NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES

 

NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES

 

ANNUAL MEETING

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

NOVEMBER 6 – 8, 2009

The NACBS and its Southern affiliate, the SCBS, will host the 2009 NACBS Conference in Louisville, KY on 6-8 November 2009. The conference program is available online as a .pdf document. Please follow the steps below to register.

• Step 1: Join NACBS or renew membership
• Step 2: Conference Registration
• Step 3: Conference Hotel Registration

Step 1: Join NACBS or renew membership

Conference participants are encouraged to join the NACBS or renew their memberships. In addition to qualifying for a reduced conference registration fee, NACBS members receive the Journal of British Studies, discounts with select publishers, and access to the NACBS directory. For a complete list of benefits, click here.

To join the NACBS or renew your membership and subscribe to the Journal of British Studies, please use the secure server at the University of Chicago Press. To submit a change-of-address for a current membership, please click here or send your request to subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu. Or, contact

The University of Chicago Press
Journals Division
P.O. Box 37005
Chicago, IL 60637
Telephone: (773) 753-3347; Fax: (773) 753-0811
E-mail: subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu

 

Step 2: Conference Registration

You can register for the conference at www.regonline.com/nacbs2009. Conference fees are as follows:

• NACBS Member: $135.00 (NACBS membership number required)
• Student: $55.00 (student ID required)
• Non-member: $155.00

Fees for the conference luncheons are $37.50 each. The plenary speakers for these luncheons are

• Friday
  Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University, "The British in Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade"
• Saturday
  Barbara J. Harris, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Defining Themselves: English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550"

Step 3: Conference Hotel Registration

The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Louisville; 320 W. Jefferson Street; Louisville, KY 40202.
Hotel main number: 502.581.1234
Reservation number - 800.233.1234

Conference rates are available for 4 November to 8 November 2009. A credit card is required to book your reservation on-line. Rooms must be canceled 24 hours in advance of arrival to avoid a cancellation fee equal to one night of room and tax. The final date to make reservations at guaranteed conference rates is October 14, 2009.

Conference Rates:

• $115.00 per room, per night for single occupancy
• $115.00 per room, per night for double occupancy
• $140.00 per room per night for triple occupancy
• $165.00 per night for quadruple occupancy

To book a reservation online, click here: http://louisville.hyatt.com/groupbooking/sdfrl2009sha9

To book a reservation by telephone, call the Hyatt Regency Louisville at (502) 581-1234.

 

The NACBS and its Southern affiliate, the SCBS, seek participation by scholars in all areas of British Studies for the 2009 meeting.  We solicit proposals for panels on England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the British Empire broadly defined.  Our interests range from the medieval to the modern, and we welcome participation by historians, literary critics, economists, political scientists, sociologists, art historians, and scholars in other allied disciplines.

 

We invite panel proposals addressing selected themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussions of topical and thematic interest.  North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the NACBS Program Committee.

 

Strong preference will be given to complete panel or roundtable proposals that consider a common theme.  Individual paper proposals will also be considered where possible, but those with single paper submissions are encouraged to post a call for additional panelists on lists such as H-Albion or to email the Program Chair for suggestions.  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.  Committed to ensuring the broadest possible participation of scholars in British Studies, the Program Committee will give priority to those who did not read papers at the 2008 meeting.   Panels that include both graduate students and established scholars are especially encouraged, as are submissions with broad chronological focus and interdisciplinary breadth. 

 

 

All submissions must be received by Friday, January 30, 2009.

For details, directions, and online submission, see www.nacbs.org.

 

General questions about panel requirements should be sent to

Lara Kriegel, NACBS Program Chair

Department of History

Florida International University

Miami, FL 33199

+1 (305) 348-2225     

lara.kriegel@fiu.edu

 

http://www.nacbs.org/conference.html