PAHA's 2012 Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois from January 5-8 as part of the American Historical Association's Annual Conference. Abstracts for papers and panel proposals are now being accepted and should be submitted to the PAHA Conference Coordinator:
Professor Neal Pease
Department of History
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.
email: pease@uwm.edu
Electronic proposals in email and word format are strongly preferred.

The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2011.

Individuals and panel organizers should include the following information when submitting a proposal:

• Paper/Session title(s) (of no more than 20 words)
• Paper/Session abstract(s) (up to 300/500 words, respectively)
• Biographical paragraph or c.v. summary (up to 250 words) for each participant
• Correct mailing and e-mail address for each participant
• Chair (required) and commentator (optional) for the session
• Audiovisual needs, if any

The Polish American Historical Association holds its Annual Conference in conjunction with the American Historical Association (AHA). The full information about the AHA conference can be found at www.historians.org. PAHA members who plan to attend PAHA conference only do not need to register for the AHA conference, but are required to register for the PAHA conference by November 1, 2011. Registration may be done on-line at www.polishamericanstudies.org or by sending the $20.00 registration fee to the PAHA Headquarters c/o Magda Jacques, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06050.

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• The Conference aims at presenting of recent research of young scholars – former and present scholarship holders of the Program of GP, PhD students, and independent researchers.
• Considering liberal character of the conference applicants are asking for submission in the frameworks of subject matter and activity of The Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw.
• Participants may submit papers representing results of their studies.
• Papers will have been published online by the beginning of the Conference.
• It is expected reading of papers and also multimedia presentations. Papers may be delivered in English and Polish. A paper and discussion on it will be last 20 minutes.
• Organizers reserve the right to select participants that haven’t been scholarship holders of the Program of GP for young scholars.

Organizers will not cover travel and accommodation expenses of participants

Applications and papers should be emailed to confersew@wp.pl by April 15, 2011.

Venue for the conference: Palac Potockich/ Sala Balowa/ Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmie_cie 26/28

Information for authors:
• Organizers will provide for publishing of papers online.
• Papers will be published in Polish or English (the author can submit his paper in the other language to organizers for approval).
• Please, follow next rules for the purpose of facilitation of publishing process.

I. The paper’s structure:
  1. Name and surname of author (authors)
  2. Name of organization and university
  3. Paper’s title
  4. Subtitles
  5. Text (that shouldn’t exceed 15 pages) and summary in English
      (the title and subtitles also should be written in English)

II. Technical information:
  1. Text should be written in Word format (extention *.doc);
      Times New Roman print; 12-point type; 1,5 indent; 2,5; margins.
  2. Pagination – in right lower corner.
  3. Footnotes – at the foot of the page as per sample:
      A. Monographs, collective studies should include name’s initial and surname,
         the title in italics, the place and year of edition, the page
      B. Article in collected articles: initial and surname, the title in italics, [w:],
         editor(s) (edit.), the title of collected articles, the place and year of edition,
         the page
      C. Article in daily: initial and surname, article’s title, “periodical’s title”,
         date as follows: 15 X 2007.
      D. Article in science periodical: name’s initial and surname, article’s title,
         “periodical’s title”, the year, the number, the page.
      E. Internet materials: description of sources, URL: http://"web address",
         date of access.
  4. If the paper includes tables or drawings source files should be added
      (extention *jpg, *gif, *pdf)
  5. Tables and drawings should be supplied with consecutive numbers,
      titles and sources.

Papers that don’t meet the requirements will not be accepted for publishing.

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