Call for Papers
59th Northern Great Plains History Conference
Brandon College students playing cards, 1936. Image courtesy of McKee Archives, Brandon University
59TH NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS HISTORY CONFERENCE
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
Host: SOUTH DAKOTA State University
The School of American and Global Studies at South Dakota State University invites you to the Fifty-Ninth Northern Great Plains History Conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from September 25-28, 2024.
The conference will take place downtown in the City Centre Holiday Inn and the Downtown Public Library on Eighth Street.
Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions in all fields of history – around the globe and across time – are welcome!
To honor and commemorate the One Hundredth Anniversary of the First Olympic Winter Games in 1924, and the Sixtieth anniversary of Cassius Clay’s first world title, the Conference Program Committee encourages proposals and panels on the impact of sport culturally in history.
The 2024 Northern Great Plains History Conference keynote speaker will be Dr. Sarah Teetzel, a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, and a Senior Fellow, St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba.
She is also a member of the Centre for Human Rights Research and the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics. She is author, with Dr. Heather Dichter, of The Olympic Winter Games at 100: Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies, Routledge, 2024.
Please send proposals to Graham Wrightson at graham.wrightson@sdstate.edu by Monday, 20 May 2024.
Individual paper proposals should include a one-paragraph abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae. Session proposals should include a one-paragraph session abstract and a short abstract and one-page curriculum vitae for each presenter in the session. Proposals for roundtables should include a session abstract and a one-page c.v. for each participant. Please indicate any audio-visual requirements.
Anyone willing to chair sessions or serve as commentator, or who has questions should send an email to graham.wrightson@sdstate.edu.
The Northern Great Plains History Conference welcomes graduate and undergraduate student participants. Prizes will be awarded to the best graduate and the best undergraduate paper. Updated information about the conference will be available on our website: www.NGPHConference.org .