Location: University of Regina, Saskatchewan (Congress)
Conference Date: May 26-28 2018
Paper Proposal due by: November 20 2017 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
Theme: “Gathering Diversities”/”Rassembler les diversités”
Requirements: One page CV and a proposal not exceeding 350 words. If submitting a panel proposal, these proposals should be in groups of three; each individual proposal should not exceed 350 words and include a panel proposal which is also a maximum of 350 words.
Contact: Esyllt Jones, email esyllt (dot) jones (at) umanitoba.ca
Link: https://cshm-schm.ca/call-papers-canadian-society-history-medicine-2018/
Feminist Geographies in/during Troubled Times: Dialogues, Interventions and Praxis
Location: Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Conference Date: August 4-6 2018
Paper Proposals due by: Sesssions and panel proposals are due by October 31 2017; individual papers by November 30 2017
Themes: Various themes possible, including “How do feminist geographers understand and address troubled times at all scaled from the body to the globe and in contexts such as the home, workplace, and public spaces?”; “Place and space for/by feminist and other critical geographers in/during troubled times”; etc. See link below for further details.
Requirements: Name of the session/panel/paper, name and contact information of the presenter and/or all participants, and an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Contact: femgeogconference (at) gmail (dot) com
43rd Annual Conference of the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS)
Location: Senate House, London, UK
Conference Date: April 19-21 2018
Paper Proposals due by: November 30 2017
Themes: “2018 – A Century Later: Memory, Remembrance and Change” – the centenary of the end of the first world war, the impact of the war on Canada and Canada’s place in the wider world.
Requirements: An abstract not exceeding 250 words, accompanied by a one page CV. Panel proposals should be accompanied by a 100 word panel summary.
Contact: Bart Zielinkski, BACS2018conference (at) gmail (dot) com
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Conference Date: July 18-22 2018
Paper Proposals due by: December 1 2018
Themes: All aspects of an approaches to the history and culture of the early American republic (see link below for further details).
Requirements: A single word document which includes a panel title with one-paragraph description of panel topic, email addresses and institutional affiliation of all participants, a title and description not exceeding 100 words for each individual paper, a single page CV for each participant, and an indication of any individual needs.
Contact: shear2018 (at) gmail.com
Link: http://www.shear.org/2017/10/12/cfp-shear-2018-in-cleveland-2/
2018 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
Location: Acadia University, Wolfville NS
Conference Date: May 4-6 2018
Paper proposal due by: November 10 2017 (DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 24)
Themes: Interdisciplinary (English, Theatre, Social Sciences, History, Politics, Sociology); Atlantic Canada’s place in the world, including indigenous narratives, naming and claiming space, linguistics, cultural expression, the arts, immigration, outmigration, politics, gender, and other themes. Please see the link below for more details.
Requirements: A proposal of no less than 250 words, along with a brief CV or biography.
Contact: Stephen Henderson, Department of History & Classics, Acadia University. Email: stephen (dot) henderson (at) acadiau.ca
Interdisciplinary Trans Studies Graduate Student Conference 2018
Location: Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto
Conference Date: April 26-27 2018
Paper Proposals due by: November 10 2017
Themes: “Trans Matters,” encompassing a broad spectrum of issues affecting the Trans community. (For comprehensive list of suggested themes see link below.)
Requirements: Title and 250 word abstract with author bio. Proposals for visual art submissions, poster presentations, videos, and other types of presentations are also welcome.
Contact: transgradconference (at) gmail (dot) com
Historical Materialism Montreal 2018: The Great Transition – Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist Society
Location: Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC
Conference Date: May 17-18 2018
Paper Proposals due by: November 15 2017
Themes: Critiques of capitalism, anti-capitalist transition strategies, post-capitalist models.
Requirements: Proposals must be submitted through the planning committee’s google forms site, which can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepq74_siifc87E72cWc8uv93q5G5rTfoYWPrXq7oNtDtdQSg/viewform
Contact: info (at) thegreattransition.net
Link: https://thegreattransition.net/call-for-paper/
African American Intellectual History Society’s 3rd Annual Conference
Location: Brandeis University
Conference Date: March 30-31 2018
Paper Proposal due by: November 15 2017
Themes: “Black Thoughts Matter”: Race & political thought, women’s studies, queer studies, slavery and freedom, sexuality, resistance movements, performance and embodied practice, surveillance studies, Black internationalism, popular culture, religion. See the link below for a more comprehensive list.
Requirements: An abstract no more than 250 words and a short author CV. Preference will be given to complete panel submissions. NOTE: there is a website dedicated to helping write conference proposals which can be found here.
Contact: aaihs10 (at) gmail.com
Link: http://www.aaihs.org/cfp/
BGEAH & BrANCH Joint Postgraduate and Early Career Conference
Location: Institute of Historical Research, London, UK
Conference Date: 23 March 2018
Paper Proposals due by: November 24 2017
Themes: Catering specifically to postgraduates and early career historians, this conference’s focus is on practical and vocational skills such as writing, publication, research, job, and post-doc applications, etc. It will also include workshops. The broad focus is North American history, despite the location.
Requirements: Proposals are to be sent as an email attachment with the subject line “BGEAH & BrANCH 2018. File names should include the submitter’s name as well as the conference name and be between 250-350 words.
Contact: Gareth Davis, email gareth (dot) davis (dot) 14 (at) ucl (dot) ac (dot) uk
Canadian Cultures at a Crossroads: Heritage, History, and Cultural Expression
Location: Hilton Doubletree, Aylmer, Québec
Conference Date: Nov 30-Dec 01 2017
Paper Proposals due by: October 16 2017
Themes: How should we define Canadian culture(s)? What are the issues facing cultural expression and preservation? and various other themes (see link below for details).
Requirements: Proposals of an unidentified length
Contact: james (dot) ondrick (at) acs-aec.ca / 514-925-3097
Trans-American Crossings: Enslaved Migrations within the Americas and Their Impacts on Slave Cultures and Societies, 1-3 June 2018
Location: John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA
Conference Date: June 1-3 2018
Paper Proposals due by: October 16 2017
Themes: The Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade; how enslaved people crossed the Americas; how the study of intra-American forced migrations changes scholarly understandings of cultural patterns in the African diaspora or demographics in slave societies.
Requirements: One page summary of each paper, with CV for each participant. NOTE: this is a very detailed CFP and I highly suggest you read the link below in full.
Contact: Martha Howard, email Martha (dot) Howard (at) wm.edu
Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting: Enthographies of NAFTA
Location: Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Conference Date: May 16-20 2018
Paper Proposal due by: October 20 2017.
Themes: The ethnographic contributions of NAFTA on Canada, Mexico, and/or the United States
Requirements: Abstract of undefined length
Contact: Alejandra Gonzalez Jimenez alejandra (dot) gonzalezjimenez (at) mail (dot) utoronto.ca
Link: https://cas-sca.ca/conference-classifieds-483/7297-call-for-papers-casca-cuba-ethnographies-of-nafta
Maple Leaf & Eagle Conference
Location: University of Helsinki, Finland
Conference Date: May 15-18 2018
Paper Proposals due by: October 20 2017
Themes: American-Canadian studies
Requirements: A short bio with a proposal of no more than 300 words geared towards a 20 minute presentation.
Contact: mapleleaf-eagle (at) helsinki.fi
Canada, The United States, and Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation
Location: Mauna Lani Bay, Kohala Coast, Island of Hawaii
Conference Date: March 7-10 2018
Paper Proposals due by: October 31 2017
Themes: Sovereignty, self governance, truth and reconciliation, sustainable development, environmentalism, indigenous rights, health and human wellness, food security, traditional resource management, traditional forms of knowledge and culture, indigenous peoples in multicultural societies, and indigenous peoples in the international system.
Requirements: Proposal not exceeding 500 words with author CV
Contact: mhawes (at) fulbright.ca; kirkeycj (at) plattsburgh.edu; konan (at) hawaii.edu; and gchun711 (at) hawaii.edu
Link: http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/news/call-for-papers-colloquium.htm#sthash.ufwJnCIu.vimaJ4kY.dpbs
Exploring Canada: Exploits & Encounters – Nordic Association for Canadian Studies
Location: Akureyi, Iceland
Conference Dates: August 8-11 2018
Paper Proposals due by: October 31 2017
Themes: interdisciplinary, see link below for a comprehensive list of themes.
Requirements: An abstract of no more than 150 words with a brief CV in word format.
Contact: nacs2018 (at) gmail (dot) com
Link: http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CFP-1-NACS-XII.pdf
An International Workshop on Post-Orientalism
Location: L. R. Wilson Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Conference Date: September 21-22 2018
Paper Proposals due by: November 1 2017
Themes: The transnational critique of against Orientalism; a reflection upon the origins of Orientalism and the relations to decolonization.
Requirements: Proposals of no more than 250 words and a one page author CV.
Contact: Questions should be directed at Maurice Jr Labelle, conference organizer, at maurice (dot) jr (dot) labelle (at) usask.ca, while submissions should be sent to wilsonch (at) mcmaster.ca
2018 CHA Annual Meeting/Réunion annuelle de la SHC
Location: University of Regina, Saskatchewan (Congress 2018)
Conference Date: May 28-30 2018
Paper Proposals due by: November 1 2017
Themes: “Gathering Diversities”
Requirements: Proposals are accepted English and French from scholars working in any discipline, field, or era that addresses the conference theme. Proposals should be no more than 250 words and include a one page author CV.
Contact: chashc.2018 (at) uregina.ca
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 10th Annual Meeting
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Conference Date: May 17-19 2018
Proposals Due by: November 1 2017
Themes: Any proposal covering Native American & Indigenous scholarship will be considered.
Requirements: To submit a proposal, you’ll have to create an account with NAISA. See the link below for details.
Link: https://www.aisc.ucla.edu/naisa2018/program.aspx