CFP: University of Maryland Libraries Symposium: “Women & the Civil War”
Call for Papers - University of Maryland Libraries Symposium:
“Women & the Civil War”
Paper proposals are invited for a half-day symposium entitled “Women and the Civil War,” to be held April 27, 2012, at the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium in being organized in connection with an exhibit at the university’s Hornbake Library, "Women on the Border: Maryland Perspectives of the Civil War," which draws on materials in the University Libraries’ Special Collections. The symposium will provide a forum for discussing the multitude of roles women played in the war and the many ways in which the war affected them. The keynote speaker will be Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Duke University.
The symposium committee is especially interested in scholarship relating to Maryland women and the Civil War or to women’s experiences in the border states. Proposals relating to these topics will be given preference, but proposals relating to other aspects of the topic of women and the Civil War will also be considered. The committee welcomes proposals from graduate students as well as more experienced scholars. Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes when delivered.
Paper proposals (500 words or less) and brief presenter bios should be e-mailed to Elizabeth Novara at enovara@umd.edu.
Submissions deadline is November 15, 2011, and the program committee expects to notify successful applicants by December 15, 2011.
Symposium Program Committee:
Elizabeth A. Novara, Curator, Historical Manuscripts, University of Maryland Libraries
Leslie S. Rowland, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, and Editor of Freedmen and Southern Society Project Lauren Brown, Special Collections Curator, University of Maryland Libraries
Eric N. Lindquist, History Subject Specialist, University of Maryland Libraries
Elizabeth Novara
Curator, Historical Manuscripts
2208C Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-314-2712
Email: enovara@umd.edu
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