Dissent and History First Annual Graduate Conference in History

The University of Rochester History Department is pleased to announce its first annual Graduate History Conference.   This year’s theme is “Dissent and History,” and we welcome papers that address all aspects of dissent in any historical period and geographic region.  Rochester, the home of nineteenth century abolitionist Frederick Douglass and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, has a long and cherished tradition of dissent.  The theme for this year’s conference embraces this tradition.  We encourage visitors to tour the website and look forward to your proposals.

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation." Susan B. Anthony

Call for Papers

About the Speaker

Proposals on all historical aspects and chronological periods involving “dissent” are welcome.  Examples of potential topics include examinations of individual dissenters, theoretical exploration of dissent and its many meanings, hegemony and dissent, religious dissent, gendering dissent, dissent and the other, and finally public order, dissent, and legal culture. Read More

Kevin Mattson, Connor Study Professor of History at Ohio University, and author of, among other works, Rebels All!: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America (2008), Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970 (2002), and Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era (1998). will be the keynote speaker for this year’s conference. Read More

Conference Deadlines

Proposal Deadline	January 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance	January 20, 2010
Registration Deadline	TBA