Conference | Subject to Change: Adaptation in Moments of Ongoing Crisis

Black and white image of demonstrators
Saturday, April 9, 2022 - 9:00am to 4:30pm
Online Event

University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate History Association, with support from the Institute for Social Science Research, presents its 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference:

Subject to Change: Adaptation in Moments of Ongoing Crisis

Keynote Friday April 8, 2022 | Details TBD
Conference Sessions Saturday April 9, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

This year’s conference will take place virtually over Zoom. All panels will be streamed online.
Interested participants please submit paper proposals here.

This conference seeks to bring graduate students together to consider the historical roots of contemporary social change; a global pandemic and health crisis, political and social uprisings, anti-Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous racism and violence, and police brutality. We invite conference participants to think expansively about the historical spaces, actors (living and nonliving), and narrative threads that encompass the relationship between adaptations to crises and their implications. How might we reinterpret social movements and their origins or afterlives? How have individuals and institutions responded to crises? What are the political and affective meanings of “crisis?” And how have researchers and educators adapted to crises within and beyond their disciplines?

We welcome research that deals with historical questions in a variety of fields in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Proposals will be accepted until February 15, 2022 and accepted applicants will be notified March 1, 2022.

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Photo credit: Gidra. Photograph. July, 1973, Courtesy of Densho Digital Repository. https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-51/t