2026 Call for Presentations – Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History

The International Motor Racing Research Center and Society of Automotive Historians remind you of the Tenth Annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History on Thursday and Friday, November 12 & 13, 2026, at the Harbor Hotel in Watkins Glen, New York.
 
Authors, academic motorsport scholars, enthusiast historians, and students are invited to submit proposals of 200 words or less, on topics relevant to international motorsport history of all eras, for live presentation at Watkins Glen on November 12 or 13. Possible subject categories include, but are not limited to, the history, evolution, and development of race cars and motorsport technology; personalities, competition events and series; motorsport geography, oral history and historiography; cultural, gender, media, and political histories of motorsport; and archives, museums and heritage preservation.
 
Presentation proposals – submitted in either Word or PDF documents – should preview the content of the presentation and may include representative graphic images. Submissions will be acknowledged on receipt. All images used in a presentation must be properly credited. Presentation time slots are 45 minutes each, including Q&A time, for in-person delivery on-site at the Harbor Hotel in Watkins Glen. Each presentation will be recorded live during the symposium and then posted as a YouTube video, post-event, in the IMRRC online archives.
  • Deadline to Submit Proposals to symposium@racingarchives.org is 7/31/26
  • Acceptance Notifications will be sent the week of 8/3/26
  • Presenters’ PowerPoint Slide Decks due at the IMRRC on 10/23/26
For additional information, please contact the IMRRC:
Joe Schill                               jschill@racingarchives.org
Rachel McLaughlin      rmclaughlin@racingarchives.org