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        The History graduate students of the University of California, 
Irvine will hold an interdisciplinary conference on "History and Theory" to 
be held November 15-16, 1997.  The keynote speaker for this conference will 
be Professor Lynn Hunt of the University of Pennsylvania.  Graduate students 
are invited to submit paper or panel proposals.  Please see the full CFP 
below for further details. 
 
Ramon C. Veloso 
UCI History and Theory Conference 
Steering Committee 
 
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Call for papers:  "History and Theory" 
November 15-16, 1997 
University of California, Irvine 
 
The keynote speaker for this conference will be Prof. Lynn Hunt, of the 
University of Pennsylvania. 
 
Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for an interdisciplinary 
conference, to be held in November, 1997, that will examine the connections 
between history and theory. The conference will take up issues and ideas 
raised by the many contemporary theories available to us -- critical theory, 
cultural studies, feminism, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, among 
others -- examining their usefulness in the study of the past as practiced 
in various disciplinary settings in an effort to explore the ways various 
theories reshape historical inquiry, as well as the contexts in which these 
theories have developed. Rather than presentations of a theorist's work, 
explications of a particular theoretical question, or representations of a 
historical past, we encourage submissions which stress the relationship 
between history and theory by historicizing the development of a theory or 
body of theories, or through the application of a theoretical model in the 
analysis of a historical problem. 
 
Possible avenues of investigation might include: 
 
=> practicing world history through post-colonial theory 
=> the problems and advantages of cultural studies for cultural history 
=> public history and the spectacular 
=> Foucault and histories of social control 
=> history and memory 
=> narratives and counter-narratives of nationalism 
=> appropriations of canonical theorists by marginalized communities 
 
Papers addressing other aspects of the relationship between history and 
theory are also encouraged. 
 
One page abstracts (with no information identifying the submitter) and 
accompanying cover letter should be submitted by July 15, 1997, to: 
 
History and Theory Conference, Steering Committee 
History Department 
University of California, Irvine 
Irvine CA 92697 
 
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We will be able to provide some housing for people traveling long distances 
to the conference. 
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* Ramon Miguel Cornejo Veloso          * 
* Graduate Student, History            * 
* The University of California, Irvine * 
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