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Call for papers

"History and Theory"

November 15-16, 1997
University of California, Irvine

The keynote speaker for this conference will be Prof. Lynn Hunt, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for an interdisciplinary conference, to be held in November, 1997, that will examine the connections between history and theory. The conference will take up issues and ideas raised by the many contemporary theories available to us -- critical theory, cultural studies, feminism, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, among others -- examining their usefulness in the study of the past as practiced in various disciplinary settings in an effort to explore the ways various theories reshape historical inquiry, as well as the contexts in which these theories have developed. Rather than presentations of a theorist's work, explications of a particular theoretical question, or representations of a historical past, we encourage submissions which stress the relationship between history and theory by historicizing the development of a theory or body of theories, or through the application of a theoretical model in the analysis of a historical problem.

Possible avenues of investigation might include:

• practicing world history through post-colonial theory
• the problems and advantages of cultural studies for cultural history
• public history and the spectacular
• Foucault and histories of social control
• history and memory
• narratives and counter-narratives of nationalism
• appropriations of canonical theorists by marginalized communities

Papers addressing other aspects of the relationship between history and theory are also encouraged.

One page abstracts (with no information identifying the submitter) and accompanying cover letter should be submitted by July 15, 1997, to:

For further information, email: <kjulien@uci.edu>.

We will be able to provide some housing for people traveling long distances to the conference.

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