The history graduate students of the University of Maine and University of New Brunswick wish to announce the 9th Annual International History Graduate Student Conference, set for September 28-30, 2007.  This year's conference, to be held at the University of New Brunswick campus in Fredericton, N.B, Canada, has attracted participants from a number of universities throughout the United States and Canada.  The conference proceedings will cover a diverse range of subjects and methodological and theoretical approaches.   

The conference will commence on Friday afternoon with Dr. Scott See's keynote address, "The Peaceable Kingdom Paradox: Canadian Historians and the Negotiation of a Myth." Libra Professor of History at the University of Maine, Dr. See is a specialist in Canadian history, Canadian-American history, Northeast Borderlands, as well as the author of The History of Canada (2001), Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s (1993; second printing, 1999), and numerous scholarly articles.  A reception will follow his address. 

Conference sessions will run throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, and the program can be accessed online.