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2002 American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Location: California, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2002-01-03

The 116th annual meeting of the Association will be held in San Francisco,
January 3-6, 2002. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all
members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), from affiliated
societies, and from scholars in foreign countries and in related
disciplines. In planning the program, the committee seeks presentations
that address the entire community of historians and provide opportunities
to examine the larger concerns of the profession. Panels focusing on
research and teaching and on discussion of significant professional issues,
rights, and responsibilities are welcome. Continuing the practice of
previous years, the committee encourages the participation of established
scholars and also requests, in particular, panels on time periods, regions,
topics, and approaches that have been underrepresented in recent AHA
meetings. As the last few meetings have indicated, those assembling panels
and those attending them have found that comparative sessions have worked
well both in stimulating discussion and attracting a diverse audience.

The Theme

The 2002 conference theme will be "Frontiers". The idea of the frontier has
long been an imaginative source for American historians. We seek to extend
its reach in a host of new directions, both spatial and theoretical. We
have in mind the exploration of intellectual as well as geographical and
physical frontiers; disciplinary frontiers are no more or less imaginary
than those involving mountains or rivers. We see frontiers as evoking
intellectual imaginings and explorings as well as a spatial awareness of
surroundings and borders, and believe this topic will add greatly to our
understanding of human effort and aspiration.

How have frontiers, whether spatial, national, or intellectual, influenced
the evolution of historical studies? In what ways might the idea of the
frontier encourage new collaborations, new approaches to the discipline of
history? We hope to encourage our colleagues quite literally to open up the
idea of the frontier, a project we believe to be workable across nations,
topics, and methodologies. We also invite reflections on the history of
frontiers (from Frederick Jackson Turner to the history of human invention
and exploration) and on the impact of ideas of the frontier, whether
physical, intellectual, spiritual, or however else imagined. Accordingly,
we will give weight to panels that investigate this paradigm in various
ways.

More information is available on the AHA web site. The Annual Meeting Panel
Locator Database is now available for persons seeking to assemble panels
for the 2002 meeting. You can record your topic of interest in the
database, and search for others with similar interests.


Email: aha@...

Call for Papers website:
http://www.theaha.org/annual

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