>Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 08:17:54 -0500
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>2002 American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA
>Location: California, United States
>Call for Papers Date: 2002-01-03
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>The 116th annual meeting of the Association will be held in San Francisco,
>January 3-6, 2002. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all
>members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), from affiliated
>societies, and from scholars in foreign countries and in related
>disciplines. In planning the program, the committee seeks presentations
>that address the entire community of historians and provide opportunities
>to examine the larger concerns of the profession. Panels focusing on
>research and teaching and on discussion of significant professional issues,
>rights, and responsibilities are welcome. Continuing the practice of
>previous years, the committee encourages the participation of established
>scholars and also requests, in particular, panels on time periods, regions,
>topics, and approaches that have been underrepresented in recent AHA
>meetings. As the last few meetings have indicated, those assembling panels
>and those attending them have found that comparative sessions have worked
>well both in stimulating discussion and attracting a diverse audience.
>
>The Theme
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>The 2002 conference theme will be "Frontiers". The idea of the frontier has
>long been an imaginative source for American historians. We seek to extend
>its reach in a host of new directions, both spatial and theoretical. We
>have in mind the exploration of intellectual as well as geographical and
>physical frontiers; disciplinary frontiers are no more or less imaginary
>than those involving mountains or rivers. We see frontiers as evoking
>intellectual imaginings and explorings as well as a spatial awareness of
>surroundings and borders, and believe this topic will add greatly to our
>understanding of human effort and aspiration.
>
>How have frontiers, whether spatial, national, or intellectual, influenced
>the evolution of historical studies? In what ways might the idea of the
>frontier encourage new collaborations, new approaches to the discipline of
>history? We hope to encourage our colleagues quite literally to open up the
>idea of the frontier, a project we believe to be workable across nations,
>topics, and methodologies. We also invite reflections on the history of
>frontiers (from Frederick Jackson Turner to the history of human invention
>and exploration) and on the impact of ideas of the frontier, whether
>physical, intellectual, spiritual, or however else imagined. Accordingly,
>we will give weight to panels that investigate this paradigm in various
>ways.
>
>More information is available on the AHA web site. The Annual Meeting Panel
>Locator Database is now available for persons seeking to assemble panels
>for the 2002 meeting. You can record your topic of interest in the
>database, and search for others with similar interests.
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>Call for Papers website:
>http://www.theaha.org/annual
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