Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies

The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) invites paper and panel proposals for its 41st annual meeting, to be held at the Mission Inn, Riverside, California, March 7-9, 2014.

The PCCBS invites papers representing all fields of British Studies — broadly defined to include those who study the United Kingdom, its component parts and nationalities, as well as Britain’s imperial cultures. We welcome proposals from scholars and doctoral candidates in a wide range of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, including History, Literature, Political Science, Philosophy, Religion, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater Studies, and Art History.

Proposals for individual papers, partial panels, or complete panels are all welcome, although complete panel proposals are preferred. We encourage the submission of proposals dealing with interdisciplinary topics, as well as panels on new pedagogies and technologies associated with British Studies.

The deadline for submission of proposals/panels is NOVEMBER 18, 2013. Proposals should include a 200-words abstract for each paper plus a 1-page c.v. for each participant. Those submitting full or partial panel proposals should include a brief description of the panel plus a 1-page c.v. for the panel chair as well as for its commentator. Please place the panel proposal, its constituent paper proposals, and all vitae in one file, making certain that your contact information, especially e-mail addresses, are correct and current. Proposals should be submitted via e-mail attachment by Nov. 18, 2013, to:
Lori Anne Ferrell, PCCBS Program Committee Chair, Claremont Graduate University, lori.ferrell@cgu.edu.

The next meeting of PCCBS will be in Riverside, CA, March 7-9, 2014, at the luxurious Mission Inn Hotel & Spa. Please mark your calendars! The call for papers will follow in May.

Built in 1902, the eclectic Mission Inn combines a variety of architectural styles, including Mission Revival, Spanish Gothic, Moorish Revival, Spanish Colonial, and Renaissance Revival. A National Historic Landmark, it includes a chapel with Tiffany stained glass windows and an 18-karat-gold leafed Rayas Altarpiece. Grand archways and flying buttresses, wrought-iron staircases, domes, and towers welcome you to one of California’s great resorts.

The deadline for submissions for the 2013 conference has been extended to March 25, 2013

NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON
BRITISH STUDIES ANNUAL MEETING
PORTLAND, OR
NOVEMBER 8-10, 2013

The NACBS and its Pacific affiliate, the Pacific Conference on British Studies, seek participation by scholars in all areas of British Studies for the 2013 meeting. We will meet in Portland, Oregon from November 8-10. We solicit proposals for panels on Britain, the British Empire and the British world. Our interests range from the medieval to the modern. We welcome participation by scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

We invite panel proposals addressing selected themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussions of topical and thematic interest, including conversations among authors of recent books and reflections on landmark scholarship. We are particularly interested in submissions that have a broad chronological focus and/or interdisciplinary breadth. North American scholars, international scholars and Ph.D. students are all encouraged to submit proposals for consideration. Panels typically include three papers and a comment, and ideally a separate chair; roundtables customarily have four presentations, as well as a chair; proposals which only include papers will be less likely to succeed. We are not able to accommodate individual paper proposals; those with paper ideas may search for additional panelists on lists such as H-Albion or at venues such as the NACBS Facebook page. Applicants may also write to the Program Chair for suggestions (nacbsprogram@gmail.com).

All scholars working in the field of British Studies are encouraged to apply for the 2013 conference, though we particularly welcome submissions from those who did not appear on the 2012 program. Panels that include both emerging and established scholars are encouraged: we welcome the participation of junior scholars and Ph.D. candidates beyond the qualifying stage. To foster intellectual interchange, we ask applicants to compose panels that feature participation from multiple institutions. No participant will be permitted to take part in more than one session and no more than one proposal will be considered from each applicant.

The submission website is http://nacbs.ucmerced.edu/call-for-submissions; submissions will close as of March 11, 2013.

If you have questions about the submission process or suggestions for program development, please contact

Susan D. Amussen
NACBS Program Chair
Professor of History
University of California, Merced
Email: nacbsprogram@gmail.com