Call for Papers
Teaching and Researching Big History:
Exploring a New Scholarly Field
The IBHA will be hosting the first ever international big history conference on August 3 - 5, 2012 at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The conference, whose title is "Teaching and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field," will be the largest gathering of big historians ever assembled. Participants will be housed in the August 2012 International Big History Conference Meijer Honors College on campus, and will participate in a range of panels, roundtables, lectures, pedagogical workshops, and other collegiate activities. At its conference and its other activities, the IBHA seeks not only to discover and create new knowledge, but to shape a future in which humanity understands its common origins and its common destiny. To further this objective, not only must scholarship be expanded, but the entire public must be better educated.