CALL FOR PAPERS
55th Annual Meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians
Florida Southern College, Lakeland
February 13-15, 2015
The Florida Conference of Historians (FCH) invites faculty, independent scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students to participate in the 2015 annual meeting to be held at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, February 13-15, 2015. The FCH welcomes panels and individual papers on all historical subjects, including those that relate to our various Special Interest Sections. Starting this year, the Media, Arts, and Culture Special Interest Section is accepting film, video, animation, and interactive media submissions.
To learn more about submitting a proposal, registration, and lodging, please go to the FCH website at: http://www.floridaconferenceofhistorians.org.
Important Deadlines:
Individual paper, panel, and media proposals are due by December 12, 2014
Hotel reservations at the conference rate are due by January 9, 2015 (extended to January 13, 2015)
Advance registration deadline is February 6, 2015
Selected papers will be considered for publication in the FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, a
peer-reviewed journal. Papers published in the journal are eligible to compete for prizes in several categories: the Thomas M. Campbell Award (faculty and independent scholars), the Blaine Browne Award (graduate student), and the J. Calvitt Clarke III Award (undergraduate students).
We are pleased to announce that this year's keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (Harvard University Press, 2010), which was awarded the Rembert Patrick Book Award. Her first book, Black Society in Spanish Florida (University of Illinois Press, 1999), won the Frances B. Simkins Prize for Distinguished First Book in Southern History and was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. She is the author or co-author of five other books, and she has published essays in The American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, The New West Indian Guide, The Americas, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review. She also directs the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive hosted by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt, which is preserving endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to slavery in the Americas. With grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Library Endangered Archives Programme, and the Diocese of St. Augustine, Landers and her international teams have preserved records in Cuba, Brazil, Colombia and Florida, the oldest dating from the 16th century.
Traditionally, the FCH has welcomed in-state, out-of-state, and international participants. This year’s meeting will offer an opportunity to explore central Florida and participate in one of the nation’s most rewarding regional history conferences.
For additional information, contact Dr. James M. Denham, Florida Southern College, at jdenham@flsouthern.edu or call 863-680-4312.
55th Annual Meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians
Florida Southern College, Lakeland
February 13-15, 2015
The Florida Conference of Historians (FCH) invites faculty, independent scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students to participate in the 2015 annual meeting to be held at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, February 13-15, 2015. The FCH welcomes panels and individual papers on all historical subjects, including those that relate to our various Special Interest Sections. Starting this year, the Media, Arts, and Culture Special Interest Section is accepting film, video, animation, and interactive media submissions.
To learn more about submitting a proposal, registration, and lodging, please go to the FCH website at: http://www.floridaconferenceofhistorians.org.
Important Deadlines:
Individual paper, panel, and media proposals are due by December 12, 2014
Hotel reservations at the conference rate are due by January 9, 2015 (extended to January 13, 2015)
Advance registration deadline is February 6, 2015
Selected papers will be considered for publication in the FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, a
peer-reviewed journal. Papers published in the journal are eligible to compete for prizes in several categories: the Thomas M. Campbell Award (faculty and independent scholars), the Blaine Browne Award (graduate student), and the J. Calvitt Clarke III Award (undergraduate students).
We are pleased to announce that this year's keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (Harvard University Press, 2010), which was awarded the Rembert Patrick Book Award. Her first book, Black Society in Spanish Florida (University of Illinois Press, 1999), won the Frances B. Simkins Prize for Distinguished First Book in Southern History and was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. She is the author or co-author of five other books, and she has published essays in The American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, The New West Indian Guide, The Americas, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review. She also directs the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive hosted by the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt, which is preserving endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to slavery in the Americas. With grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Library Endangered Archives Programme, and the Diocese of St. Augustine, Landers and her international teams have preserved records in Cuba, Brazil, Colombia and Florida, the oldest dating from the 16th century.
Traditionally, the FCH has welcomed in-state, out-of-state, and international participants. This year’s meeting will offer an opportunity to explore central Florida and participate in one of the nation’s most rewarding regional history conferences.
For additional information, contact Dr. James M. Denham, Florida Southern College, at jdenham@flsouthern.edu or call 863-680-4312.
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