Conference

Dear SHEAR colleagues,

As you may be aware, after many years of dedicated service to the SHEAR Annual Conference, Robyn Davis decided to step down from her position as Conference Coordinator. I will be taking on this role and in that capacity, you'll be receiving updates from me on the SHEAR Conference News blog. I hope to see many of you at the 2024 SHEAR Conference in Philadelphia.

Best,

Erika Huckestein, PhD

SHEAR Conference Coordinator

{apologies for cross-posting, I finally got back into the blog after the updates...}

Dear SHEARites, what a pleasure to be able to say “another year, another SHEAR!” 

Thank you for attending the 2023 annual conference, our first meeting in Philadelphia in 6 years.  We know you join us in appreciation for the superb work of the Program Committee, co-chaired by Eliga Gould and Manisha Sinha, the Local Arrangements Committee headed by Amy Baxter-Bellamy, and others who put together such an invigorating and memorable conference.  We heard many excellent papers, and we hope that those of you

Calling @SHEARites Grad Students and Early Career Scholars.... 

Missing SHEAR this summer?  Catch up with your peers and meet new SHEARites online!  Join the virtual SHEAR Grads and ECRs Happy Hour, Saturday 18 July 2020, 3:00 to 5:00 pm via Zoom.  Register now:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0Urc9FN0We42u_DDpYuYHqH1e2qD3q2IpXhF025dsetQWbw/viewform

Spots are limited.  First come, first served.

Questions? Contact Evelyn Strope (ems92@cam.ac.uk) or Aaron Chin (alc1021@wildcats.unh.edu)

Dear SHEAR friends,

Following a lengthy discussion with the Advisory Council and the Executive Board, we have reluctantly decided to postpone this summer's conference until July 15-18, 2021.  As we would have this year, we will be meeting in Philadelphia, and the wonderful program devised for this July will be fully rescheduled in 2021.  We hope that all of the panelists who would have presented this summer can do so then.  This year's book prizes will be announced later this summer but awarded in 2021.    

After that, we will be heading south, and in the summer of 2022, we will convene at the

Indiana Association of Historians

37th Annual Meeting

Ivy Tech-Lafayette

February 17-18, 2017

“Luther, literacy, and liberation:  An educated public and the birth of the modern world”

When:                          February 17-18, 2017

Where:            Ivy Hall, Ivy Tech Community College, 3101 South Creasy Lane, Lafayette, IN 

Draft Program:            see IAH's website

Campus Map               https://www.ivytech.edu/files/Campus_Map.pdf

Fees:                           Registration     $65 (includes reception Friday and Saturday luncheon)

Membership:               Renew or join IAH     $15

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