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History and Theory Conference

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The Inaugural HGSA History and Theory Conference

November 15-16, 1997

Keynote Address:
"History After the Linguistic Turn"
Lynn Hunt, University of Pennsylvania

Concluding Roundtable:
"History and Theory: Negotiating the Divide"
Robyn Wiegman, University of California, Irvine, and
George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego

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The Second Annual HGSA History and Theory Conference

November 14-15, 1998

Keynote Address:
"Digital and Print Authors"
Mark Poster, Univeristy of California, Irvine

Concluding Roundtable:
"Labor and the Production of Value in the University"
George Sanchez, University of Southern California,
Gilbert Gonzalez, University of California, Irvine, and
Thelma Foote, University of California, Irvine

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Sex, Gender, Culture

The Third Annual HGSA History and Theory Conference
November 13-14 1999

Keynote Address: 
"Gender and the Moral Problem of Onanism, 1712-1994"
Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley

Concluding Roundtable:
"Narrating Racial Topographies"
Eric Lott, University of Virginia, and 
Yong Soon Min, University of California, Irvine

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Disrupted Identities and the Question of the Universal

The Fourth Annual HGSA History and Theory Conference
November 11-12, 2000

Keynote Address:
"'Universality' in the Politics of Kinship"
Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

Concluding Roundtable:
"Multiculturalism and the Politics of Exclusion"
Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine, and
Clarence Walker, University of California, Davis

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Speaking History/History Speaks: Theorizing Communication in History

Fifth Annual HGSA History and Theory Conference
October 12-14, 2001

Keynote Address:
"Media Homes, Then and Now"
Lynn Spigel, University of Southern California

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Sixth Annual Graduate Student History and Theory Conference
University of California, Irvine
November 2-3, 2002

Keynote Address:
"Habits of a Colonial Heart: The Affective Grid of Racial Politics"
Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan

Roundtable Discussion:
Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine
Inerpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine
David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

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An Annual Conference Organized by the History Graduate Students Association at the University of California, Irvine

The HGSA History and Theory Conference is an annual event organized by the graduate students in the history department at the University of California, Irvine. The conference was begun in 1997, and has since served as a forum for graduate students whose work explores the possibilities and problematics that emerge in the interplay between history and theory. Conference participants have taken up issues and ideas raised by the many contemporary theories available to us -- including critical theory, cultural studies, feminism, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, among others -- examining their usefulness in the study of the past as practiced in various disciplinary settings and exploring the ways various theories reshape historical inquiry, as well as the contexts in which these theories have developed.

For information on the history of the HGSA History and Theory and Theory Conference, follow the links to the call for papers and past programs below by clicking on the images or  the "Program" links.