Call for Papers
Traces of Early America
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
September 26 to 28, 2013
Scholars encounter early America through its traces, the vestiges and
fragments left behind. And in reconstructing the fleeting and ephemeral,
scholars also attempt to trace early American encounters. This
conference will bring together graduate students from a wide variety of
disciplines to explore the various meanings of tracesas material
objects, cultural representations, and academic practices. Papers might
consider how people deliberately and unwittingly left traces as they
moved through space and time; what traces or remnants of the past get
privileged while others are marginalized or occluded; how written,
visual, and other texts are both material objects and traces of lives
and experiences; and where we look for the traces of different
communities and conflicts in early America. More generally, papers might
address tracing as a method of historical inquiry, one that both
uncovers and constitutes objects and archives, as well as the
methodological traces that have reconfigured early American studies,
such as Atlantic history, diaspora studies, hemispheric studies, and
circum-Caribbean and Latin American studies.
We welcome applicants from a wide variety of disciplinesamong them
history, literature, gender studies, ethnic studies, anthropology,
archeology, geography, art history, material culture, religious studies,
and political sciencewhose work deals with the histories and cultures
of North American and the Atlantic world before 1850. Applicants should
email their proposals to [log in to unmask] by March 15, 2013.
Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words along
with a one-page c.v. Paper presentations should be no more than 20
minutes. Limited financial support is available for participants travel
expenses. Decisions will be announced by May 15, 2013.
Any conference-related questions can be directed to:
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