Rural History / Studies

Application for the 2019 Chase Family Travel Grant for Graduate Scholars is now open.  Applications must be received via email by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 30, 2018.  The Chase Family Grant is made possible through an endowment created by members of the Chase family, pioneers in Florida citrus growing. Its purpose is to enable graduate students to conduct research in the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida.

I am looking for participants for a 3-4 person panel that focuses on the relationships of culture and power in agricultural history. Of particular interest is work that emphasizes the interconnectivity of urban and rual environments, illustrating the political tensions among bureaucrats and locals where urban policies are seen taking shape in rural environments. Papers on infrastructure, technology, social concerns, labor, and public health are welcome. Global perspectives are encouraged, and periodization is flexible. Please contact me no later than October 8th!

42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference: AppalachA'ville

March 14-17, 2019

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Proposal deadline: Oct 9, 2018

Organizers: Dan Brett, Open University, London  George Vascik, Miami University, Ohio

We are soliciting papers to be included in four panels at the European Rural History Oganization (EURHO) conference to be held in Paris at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, September 10-13, 2019.

Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St., London WC1

Spaces and Places
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference

Saturday 13th April - Sunday 14th April 2019
Bruges, Belgium

Every day we live and we move through spaces that have been created to be significant. We recognize, resonate and—consciously or unconsciously—react to this significance in a variety of different ways and on a number of differing levels.

Call for paper: Leeds IMC 2019 - Materialities of lordship in the later Middle Ages (2 sessions)

Sponsor: ERC project ‘Lordship and the Rise of States in Western Europe,
1300–1600’ (Ghent University)
Organizers: Erika Graham-Goering and Jim van der Meulen

We welcome your interest in serving on a roundtable at this year’s SfAA in Portland, OR (March 19^th – March 23^rd) on anthropological methods in community engaged work and rural health issues.

The Georgia Archives (5800 Jonesboro Rd., Morrow, GA) invites proposals for presentations and posters for our 2019 symposium looking at land use in Georgia.  We welcome proposals on a variety of topics, including but not limited to: urban planning, architecture, urban transportation in Atlanta, the 1996 Olympic Games, and Georgia’s land distribution systems. Use of Georgia Archives records is encouraged but not required.

International Colloquium 'Latin American Agrarian History, 1800 to the Present: Issues, debates and research perspectives"

Centro de Historia Económica, Facultad de Administración y Economía (FAE), Universidad de Santiago de Chile

International Cooperation Project REDES 170026 'Rethinking the Agrarian History of Latin America'

NEW DATES: 13-14 December 2018   and   EXTENDED DEADLINE: 1 October 2018