University of Alabama Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle

March 2-3, 2012

The Department of History at The University of Alabama is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle. The conference will be held at the University’s campus on March 2-3, 2012, and will include a keynote speaker addressing the conference theme with a reception following.

Graduate students nationwide are invited to submit proposals that engage the conference theme by examining power relations in all historical fields and time periods. We encourage students to address instances in which people have struggled to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. We seek proposals employing innovative approaches and interdisciplinary research. Particular attention will be given to papers developing comparative perspectives and utilizing multi-archival research bases. Possible topics may include but are not limited to histories of

• Power in institutions, society, and religion
• Struggle in cultural expression, social relationships, and belief systems
• Power in discourse on gender, race, and class
• Struggle against labels in nationalism, ethnicity, sub-culture, or sexual identity
• Power in traditional structures such as politics, diplomacy, imperialism, and war
• Struggle in resistance such as crime, protest, liberation, and revolution

Single papers should include a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV of the presenter. Full-panel proposals will not be accepted. All submissions should be sent in Word format via email to the committee using ghaconference@gmail.com

The deadline for proposal submission is November 18, 2011. Final papers should be submitted to commentators by January 31, 2012. For more information please email the committee at ghaconference@gmail.com.

University of Alabama Graduate Student History Conference Committee:

Joseph Pearson,  jwpearson@crimson.ua.edu
Laura Mammia,   lmmammina@crimson.ua.edu
Monica Ayhens,   mrayhens@crimson.ua.edu
Matt Pritchett,    mdpritchett1@crimson.ua.edu
Katie Deale          rkdeale@crimson.ua.edu