Society of Early
Americanists
CALL FOR PANELS
THE FOURTH
BIENNIAL MEETING FOR THE
SOCIETY
OF EARLY AMERICANISTS
31 March-2
April 2005
Old Town
Alexandria, Virginia
The
Society of Early Americanists proudly announces its fourth biennial conference
from 31 March to 2 April 2005 in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. The conference
hotel is the Radisson, only minutes away from many historic sites and major
attractions in the nation's capital.
DEADLINE FOR
PANEL PROPOSALS IS 15 JUNE 2004
As
before, you may submit a panel topic and fill it from a later Call for Papers
or you may submit an already constituted panel. Either way, panel proposals
will be evaluated by the Program Committee. Please submit either electronically or in hard
copy to
Ralph Bauer, Conference
Director
English Department,
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742.
All
topics in the area of early American studies, broadly conceived, are welcome.
We
hope to keep to the following schedule:
15
JUNE: Deadline for PANEL proposals.
15
JULY: Deadline for Program Committee to
make decisions about approved panels and for the Conference Director to
send out a Call for Papers for approved, non-constituted, panels.
15
SEPTEMBER: Deadline for proposals for PAPERS to be sent to the designated
chairs of particular panels.
15
OCTOBER: Deadline for panel chairs to send final composition of panels to the
Conference Director.
Highlights
of the conference include keynote addresses from Jill Lepore (Harvard) and
Joseph Roach (Yale), a job clinic, a panel on teaching early American studies
in high school, a meet the editors panel, and plenty of opportunities for
socializing. This, of course, is in addition to the wonderful panels and papers
that you submit.
Zabelle Stodola
SEA President