UPCOMING: BIENNIAL UNDERGRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE 2026
CFH 2026 Biennial Conference Registration Now Open
CFH 2026 Conference Program
CFH 2026 Conference Hotels
Country Inn & Suites – Roseville
2740 E Snelling Service Dr., Roseville, MN 55113
$115 + tax per night
Bloc expires on 8/30/26
Best Western Plus – St. Paul North/Shoreview
1000 Gramsie Rd., Shoreview, MN 55126
$109 + tax per night
Bloc expires 9/1/26
CALL FOR PAPERS –
Conference on Faith and History – Biennial Confernce 2026
The “Why” of Historical Scholarship and Teaching
Bethel University, The University of Northwestern – St. Paul, and Anslem House | Minnesota
Undergraduate Conference: September 30th – October 1st, 2026
Professional Conference: October 1st – 3rd, 2026
The Conference on Faith and History is a community of scholars exploring the relationship between Christian faith and history. Because our profession is encountering cultural, institutional, and political headwinds, at this meeting we want to reexamine and renew our commitment to the reasons behind researching and teaching history. Historians’ scholarship is purpose-driven because we study historical actors, moments, and movements that are imbued with purpose. At the same time, there is always a “why” behind both our pedagogy and the narratives we craft. The 2026 biennial conference seeks to explore the role of purpose in historical scholarship and teaching. To that end, we invite papers that interrogate and reflect on the purpose, or “why,” of historical research, historical actors, historical narratives, and pedagogy. We invite papers on such subjects as:
- interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary perspectives
- The connections between purpose and agency in various times and places.
- The ironic and uncomfortable tension inherent when the purposes – of historians, historical actors, or public history interpretation — fall short, or are manipulated, inverted, or misappropriated
- The “why” behind pedagogical approaches for varying audiences, such as, secondary students, students in general education survey courses, students in upper-level history courses, graduate students, and public history settings.
- Purposes and perspectives on faith integration with our discipline
- The purposes for doing public history
- The inherent tensions and evolving purposes behind historical narratives or historical writing
- What can historians “exploring the relationship between Christian faith and history” offer to the discipline at large at this historical moment?
- How we make the case for historical scholarship and teaching in the second quarter of the 21st century in such subfields as –
- race, class, gender, and religion
- social/political/economic/military movements and institutions
- intellectual thought
- ancient/medieval/modern time periods
- various geographic regions
Conference details will be updated on this page.
