News---In The Future, What Will Be New About The Civil War?

The Future of Civil War History: New Methods and Frameworks for Understanding March 30-31, 2012, Conference at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey

The History and Culture Program at the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, is pleased to announce a two-day conference exploring the present state and future potential of Civil War and Reconstruction-era studies.
Possible topics include digital humanities and Civil War study, digitization initiatives, transnational perspectives, memory and contemporary American culture, pedagogy and the contemporary Civil War classroom, emerging trends in the public history of the war, borderlands and peripheries, challenging existing narratives and interpretations, the war in the context of contemporary conflict studies and domestic security concerns, leadership studies, science and technology, civilian involvement, medicine, food, environment, manufacturing, and infrastructure, and new perspectives on gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and the role of the state. The conference aims to engage multiple disciplinary perspectives including history, African American studies, American Studies, literary studies, archival and digital studies, archeology and anthropology, museum studies, political science and more.

Graduate students, faculty, educators, and public scholars interested in proposing single presentations or whole panels should send a 250-word abstract (for panels: each paper and the panel as a whole) and a separate 2-page CV in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format to cwconf@drew.edu by no later than August 15, 2011. Questions may be addressed to:

Justin Causey, Student conference convener, jcausey@drew.edu
and
C. Wyatt Evans, Associate Professor and Director, History and Culture Graduate Program wevans@drew.edu