2012 OAH/NCPH Call for Proposals
Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy
Frontier Airlines Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, April 18 to Sunday, April 22, 2012
The theme for the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting is “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy.”
On the 100th anniversary of two of the most potent third-party presidential challenges in U.S. history, the Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History will meet in Milwaukee, a shoreline city where immigrant leaders initiated innovative public policies during the industrial era. For the meeting, we welcome panels that address the shaping role of evolving market systems, class relations, and migrations over the long chronological sweep of American history, or that explore the frontiers of social imagination and/or territorial encounters that have altered understandings of other peoples and traditions. While we invite sessions on all aspects of U.S. history, we are especially eager to see those that stimulate reflection on tensions and/or interchanges between capitalism and democracy at “frontier” moments in the past.
The Program Committee is keen to encourage a wide variety of forms of conversation. Please feel free to submit such nontraditional proposals as poster sessions; roundtables that home in on significant debates in subfields; discussions around a single artifact or text; serial panels organized around a thematic thread that will run through the conference; working groups that tackle a common professional issue or challenge (see guidelines on the NCPH Web site, www.ncph.org); or workshops that develop professional skills in the documentation or interpretation of history. Teaching sessions are also welcome, particularly those involving the audience as active participants or those that reflect collaborative partnerships and/or conversations among teachers, public historians, research scholars, and history educators at all levels and in varied settings.
We seek a program that includes the full diversity of the OAH and NCPH membership, so wherever possible proposals should include presenters of both sexes, members of racial and ethnic minorities, and historians who practice their craft in a variety of venues, including community colleges and precollegiate classrooms, consulting firms, museums, historical societies, and the National Park Service. We prefer to receive proposals for complete sessions, but will consider individual papers as well.
Registration and Membership Requirements
All participants are required to register for the Annual Meeting.
Repeat Participation
OAH policy prohibits individuals from participating in two consecutive annual meetings in the same role and limits individuals to appearing only once on the program in a given year. If you have questions about this policy, please email the OAH meetings department.
Submission Procedure
All proposals must include the following information:
- a complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and affiliation for each participant
- an abstract of no more than 500 words for the session as a whole
- a prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation; and
- a vita of no more than 500 words for each participant
Complete session proposals most often include a chair, participants, and, if applicable, one or two commentators (chairs may double as commentators, and commentators may be omitted in order for the audience to serve in that role). Session membership should be limited by the need to include substantial time for audience questions and comments.
Submission Deadline
The deadline for proposals is Tuesday, February 1, 2011.
2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting Program Committee
Nancy MacLean, Duke University (OAH Committee Cochair)
Kathleen Franz, American University (NCPH Committee Cochair)
From the OAH:
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University
Paul Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Jennifer L. Morgan,New York University
Samuel K. Roberts, Columbia University
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Zaragosa Vargas, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shane White, University of Sydney
From the NCPH:
Deborah L. Mack, Deborah Mack Museum Consulting
Carlene E. Stephens, National Museum of American History
Marsha Weisiger, New Mexico State University
Emily Weisner, National Park Service
