Introducing the Society for U.S. Intellectual History

Many of our Hawaii history teachers, historians, students and history buffs may be unfamiliar with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH). The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization. Click here to visit its blog site. 

We'd also like to call your attention to the S-USIH's fifth annual conference: Communities of Discourse.

Fifth Annual Conference and Annual Meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for the Humanities,
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City

Dates: November 1-2, 2012
Submission deadline for papers was June 1, 2012.

The keynote address will be delivered by David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California-Berkeley.

This year’s conference theme is “Communities of Discourse.” The theme highlights the fact that communities are essential to intellectual life. Intellectual historians often focus on individual figures, yet individuals are always embedded in wider communities of intellectual exchange. In addition, intellectual historians are themselves situated in communities of exchange that include not only other historians, but also academics from a broad range of fields (including literature, political science, communications, religion, sociology, anthropology, art history) and the wider public as well. The conference committee invites participants to reflect on all aspects of communities of discourse and the study of intellectual history. Although proposals that relate to the theme are particularly welcome, the committee will accept submissions that are relevant to any aspect of the study of American thought.


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