The Northern Marianas Humanities Council, University of Guam, Northern Marianas College, and Guampedia issued a call yesterday for papers for the 3rd Marianas History Conference. <\/p>\n
The conference will be held on Saipan on Sept. 1-3, 2017, at a venue to be announced. <\/p>\n
A full range of topics associated with the Marianas Archipelago\u2019s history will be addressed at the conference, with a particular focus on the conference\u2019s subtheme \u201cMilestones in Marianas History.\u201d<\/p>\n
Papers may be submitted under the following general categories:
\n\u2022 Ancient Chamorro history;
\n\u2022 Late colonial (19th\u2013 early 20th centuries);
\n\u2022 World War II; recent (post-war); and
\n\u2022 Oral history and genealogical research.<\/p>\n
The organizers also encourage student presentations.<\/p>\n
Paper abstracts with a maximum of 150 words and the presenter\u2019s biography may be submitted online via the following link: tinyurl.com\/3rdMHC.<\/p>\n
The deadline for abstracts is 28 April 2017. Conference presenters will be allotted 20 minutes to present with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion.<\/p>\n
The conference will feature keynote presentations by Julian Aguon, Dr. Carlos Madrid, and Dr. Laura T. Souder. This event is free of charge and open to the public.<\/p>\n
For more information about the conference, contact council staff at 235-4785 or visit the council\u2019s website at: www.northernmarianashumanities.org. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Northern Marianas Humanities Council, University of Guam, Northern Marianas College, and Guampedia issued a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15603,15604,15605,6001],"class_list":["post-246577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ancient-chamorro","tag-carlos-madrid","tag-marianas-archipelago","tag-marianas-history-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}