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HGSA Conference

Tides of Change: Challenges of Doing History
Annual UC Irvine History Graduate Student Association Conference
Friday, April 19th, 2019
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
UC Irvine campus, HG 1030

It is a pleasure to invite you to Tides of Change: Challenges of Doing History . The
conference is organized by UC Irvine History Graduate Student Association and will take place
in Irvine, CA on April 19, 2019.

Historians are constantly forced to reshape their methodological toolkits and conceptual
approaches as the currents of time wash ashore new challenges and obstacles. Today’s historians
must skillfully navigate through the “tides of change,” treading in a churning sea of sources,
methods, historiographical interventions, theoretical frameworks, and historical questions. At
this year's HGSA conference we encourage participants to share the fruits of their research with
us, but also to join in a conversation about the historical, historiographical, or methodological
problems that their work confronts. How have you utilized new materials to answer new
questions? How have you looked at old materials in a new light? As historians living in the
present, how do we challenge ourselves to move historical research into the uncertain future? It
is imperative to critically reflect on the scholarship we produce as the stakes of historical
production have never been higher.

The 2019 HGSA conference is open to graduate students whose scholarship engages with
historical research. We hope to hear representatives from across the disciplines who have a
variety of research interests. And, as always, our aim is to provide a welcoming and collegial
environment where graduate students can present their research, network with other graduate
students and UCI faculty, and gain insight into their work from UCI faculty.

Each panel will have a UCI faculty discussant/moderator. The faculty member will
provide written feedback on each paper in the panel and moderate the question and answer
session.

Keynote speaker
Keith Camacho is an associate professor in the Asian American Studies Department and
a faculty affiliate in the Critical Race Studies Program in the School of Law at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He is also the author of Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of
War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011), the
co-editor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific
(University of Minnesota Press, 2010). His new book, Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and
Retribution in Guam , is forthcoming with Duke University Press.