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Call for Papers
WHEATS 2008
Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture,
Technology & Science
October 3–5 2008
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

WHEATS is taking the show on the road again after successful runs in Cambridge Massachusetts (MIT); Charlottesville, Virginia (University of Virginia); London, Ontario, Canada (University of Western Ontario) and Athens Georgia (University of Georgia).  WHEATS 2008 will be held in the beautiful flint hills of Kansas in Manhattan, the weekend of October 3–5, 2008.

WHEATS is a workshop designed for graduate students (and space permitting, very recent PhDs) whose research investigates the intersections between environmental history, agricultural history, the history of technology and the history of science in any combination.  Accepted papers will be circulated in advance to all of the participants.  At the workshop, authors make brief presentations and then receive feedback from fellow participants and senior scholars through informal discussion.  The format is particularly suitable for the presentation of work in progress such as thesis and dissertation chapters and article manuscripts.  Papers must be in English. Housing and meals are provided for those accepted to the workshop.  Funding to defray the cost of transportation is also available.

Those interested in participating should submit a one-page abstract and short curriculum vitae by April 4, 2008, to David Vail at ddvail@ksu.edu (electronic submission is preferred) or by mail to Professor Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, Department of History, Eisenhower Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506.  Please clearly indicate where you are in your graduate studies.  All submissions will be acknowledged by email reply.  Accepted papers are due to the Department of History at Kansas State by September 1, 2008, for distribution to the participants and senior scholars.  For further information, contact Professor Lynn-Sherow at blynn@ksu.edu or Professor Derek Hoff at dhoff@ksu.edu or visit the WHEATS 2008 website: http://www.ksu.edu/history/wheats.htm