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The
WCBS is the 'Western' affiliate to the North
American Conference on British Studies representing scholars
of British history, literature, art, culture and society. |
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President President-Elect Immediate Past President Treasurer Publicity Webmaster 2010 Program Co-Chairs Laura Tabili 2008 Chair, Graduate Essay Prize Committee 2010 Local Arrangements |
Founded
in 1973 as the Rocky Mountain Conference on British Studies, the WCBS provides
a forum for the exchange and discussion of all aspects of British Studies
and the British experience, including History, Politics, Literature, and
the Arts. Membership is open to anyone though most members are drawn from
colleges and universities in U.S. states west of the Mississippi, the Canadian
Prairies and Rockies.
Announcements & Events
The fall 2010 meeting of the WCBS will take us to Austin, Texas over 24-25 September where we will convene at the downtown Marriott Residence Inn Austin Downtown, 300 E. 4th Street, Austin. The room rate is $129. Our plenary speaker will be Professor Brian Levack of the University of Texas. § CALL FOR PAPERS: The WCBS welcomes proposals from faculty and graduate students, for individual papers and complete sessions on all aspects of British Studies and the British experience, including: History, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Literature, Arts, and Culture. In addition, the WCBS seeks proposals addressing Comparative History, the British Empire, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Historiography, the teaching of British History/Studies and the conditions of British Studies in North American colleges and universities. Papers and Presenters: For each proposed paper please provide a brief abstract (200 words), and for each participant please provide a brief CV (1-2 pages). Complete sessions should have three papers, a chair and a commentator. A c.v. should also be provided for the chair and commentator. Complete Sessions: For complete session proposals, please identify the individual who will serve as the contact between the program chair and the session participants. Further, please provide a full address, including e-mail, for the contact persons. Chairs and Commentators: If you are interested in serving as a session chair or commentator, please submit a notice, a brief c.v., and an indication of areas/topics in which you would interested in providing a comment. All proposals for papers and sessions should be submitted either as Microsoft word, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF documents, by May 1, 2010, to BOTH of the program co-chairs: tabili@u.arizona.edu (Professor Laura Tabili, University of Arizona) jbronste@nmsu.edu (Professor Jamie Bronstein, New Mexico State University). If you have any questions, please contact either program co-chair by email, or call Jamie Bronstein at 575-646-4200.
North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to attend. For information on how to register for the NACBS meeting, and to view the conference program on line, click here >>. §
NACBS 2010 Membership Renewal Click here to take you to the NACBS/JBS renewal website to renew online. Also, when renewing, remember to check the box that directs $2.00 of your NACBS dues to the WCBS. These funds help to support the activities of our regional affiliation, including the Annual Meeting. § National Sporting Library Reserach Fellowships John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum and library professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Research disciplines include history, art history, literature, American studies, and area studies. Past projects include the development of foxhounds in 18th-century Britain, women in horse sports, and Early Modern horsemanship manuals. Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 17,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The collection is especially strong in British sporting books and periodicals. The collection covers many aspects of equestrian and outdoor sports, including foxhunting, horse racing, dressage, polo, eventing, coaching, shooting, fly fishing and angling. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages. The Library has a permanent art collection of European and American sporting art, and will open the National Sporting Art Museum next door in 2011. The fellowship covers approved projects of 12 months or less, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010. For more information, visit our website at www.nsl.org/fellowship.html or contact the Director of Communications and Research at 540-687-6542 x 11 or fellowship@nsl.org. Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications & Research, National Sporting Library, P.O. Box 1335 (102 The Plains Rd.) Middleburg, VA 20118-1335 §
NACBS on Facebook § Finding
Guides to British Studies Research Collections at the University of Colorado News from Members § Christopher Frank (University of Manitoba) will see his monograph Master and Servant Law Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy in England, 1840–1865 appear with Ashgate in March 2010. § The collection, City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City, edited by Glenn Clark, Judith Owens and Greg T. Smith (Univeristy of Manitoba) has just been published by McGill-Queen's University Pres (2010). § Congratulations to Andrew Muldoon (Metropolitan State College of Denver) on the publication of his book, Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act: Lat Act of the Raj by Ashgate (2009). § A number of WCBS members contributed to the special issue of Parlimentary Historywhich appeared in honour of Richard W. Davis and was subsequently published as Public life and public lives : politics and religion in modern British history : essays in honour of Richard W. Davis, ed. Nancy LoPatin-Lummis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
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| Awards | The WCBS sponsors one award at its annual conference: a cash prize (US$ 500) for the best graduate student paper presented at the conference. The deadline for receipt of papers is announced annualy, following the conference. Hanft
Travel Award for British Studies Research |
| Future Meetings | 2010:
Austin, TX 2011: Denver, CO (with NACBS) |
| Past
Meetings Click location to view program |
2009: Tempe, AZ 2008: San Antonio, TX 2007: Albuquerque, NM 2006: Dallas, TX 2005: Denver, CO (with NACBS) 2004: San Antonio, TX 2003: Tucson, AZ 2002: Little Rock, AR 2001: Houston, TX 1998: Colorado Springs, CO (with NACBS) |
| Join the WCBS | To join the WCBS, please contact Derek Blakeley, Publicity Officer. |
| Links | North
American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Mid-Atlantic CBS (MACBS) Midwest CBS (MWCBS) North East CBS (NECBS) Pacific Coast CBS (PCCBS) Southern CBS (SCBS) |
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Last Updated: 19 January 2010 |