British Scholar: First Annual British Scholar Conference

2009 British Scholar
Annual Conference

The 2009 British Scholar Annual Conference will take place on 20-21
February 2009 at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the
campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The call for papers was sent out
in the March 2008 Newsletter and it is posted below. Remember to join our
mailing list and stay informed on the latest news regarding the British
Scholar Annual Conference.

Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis Professor of History at Princeton
University, will serve as the Keynote Speaker for the 2009 British Scholar
Annual Conference. Professor Colley focuses on British domestic and
imperial history since 1700. Her numerous works include:

- The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History - A New York
Times Top Ten Book of the Year (2007)
- Captives
- Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 – Winner of the Wolfson Prize for
History
- In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760

Professor Colley writes for British and American periodicals and
newspapers, including the Guardian, the Times, the New York Times, the
Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. In 1999 she
delivered the Prime Minister’s Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street.
Among other public lectures, she has delivered the Trevelyan Lectures at
Cambridge University (1997), the Wiles Lectures at Queen’s University,
Belfast (1997), the Ford and Bateman Lectures at Oxford (1999 and 2003),
the Nehru Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics (2003), the
Lewis Walpole Memorial Lecture at Yale (2000), and the Carnochan Lecture
at Stanford (1998). In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

We are greatly looking forward to welcoming Professor Colley to the
University of Texas at Austin for the second British Scholar Annual
Conference, which will take place at the world-renowned Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center on 20-21 February 2009. The call for papers
for the 2009 conference can be found below. Start making arrangements
today to join us for what promises to be an unforgettable event.

Linda Colley to serve as Keynote Speaker for
the 2009 British Scholar Annual Conference

Click Here to Read About the 2007 Conference

20-21 February 2009

Call for Papers - 2009 British Scholar Annual
Conference

This serves as a call for papers for the second annual British Scholar
Conference. The conference will be held in Austin, Texas on Friday February
20th and Saturday February 21st, 2009 on the University of Texas campus.
The conference, which is organized by the British Scholar Society and British
Studies at the University of Texas, focuses on British history from 1688 to the
present. The purpose of the British Scholar Conference, just like the
forthcoming British Scholar journal, is to highlight the importance of British
history from varied perspectives. Established scholars, scholars at the
beginning of their careers, and graduate students are welcome to apply and
present at the conference.

We are proud to announce that the distinguished historian Linda Colley will
serve as the keynote speaker for the 2009 British Scholar Annual
Conference. Linda Colley’s works include: The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh:
A Woman in World History and Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837.
Amongst her many accolades, Professor Colley delivered the Prime Minister’
s Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street in 1999.

The conference accepts both individual paper and complete panel
submissions. Submissions of individual papers should include an abstract of
150-300 words as well as a few descriptive keywords. Panels are expected
to consist of three to five papers and should be submitted by the person
willing to serve as both chair and respondent. In addition to abstracts for
each individual paper, the panel chair should also include a brief 100-150
word introduction describing the panel’s main theme. The conference does
not discriminate between panels and individual paper submissions.

All submissions for inclusion in the British Scholar Annual Conference must
be received by Sunday, June 1, 2008. Decisions on inclusion will be made
by August 25, 2008. Submissions should be made electronically to
conference@britishscholar.org. Updates regarding the conference will be
periodically posted to the British Scholar website at www.britishscholar.org.
It is hoped that participants will be able to call upon their departments for
hotel and transportation expenses.

Information on hotel accommodation and conference registration will be
forthcoming. It should be noted that becoming a member of the British
Scholar Society entitles you to a discounted registration rate. Membership in
the British Scholar Society is available by subscribing to the British Scholar
journal, which will be launched in September 2008. More information on the
British Scholar journal is available by visiting the journal website at www.
britishscholar.org/journal.