History Department Conference! Submit a Paper! History Department Conference! The History Department will hold their annual conference on Nov 1. Submissions are due by Sept 16th at 5pm. Conference presentations are excellent opportunities to develop your research & public speaking skills. Build your resume, show off your love of history — present at the IUP History Conference! We encourage submissions by both undergraduate & graduate students. You do not need to be a History major to submit a paper. To submit your paper, send Dr. Baker (cbaker@iup.edu) the title of your paper and the name of a ‘faculty sponsor’ — the professor who you wrote the paper for — by Sept 16th at 5pm.