ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The North American Conference on British Studies meets annually, normally in a joint meeting with one of the regions, and occurs over a weekend, beginning on a Friday. The 2009 meeting will be held inconjunction with the SCBS in Louisville. The CFP is available here. 

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, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 29 March 2008
• Midwest (MWCBS)
  • MWCBS, Cincinnati, 3-5 Oct. 2008
  • NACBS/MWCBS, Cincinnati, 2008
• North East (NECBS)
  • NECBS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 12-13 Oct. 2007
• Pacific Coast (PCCBS)
  • PCCBS, Huntington Library, CA, 28-30 March 2008
• Southern (SCBS)
  • SCBS, New Orleans, LA, 31 9-12 Oct.2008
• Western (WCBS)
  • WCBS, San Antonio, TX, 18-20 Sept. 2008
• 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).

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 at 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), Montréal (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.

Conferences and Organizations of Related Interest 

• American Anthropological Association, annual conference. 
• American Comparative Literature Association, annual conference. 
• American Conference for Irish Studies, annual conference. 
  • ACIS Southern Regional Conference
• American Conference on Romanticism, annual conference.
• American Historical Association, annual conference.
• American Political Science Association, annual conference.
  • APSA British Politics Group.
• American Society of Church History, annual conference.
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), annual conference.
  • Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS), annual conference.
  • Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NASECS), annual conference.
• American Society for Environmental History, conferences. 
• American Sociological Association, annual conference.
• Anglo-American History Conference, Institute of Historical Research, annual, UK.  
• Association for Asian Studies, annual conference. 
• Association of Art Historians, conferences, UK.
• Association of American Geographers, annual conference.
• Association internationale des études québécoises.
• Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference. 
• Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, conferences. 
• British Politics Group, American Political Science Association group, conferences.
• British Scholar, History Dept., University of Texas, graduates, annual conference.
• British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, annual conference, UK.
• British Society for the History of Science, annual conference, UK.
• British Society of Sports History, annual conference, UK. 
• British Sociological Association, annual conference, UK. 
• Canadian Association for Irish Studies, conferences. 
• Canadian Historical Association, annual conference.
• Canadian Political Science Association, annual conference. 
• Center for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley, conferences.
• Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, workshops.
• Centre for Contemporary British History, UK, workshops, conferences.
• College Art Association, annual conference. 
• Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, conference sessions. 
• Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Europe 1750-1850, annual conference, US.
• Coordinating Council for Women in History, conference sessions. 
• Council for European Studies, conferences. 
• Dugdale Society, conference, UK.
• Economic History Association, annual conference, US.
• Economic History Society, annual conference, UK.
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, meetings, worldwide. 
• English Association, conferences, UK. 
• English Heritage, UK.
• Folger Institute Annual Program.
• Forest History Society, annual conferences.
• Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, conferences.
• Group for the Study of Working Class Life, conferences.
• Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and early Angevin history, conferences.
• Historians Film Committee, conference sessions.
• Historical Association, conferences, UK.
• History of Science Society, annual conference.
• Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanic Gardens, conferences and events. 
• Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, thematic conferences.
• International Association for the History of Religion, conferences. 
• International Society for First World War Studies, international.
• International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions.
• International Congress on Medieval Studies, annual conference.
• Institute of Historical Research, UK, seminars and more.  Also: American Friends of the IHR. 
• Margaret Cavendish Society, biennial conferences.
• Medieval Academy of America, annual conference.
• Modern Languages Association, annual conference. 
• National Coalition of Independent Scholars, conferences. 
• National Council for History Education, annual conference.
• National Trust, UK.
• New England Historical Association, biannual conferences.
• Nineteenth Century Studies Association, annual conference.
• North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), conferences.
• North American British Music Studies Association, biennial conference.
• North American Society for Oceanic History, conferences. 
• North American Society for Sports History, annual conference.
• North American Victorian Studies Association, annual conference.
  • Midwest Victorian Studies Association, annual conference.
  • Northeast Victorian Studies Association, annual conference.
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, occasional conferences and colloquia, US.
• Oral History Association, annual conference, US.
• Political Studies Association, annual conference, UK.
• Records of Early English Drama, conferences. 
• Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, annual conference.
• Richard III Society, American Branch, conferences. 
• Royal Historical Society, lectures and conferences. 
• Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, annual conference, UK.
• Shakespeare Association of America, annual conference.
• Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, annual conference. 
• Social History Society, annual conference, UK. 
• Social Science History Association, annual conference, US. 
• Society for Court Studies/North American Society for Court Studies, seminars, biannual conferences, US & UK.
• Society for French Historical Studies.
• Society for Reformation Research, sessions, usually with Sixteenth Century or other conferences.
• Society for Renaissance Studies, conferences, international.
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing, conferences.
• Society for the History of Technology, annual conference.
• Society of Architectural Historians, annual conference.
• Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, conferences, UK.
• Southern Historical Association, conferences. 
• Thirteenth-Century England, bi-annual conference, UK.
• Urban History Association, conference sessions, US.
• Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, annual conference.
• Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, seminars.
• World History Association, annual conference.
• Yale Center for British Art, conferences, symposia. 
• Yale Center for Parliamentary History, publications.

General Sources for information about conferences and call for papers

• H-Net Announcements, or search H-Albion logs.
• History Conferences Worldwide 
• IHR list of conferences, mostly in the UK. 
• Early Modern English Source, lists conferences, CFPs. 
• Penn's Literary Call for Papers, well organized lists of CFPs.  
• American Council of Learned Societies, US. 

Advice on planning a research trip to Britain

• Funding and Research, maintained by NACBS
• Victoria Research Web

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