Thanks for the information, but I already knew about the conference.  
In fact, I am on the organizing committee.

WMB

Warren M. Billings, PhD
Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana 70148

On 24 Sep, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Camille Wells wrote:

> The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in
>  cooperation with Historic St. Mary’s City and St. Mary’s College of
>  Maryland, with support from Hampden Sydney College and the NcNeil  
> Center
>  for Early American Studies, will host a conference on November 19-21,
>  2009, to  examine prevailing interpretative paradigms of early  
> Virginia
>  and Maryland. 2009 marks the thirty-year anniversary of the  
> publication
>  of Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake in the
>  Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1979), an essay collection  
> that
>  advanced interpretations that—in conjunction with Aubrey C. Land,  
> Lois
>  Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, eds., Law, Society and  
> Politics in
>  Early Maryland (Baltimore, 1977), and Lois Green Carr, Philip D.
>  Morgan, and Jean B. Russo, eds., Colonial Chesapeake Society (Chapel
>  Hill, N.C., 1988)—continue to shape understanding of the early  
> colonial
>  Chesapeake.
>
>                 The conference will focus on 1630-1730, the  
> “century” on
> which most
>  historians of the so-called “Chesapeake school” concentrated their
>  research. It seeks to bring together a range of established and  
> younger
>  scholars to reflect on those aspects of the region’s history and
>  material culture that might most fruitfully be reexamined or explored
>  anew in the light of new directions in early American history.
>
>                 Appropriate to the  375th anniversary of the  
> founding of
> Maryland,
>  conference sessions will be held at St. Mary’s City, Maryland’s
>  seventeenth-century capital, and nearby Solomon’s Island.
>
>                 Further information is available in the Call for  
> Papers on
> the Institute
>  web page:
> http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/cheaspeake/index.html
> <http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/cheaspeake/index.html_>
>
>                 Please consider coming to the conference yourself,  
> and do
> pass on this
>  information to colleagues and students who  might be interested in
>  attending. If you would like to submit a proposal for an individual
>  paper or for a panel, the deadline for submissions in November 28,  
> 2008.
>
>
>
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