Making History: Challenging the Past
A Student Conference hosted by the Department of History
November 11 & 12, 2011
The Department of History and the History Society of the University of Western Ontario are hosting a Student Conference: “Making History: Challenging the Past”. The conference will offer talented senior undergraduate and MA students from across Ontario, Canada and the United States, the opportunity to present and discuss a course paper, undergraduate thesis, or MA paper on topics that examine the construction and interpretation of the past. We welcome papers that correspond to the History Department’s strengths, either by region – Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia – or theme – environmental, international, political, military, women, medicine, technology, and business. This is an ideal opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the Department of History at Western, learn about the undergraduate and graduate programs, and meet prospective supervisors and colleagues.
Keynote Speaker:
Mark Connelly,
University of Kent
Reaping the Whirlwind: British perceptions of the strategic air
offensive against Germany
This conference being held in
conjunction with The
Great War: From Memory to
Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent. His main research interests are in the fields of commemoration and military history. Among his publications are The Great War: memory and ritual (2002), We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War (2003) and Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a region and the Great War (2006).
The keynote address will be held on
Friday, November 11, 2011
7:30pm Room 37, University Community Centre, The University of Western
Ontario
Students who have submitted a successful research essay in a third or fourth year undergraduate course are invited to submit papers of 15 to 20 pp. for consideration to chair-history@uwo.ca either electronically or by mail (see below) by 20 October 2011. The conference fee of $20.00 includes registration, lunch, and coffee breaks . Accommodation will be paid for students whose papers are accepted for presentation.
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Chair and Associate Professor
Department of History
Room 2201, Lawson Hall
Faculty of Social Science
The University of Western Ontario
London ON N6A 5B8
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