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2018 History Graduate Student Associaton Conference March 9th & 10th, 2018 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana The History Graduate Conference is an opportunity for graduate student scholars to present original research and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in their respective fields. The keynote speaker is Dr. Daniel Greene, a guest exhibition curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., who is preparing an exhibition on Americans and the Holocaust set to open in 2018 in commemoration of the Museum's twenty-fifth anniversary, as well as an Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. Greene's publications include The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity and Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North. He was awarded the Saul Viener Prize by the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book in American Jewish History published 2011-2012. The conference will also feature presentations from graduate students from across the United States and abroad, covering numerous fields and approaches of historical scholarship, and a wide variety of chronological and geographical boundaries.
2017 Conference
Program (upcoming program TBD January 2018)
Registration Information: For a copy of the conference registration form, click Here. Registration Fees (Before March 1, 2018):
Graduate Student Meal Fee (multiple meals): $15 Please send your completed registration form and payment to: Please pay via check or money order, and make checks payable to History Graduate Student Association at LSU.
Accommodations:
Staybridge Suites Baton Rouge
The Cook Hotel at LSU
Hotels must be booked by February 1, 2018 to get the conference rate. Past Conference Keynotes and Programs 2017 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. 2016 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. John D'Emilio, Professor Emeritus of Women's and Gender Studies and History, University of Illinois, Chicago. 2015 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis, Professor of History, Emory University. 2014 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. Edward L. Ayers, President and Professor of History, Richmond University. 2013 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. Harry Watson, Atlanta Alumni Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2012 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University. 2011 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. Thomas Segrue, David Boies Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. 2010 Conference Program, keynote delivered by Dr. Peter Lake, Distinguished Professor of History, Vanderbilt University.
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