Please, feel free to download the CFPs as a pdf here:

 MWWHA Conference CFP 2026.pdf.

The Midwest World History Association and The Middle Ground Journal are proud to announce the call for proposals for our sixteenth annual conference:

Migration, Borders, and Diaspora in World History

October 23-24, 2026
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Proposal Deadline: May 31, 2026

Why do people migrate? How are borders demarcated physically and metaphorically? What are the perils of crossing them? How do we teach about diasporic communities? Where do histories of immigration feature in state standards for social studies?

We invite graduate students, K-12 teachers, professors, and researchers to share their ideas related to this year’s theme or other aspects of world history, including best practices in pedagogy. Please submit a 250-word proposal with a brief CV or resume to http://www.mwwha.org by the deadline. The conference will be held exclusively in person at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in Edmond, Oklahoma. Individual presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals for a prearranged panel of papers, a workshop, or a roundtable discussion should include the names and affiliations of each participant and a 250-word abstract describing the topic.

The MWWHA will offer up to three stipends of $300 to Educators (K-12 teachers) or Graduate Students from the Midwest to partially offset the cost of travel and accommodation. Simply include a brief request for consideration in the proposal.

The Western Pacific Institute at UCO will offer an Award for Best Student Paper on Asian History (broadly conceived). For consideration, polished papers must be submitted to the conference chair, Andrew Magnusson (chair@mwwha.org), by October 2, 2026.

Questions about the conference may be directed to the conference chair at chair@mwwha.org. Further information about the MWWHA and The Middle Ground Journal can be found at http://www.mwwha.org.

Please, submit your conference proposal by clicking here: 

Submit a Proposal for the Sixteenth Annual Conference (2026).

The Middle Ground Journal will give extra consideration to papers presented at the MWWHA conference for publication in the journal. Please see the journal's Submission Guidelines before submitting your paper for consideration.

The deadline for submissions to the journal for a special issue is typically in December of the same year.

The program will be posted here.

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