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Writing the Midwest: a Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers” to Be Held June 2–4, 2016 (Thursday–Saturday) at Michigan State University Midwestern History Association MHA Newsletter -- September 2015 Dear Friends of Midwestern History – Best wishes to you as fall approaches and as many of you are returning to your classrooms. The Midwestern History Association took a newsletter break during the August doldrums and so we now have lots to report to you on our activities as we approach the one year anniversary of our formal creation on October 11, 2014. As always, we greatly encourage you to share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues and let them know of our activities. I am going to begin this newsletter by sharing the latest on the prize front since some important deadlines are looming: Book Prize: Professor Andrew Cayton, now of The Ohio State University, is the chair of this year’s annual Jon Gjerde book prize committee for the best book written about Midwestern history during the calendar year 2014. Drew recently reported the list of book award nominees to the MHA and they are revealed below (addendum 1). This year’s book prize winner will be announced within the next month or so. Article Prize: Dr. Catherine Cocks of the University of Iowa Press is the chair of this year’s annual Dorothy Schwieder Prize for the best academic article written about Midwestern history during the calendar year 2014. Catherine recently reported the list of article award nominees to the MHA and they are revealed below (addendum 2). This year’s article prize winner will be announced in coming weeks. Turner Prize: The deadline recently passed for nominations for the annual Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for Distinguished Career Contributions to Midwestern History. This prize committee, chaired by Professor Pamela Riney-Kehrberg of Iowa State University, will announce its winner in coming weeks. Public History Prize: The MHA is especially interested in reaching out to public historians and public history programs and thus created a new prize in public history. The Alice Smith Prize for a Midwestern Public History Project for the best public history project during calendar year 2014 carries a deadline of September 15, 2015. The public history prize committee will be chaired by Professor Aaron Shapiro of UNC-Charlotte. Professor Shapiro is a native Midwesterner who won the 2014 Gjerde Prize for best book on Midwestern history for his book entitled The Lure of the North Woods (University of Minnesota Press) on the development of tourism in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The call-for-nominations for the Smith Prize is pasted below (addendum 3) and we ask that you please spread the word. Popular History Prize: The MHA is also interested in reaching out to a general audience and to all writers and authors who are interested in exploring the Midwest’s history and thus created a new prize in popular history writing. Nominations for the MHA’s annual Hamlin Garland Prize for Popular History are due October 1, 2015. The prize committee is chaired by Professor Kristin Mapel Bloomberg of Hamline University in Minnesota. Please note that Professor Bloomberg is looking for a final member to serve on the selection committee for the Hamlin Garland Prize. Professor Bloomberg reports that the committee member will get to help choose the winner and also help fine-tune the nomination requirements for next year. She plans to finalize the work schedule in the coming weeks and have her committee meet via email and gDocs. If you're interested in serving, please email Professor Bloomberg at [email protected] The call-for-nominations for the Garland Prize is pasted below (addendum 4) and we ask for your help distributing it to interested parties. 2016 MHA Meeting: The next formal meeting of the MHA will be held in conjunction with next year’s Western History Association meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. The WHA graciously agreed to welcome the MHA’s presence at the conference and asked me to scout out panels about Midwestern history for the conference and to serve on the conference’s Program Committee. I’m very pleased to report that the following six panels were proposed to the WHA for the conference: (1) Panel Discussion: The State of American Regional Studies; (2) Public History in the American Midwest; (3) Reclaiming the Middle Ground: The 20th-Century Midwest as a Forgotten Horizon in American History; (4) For God and Home and Native Land: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Middle West; (5) From French Voyageurs to the Farm Crisis: New Research on the Midwest (lightning round); (6) Expanding Horizons of (Mid-) Western History and Identity: Confronting the Past and Present through Public History and Memory. These panels are quite impressive and represent some of the best and forthcoming work about the Midwest. The details of each panel can be found at the very end of this newsletter. The American Historian: The most recent issue of the Organization of American Historians’ magazine The American Historian contains a very helpful notice of the creation of the MHA by OAH President Jon Butler of Yale University in his presidential column. Professor Butler grew up in Minnesota and recently moved back to Minneapolis. He is a board member of the MHA. OAH Blog: The new blog about American history run by the Organization of American Historians and entitled “Process” granted some space to the MHA a few months ago for a piece about Midwestern history. If you’d like to read it, go here: http://www.processhistory.org/?p=385 Midwest Conference: Discussions are now underway to have the second annual free- standing conference on Midwestern history. The time being discussed is early June and the venue is Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Please watch for more information about this conference in coming months. H-Midwest: Please be advised that the various state-based H-Net discussion networks such as H-Illinois have been terminated and that the H-Net advisory board has voted to create an umbrella discussion network entitled H-Midwest. This transition will allow future H-Net discussions to be less state-based and more regionally-oriented in keeping with the mission of the MHA. If you are interested in being a part of H-Midwest and volunteering to help, see the announcement below (addendum 5). Borderlands Book: Please note that this fall is the deadline for proposals for a new book about the Midwest to be published by the Center for Western Studies at Augustana University. The focus of the book will be the question “Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?” and it seeks to bring the soft parameters of the American Midwest into the general historical discussion of borderlands. The Center has issued a call-for-chapters for the book, which is currently entitled “In Search of the Interior Borderlands: Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?” If you are interested in submitting a proposal, see the CFP below (addendum 6). Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association: A panel will be held at the spring meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association under the rubric “Performing the Midwest: What of the Myth.” This panel will ask questions such as: What does “Midwestern mythos” mean today? To what extent does the myth continue to influence or to complicate and vex life in the Midwest? What attitudes and behaviors can be considered “Midwestern” today? And what does it mean to perform the attitudes, behaviors, narratives, counter-narratives, and perspectives of the Midwest? Organizers welcome creative literary performances of this mythic place as it exists today, as well as scholarly interrogations of its expression in film, literature, music, art, religion, technology, or the media. See below for more details (addendum 7). Sponsorship: In keeping with a vote of the MHA’s board of directors, the MHA agreed to allocate money to support the May 2016 “African Americans in the Nineteenth Century West Symposium” to be held at St. Louis University. More specifically, the MHA will be paying for the coffee breaks at the event. More details on this conference can be found below (addendum 8). SSML: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature asks that we announce the CFP for its 46th annual conference “Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers” to be held June 2–4, 2016 (Thursday–Saturday) at Michigan State University. Proposals are due to University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley professor Scott Emmert, SSML program chair, by January 29, 2016. The full CFP is below (addendum 9). Symposium: From the University of Indianapolis comes the announcement of the Civil War Study Group’s Eighth Annual Symposium entitled “The Consequences of the Civil War” to be held on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at the University of Indianapolis. All of the details are below (addendum 10). Conference: Next spring’s meeting of the Mid-American American Studies Association has been scheduled and the theme is “Battleground Midwest: Defining Who and What Matters in the U.S. and Beyond.” It will be held at the University of Kansas in March. Proposals are due by November 1. The CFP is pasted below (addendum 11). Book About the Midwest as a Field of Study: Last spring, the MHA held a conference about Midwestern history in cooperation with the Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University. The lectures from this conference are now being consolidated into a book that will soon be reviewed by a university press for possible publication. The lectures from this conference are also available for viewing on Youtube (just search “Hauenstein Center Midwest” and you should find the videos). Book on Midwestern Regionalism: The newly-minted Hastings College Press in Nebraska is now completing the review of proposals for at least one book about Midwestern regionalism during the early twentieth century.
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