======================= HES POSTING ================== 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. Direct e-mail inquiries to: [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]