CFP: Australian Panel at 2013 NACBS Meeting (3/25/2013; 11/8-10/2013)

Panel Proposal: Australia
2013 North American Conference on British Studies meeting
Portland, Oregon, November 8-10, 2013

Peter H. Hoffenberg is seeking proposals for a panel on Australia. He will probably propose a paper on the Australian colonies of N S W and Victoria and exhibitions, let's say, mid- to later-19^th—century shows and ideas about those shows.

The deadline is March 25, so please Peter H. Hoffenberg (peterh@hawaii.edu) within the week of March 17. 

Call for Applicants: editorial team for the Journal of British Studies (11/30/2012)

The North American Conference on British Studies is seeking a new editorial team for the Journal of British Studies, including a new general editor or co-editors, and a new book review editor or co-editors. The current editors' term ends in summer 2014, and the Association hopes to select new editors a year earlier to facilitate the transition process. Editors are appointed to a five-year term.  Those interested in applying should contact Professor Cynthia Herrup of the University of Southern California History Department (herrup@usc.edu). The application deadline
for both positions is November 30, 2012.

The Journal of British Studies, published four times a year, is the premier journal in the field, with a very high ISI citation impact rating. Starting in January2013, the journal will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Interested parties should be aware that the editorship and the book review editorship (both open to a team) are not related. Applicants should specify which of these positions interests them.  Editorial subventions provide funding for editorial assistants for each of the two positions, but applicants will require a commitment of support from their home institutions.  The current editorial teams are happy to answer questions about their duties.  You can contact Brian Cowen (brian.cowen2@mcgill.ca) or Elizabeth Elbourne (elizabeth.elbourne@mcgill.ca) about the journal editors' responsibilities and Amy Froide (froide@umbc.edu) or Gail Savage (glsavage@smcm.edu) about the book review editorsš responsibilities. Questions and inquiries can also be directed to the NACBS president, Dane Kennedy (dkennedy@gwu.edu), or vice president/president-elect, Keith Wrightson (keith.wrightson@yale.edu).

CFP: Special NACBS Jubilee Panel

The North American Conference on British Studies program committee is interested in arranging a special session on the Jubilee for the 2012 Montreal meeting. This would be a great opportunity for comparisons to Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees and the social/cultural history of jubilee years (for ex., 1977 or 1935), and a discussion about the celebrity culture of monarchy. Ifinterested, please contact Julie Taddeo at taddeo@mail.umd.edu to discuss a possible panel.

NACBS 2012: http://www.nacbs.org/conference.html

CFP: British Studies Essay Contest for Undergraduates at U.S. Colleges and Universities (6/1/2011)

As you read student essays, please keep in mind the North American Conference on British Studies' annual undergrad essay prize. The NACBS awards up to six prizes of $100 each according to the following guidelines:

1. The essay must have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate at a U.S. college or university.
2. Essays written for courses or as theses must have received an A grade.
3. All nominations must be accompanied by the signature of a faculty sponsor, who must be a member of the NACBS. No individual may nominate more than one essay in any one year.
4. Essays in any field of British Studies are welcome.
5. Essays should be between 10 and 25 pages, excluding citations and references.
6. Please submit a letter of nomination (including the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student) along with an electronic or three hard copies of the essay by June 1, 2011 to Professor Peter Hoffenberg, Department of History, University of Hawaii, 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall A203 · Honolulu, HI 96822-2283. Email: peterh@hawaii.edu.
7. For further information please feel free to contact Prof. Hoffenberg at the above address. Thank you

For more information visit http://www.nacbs.org/britstudessayendergrad.html

CFP: 2011 North American Conference on British Studies (3/15, 11/18-20/2011)

North American Conference on British Studies

ANNUAL MEETING

DENVER, COLORADO

NOVEMBER 18-20, 2011

The NACBS and its Western affiliate, the Western Conference on British Studies, seek participation by scholars in all areas of British Studies for the 2011 meeting. We will convene in Denver, Colorado, from November 18-20. We solicit proposals for panels on Britain, the British Empire, and the British world. Our interests range from the medieval to the modern. We welcome participation by scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

We invite panel proposals addressing selected themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussions of topical and thematic interest, including conversations among authors of recent books and reflections on landmark scholarship. North American scholars, international scholars, and Ph.D. students are all encouraged to submit proposals for consideration. Strong preference will be given to complete panel or roundtable proposals that consider a common theme. Panels typically include three papers and a comment; roundtables customarily have four presentations. Individual paper proposals will also be considered in rare cases. We urge those with single paper submissions to search for additional panelists on lists such as H-Albion or at venues such as the NACBS Facebook page. Applicants may also write to the Program Chair for suggestions (nacbsprogram@gmail.com).

All scholars working in the field of British Studies are encouraged to apply for the 2011 conference, though we particularly welcome submissions from those who did not appear on the 2010 program. Panels that include both emerging and established scholars are especially encouraged, as are submissions with broad chronological focus and interdisciplinary breadth. We welcome the participation of junior scholars and Ph.D. candidates beyond the qualifying stage. To enable intellectual interchange, we ask applicants to compose panels that feature participation from a range of institutions. No participant will be permitted to take part in more than one session and no more than one proposal will be considered from each applicant.

Submissions will be taken at www.nacbs.org/conferences.html through March 15, 2011.

If you have questions about the submission process or suggestions for program development, please contact

Lara Kriegel

NACBS Program Chair

Associate Professor of History and English

Indiana University, Bloomington

nacbsprogram@gmail.com