Call for Papers: State and Nation: Grand Narratives in Virginia
History-A session proposal for the second Virginia Forum, Richmond,
April 13-14, 2007

 

Is the history of Virginia-of any state-merely derivative?  Does it gain
interest and achieve significance by the degrees to which it represents
or expresses the chronologies, developments, themes, and ideas defining
national history?  Virginia as a political entity may be a vessel too
small or confined to contain a larger history, but nor can state history
stand alone divorced from the nation to whose story it belongs.  This
proposed session will explore these questions, and for it paper
proposals are solicited that consider the grand- or metanarratives which
could serve to organize the history of Virginia in the context of both
United States history and a more autonomous history of the state.
Please send a 400-word abstract with c.v. to Warren Hofstra at
[log in to unmask] by September 15, 2006.  

 

Please note: this session when completed with two or three papers will
be submitted as a panel proposal for the 2007 Virginia Forum.  The call
for papers for the Forum is as follows: 

 

The second Virginia Forum will convene at the Library of Virginia, in
Richmond, on April 13-14, 2007. The Virginia Forum offers an opportunity
for exchanges of ideas among scholars, teachers, archivists, librarians,
and museum curators, and all those interested in Virginia history and
culture. The Virginia Forum welcomes proposals for presentations on all
topics in Virginia history, but the 400th anniversary year of 2007
offers a special opportunity for reconsidering large and significant
themes in Virginia's history and its place in national and international
history.   The committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or
complete panel sessions, panel discussions, workshops, poster sessions,
or electronic presentations.  Send a one-page proposal, along with a
brief vita of the presenter(s) to the chair of the program committee,
Dr. Larissa M. Smith, Department of History, Longwood University at
[log in to unmask]  Proposal deadline: October 2, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 




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