International Conferences

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Mapping New Scholarly Terrain

Beginning in 2018, when contributors from both sides of the Atlantic convened in Columbia to workshop Volume 2 of Cambridge History of America and the World, the Kinder Institute has made a regular habit of hosting lively international conferences on the Mizzou campus to break new ground in the fields of political history and constitutional studies.

Coming in Summer 2026!

The Kinder Institute and John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress will partner later this year on a DC-based conference examining the trans-Atlantic history of women’s suffrage.


Past Conferences

An ink illustration of the quad at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

2018

Workshopping all chapters of Vol. 2 of Cambridge University Press’ Cambridge History of America & the World

A 19th-century painting of the US House of Representatives lit by candlelight.

2019

Revisiting the Missouri Crisis at its 200th anniversary

Five grounded boats, arranged vertically, with Stonehenge as their reflection.

2022

The Association of British American Nineteenth-Century Historians descends on Columbia

A flyer for an academic conference featuring a historic painting of a stump speech.

2023

Re-imagining democratic history and theory through the lens of elections

An abstract rendering of the theory of federalism.

2024

Bringing federalism studies into the 21st century

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