Upcoming THS Events

28Historically Speaking November 200 1 UPCOMINGTHS events Reconsidering Recent Historical Orthodoxies For more information please contact John Headley at (919)962-2381 or headley@email.unc.edu A Conference sponsored by the University of North Carolina History Department and the North Carolina Region ofThe Historical Society Saturday, December 8, 2001 569 Hamilton Hall University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago · James Hervía, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Robert Korstad, Duke University Keith Windschuttle, Macleay College History and the Social Sciences A Conference sponsored by the Earhart Foundation and the New England Region ofThe Historical Society December 8-9, 200 1 Boston University Law School 765 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA For more information please contact Chandler Rosenberger at crr@bu.edu. The full conference program is available at www.bu.edu/historic/nesocsci.html. Jagdish Baghwati, Columbia University · David Bell, Johns Hopkins University · Liah Greenfeld, Boston University · Irving Horowitz, Transaction Press · Efraim Karsh, University of London · David Landes, Harvard University · George Liber, University ofAlabama · Natalie Richard, the Sorbonne, and others. ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for Papers: Symposium: War Memoirs Center for the Study of the Korean War Graceland University, Independence (Missouri) Campus February 15-16,2002 The Center for the Study of the Korean War invites papers on any and all aspects of memoirs informed by the experience of war. This is the Center's third annual meeting on war and memory. Keynote speaker to be announced. Call for Papers: 2002 Missouri Conference on History The 44tn Missouri Conference on History will convene in Kansas City,April 1 8-20, 2002, at the Marriott Crowne Plaza Hotel. Please send a 1 00-200 word abstract by January 1 , 2002, to Dr. Paul Edwards, Director Center for the Study of the Korean War 1401 W.Truman Road Independence, MO 64050-3434 Telephone: (816) 833-0524 Email: pedwards@graceland.edu We invite paper and panel proposals on all aspects of Missouri, Midwestern, and American history.The 2002 conference will include a special session on the Korean War. Abstracts accepted by post, fax, or email. Please send a 100-200 word abstract and brief CV. by December 1, 2001, to: National Archives-Central Plains Region 23 1 2 E. Bannister Rd. Kansas City, MO 64131 ATTN:Tim Rives Fax:(816)926-6982 Email: timothy.rives@nara.gov Telephone: (816) 823-5031 November 200 1 Historically Speaking29 Conferences The NewYork Military Affairs Symposium will hold its annual spring allday conference on Saturday March 8, 2002, at the CUNY Graduate Center on Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets in New York City. The topic will be "America and Global Terrorism." For more details and full information about other NYMAS events see the website at NYMAS.org. The NewYork Military Affairs Symposium Annual spring all-day conference Saturday March 8, 2002 CUNY Graduate Center NewYork, NewYork The Soviet Global Impact: 1945-1991 The Soviet Global Impact: /945-/99/ The University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES) May 24-26, 2002 The University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES) is planning to host on May 24-26 of2002 an international conference on "The Soviet Global Impact: 1945-1991." One may assume that all world history textbooks written in 2200 will have at least a few lines on this theme, and now is the time to begin to formulate the issues, to collect systematically the relevant data, and to draw conclusions about it. Aside from the intense inherent interest in the topic, this examination is motivated by the fact that for centuries studies have been consistendy talking about outside (Iranian, perhaps Gothic, Khazar, Viking, Turkic, Byzantine, Mongol, and Western) influences on the Ukrainians and Russians, and there has been little discussion of East Slavic influence on other peoples and cultures. In the period 1945-1991, however, there was significant such influence, and now is the time to begin to study it while memories are still fresh. Note that the Cold War is not the theme ofthis undertaking. The languages of the conference will be English and Russian. The conference will have two thrusts: 1)What were the Soviets doing in their relations...