Calling all grad students: On-campus interdisciplinary conference
Share widely with grad students in your discipline(s) ... The Department of History at Carleton University is excited to announce the Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, for its 25th consecutive year. We invite you to join us on March 7-8, 2019, when we will be recognizing a quarter-century of continued academic excellence and dedication to graduate student research with our conference: Ripples. This year’s theme “Ripples” traces the paths of the stories that we study. Ripples speak to both the consequences that follow historical events, and consequences of the interventions made by those writing about them. They show the persistence of stories demanding to be told, and how they push against other disciplines. They ask the historian to reflect on the consequences of producing their own work, and the distortions within those histories. Themes and topics relating to Ripples could include (but are not limited to) the following: - Memory Studies - Activist hi...