Third Annual Graduate History Conference, April 15-16, 2010

Call for Papers

Submissions can focus on any historical field or topic, but must be based on original research. In keeping with the transnational and comparative theme of the conference, panels will be organized so as to highlight the crossing of spatial and temporal boundaries.

• Proposal submission deadline: February 12, 2010
• Submit proposals as an attachment to: histconf@cmich.edu
• The title of the file attachment should be in the following format: DoeJ Proposal Title.pdf.
• The preferred format for proposals is PDF. Word documents are also acceptable.
• Completed papers and accompanying vitae are due on March 26, 2010.
• Papers submitted by March 26 will be considered for the “Best Paper submitted by a CMU student” and “Best Paper submitted by a non-CMU student” prizes.

Please direct all questions and correspondence, including proposals, papers, and vitae to histconf@cmich.edu.

2009 Graduate History Conference - Updated Details

Updated details on the 2009 Graduate History Conference:

• Conference Program (pdf)
• Flyer (pdf) with additional details (places, times, speakers, directions, lodging, parking, conference awards, and more)
  

2009 CTCH Graduate History Conference

The Center for Transnational and Comparative history announces its second annual Graduate History Conference:

“Challenging Boundaries, Transcending Borders”

April 16-17, 2009

Keynote speaker: John Young · Luncheon speaker: José Brandão

Submissions can focus on any historical field or topic, but in keeping with the transnational and comparative theme of the conference, the actual panels will be organized so as to highlight the crossing of spatial and temporal boundaries.

Proposal submission deadline: March 6, 2009 (Papers due by April 3, 2009)

Please direct all questions and correspondence, including proposals and completed papers, to histconf@cmich.edu.

Transnational and Comparative History Speaker Series

The Department of History is pleased to announce its Transnational and Comparative History Speaker Series for Fall 2008. Unless otherwise noted, presentations begin at 3:30pm in the Strosacker Room at Park Library.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin. "Between the global and the local: Empire, religion, patria, and natural history in Spanish America, 1750-1800." This presentation will be held in the President's Conference Room, Bovee University Center.

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Michael Wala, Chair, Department of History, University of Bochum. "Representing the Weimar Republic: Ambassadors Wiedfeldt, Maltzan, and Prittwitz and German-American relations in the interwar period."

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas-San Antonio. "National Stories, Sexual Identity: The Kama Sutra in India, Great Britain, and the United States."

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Laura Fair, Michigan State University. "Transnational circuits, local reception: Cinema in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s."

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Charles Bright, University of Michigan. "The Global Condition in the Long Twentieth Century."

Dissertation Defense

Doctoral Dissertation Defense

"A More Beautiful Future: Class, Race and City Planning in Glasgow and Chicago, 1890-1968"

by

Matthew P. McCabe

May 5, 2008
3:30pm
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