Welcome to H-West, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. The primary purpose of H-West's network is to encourage lively and professional discussion and collaboration about the history of the North American West and the frontier as both place and process.
With apologies for cross-posting, we invite paper or whole session proposals for the Religion in the American West Group at the American Academy of Religion Meeting in Atlanta, Nov. 21-24, 2015.
Proposals for individual papers or a full session are solicited on the following topics:
On the occasion of the centenary of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, Boom: A Journal of California has published a special issue devoted to “CALIFORNIA IN THE PACIFIC WORLD: 1915 | 2015 | 2115."
The issue is now available on JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/boom.2015.5.issue-1 and articles will also appear over the next month at http://boomcalifornia.com.
The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University invites applications for its Visiting Scholar Program in Western Studies for 2013-2014. University faculty of all ranks, independent scholars, freelance authors and other public intellectuals who are working on a significant article- or book-length study are eligible to apply for this position. The Visiting Scholar may be in residence for 2-4 months.
For advanced Ph.D. candidates
The tenth annual Western History Dissertation Workshop will be held Friday, May 1, 2015, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Department of History at the University of Colorado will host the Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS) October 2-4, 2015. Now in its eleventh year, WHEATS brings together graduate students studying the history of the environment, agriculture, science, or technology. WHEATS is open to submissions from any discipline with interests in these fields.
