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2017 GHA Conference Call for Papers The Spatial Turn The Graduate History Association at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce their fifth annual Graduate Conference, to be held March 31st-April 1st 2017 on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis, Missouri. We invite graduate and post-doctoral students engaged in research across disciplines to submit proposals for this year’s conference theme: The Spatial Turn. The Conference will explore questions pertaining to the social, political, economic, and cultural relations between people and landscapes. Since the 1980s scholars in the humanities have engaged with the question of space as a historical actor in itself rather than merely a backdrop to history. Spaces are both constitutive and representative. This Conference will interrogate ways in which to analyze human interactions with environments. Participants are invited to critically explore and reflect on at least one of the following threads: 1.     Imagining Space: How do maps and other visual and textual representations appropriate and construct space? How do visual...