CFP: Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History 2024 (SFARE)

The Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) is now accepting proposals for its annual conference, to be held at the Texas A&M University-Commerce campus at Dallas (https://www.tamuc.edu/dallas/) on February 28- March 1, 2025.

Since 2008, SFARE has provided a collegial setting for established scholars and advanced graduate students to present material that engages with all aspects of agricultural, rural, and environmental history. In keeping with SFARE’s tradition of fostering a welcoming and constructive atmosphere, participants should plan to attend all panels (there are no concurrent sessions) in order to provide quality feedback for each presenter.

This year’s keynote lecture will be provided by Dr. Joshua Frens-String, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and an affiliate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). He is the author of Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile (University of California Press, 2021) and will be presenting on his current research project entitled “The Atacama in Alabama: How Chilean Nitrate of Soda Restored Southern Soils—and Sparked an Agricultural Revolution”

Work on all geographic locations and time periods is welcome. Faculty and students are invited to submit single-paper proposals on any topic dealing with rural, agricultural, or environmental history. Please submit a 250-word paper proposal, along with a one-page CV for each person involved, to Andrew C. Baker at Andrew.Baker@tamuc.edu.

The deadline for submissions is November 11, 2024. Responses will be sent by December 9.

This year’s event is supported by the Department of History at A&M-Commerce, by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University, and by the Agricultural History Society.