S-USIH Conferences

Upcoming Conference

November 2024 — Boston, MA

2024 Conference-Boston

Theme Knowledge and Belief

Click the link to download the final program for the 2024 Boston Conference Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at this link. Please note there are

Past Conferences

November 2023 — Denver, CO

2023 Conference–Denver

Theme Utopia/Dystopia: Intellectual Landscapes of Dreams and Disasters

The 2023 Society for U.S. Intellectual History annual conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, November 9-11. The site for the conference is the Curtis Hotel in the heart of Conference Details

November 2022 — Boston, MA

2022 Conference–Boston

Theme Democracy and Community in Crisis

The 2022 annual conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History will take place November 3-5, 2022, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Mass. The theme for this year’s Conference Details

October 2021 — Nashville, TN and Online

S-USIH Conference 2021-2022

Theme The Public and the Private

November 2019 — New York City

2019 S-USIH Conference

Theme Intellectual Traditions of Protest, Power, and Patriotism

This year’s conference will be held November 7-10, 2019, on The New School’s campus in New York City’s historic Greenwich Village neighborhood. The program is available here: S-USIH Program2019     Our Conference Details

November 2018 — Chicago, IL

2018 Conference–Chicago

Theme Anti-Intellectual Sensibilities

The tenth annual S-USIH Conference will be held from Thursday, November 8 to Sunday, November 11, 2018, at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago, IL. The theme of the conference Conference Details

October 2017 — Dallas, TX

2017 Conference–Dallas

Theme Histories of Memory, Memories of History

The ninth annual S-USIH Conference will be held from Thursday, October 26 to Sunday, October 29, 2017, at the Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center [follow link for conference rate]. Conference Details

October 2016 — Stanford University

2016 Conference

Theme From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History

Dear S-USIH Conference Participants and Friends, “From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History,” to be held on the campus of Stanford University October 13-15, Conference Details

October 2015 — Washington, DC

2015 S-USIH Conference

Theme Problems and Their Publics

The committee for the 2015 Conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History–Andrew Hartman (chair), Michael Kimmage, Claire Rydell, and Jonathan Wilson–is pleased to announce that the seventh annual S-USIH Conference Details

October 2014 — Indianapolis, Indiana

2014 S-USIH Conference

Theme Materiality of Ideas

PLEASE SEE THE CFP The Conference Committee of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) invites individual paper and panel proposals for its sixth annual conference to be held at Conference Details

November 2013 — University of California-Irvine

2013 S-USIH Conference

Theme Geographies of Ideas

CONFERENCE INFORMATION PDF! Conference Forum Check out previous conference schedules @ S-USIH CONFERENCES 2008-2012 Conference Details