Owing to a lack interest we have extended the CFP until the 30th September.
CFP - The Futures' Past: The University of Sydney Postgraduate Conference 2015, 26th & 27th November7/20/2015
As historians, how our subjects speculate about their futures can provide a rich source of information about the past. How can we harness the hopes and fears people had about the future in our representations of past lives and their contexts? What do such thoughts and feelings tell us about the role of the future in shaping human narratives? With the past’s future and our own in mind the Department of History at the University of Sydney will be holding a two-day conference on the 26th and 27th November, 2015, for postgraduates and early career researchers interested in addressing these issues and impulses in history and other related disciplines. In this conference we hope to open up a discussion about the way in which we currently write our histories, and the subjects, values, themes and methods that we use. Accordingly, we invite abstracts from those working within history and related disciplines, which will inform us about the histories they are writing, and the ways that these histories are being informed by both past, present and future forces.
Papers will be 20 minutes, with ten minutes following for question time. Proposed theme or approach-based panels should include three papers. Each panelist should deliver a paper of twenty minutes with ten minutes of question time to follow. Themes that your paper might address include:
Abstracts for proposed papers should be no more than 200 words and must be submitted to our website by close of business on *New Date* September 30th 2015, with an accompanying 50-100 word biography. All proposals for panels, roundtable discussions, workshops or other novel formats are encouraged, and should be forwarded to [email protected] Any questions can be directed to organising committee at [email protected] |
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