Annual Conference

CFP 

The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina will co-host the 56th annual conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era (CRE) May 14-17, 2026.  The conference will be held at the College of Charleston campus in the historic center of the city of Charleston. 

We are pleased to welcome Kathleen DuVal of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Zara Anishanslin of the University of Delaware as our keynote speakers.

For the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Consortium invites papers on topics related to American independence and ideas of liberty and freedom in the broader Atlantic World.  We encourage papers that examine the events of the Revolution from below, that place American independence in broader, hemispheric, European, or colonial contexts, or that investigate the influence of American independence on later revolutionary movements.

We seek a wide range of presentations, including traditional panels (consisting of three paper presenters and a chair), roundtables, workshops, or lightning sessions devoted to recent scholarship, pedagogy, and professional concerns. Submissions of pre-organized panels and roundtables are strongly encouraged, but we also welcome individual papers from faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars.  

Panel and paper proposals must clearly explain their topics and questions in ways that will be understandable to the broad constituents of the CRE, not only to those interested in the specific topics in question.  

The CRE publishes Selected Papers with our affiliate Age of Revolutions, an open-access journal with an international scholarly and general readership.  

Submission Instructions  

Session proposals should include a panel description; a brief abstract for each paper (no more than one page); a brief CV for each participant (no more than two pages); and an indication of AV needs, if any.  

Individual paper proposals should include a brief abstract (one page); brief CV (no more than two pages); and an indication of AV needs, if any.  

Roundtable proposals must include a session title; the full name and institutional affiliation of each participant; a brief abstract (one page) summarizing the roundtable’s themes and points of discussion; a brief CV for each participant (no more than two pages); and an indication of AV needs, if any.  

Send proposals by December 14, 2025  to consortiumrev@gmail.com. For questions, please contact Carol Harrison at ceharris@mailbox.sc.edu or Sandy Slater at SlaterS@cofc.edu.  

Host of the Annual Meetings of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era

2024 LSU Baton Rouge/Shreveport

2023 University of North Texas

2022 Mississippi State University

2021 Virtual Conference

2020 Florida State University

2019 Georgia State University

2018 West Chester University of Pennsylvania

2017 Charleston College and University of South Carolina

2016 Louisiana State University-Shreveport

2015 High Point University

2014 University of Mississippi

2013 University of North Texas

2012 Louisiana State University

2011 Florida State University

2010 Charleston College and University of South Carolina

2009 Georgia Southern University

2008 University of Alabama-Huntsville

2007 George Mason University

2006 Georgia State University

2005 Florida Southern College*

2004 High Point University

2003 Louisiana State University, Lafayette

2002 Louisiana State University

2001 Auburn University

2000 University of Alabama-Huntville and Jacksonville State University

1999 Charleston College and University of South Carolina

1998 Florida State University

1997 Louisiana State University and University of Alabama-Huntsville

1996 Georgia Southern University

1995 Louisiana State University and Loyola University, New Orleans

1994 University of Alabama-Huntsville and Jacksonville State University

1993 Georgia State University

1992 Auburn University

1991 Louisiana State University

1990 Florida State University (Meeting held in September 1989 for bicentennial of the French Revolution)

1989 Charleston College and University of South Carolina

1988 Samford University

1987 Georgia State University and University of Georgia

1986 Florida State University

1985 Louisiana State University

1984 Duke University

1983 Charleston College and University of South Carolina

1982 University of Georgia

1981 University of Alabama-Huntsville

1980 Florida State University

1979 Charleston College and University of South Carolina

1978 Louisiana State University

1977 University of Alabama-Huntsville

1976 University of Georgia

1975 Duke University

1974 Florida State University

1973 University of Florida

1972 University of South Carolina

1971 University of Georgia

* The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe changed its name to the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era in 2005.