2018 NCPH Annual Meeting topic proposals are in!

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At the beginning of May, NCPH opened up our Call for Proposals for the 2018 annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the theme “Power Lines.” The theme is apt for a conference in Vegas, and especially timely in the current political climate as we evaluate how power shapes our professional and personal lives—and what power we might have as public historians to shape the future. For more about “Power Lines” and the program committee’s vision for the 2018 conference, please read the post by program co-chairs Priya Chhaya and Benjamin Filene, which you can find here.

This year, as in the past few years, NCPH offered an optional early topic proposal deadline. Those who chose to submit a topic proposal online by June 1 now have the opportunity to get feedback from the NCPH community before the final proposal deadline of July 15, 2017. In recent years, as the NCPH conference has grown in size, we have found this extra step to be a useful tool for connecting like-minded public historians for collaboration and conversation. This ability to float proposals in advance of the July deadline tends to result in strong final proposals that reflect a broader diversity of experiences and perspectives—and thus, strong sessions, working groups, and workshops.

Here’s where you come in: we need you, the NCPH community, to tell topic proposal submitters what you want to see next spring in Las Vegas. If you’re considering submitting a full proposal yourself, you might connect with someone doing similar work or facing similar challenges. If you hope to attend, this is a way to help shape the annual meeting’s Program content from its very earliest stages.

Visit the Topic Proposal page to view the 48 topic proposals we received this year (you can click on “View Proposals” on the left-hand sidebar to open the full list). Each proposal includes a working title, description, and the submitter’s contact information. Proposals are tagged with key topics to help you quickly identify ones that are most relevant to your interests and expertise.

If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or want to pass along someone else’s contact information, please get in touch with the proposer directly via email. Otherwise, we encourage you to leave general feedback in the form of a comment at the end of the individual proposal’s page. We ask that you share your thoughts by Sunday, July 2, 2017.

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