Event Details

End: October 1, 2018
Contact: abuckley@masshist.org
More Info: https://www.masshist.org/calendar/seminars/african-american-history

Call for Proposals: The Boston Seminar on African American History

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.

The Boston Seminar on African American History invites proposals for sessions in its Spring 2019 series. The Seminar involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress, especially article or chapter-length papers (20-40 pages), focusing on any aspect of African American history and culture from the era of first contact through the present day.

Programs will take place on the third Thursday of January, February, and April. Each session focuses on the discussion of a paper distributed to seminar registrants three weeks before the program. Authors must have their papers ready for circulation at this time. The essayist and an assigned commentator will each have an opportunity for remarks before the discussion is opened to the floor. Seminars meet for approximately 90 minutes and are followed by a light buffet supper.

We invite proposals (500 words) and CVs from interested researchers. In your proposal, please indicate when your paper can be available for distribution. The steering committee will consider all proposals for the available session slots, and proposers will be notified in November.

Please submit your proposals by October 1, 2018 to Alexis Buckley, (abuckley@masshist.org), Research Coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society.