There is one week left to submit your abstracts to present at the the 2013 Purdue HGSA Conference. As one of the event organizers I promise a terrific event. It'll be held in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, IN on Saturday, March 30, 2013. *Keynote Speaker* Our keynote speaker is Dr. Kristin Hoganson, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is highly respected for her research on United States history in global and transnationals contexts and the cultures of U.S. imperialism. Hoganson is author of /Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity 1865-1920/, and /Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars./ Her address will be based on her current book project which examines the U.S. Heartland in global and imperial contexts. *Call for Papers* “... some confidence needs to be regained in the possibilities of grasping society as a whole, of theorizing its bases of cohesion and instability, and of analyzing its forms of motion.” -- Geoff Eley, /A Crooked Line/ Narratives are often portrayed as deceptively linear, which clouds the connections between the past and present, and the variety of paths they follow. Exploring the divergences and convergences of traditional timelines and narratives allows us to broaden our understanding of the past. Crooked lines appear illustrating conflicts and connections across temporal, spatial, and ideological divisions and provide a richer understanding of the human experience. The Purdue History Graduate Student Association welcomes papers from multiple perspectives and disciplines that explore the crooked lines of history. Submissions for panels or individual papers are welcomed from graduate students at all levels. We welcome scholars whose work focuses on any region or field. Please send a 250-word abstract and short curriculum vitae (no more than two pages) to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by January 7, 2013. For panel proposals, please send a 200-word panel abstract along with paper abstracts and presenters' CVs. Website: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/history/graduate/hgsa/conference/index.html -- Andrew McGregor Doctoral Student Department of History Purdue University [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (913) 220-6431