Whether you are in academia or in another historical profession, attending meetings is a way to maintain involvement in History. There are a number of conferences in historical fields each year. The American Historical Association provides links to a number of historical associations, most of which have annual meetings, at
http://www.theaha.org. These meetings are often places to interview for jobs, network, and present papers. The AHA's Perspectives often includes information on conferences including calls for papers. The Organization of American Historians Newsletter also provides conference and call for papers information at
http://indiana.edu/~oah/programs.html. Their annual conference is being held in St. Louis from 30 March to 2 April 2000. The Mid-America Conference on History is holding its annual meeting 16-18 September 1999 in Springfield, Missouri at
http://www.smsu.edu/ftm922f/midamerica_c....
Conferences are held in a number of historical fields and in disciplines related to History. In Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Texas Medieval Association is holding a conference in Canyon, Texas 9-11 September 1999,
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/tmahome.ht.... The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference will be held in Tempe, Arizona 17-19 February 2000,
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/conf.html and the South-Central Renaissance Conference will be in Lafayette, Louisiana 6-8 April 2000,
http://www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/l... History conferences are held on a number of topics including the History of Economics Society Annual Conference to be held 25-28 June 1999 in Greensboro, North Carolina,
http://www.eh.net/HisEcSoc/Conferences/9... the Business History and Theory Conference 2-4 July 1999 that will be in Glasgow, Scotland,
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/BusinessHisto... the Michigan Railroad History Conference that will be held 25 September 1999 in Dearborn, Michigan,
http://www.concentric.net/~Bmcnrhs/mirrh... the American Association for the History of Nursing Conference that will be in Boston, Massachusetts 1-3 October 1999,
http://www.aahn.org/conf.htm the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference in Montreal 14-16 October 1999,
http://tornade.ere/umontreal.ca/~melanco... and the Feminist Art and Art History Conference that will be held at Barnard
College 30 October 1999,
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/wmstud/p... The Teaching World History and World Geography Conference is specifically being held for teachers. It will be in Austin, Texas 11-12 February 2000,
http://www.dla.utexas.edu/world2000/inde...There are also conferences for historically related disciplines like archives and publishing. The Midwest Archives Conference Fall Meeting will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska 14-16 October 1999, http://www.midwestarchives.org/conferenc... and the Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Fall Meeting will be held in Hauppauge, Long Island, New York 11-13 November 1999, http://www.itd.umd.edu/MARAC/maraccon.htm Publishing related conferences include the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing's SHARP'99 conference that will be held 15-18 July 1999 in Madison, Wisconsin, http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/printcul/sha... and the North American Print Conference, which will be in Cincinnati, Ohio 24-25 June 1999, http://www.napc99.uc.edu/home.html
