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Seventeenth Annual Institute Conference—Call for Papers

The Seventeenth Annual Institute Conference will convene at the State University of New York, New Paltz, on June 17–19, 2011. Proposals that consider all topics relevant to early American history broadly conceived are invited: however, the Hudson Valley location, approximately halfway between New York City and Albany, close to the colonial habitations of diverse populations of Africans, American Indians, and Europeans as well as to various territorial claims of the Dutch Republic, France, and Great Britain, suggests that submissions related to the transatlantic movement of people, ideas, and commodities or to the early modern history of empire in North America would be particularly apt.

The program committee, chaired by Christopher L. Brown (Columbia University) and L. H. Roper (SUNY–New Paltz), particularly encourages submissions that examine the migration of Africans and Europeans to the Americas and the effects of that movement of people, coerced and free, as well as proposals that investigate encounters between those migrants and the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas and the relationships that were forged between American colonists and people in other parts of the world. Comparisons between the migratory histories of various colonies suggest another dimension of this general theme.

Priority will be given to proposals advancing innovative thinking based on fresh research. We encourage panels of two or three papers addressing a coherent theme or theoretical problem, including a panel chair and commentators. Individual paper proposals will also be considered. The committee reserves the right to make changes in the overall configuration of panels. To encourage the widest possible participation, the committee will not approve more than one appearance by a scholar at the conference. Participants in the Sixteenth Annual Conference may not participate in the 2011 meeting in the same capacity, but 2010 paper presenters may comment and 2010 commentators may present. Assistance in the formation of panels is available at the Panel Locator, http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/panel/index.cfm.

Proposals must be received electronically no later than September 15, 2010. Panels should be submitted by the organizer and include a one-paragraph description, one-page summaries of each paper, and a one-page c.v. for each participant. Each c.v. must include mailing and email addresses and telephone numbers. Materials may be submitted online at the conference Web site—http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/annual/cfp/index.cfm—or by email to the Omohundro Institute’s webmaster, Kim Foley, at kawahl@wm.edu. All submissions will be acknowledged by email. If you do not receive an acknowledgement, please resubmit or contact Kim Foley.