Niagara University and Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. will co-host the Contest for Continents: The Seven Years' War in Global Perspective conference, Oct. 22-24. Sessions will be held at Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown, Niagara University, and Brock University. Distinguished scholars from around the world will be in attendance. 

The conference aims to address the conflict as one that transcended the national and imperial categories that have traditionally been used to evaluate it. "The Contest for Continents brings some of the best scholars from the U.S., Canada, and Europe together to discuss a conflict that they usually view only from their own national perspective," said Dr. Thomas Chambers, chair of Niagara's department of history. "It should be an insightful conversation that opens new windows of understanding onto this important conflict." The object of the conference is to study the war both globally, involving North America, South Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Philippines, and in transnational perspective, including its military, diplomatic, political, cultural, economic, and social aspects.

Funding has been generously provided by the New York Council for the Humanities, the New York State French and Indian War 250^th Anniversary Commemoration Commission, and New York State Senator George M. Maziarz, 62^nd District.

For more information on the conference, contact Dr. Thomas Chambers, chair of Niagara's department of history, at 716-286-8086, or go to http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/contest/.