Fifteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference on

Transatlantic History
at the University of Texas at Arlington

Date of Conference: September 19-20, 2014
Submission Deadline Extended: August 7, 2014

Keynote Address: Tonyin Falola, Ph.D.
Special Guest Speaker: Jeremy Popkin, Ph.D.

The Transatlantic History Student Organization at the University of Texas at Arlington invites paper and
panel submissions that are historical, geographical, anthropological, literary, sociological, cultural, and
cartographic in nature that fall within the scope of transatlantic studies for participation in the 15th Annual
International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History to be held in Arlington, TX on
September 19-20, 2014.

Topics may include but are not restricted to the following:

Transatlantic encounters
World Systems
Atlantic empires
Cultural creolization
Transatlantic networks
Network analysis theory
Making of nation-states
Transnational spaces, bodies, and families
Transatlantic migration
Diaspora studies
Transatlantic Indigeneity
Collective memory
Identity construction
African, European, and Amerind constructions of the
Atlantic
Transatlantic cuisine and consumption
Intercultural transfer and transfer studies
Transatlantic area studies (Caribbean, Latin
American, Anglo-American, West African, Southern
African, Mediterranean etc.)
Teaching transnational history
Research methods

Transatlantic history examines the circulation and interaction of people, goods, and ideas between and
within the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. Situated primarily in the fields of both social and
cultural history, its approaches highlighted by comparative and transnational frameworks and fit within the
body of Atlantic, Global, and World Histories. This conference seeks to explore and further establish
shared terminology, methodologies, and defining parameters as they pertain to the field of transatlantic
history. It also seeks to serve as an interdisciplinary and intercontinental meeting place where such ideas can
converge into a common conversation.

Paper presentations will be accepted in English, French, Spanish, and German languages.

Submission of individual paper abstracts should be approximately three hundred words in length and should
be accompanied by an abbreviated, maximum one-page, curriculum vita. Panel proposals (3-4 people)
should include titles and abstracts of panel as a whole as well as each individual paper. The deadline for
abstract submissions is August 7, 2014. On August 10 we will notify authors of their acceptance. Selected
participants' research papers will be considered for publication in Traversea, the peer-reviewed, online,
open-access journal in transatlantic history. Please direct questions to Michael A. Deliz at
michael.deliz@mavs.uta.edu.

This year's conference is sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the Barksdale Lecture Series, the UTA History Department, and the
College of Liberal Arts of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Submit your abstract at:
www.transatlantic-history.org