DEADLINE EXTENDED: Who is a Farmer? Regional Identity and Rural Culture

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Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting

8-10 June 2017, Downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

***Deadline Extension: 15 December 2016***

Call for Papers
Who is a Farmer? Regional Identity and Rural Culture
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting

The Agricultural History Society invites proposals that broadly engage the following theme: “Who is a farmer? Regional Identity and Rural Culture.” By contemplating who farmers have been in the past, we interrogate agriculture as an industry, a lifestyle, and an identity. The question also opens engagement with regional identities as particular agricultural pursuits have historically been used by insiders and outsiders to define geographic regions on different continents.  We also question gendered concepts of agricultural life, as well as notions of rural vs. urban. How has agricultural work affected culture? How has agriculture contributed to group identities, such as twentieth-century American back-to-the-landers? When did farming reinforce traditional identities, create new ones, or craft perceptions of rural people? The AHS conference will be held immediately following the Midwestern History Association conference hosted by the Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University.

Information on submission:

  • The Society takes a broad view on what constitutes rural and agricultural history. Topics from any location and time period are welcome.
  • The AHS encourages proposals of all types, including traditional sessions with successive papers and commentary, thematic panel discussions or debates, roundtables on recent books or films, workshops, and poster presentations.
  • If you will need technology for presentations, please indicate this in your proposal.
  • The program committee prefers complete session proposals, but individual papers will be considered.
  • The AHS extends a special welcome to graduate students and has a competitive travel grant for students presenting papers.

 

Instructions:

1. Session proposals should include a two-hundred-word abstract for each paper and a one-page CV for each panel member (in MS Word).

2. Individual paper proposals should consist of a two-hundred-word abstract and a one-page CV (in MS Word).

3. All proposals should be submitted electronically in Word format. Submit all proposals to Cherisse Jones-Branch (crjones@astate.edu).

Extended Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2016.

Questions may be addressed to Cherisse Jones-Branch at crjones@astate.edu

Program Committee Members: Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University (Chair); Kelly Wenig, Iowa State University; Kelly Houston Jones, Austin Peay State University;  Sara Morris, University of Kansas; Scott St. Louis, Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University.

Source: H-Rural