Do you want to explore your future in public service? Apply to attend a free 4-day weekend conference just for college students who want to move the world forward! Motivated students from diverse backgrounds will gather at Indiana University, October 23-26, 2014, to learn how they pursue a career, or get a degree, in public service. […]
Category: Conferences
Student Opportunity: Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Interested in seeing the leading conference for professional historians up close? UMW’s History and American Studies Department is sponsoring students to attend! The event is the American Historical Association‘s Annual Meeting, which is happening in Washington, DC, January 2-5, 2014. The conference website introduces the event, complete with a full program schedule. Among our faculty, Dr. […]
Students and Faculty Present Papers at OHMAR Joint Meeting
Professor Jess Rigelhaupt and three history students, Josephine Appiah, Kelsey Matthews, and Kendall Simonpietri, presented papers at the joint meeting of the Society for the History in the Federal Government (SHFG) and Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) on April 4, 2013. The panel, “Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Oral History, Digital History, and Memories of the […]
Researching the History of Baseball? A Conference and Call for Abstracts…
See below for a call for conference participation in an event to celebrate the history of one baseball franchise, the New York Mets, which will be hosted by Hofstra University next April. For full details and contact information, see the original announcement here. April 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of the New York Mets, […]
Call for Papers – Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society Regional Conference
Members of the History honors society Phi Alpha Theta are invited to participate in the 2011 PAT Regional Conference at Virginia Wesleyan College at Norfolk / Virginia Beach, VA. The event will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2011. The final deadline for paper submission and registration is Friday, February 18th; fees are due one […]