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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 
 
The Department of History and the Program in the History of Science 
Princeton University 
Graduate Student Conference 
 
_CASUALTIES OF HISTORY: LOSERS, THE LOST, AND THE PROBLEM OF DEFEAT_ 
 
October 4-5, 1997 
 
Keynote Speakers: 
Joan Wallach Scott, 
Author of _Gender and the Politics of History_, (1988) 
and 
Gerald L. Geison, 
Author of _The Private Science of Louis Pasteur_, (1995) 
 
All graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for papers. 
Proposals are welcome from all fields of historical inquiry.  Papers will 
be arranged into panel discussions with commentators. 
 
Possible topics for papers might include, but are not limited to: 
 
-lost arts and discoveries 
-historiographical sympathies 
-memory, forgetting and the unconscious 
-political, economic, and military defeat 
-people on the margins 
-victims of progress 
-hidden transcripts 
-wrong turns, missed opportunities, failed gods 
-dissenting opinions 
-silences, secrets, and interstices 
 
Please send abstracts of 1-2 pages no later than 1 May 1997 to: 
 
Graduate Conference 
Dept of History 
207 Dickinson Hall 
Princeton University 
Princeton, NJ 08544. 
 
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