barnes conference 2011 - call for papers

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY 15th ANNUAL

JAMES A. BARNES CLUB

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University's graduate student history organization, is
pleased to announce the Fifteenth Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference.
The Barnes Club Conference will be held on March 25-26, at Temple University's Center City Campus, located at 1515 Market Street in downtown Philadelphia. In the past, the Barnes Club Conference has drawn participants from across the nation and around the world, becoming one of the largest graduate student conferences on the East Coast.

Proposals from graduate students for individual papers and/or panels are welcome on any topic,
time period, or approach to history. The panels will include three to four paper presentations at fifteen to twenty minutes each. Presentations will be followed by a brief commentary offered by a graduate student. Faculty members from Temple and other area universities will moderate
each panel. Cash prizes will be awarded to the best papers in American, European, and Interna-
tional history, along with the prestigious Russell F. Weigley U.S. Army Heritage Center Founda-
tion Award. The registration fee is $40 for presenters and attendees. A continental breakfast,
lunch, and pre- and post-conference receptions are included.

Please submit a one-page proposal that outlines your original research and a current C.V. no
later than January 14, 2011. The Barnes Club Conference Committee will evaluate proposals
and inform participants by January 30, 2011. Final drafts of papers and registration fees are
due no later than March 4, 2011. Electronic submission is required to jabconf@temple.edu.
In addition to paper presentations, the conference will continue a successful program of work-
shops and round-table discussions to take place on Friday March 25, the evening prior to the
conference. Topics will include publishing, interviewing, and grant submission, among others.

Jeremy Varon, a professor of history at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the key-note lecture on Saturday, March 26. He is the author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather
Underground, The Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies .

For more information about the James A. Barnes Club and the Barnes Club Graduate Student
Conference, please contact us at jabconf@temple.edu.

Lynette Mattson, Sarah Robey, and Matthew Shannon
Department of History
Temple University
Gladfelter Hall, 9th Floor
1115 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122