Event Details

End: November 1, 2021
Contact: jlbryan@lamar.edu
More Info: https://www.lamar.edu/arts-sciences/research-centers/center-for-history-and-culture/index.html

The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast will convene a symposium at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, on April 19, 2022, to consider the many experiences and expressions of slavery, abolition, and emancipation in the region’s past and publish this work in The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record. The Center invites proposals from established and emerging scholars seeking disciplinary intersections between art, ethnicity, gender, history, literature, material culture, and other fields. We welcome projects connected to broadly defined Gulf South and Southeast Texas regions. Submit a 300-word paper proposal and c.v. (2pp.) by November 1, 2021. Selected participants will submit drafts for pre-circulation by March 15, 2022. They will meet at Lamar University on April 19, 2022, share their work in a presentation, and workshop it with fellow participants, Center-affiliated faculty, and a small number of invited scholars. After the symposium, participants will revise their papers and submit final drafts (8,000 words) by November 1, 2022, for publication in The Record. The Center will provide lodging, food, and a travel stipend and will assist with arrangements. Each author will receive contributors’ copies of The Record. Submit via email or send inquiries to Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. (jlbryan@lamar.edu). For more information see: www.lamar.edu/historyandculture