Taking the Fire from the Altar of the Past

“Taking the Fire from the Altar of the Past”

The 1st Annual UWO History Graduate Student Conference

In Honour of Morris Zaslow

The University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

March 25-27, 2011

The Department of History at the University of Western Ontario invites proposals for the first annual Western Graduate Student History Conference. The conference is interested in showcasing innovative and exciting new work being researched and written by graduate students at UWO and elsewhere. We encourage submissions from students working in all historical periods and geographical areas. In addition, we welcome submissions from graduate students in fields outside history, whose work touches upon the themes listed below.

We are interested in presentations related to (but by no means limited to) a number of thematic areas: Aboriginal Peoples and Cultures; Cultural and Intellectual History; Digital History; Economic History; Environmental History; Gender and Sexuality; Historiography and Historical; Methodology; The History of Medicine; The History of Childhood, Youth, and Adolescence; The History of Science and Technology; The History of the Body; Labour History; Legal History; Military History; Political History; Postcolonial History; Public History; Public Memory

Proposals must not exceed 250 words and please provide a short biographical statement as an addition to your proposal submission. Registration forms will follow for those selected to present at the conference. Deadline for submissions is February 4th, 2011. Panels will be chaired by Western graduate students, and consist of an approximately 20 minute presentation followed by 5-10 minutes of questions.

Our keynote speaker will be P. Whitney Lackenbauer, an associate professor and chair of the Department of History at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, where he specializes in military, political, and Northern history. He is the author or editor of a number of books including Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (with Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, and Greg Poelzer), which won the 2009 Donner Prize for the best book on public policy.

The closing address for the conference will be delivered by Professor Jonathan Vance. He is a specialist in Canadian military and cultural history, war and society in the 20th century, and social memory. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture, and was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His monograph Death So Noble won the 1998 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, the 1998 C. P. Stacey Award, and the 1998 Dafoe Book Prize.

Please send proposals or any questions you have via email (*.rtf; *.doc; or *.wpd) to

Or via post to:

UWO History Graduate Student Conference
Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Room 4328, Social Science Centre
London, ON N6A 5C2
CANADA