Britain and the World Annual Conference 2017
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Monday, 12 December 2016
The official Call For Papers for the 2017 Britain and the World Conference is now available:
Call for Papers: Britain and the World Conference 2017
Place: Austin, Texas
Dates: April 6-8, 2017
Deadline for submissions (extended): Monday, 12 December 2016
Decisions on inclusion: Monday, 19 December 2016
After London in June 2016, Britain and the World returns to Austin for 2017 and our tenth anniversary conference. As in 2015, the conference venue and hotel will be the Doubletree University Area, which is a five minute walk from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. As ever, the conference is concerned with interactions within the ‘British world’ from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present and will highlight the importance of transnational perspectives.
The Keynote Speaker will be Professor Carla Pestana of UCLA, and two other plenary speakers will be confirmed. There will be lunchtime roundtables on Brexit and on public history.
The conference accepts both individual twenty-minute papers and complete panel submissions. Panels are expected to consist of three papers and should be submitted by one person who is willing to serve as the point of contact. Complete panels must also include a chair. In addition to abstracts for each individual paper, panel submissions should also include a brief 100-150 word introduction describing the panel’s main theme. The conference does not discriminate between panels and individual paper submissions, nor between graduate students and established academics.
As ever the conference icebreaker will be held on the first evening, the Dinner Party on the second, and the outings in downtown Austin on the third. These events will provide numerous opportunities for networking and more in and around the live music capital of the world.
All submissions for inclusion in the conference must be received by Monday, 21 November 2016, with decisions on inclusion announced on Monday, 5 December 2016. Submissions should be made by email to editor@britishscholar.org. Please submit all information in the body of your email (no attachments or PDFs, thank you) and in the following order: name, affiliation, email, paper title, abstract, keywords.
Updates regarding the conference will periodically be posted on the Society website. It is hoped that participants will be able to call upon their departments for hotel and transportation expenses as the conference is not able to offer financial support.
On Twitter the hashtag is #BATW2017. Registration for the Conference will open on 9 January 2017. If you have any questions about the forthcoming conference, please contact the Conference Organizing Committee directly at conference@britishscholar.org.
martin.farr@ncl.ac.uk