Western Association of Women Historians
2012 Conference - Berkeley
Our 44th annual conference, will be held May 3-5, 2012, at the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton at the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, California.
The keynote speaker will be Vicki Ruiz (University of California, Irvine). Her keynote is titled "Las Dos Luisas: Latina Feminist Thought, 1900-1930."
There will be a special session to honor the work and activism of Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Conference Program
For the WAWH 2012 WAWH Conference Program click here (PDF)
Travel information is include in the program. Printed copies will be available at the conference for conference attendees.
Conference Pre-Registration
2012 WAWH Conference Pre-Registration Form
Program participants are required to pre-register and become current members by January 19, 2012, or their names will be removed from the published program.
The pre-registration deadline for non-program participants attendees is March 29, 2012.
Onsite registration will be at a higher rate and meals may not be available for purchase onsite.
Conference Hotel Information
All conference activities will happen at the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton at the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, California. To make a reservation, call 800-559-4655 or book online using the above link. Mention either "Western Association of Women Historians" or three letter group code of "WAW" to receive the conference rate of $139 (single or double, plus 12.07% tax). If making an online reservation, use "WAW" as the group code of the "Special Accounts and Rates" area. Other travel information is include in the conference program.
If you contact the hotel and no rooms are available at the conference rate, please email Amy Essington at amyessington@wawh.org before making reservations at another rate or other arrangements. We have already added rooms and can add more, we are just being cautious about how many since the organization is responsible for paying for them.
WAWH Authors- WAWH Conference Bookseller
The Western Association of Women Historians has arranged with The Scholar’s Choice to manage the combined book exhibit for our annual meeting taking place May 3-5 in Berkeley, California. It may be possible for your recently-published books to be included in their display. Any WAWH members interested in having their book displayed at the upcoming WAWH meeting should contact their publisher as soon as possible. The Scholar’s Choice displays on behalf of the publishers and all requests must come from them, not the individual authors. If they don’t already have it, the press may request the appropriate paperwork by emailing Mary Lynn Howe at mlh@scholarschoice.com.
2012 Proposals The submission deadline has passed.
Each proposal should include three parts: 1) a completed cover sheet (see below), 2) a one-half to one-page abstract for each paper submitted, and 3) One-to-two-page curriculum vitae for each panelist.
- 2012 WAWH Cover Sheet- Panel (DOC)
- 2012 WAWH Cover Sheet- Individual (DOC)
Email proposal to wawhconference2012@wawh.org by 11:59pm on September 15, 2011. Save all three parts of the proposal for each presenter (whether an individual paper or a panel) as a single word document, naming the file as lastnamefirstnamewawh2011. For a panel, the file name should be the name of the contact person.
2012 Call for Papers
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Amy Essington at
You will need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to read these PDF documents.
updated February 20, 2012