Call for Papers
Society for French Historical Studies
53rd Annual Meeting, University of Houston
15-17 March 2007
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The University of Houston will host the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies on 15-17 March 2007. Featured speakers are Gérard Noiriel (EHESS) and Patrice Higonnet (Harvard). A plenary session with Dominique Veillon (IHTP), Valerie Steele (FIT) and Irene Guenther (Marquette) will explore fashion history. The Menil Collection, designed by Renzo Piano, will host our Friday evening reception.
All sessions will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Houston. Home base for Continental Airlines, Houston is served by all major airlines, including Southwest (low fares). Houston’s downtown boasts the Wortham Theatre housing the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera, Jones Hall (home to the Houston Symphony) and the Alley Theatre (frequent stage for productions of plays by Edward Albee, who serves on the faculty at UH). In addition to downtown, the Doubletree Hotel provides easy access to the Metro Rail line, which runs to the Museum District, Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. Eating out is one of the local sports and there are truly remarkable restaurants of every imaginable variety. March is our best weather month—highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s, azaleas blooming.
Sessions normally include three papers, a commentator and a chair.* The program committee strongly urges submission of complete panels, but will consider individual papers. All proposals should include a session title, paper titles, short abstracts (300 words max), a one page cv for each panelist, and, something new, a cover sheet (PDF) for the panel, enclosed with this Call for Papers. Please send proposals (email attachment is fine, but please integrate all materials into one file under the organizer’s name) to Sarah Fishman, chair of the program committee, at sfishman@uh.edu.
If you are not submitting a paper or panel but would be willing to serve as chair or commentator, please send your name and area(s) of expertise to sfishman@uh.edu.
The deadline for proposals is SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
Participants in the program must be members of the Society. Non-members who wish to submit proposals can join from the Duke Press website or by writing to:
Journals Fulfillment, Duke University Press
Box 90660
Durham, N.C. 27708-0660.
Members receive the quarterly journal French Historical Studies. For further inquiries, please contact the two co-presidents of the Society for 2006-2007, Sarah Fishman or Rob Zaretsky (local arrangements).
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*program committee asks that panels strive for gender balance
