John W. Stormont Lecture Series on South Texas

The 2012 John W. Stormont Lecture Series will be held on February 2 & 3, 2012.

2012 John W. Stormont Lecture Series Brochure

Background of the Lecture Series

The John W. Stormont Lecture Series on South Texas is a two-day conference held annually in February and is sponsored by the Victoria College Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and funded in part by the College, the Kathryn Stoner O'Connor Endowment and the John W. Stormont Endowment. The lecture series began on February 4, 1978 as the Social Sciences Symposium. The conference gave students, faculty and the community an opportunity to hear presentations on social sciences.Due to an endowment received from the family of Kathryn Stoner O'Connor, a Distinguished Texas History lecture was added to the symposium and is named in Mrs. O'Connor's honor. Dr. Archie McDonald was the first Kathryn Stoner O'Connor Distinguished Texas History lecturer. Publication of symposium presentations began in 1986 with Dr. McDonald's paper in Victoria College's journal, Victoria College Social Sciences Symposium. The symposium changed names and direction in 1990 and became the Conference on South Texas Studies and the topics remain concentrated on South Texas. The title of the journal which includes the papers presented at the Conference was also changed to South Texas Studies.

With the additional funding by the John W. Stormont family in 1995, the conference name was changed to honor Dr. Stormont, a former dean at Victoria College. At this time, a Graduate Paper Award was also added.

Graduate Paper Award

2011 Graduate call for Paper Flyer 

This two-day conference brings together people from a variety of backgrounds who share a common interest in South Texas. It features scholarly papers in a variety of areas including history, culture, politics, and public policy. Most papers presented at the conference are published in South Texas Studies, an annual journal edited by Division faculty. The Division is especially proud to offer a $400.00 cash prize for the best graduate paper on a South Texas topic.To be eligible, the student must be enrolled in a graduate program during the academic year in which the award is made. Paper submissions should adhere to the following criteria:
  • The paper must deal with a topic related to South Texas (historic or contemporary)
  • Papers should be 20-25 double-spaced pages in length.
  • Works cited in the body of the paper should be identified using endnotes.
  •  Papers presented at the Stormont Lecture are automatically published (a final draft must be submitted no later than the close of the conference).
  • The winning graduate paper is published in the South Texas Studies journal.
  • Submissions from graduate students must be received by November 28. 
  • The preferred method of paper submission is an email attachment (MS Word) sent to sandra.drozd@victoriacollege.edu
  • We will also accept one hard copy and a file on CD/flash drive containing the paper.
  • Submit papers to: The Victoria College, Division of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, ATTN:  Sandra Drozd, 2200 East Red River, Victoria, TX, 77901.
  • For more information on The Stormont Lectures or South Texas Studies contact Sandra Drozd at 361-582-2530 or sandra.drozd@victoriacollege.edu

General Call for Papers

2011 General Call for Paper Flyer

The Victoria College Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is requesting papers for its 2011 South Texas Studies Journal, an annual publication. Papers may be in any discipline, but should focus primarily on South Texas. Paper submissions should adhere to the following criteria:
  • The paper must deal with a topic related to South Texas (historic or
    contemporary).
  • Papers should be 20-25 double-spaced pages in length.
  • Works cited in the body of the paper should be identified using
    endnotes.
  • Papers will be published at the editor’s discretion.
  • We will also be accepting for publication a limited number of papers
    written in Spanish in accordance with the criteria above. 
DEADLINE  The preferred method of paper submission is an email attachment (MS Word) sent to Sandra.Drozd@victoriacollege.edu We will also accept one hard copy and a file on CD/flash drive containing the paper.  Papers must be received at The Victoria College by November 28.

Please send papers to:

The Victoria College                       
Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences                       
2200 East Red River                                                                                         
Victoria, Texas 77901
 
© 2012 Victoria College | 2200 E. Red River | Victoria, TX 77901 | 361.573.3291 | 877.843.4369