Calls for Proposals
The OI’s mission is to support, produce, and advance scholarship focused on early American history and culture and an important part of that mission is the production of conferences, workshops, and other gatherings each year. Each is meant to serve as a forum for a rich variety of scholarship on early America and we encourage scholars across the academic spectrum as well as at all stages of academic career development to propose topics, panels and papers.
Current Calls for Proposals
We are now accepting proposals for the following events. Please refer to “More pages in this section” for more information and links to the applications.
- 2025 WMQ-EMSI Workshop—“Small Nations, Big Histories” (proposals due November 1, 2024)—to be held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, June 20-21, 2025
- 28th OI Annual Conference—“Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America” (proposals due December 2, 2024)—to be held at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, with the support of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program (CLAW), June 12-14, 2025
- “Resisting Enslavement” Workshop—convened by Jennifer L. Morgan and privileging the work of emerging scholars, this one-day workshop will immediately precede the 28th OI Annual Conference in Charleston on June 11, 2025. Applications for the workshop are separate from applications for the conference and participation in the workshop does not guarantee nor preclude participation in the conference. (Proposals are due December 2, 2024.)