The 2022 Young Historians Conference will be held in the Smith Memorial Union at Portland State University on April 25th, 2022

EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK WHILE ATTENDING INDOOR, IN-PERSON EVENTS.

PSU attendees

PSU requires that PSU students and employees present their PSU ID to attend an indoor, in-person event on campus that attracts more than 100 attendees that have a mix of both PSU and non-PSU attendees.

Non-PSU attendees

PSU requires that non-PSU attendees 12 years and older show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test to attend indoor, in-person events held on campus that will be attended by more than 100 people. These events will advertise the vaccine requirement in their event communication.

Valid proof of COVID-19 vaccination is either a hard copy or a picture of a vaccination card showing a vaccine series was completed at least two weeks prior to the event date.   Documentation of a recent (within the last 48 hours) COVID-19 test with a negative result is either a printout or picture of results that include your name and test date.

The full policy is available here.

Young Historians Conference Schedule

8:30-9:30 Welcome (SMSU Ballroom)

9:30-10:45 First concurrent sessions 

11:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:15 Second concurrent sessions

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:15-1:45 Awards ceremony

About the Young Historians Conference

The Young Historians Conference brings together PSU’s History Department and area high schools that participate in PSU’s concurrent enrollment history classes, including courses in American History, Western Civilization, and World History.  Every year, a major assignment in these classes is a history research paper. Concurrent enrollment instructors select the best of these for the student authors to submit to the History Department for presentation consideration. A lead faculty member in the Department works with a Jury of History graduate students to assess the submissions and choose up to 30 papers for presentation.

The conference is organized into concurrent sessions of an hour and 15 minutes each, by themes determined by the Jury and lead faculty member. Each session has at least three presenters who have approximately 10 minutes to present their paper. The audience is made up of their classmates and a faculty member from the History Department moderates. At the end of the presentations, the Faculty Moderator leads a discussion.

Awards are given for the best papers and an honorary mention. Students are encouraged to submit their work toPSU’s online repository of scholarly works PDXScholar. Please view the instructions of how to submit papers here.  To view information about PDXScholar's Challenge readership information and number of downloads, click here.