This one-day symposium aims to gather scholars and researchers who explore the nature of local, regional, and global networks in New England from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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Call for Papers — 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
In June 2026, the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will mark its 50th anniversary by looking both backwards and ahead. As this year’s seminar looks forward to its own future, we will contemplate ways residents of the region have envisioned, foretold, and worked to shape various futures over the region’s long history.
Call for Proposals — 350th Anniversary of King Philip’s War/Metacom’s Rebellion
Historic Deerfield is hosting a one-day conference next year to commemorate the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War/Metacom’s Rebellion, with the goals of helping a broad audience learn more about the causes, course, and effects of the conflict, as well as fostering additional discussions and further research.
Call for Papers — Fashioning the Body: Dress in New England, 1600–1900
In conjunction with a new exhibition, Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes from the Ideal to the Real, opening May 3, 2025, Historic Deerfield will organize a Fall Forum, “Fashioning the Body: Dress in New England 1600–1900,” that aims to examine men’s and women’s fashion through a specific New England lens by convening a group of experts in the field to explore the rich history of dressing the body in this region. Paper submissions are due May 3, 2025.
Call for Papers — 2025 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife is pleased to announce the subject of its 2025 gathering, Recalling the Revolution in New England, to be held June 27–28 at Historic Deerfield. The conference keynote will be provided by Dr. Zara Anishanslin of the University of Delaware, author of the forthcoming book The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the American Revolution.
Banned in Boston: Histories of Artistic Censorship in New England
We invite papers that explore the contours of artistic censorship in New England from the 17th to the 21st centuries. We are interested in a broad range of papers that address both the activities of censors — their philosophical and intellectual foundations, acquisition of power, strategies of implementation — and reactions to censorship by individuals or groups in the form of public protest, legal remedies, legislative change, or education/marketing campaigns.