I take it that you are not accepting proposals for individual papers?
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Elizabeth Cook <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm currently working with the Southern Labor Studies Association to put
> together our annual conference for 2015. While we welcome anyone studying
> any aspect of labor, we're particularly interested in growing our numbers
> of early Americanists. If anyone is interested in putting together a panel
> or submitting an individual proposal, please let me know!
>
> Thank you,
> Elizabeth Cook
> Doctoral Candidate
> Lyon G. Tyler Department of History
> College of William and Mary
> Williamsburg, Virginia
>
> Southern Labor Studies Association Conference March 5-8, 2015 College Park,
> Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
>
> The Southern Labor Studies Association invites academics, activists,
> students, attorneys, public historians, archivists, and any other people
> interested in the experiences of working people in the Early American or US
> South to propose sessions for our next conference, which will take place
> from March 5-8, 2015. We will meet in two locations: at the University of
> Maryland, College Park during the day on Thursday, March 5, and then at
> George Washington University in Washington, D.C. from the evening of March
> 5 to the morning of Sunday, March 8.
>
> Sponsored by the Center for the History of the New America
> <http://newamerica.umd.edu/>, day one of the conference (March 5) will
> focus on Workers and Organizing in the 21st Century. The rest of the
> conference will feature a wide range of topics.
>
> The SLSA defines labor and working class studies broadly. We welcome
> historical and contemporary topics, all relevant academic disciplines,
> non-academic participants, and regional as well as comparative and
> transnational approaches. Please note that there is no official conference
> theme for the DC part of the conference; our hope is to assemble a broad
> and diverse set of participants on a wide range of subjects.
>
> As always, we will consider traditional panels with three or four
> presenters plus a chair and commentator, but we encourage prospective
> participants to propose other types of sessions as well (and create new
> ones). For example, we invite sessions that put activists and academics in
> dialogue, sessions that approach topics from multi-disciplinary
> perspectives, panels that consider one important pre-circulated work in
> progress, as well as roundtables, teaching workshops, organizing workshops,
> etc.
>
> *The deadline for submitting proposals is September 1, 2014*. Proposals
> should include an approximately 250 words description of the session,
> 100-200 word abstracts of individual papers if appropriate, and a bio for
> each participant (100 words max.). Proposals should be sent by email to
> Professor Eric Arnesen at [log in to unmask]
> For more information, see:
>
> http://southernlaborstudies.org/2014/04/07/call-for-papers-slsa-conference-in-dc-march-5-8-2015/
>
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