The Conference Debate

December 4, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

Earlier this month, longtime UHA member Jim Wunsch of Empire State College (SUNY) raised some great questions and points of debate regarding how we organize, conduct, and process conferences, including: accepting fewer papers for presentation; rethinking how historians present research (and the context in which they are presented); and posting papers earlier to encourage greater […]

Rethinking #UHA18 and the Academic Conference

November 15, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

“The play’s the thing wherein I will catch the conscience of the king” – Hamlet in Hamlet I have to confess, I kind of dug William Shakespeare in high school and college (Measure Per Measure anyone?). Admittedly, it might have been because he was great at rhyming couplets and the like. Still, Hamlet’s decision to […]

Planning Ahead for UHA 2018

November 9, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

We at The Metropole are still mourning the end of this last month’s excellent SACRPH conference, and so have eagerly begun to look ahead towards next year’s UHA Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. Jessica Elfenbein and Robin Waites of the Local Arrangements Committee and LaDale Winling and Elaine Lewinnik of the Program Committee assure us that […]

ICYMI: The 2018 UHA Conference CFP Edition

September 15, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

By Avigail Oren We can’t imagine that our loyal readers have missed the exciting news–the Call for Papers for the 2018 UHA Biennial Conference in Columbia, South Carolina dropped on Wednesday. The deadline is not until February, so you have plenty of time to pull together panels and write your proposal. In the meantime, however… […]