CALL FOR PAPERS

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center is hosting the 10th Bi-Annual International Fields of Conflict (FOC) Conference September 26-30, 2018. The conference will showcase new perspectives regarding conflict and diplomacy, conflict archaeology including new archaeological methods, military technologies, battlefield sites, and military archaeology, and social and physical landscape change as a result of war epidemics and battlefield medicine.

ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS:
 Title of presentation/paper
 250 word abstract describing presentation/paper
 Name of author(s)
 Institutional affiliation of author(s), if applicable
 Contact information: mailing address, phone and email
 Send electronically in Microsoft Word .doc or PDF formats

Submission: Email abstracts by February 1, 2018 to Dr. Ashley Bissonnette, Senior Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center at [email protected]. Include “Abstract Submission, September 2018 FOC Conference” in the subject line.

Notification: You will receive an email notification no later than March 1, 2018 if your abstract has been received. All submitted abstracts undergo review and selection by conference committee. Abstracts highlighting International Indigenous Conflict are encouraged. Conference registration information and program will be sent by email or address.

Paper Length: Presentations are not to exceed 20 minutes in length (approximately 10 double-spaced pages). Please include a short biographical profile with your proposed paper or poster. Please note: full written papers must be submitted electronically by July 1, 2018. It is intended that a peer-reviewed publication will follow the conference.

For questions contact: Ashley Bissonnette, [email protected] or call at (860) 396-6803