NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE
ON BRITISH STUDIES
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The North American Conference on British Studies meets annually, normally in a joint meeting with one of the regional conferences, and occurs over a weekend, beginning on a Friday. The 2010 NACBS meeting will be held in conjunction with its Mid-Atlantic affiliate, the MACBS. The national and regional meetings offer a wide range of sessions as well as opportunity for exchange of views among scholars from around the world. In recent years, the joint national meetings meetings have taken place in Louisville (2009), Cincinnati (2008), San Francisco (2007), Boston (2006), Denver (2005), Philadelphia (2004), Portland (2003), Baltimore (2002), Toronto (2001), Pasadena (2000), Cambridge (1999), Colorado Springs (1998), Pacific Grove, CA (1997), Chicago (1996), Washington, D.C. (1995), Vancouver (1994), Montreal (1993), and Boulder (1992). The NACBS also participates at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in January and at the annual Anglo-American Conference of Historians in London in July. From time to time, the NACBS cooperates with other organizations in the sponsorship of major scholarly symposiums, in association with the Royal Historical Society, the British Association for American Studies, and others. Other events and information are regularly updated on H-Albion, the H-Net discussion list in British and Irish history. |
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NOTE: The 2010 NACBS Submissions Site is now operational at CALL FOR PAPERS ANNUAL MEETING The NACBS and its Mid-Atlantic affiliate, the MACBS, seek participation by scholars in all areas of British Studies for the 2010 meeting. We solicit proposals for panels on Britain, the British Empire, and the British world. Our interests range from the medieval to the modern. Though primarily a conference of historians, we welcome participation by scholars across the humanities and social sciences, especially on interdisciplinary panels. We invite panel proposals addressing selected themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussions of topical and thematic interest, including conversations among authors of recent books. North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the NACBS Program Committee. Strong preference will be given to complete panel or roundtable proposals that consider a common theme. Panels typically include three papers and a comment; roundtables customarily have four presentations. Individual paper proposals will also be considered in rare cases. Those with single paper submissions are strongly encouraged to search for additional panelists on lists such as H-Albion or at venues such as the NACBS Facebook.page. Applicants may also write to the Program Chair for suggestions (nacbsprogram@gmail.com). Committed to ensuring the broadest possible participation of scholars in British Studies, the Program Committee will give priority to those who did not read papers at the 2009 meeting. Panels that include both graduate students and established scholars are especially encouraged, as are submissions with broad chronological focus and interdisciplinary breadth. In order to encourage intellectual interchange, we ask applicants to compose panels that feature participation from a range of institutions. Single-institution panels are not encouraged; similarly, graduate supervisors are discouraged from appearing on panels with their own students and very recent graduates. No participant will be permitted to take part in more than one session except in exceptional circumstances cleared by the Program Committee, and no more than one proposal will be considered from each applicant. All submissions must be received by March 1, 2010. Please send questions about panel requirements
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REGIONAL CONFERENCES
In addition to the national meeting, each of the regions holds their own annual conference. The following calls for papers or programs for regional meetings are available:
Middle Atlantic (MACBS)
MACBS, Baltimore, MD, 12-14 November 2010 (in conjunction with the NACBS)
Midwest (MWCBS)
MWCBS, Cleveland, 8-10 Oct. 2010
North East (NECBS)
NECBS, Burlington, VT, 24-25 September, 2010
Pacific Coast (PCCBS)
PCCBS, Pomona College, CA, 19-21 March 2010
Southern (SCBS)
SCBS, Charlotte, NC, 5-7 November 2010
Western (WCBS)
WCBS, Austin, TX, 24-25 September 2010
After a very successful joint meeting at Portland with the NACBS in 2003, Northwest Conference on British Studies (NWCBS) voted to disband this regional, with NWCBS members to be affiliated with either the Pacific Coast CBS or the Western CBS. But NWCBS continues to exist, virtually, with an unmoderated NWCBS listserv (to which all in the region are invited to subscribe).
