Call for Papers: Southwest Labor Studies Association, Cal Poly Pomona, May 15-17

From the Labour History News Archive.

Southwest Labor Studies Association

Southwest Labor Studies Association
34th Annual Conference May 15-17, 2008
California Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA

Call for papers, workshops, and presentations

Working and Organizing Everyday: Workers, Families, and Communities in Local and Global Struggles

Featuring: Plenary Sessions on The State of Working Families in the Inland Valley and The Struggle for a Continental Living Wage

Global economic transformations coupled with U.S. imperial policies have radically transformed the working and living conditions in communities across the globe. We invite proposals from scholars and community activists for panels, interactive workshops, performances, displays, art, film, and music that explore the local and global impacts of these processes and how workers and communities are challenging them.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Historical and contemporary discussions of working class movements
• Organizing in the Inland Valley
• Immigrant worker organizing
• Global resistance to neoliberalism
• Impact of NAFTA and CAFTA on workers and communities -Labor education -Nativism and anti-immigrant movements
• Gender, race, and sexuality in organizing -Youth and student activism -Prison Labor -Fair Trade Movements
• War, imperialism, and resistance

 

Proposal deadline is March 1, 2008. Please send a short (1-2 paragraph) proposal and the name and contact information of the participants to Enrique C. Ochoa at ecochoa@csupomona.edu at CLASS Dean’s Office, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA 91768. For further information contact Enrique Ochoa at (909) 869-3115 or [mailto]ecochoa@csupomona.edu[mailto].

 

Conference Announcement: Space of History/History of Space

Conference Announcement:

Spaces of History / Histories of Space

Emerging Approaches to the Study of the Built Environment

A Conference at the University of California at Berkeley on April 30,
2010

In the past three decades, a growing number of scholars in the
humanities and social sciences have turned their attention to
space and to the built environment as a means of understanding
historical processes. The writings of Lefebvre, Foucault, Gregory,
Harvey, Soja, Latour and others have significantly reshaped the
intellectual landscape across academic fields. Meanwhile, the
subject matter and research methods of the history of architecture,
landscapes and planning have become increasingly open to
reassessment.

Looking to survey and assess new approaches and analytical tools for
studying the history of built spaces across a
variety of scales and geographies, this conference will explore a
range of questions pertaining to theory, methodology and
pedagogy. How has the “spatial turn” in the humanities and social
sciences transformed the ways in which history of the built
environment is theorized and researched? How should we study a
historical moment when certain types of evidence predominate?
What are the potentials and biases in the use of particular research
techniques and narrative forms? To what extent are these
choices shaped by disciplinary knowledge? How might such
interrogations help us conceive new pedagogies for
design and planning?

The conference is expected to attract a diverse group of scholars
interested in interdisciplinary research on the history
of the built environment. Participation from graduate students and
early career academics is especially welcome. Participants will
present papers related to one of the following two tracks:

1. Interrogating Theories and Methodologies
Papers in this track will explore how built spaces have been
integrated into historical research in a variety of
disciplines, or discuss the use of particular theoretical
formulations that have become influential in studying the history
of the built environment. We are especially interested in work that
assesses the potentials and limits of research
methods, such as ethnography and oral history, as well as the use of
various types of archival evidence.

2. History as Pedagogy: Teaching and Practice
Papers in this track will examine pedagogical approaches to history
in design education and their implications for the
making of the built environment, including professional practice.
Topics of interest include the use of history as
precedent, the construction of a survey course, the relationship
between history teaching and the design studio, and
other interdisciplinary approaches to historical research such as
experimental art practice and other creative mediums.

As part of the activities of this conference, we will be holding a
special poster exhibition that explores the relationship between
historical thinking and the making of the built environment. This
exhibition especially welcomes the participation of graduate
students in professional programs as well as advanced undergraduate
students. For submission guidelines for posters, please refer to
the forthcoming conference website at arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/
conf/spacesofhistory2010.

Applicants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short CV in Word
format to tcastela_at_berkeley.edu and to ceciliachu_at _berkeley.edu
by January 8, 2010. Accepted participants will be notified by February
5, 2010. Authors of accepted proposals should submit a
completed paper of no more than 10 pages that summarizes the main
points of the presentation by April 2, 2010.

This conference is organized by graduate students Tiago Castela,
Cecilia Chu, Clare Robinson, Yael Allweil and Huey Ying Hsu.
The event is jointly sponsored by the Draper Architectural History
Research Endowment of the College of Environmental Design
at UC Berkeley and by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC
Berkeley. For additional information about the conference,
please contact the organizers, or visit the conference website.

 

California Historian, Louise Nelson Dyble, on the Golden Gate Bridge and TJ Kent: Oct 14th in Berkeley; Oct. 16 in Oakland

Past CSA President, Louise Nelson Dyble will be appearing at University Press Books in Berkeley to present on her recent book, Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge. She will also be presenting on seminal UC Berkeley and City of Berkeley planner, TJ Kent, at the Planning History Conference that weekend. See the University Press Books event here. See the SACRPH, Planning History Conference, program here.

The announcement from University Press Books:

Louise Nelson Dyble, author of

Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 5:30-7:00

The impact of the Golden Gate Bridge on the San Francisco Bay Area has been much more than visual—toll revenue has allowed the small group of appointees in charge of the structure to build a minor political empire, shaping the regional landscape and economy in the process.  Even though the agency responsible for the bridge was extremely unpopular and its officials were notorious for crooked dealings and mismanagement by the 1960s, they were able to defend its autonomy by actively opposing oversight, fighting investigations, and spurning reform.  Ultimately, they insured its survival beyond the retirement of construction bonds by expanding operations to include mass transportation—a guaranteed money-loser and perpetual reason to collect tolls. Paying the Toll traces the development and the influence of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District from its creation in the 1920s through its metamorphosis into a regional transportation authority in the 1970s.  Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, it provides an inside view of the high-stakes bureaucratic power politics carried out in the shadow of the bridge.

Louise Nelson Dyble is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan Technological University.

 

Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Oakland Conference Oct. 15-18

To All Urban Historians, Planners, Activists, and Academics in the Bay Area and Beyond:

The conference organizers are very pleased to announce the upcoming 13th National Conference on Planning History, taking place in Oakland, California October 15-18, 2009.  The event is sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH).  The preliminary program and conference registration forms, as well as travel and hotel information, are available on the conference website: http://www.barnard.edu/urban/sacrph09.  Interest in the meeting has been remarkable, with the number of paper and panel proposals up 20-25% over all previous SACRPH meetings.

The conference location, the Oakland Marriott City Center, is accessible by BART (Oakland City Center / 12th Street Station) and is convenient to the 880 and 980 Freeways.

Local Highlights: While the conference is international in scope, a number of events focus on the Bay Area itself. These include:
- A Thursday pre-conference tour entitled “Democracy on the Ground in West Oakland: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Development of an African-American Community”;
- A Thursday night address by Richard Walker of the University of California on “West Oakland and the Bay Area Region”;
-  A Friday morning plenary roundtable on regional equity, focusing on the East Bay;
- A Friday lunch plenary featuring pioneering urban planners of the Bay Area;
- Sunday morning tours of Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Marin;
- Papers and sessions throughout the conference on local and regional topics such as urban renewal in San Francisco; Chinatowns in San Francisco and Oakland; gay neighborhoods and the geography of sexuality in San Francisco; the 1906 earthquake and its aftermath; race and housing in Fremont and Richmond; and many, many more.

SCHEDULE:

All paper sessions will take place between 8:30 am on Friday, October 16, and 6:30 pm on Saturday, October 17.  The conference schedule and full registration includes receptions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, breakfast Friday and Saturday, and lunch Friday and Saturday.  In addition to the paper sessions and round tables, we’d like to draw your attention to two New Media sessions, an undergraduate and Master’s student poster session, a proposal-writing workshop and reception for graduate students, and the screening of a documentary film-in-progress allowing participants to provide feedback to the director.  The book exhibit, open on Friday and Saturday, has a record number of participating presses.

The Thursday and Sunday events (Thursday’s Oakland symposium, and the Sunday tours) require separate registration, as explained in more detail on the website.  The Thursday tour of West Oakland promises a fascinating look at the multifaceted history of a neighborhood.  The four Sunday tours will take advantage of the rich variety of the Bay Area:  Historical Development and Ethnic Change in Oakland; Berkeley Architectural Tour; Urban Renewal in San Francisco; and finally, North of the Golden Gate: Growth Control, Open Space, and Alternative Agriculture on the Urban Fringe.

AICP CREDITS

We have worked closely with the Northern California chapter of the American Planning Association to ensure that the conference will bring together scholars and practitioners.  AICP members can earn Certificate Maintenance (CM) credits for many activities at the SACRPH Conference. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at www.planning.org/cm.

CONTACT

Questions about the conference?  Please e-mail SACRPH@history.rutgers.edu.

CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS

Student volunteers are needed both before the conference (to help with local arrangements) and during the conference (to staff the registration desk and provide AV support).  Each three-hour shift will qualify a volunteer for one free day of conference registration.  This is a great opportunity to meet with the leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of urban planning, urban history, architectural and landscape planning and history, urban design and preservation.  Please contact Stephanie Dyer at stephanie.dyer@sonoma.edu or Asha Weinstein Agrawal at asha.weinstein.agrawal@sjsu.edu for details.

We look forward to seeing you in Oakland.

With best wishes,

Robin F. Bachin, SACRPH President
Alison Isenberg, SACRPH President-Elect and Program Committee Co-Chair
Owen Gutfreund, Program Committee Co-Chair
Jim Buckley, Local Arrangements Co-Chair
Gail Sansbury, Local Arrangements Co-Chair
Stephanie Dyer, Local Arrangements Co-Chair

More on SACRPH: SACRPH is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the history of planning cities and metropolitan regions.  Its members come from a range of professions and areas of interest, and include architects, planners, historians, environmentalists, landscape designers, public policy makers, preservationists, community organizers, students and scholars from across the country and around the world.  SACRPH publishes a quarterly journal, The Journal of Planning History (http://jph.sagepub.com/), hosts this biennial conference, and sponsors awards for research and publication in the field of planning history.  For further information please consult http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph.

 

Call for Papers: Western Association of Women Historians: May 20-23

CALL FOR PAPERS

Western Association of Women Historians
42nd Annual Conference

University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington

May 20-23, 2010

* *

The WAWH invites faculty members, graduate students, independent
scholars and others for a collegial, stimulating, and professional
weekend of history and networking.

The program committee welcomes proposals for panels or single papers on
any historical subject, time period, or region. The program
committee seeks to emphasize that papers do not necessarily have to
focus on women’s or gender history, although those issues are of
interest to the membership. All periods of history are welcome,
especially non-U.S. subjects. Panels, workshops, or roundtables on
issues in the historical profession are also encouraged. Proposals for
complete panels, including commentators, are preferred, but individual
papers are also welcome.

WAWH offers a prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student
at the WAWH meeting. Please see www.wawh.org for guidelines.

Proposals must include each of the following:

1) A required WAWH Cover Page (found at www.wawh.org)

2) A one-half to one-page abstract for each paper submitted

3) One-to-two-page curriculum vitae for each panelist

Mail _six_ complete sets of proposal material to the program committee
co-chair, postmarked by October 15, 2009:

Dr. Nancy Page Fernandez
Freshman Programs
California State University, Fullerton
Langsdorf Hall Suite #216
800 North State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831-3599

If you have any questions, please contact either program co-chair:

Kathleen Kennedy at Kathleen.Kennedy@wwu.edu or 360-650-3043 or

Nancy Page Fernandez at npfernandez@fullerton.edu or 657-278-4184

Current (2009-2010) WAWH membership and 2010 conference preregistration
are _required_ of all program participants.

WAWH Membership runs from conference to conference.

The program committee reserves the right to change or reconfigure
panels. Submission of proposal will indicate agreement with this policy.
Communication with panelists will be made through the designated contact.

Electronic submissions will not be accepted.

The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969. Drawing
scholars from the Western states, the WAWH is the largest of the
regional women’s historical associations in the United States.
Membership is open to all. For information about the organization, award
and prize applications, proposal deadline, conference registration,
conference program, and membership, please visit www.wawh.org.

 

LaborFest Schedule Now Online: EVENTS July 2-July 31

LaborFest 2009
July 2 – July 31

LaborFest 2009 Schedule is up

This year is the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike and the West Coast maritime workers strike. The ‘34 strike and maritime strike was an important point in  strengthening organized labor and bringing hundreds of thousands of workers into our unions.  In commemoration of this significant historical anniversary for San Francisco and Northern California labor, LaborFest will be having many special events including an art exhibition, presentations, a labor jeopardy contest as well as a labor film festival that will include videos of the San Francisco general strike.

There are also plans for a commemoration march and concert in San Francisco and educational conference.

LaborFest this year will also be honoring the workers who made the strike, the role of the San Francisco Labor Council and the workers who have built the Bay Area including building the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and the newly constructed Al Zampa Bridge which is the first major bridge named after an iron worker. Labor faces great challenges today as it did 75 years ago and the need to learn about our history, and how we won victories in the past is vital for today.

 

Western History Association Conference October 7-10. Graduate Student Travel Award.

This post from Laurie Arnold comes to us via Robert Cherny and H-California.

Go here to learn more about the Western History Association.

*****
Dear Colleagues,

The Trennert-Iverson Scholarship Committee and the Western History
Association would like to remind you about the Trennert-Iverson graduate
student travel award. This award provides $500 in travel support for
graduate students (MA or PhD) to attend the Western History Association
Meeting, held this year in Denver from October 7-10.

In addition, the cost of conference registration and tickets to the
welcoming reception, the graduate student social hour, and the Presidential
luncheon will be included in the award.

To be considered for this award, please send a letter of interest, a vita,
and a letter of support from a faculty advisor to each member of the
committee. Committee members and mailing addresses can be found at this
link: http://www.umsl.edu/~wha/awards/sgrad.html

More information about the Western History Association, including
conference information, can be found here: http://www.umsl.edu/~wha/

If you have any questions about the application process, please contact
Laurie Arnold, Chair of the Trennert-Iverson Scholarship Committee, at
larnold@nd.edu<mailto:larnold@nd.edu>

Best wishes,
Laurie

Laurie Arnold, PhD
Assistant Director
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
University of Notre Dame
101 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574.631.4264 (p)
574.631.4295 (f)
larnold@nd.edu

 

South Los Angeles Health & Human Rights Conference, Fri. June 5

South Los Angeles Health and Human Rights Conference

There is a fundamental crisis of health and human rights in south Los Angeles. South L.A. has the poorest health outcomes and indicators in the County of Los Angeles – mirroring the health status in some developing nations. Chronic institutional under-funding, substandard environmental and living conditions, a lack of necessary health services and other inequities have produced some of the worst health conditions and disparities in the country. While local coalitions, community clinics, hospitals, advocacy groups, and nonprofits have pieced together a safety net to address these chronic health inequities, the situation is worsening. The abject failure to uphold and protect the fundamental human rights of
south Los Angeles children and families mandates a community based, transnational, results-oriented approach by residents, service providers and advocates.

JOIN US FOR THE 1st ANNUAL SOUTH LOS ANGELES HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE

Friday, June 5, 2009, 8:00am – 5pm

California Science Center
700 Exposition Drive
Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90037

Register Now
www.southlahealthandhumanrights.org

Or call: 323-541-1600, x. 4001

Convenors
St. John’s Well Child and Family Centers
Community Health Councils
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Los Angeles Community Action Network
Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles (PSR-LA)
SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy)
Southside Coalition of Community Health Centers
South Bay Family Healthcare Center
UMMA Community Clinic

Sponsors
California School Health Centers Association
L.A. Care Health Plan
Los Angeles Best Babies Network
MedPoint Management
St. John’s Well Child and Family Centers
The California Endowment
California Wellness Foundation
The USC Center fro Community Health Studies
Kaiser Permanente

Key Endorsers
African American Alcohol and Other Drug Council /SPA 6 Homeless
Coalition (AAAOD)
American Academy of Pediatrics California Chapter 2
Bienestar
California School Health Centers Association
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
Children’s Defense Fund-California
Community Coalition
City of Los Angeles AIDS Coordinator’s Office
Doctors for Global Health
Ex-Offender Action Network (EAN)
Homeless Outreach Program/Integrated Care System (HOP/ICS)
Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA)
—Worker Health Program
MedPoint Management
National Economic Social Rights Initiative / National Health Law
Program
National Latino Research Center
National Physicians Alliance
Office of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas 2nd District
Pacific Institute for Women’s Health
Partners in Care Foundation
Partners in Health
People’s Health Movement USA
Physicians for Human Rights
Society for Adolescent Medicine
South Central Farmers Health and Education Fund
UCLA Program in Global Health
USC Office of Religious Life
UCLA Center for Civil Society
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

 

“California as an International Environmental Policy Leader — Climate Change, Water Policy, Chemicals Regulation, and Biosafety” — One day conference April 30 in Wash., D.C.

The California Institute for Federal Policy Research presents a one day conference April 30, 2009, titled “Managing Biosafety and Biodiversity in a Global World — EU, US, California and Comparative Perspectives”.  The conference, according to the Institute’s announcement, is:

the culmination of a two-year project examining the roles that California and the European Union play in defining the forefront of domestic and international environmental policy solutions. The goal of the project is to produce concrete, actionable policy recommendations to further regulatory cooperation between the EU, California and the US on transatlantic environmental issues, including climate change, chemicals policy, biosafety, water regulation, and biodiversity protection. As socioeconomic and environmental issues become increasingly integrated, innovative policy solutions are required to identify and address the complex nexus between society and environment. The project has developed a network of representatives from the US and the EU in academia, industry, the NGO-sector, and government.

The project is funded by the European Commission (DG External Relations) within the framework of the pilot-program on Transatlantic Methods for Handling Global Challenges. Event sponsors include:

• UC Berkeley IGS Center on Institutions and Governance (http://igov.berkeley.edu)
• Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• University of California Washington Center

Thursday, April 30, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
U.C. Washington Center
1608 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington DC
RSVP to UCDC to attend

To attend the conference, reply to Conference@UCDC.edu . For more information, visit http://igov.Berkeley.edu.

 

Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West; Conference at the Huntington April 25

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West will sponsor a conference April 25 at the Huntington Library entitled, “Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West.”  From the announcement:

ICW invites you to attend an All-Day Public Symposium:

Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West

April 25, 2009
Seaver Classroom #3
Munger Research Center
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino

PROGRAM

Coffee and Welcoming Remarks (8:30-9:00am)

I. Engineering Culture  (9:00-10:45am)
Bruce Sinclair (Lehigh University) “Engineering Hetch-Hetchy: Nature and Civil Engineers in early 20th Century California”

Amy Bix (Iowa State University) “Millikan’s Monastery: Caltech and the Tensions of Women’s Technical Minds.”

Patrick McCray (UC Santa Barbara) “Of Futures and Fringes: California’s Technological Enthusiasts, 1975-1985”

Peter Neushul (UC Santa Barbara) and Peter Westwick (ICW) “Aerospace and Surfing: Connecting Two California Keynotes.”

Comment: Janet Brodie (Claremont Graduate University)

II. How Technology Made Place (11-12:30pm)
Matthew Roth (University of Southern California) “The Public Relations of Urban Form: The Major Traffic Street Plan of 1924 and the Origins of Los Angeles Car Culture”

Louise Nelson Dyble (University of Southern California) “Landmarks of Death: Institutions, Technology, and Golden Gate Bridge Suicides”

Aristotle Tympas (University of Athens, Greece) “A Deep Tradition of Computing Technology: Calculating Electrification in the American West”

Comment: Sue Thomas (De Montfort University, Leicester UK)

Lunch (12:30-1:30pm)

Remarks: Volker Janssen (Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West) (1:30-1:45pm)

III. How Place Made Technology (1:45-3:30pm)
Carlene Stephens (Smithsonian ) “Time in Place: Is there a California Style in Aerospace Timekeeping Technologies?”

Stephanie Young (UC Berkeley) “Would Your Answers Spoil My Questions: Art and Technology at the Rand Corporation, 1968-1971″

Jason Weems (UC Riverside) “Sight Off Scale: Exponential Space and the Lure of the Limitless in Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten”

Martin Krieger (University of Southern California) “Placing Sound: Accurate Aural Documentation of L.A.“

Comment: Dan Lewis (Huntington Library)

IV. Transcending the West (3:45-5:15pm)
L. Chase Smith (UC San Diego) “Technologies of Leisure in San Diego’s Transpacific Borderlands”

Michaela Hampf (John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin) “Beacons of Modernity: Western Lighthouses and Transatlantic Engineering of the 19th Century”

Linda Nash (University of Washington, Seattle) “From the Columbia Basin to the Helmand Valley: American Engineers, ‘Global’ Technoscience, and U.S. Imperialism since World War II”

Comment: Gail Cooper (Lehigh University)

Limited seating available. Please RSVP by April 17 with the symposium organizer: Volker Janssen (vjanssen@fullerton.edu)

Sponsored by: The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West / Additional Funding provided by The History Channel

 

100 Years Since Allensworth: Is California Living up to the Legacy? A conference May 4 at USC

The inaugural conference in the Hidden Stories Series of the California State Parks Association will take place May 4 at the Doheny Library at USC; the conference title is: “100 Years Since Allensworth: Is California Living up to the Legacy?”

The conference will commemorate the centennial of the founding of Allensworth, a town in Tulare County founded in 1908 for and by African Americans, with the idea that they could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream.  The site of the town is now a the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park.

The day will includes panels, lunch, and a post-conference reception in the new Visitors Center at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City.  The keynote speaker will be the Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr.

The deadline for registration is April 28.  For more information, and to register, click here.

 

THE FRENCH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CALIFORNIA: Mar. 7 at the Autry

On March 7, the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center and the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University will present a program entitled,  “THE FRENCH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CALIFORNIA.”

This will be the first of a two-part symposium* made possible by the generous support of the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Saturday, March 7, Griffith Park Campus of the Autry National Center

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED BY MARCH 5 FOR FREE ADMISSION TO THE SYMPOSIUM.  TO MAKE A RESERVATION, PLEASE CONTACT BELINDA NAKASATO (bnakasato[AT]autrynationalcenter.org, 323-667-2000, x340)

Schedule:

10AM Welcome
1. Stephen Aron, UCLA and Autry National Center
2. Jay Gitlin, Yale University
3. Yann Perreau, Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

10:15AM-12:45PM: THE GOLD RUSH AND ITS AFTERMATH
Chair: David Igler, University of California, Irvine
1. Malcolm Rohrbough, University of Iowa, “A French Aristocrat in the California Gold Rush: The Adventure of Ernst de Massey”
2. Annick Foucrier, Université de Paris, “The French in the California Gold Rush: Taming Time and Space”
3. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA, “The French Community and the Emergence of Latino Identity in California, 1862-1867″

1PM-2:30PM: LUNCH

2:30PM-4PM: THE FRENCH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LOS ANGELES
Chair: John Mack Faragher, Yale University
1. Helene Démeestere, Université de Paris, “French Immigration and Presence in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles”
2. Karen Wilson, UCLA and Autry National Center, “The Ties that Bridge: Being French and Jewish in Los Angeles”

4PM Reception

*Part 2 of this symposium, which will focus on the broader French legacies across North America, will be held at Yale University on September 11 and 12, 2009.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS/FILM/EXHIBIT: Kerouac’s On the Road and the Beats: Film on K in Big Sur and Scroll Exhibit, University of Birmingham, UK (Deadline, Oct. 11; Conference: Thur. Dec. 11-Dec. 12)

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a website for this conference. The most complete listing is at H-California at the link here, above, or below.–ed.

The famous 1951 ’scroll’ version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is on display at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham during December 2008 and January 2009 — contact r.j.ellis@bham.ac.uk for further details.

Cfp: Jack Kerouac, Kerouac’s On the Road and the Beats

A two day conference at the University of Birmingham UK

Thursday 11 December 2008 and Friday 12 December 2008

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road’s publication in the UK, in 1958 (following its 1957 publication in the US). The University of Birmingham has arranged for the 1951 original typescript manuscript of On the Road – the world-famous scroll of 1951 – to come to the Barber Institute at the University during December 2008 and January 2009. A series of events is planned to celebrate this, including a Film Event (during the evening of 11 December) timed to coincide with this two-day conference, which will likely include the UK premiere showing of One Fast Move and I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, produced by Jim Sampas.

The conference will take as its focus the ‘Beats’ and their relations to On the Road and its themes –travel, jazz, sexuality and gender, rebellion, disaffiliation and alienation, class and ethnicity. Plenary speakers will include Tim Hunt (author of Kerouac’s Crooked Road), speaking on how being able to study the scroll ms. adjusts our perspective upon On the Road, and Matt Theado.

Please do come along to this exciting event and – if you wish – deliver a paper. CFP: If you want to deliver a paper please submit a title for your paper and an abstract of between 100 and 250 words for consideration to: r.j.ellis@bham.ac.uk by 31 October 2008

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Changing Face of Agricultre and the Rural Landscape, Agricultural History Society, Little Rock, AR (Deadline, Nov. 15; Conference June 18-20, 2009)

Call for Papers

The Changing Face of Agriculture and the Rural Landscape
Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

June 18 to June 20, 2009

Deadline for Submissions: November 15, 2008

International issues concerning agriculture and rural life have attracted wide public discussion in the last few years. Farmers, consumers, workers, and communities across the world are facing such issues as climate change, trade and migration, financial and credit instability, and pressures on rural traditions. Scholars of rural life have an opportunity to reassert the importance of agricultural and rural history in weighing these issues and at the same time to consider the implications for approaches to our field.

In the interest of promoting understanding of the changing face of agriculture and the rural landscape, the program committee wishes to encourage submissions of interdisciplinary and cross-national panels focused on the historical roots of current issues. We also encourage discussion of changes these new issues may suggest for the field of agriculture and rural history. However, proposals on any aspect of agriculture and rural history are welcome. We encourage proposals of all types and formats, including traditional papers/commentary sessions, thematic panel discussions, roundtables on recent books, and poster presentations. We will consider submissions of full panels and individual papers, as well as paired or individual posters.

Submission Procedures
Complete session proposals should include a chair, participants, and, if applicable, a commentator. Please include the following information:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words for the session as a whole;
• A prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation;
• A mailing address, email, phone number, and affiliation for each participant; and
• A CV of no more than a page for each participant.

Individual submissions should include all the above except a session abstract.

Please send submissions, in Microsoft Word or RTF format, to jwhayne@uark.edu. Alternatively, applicants may mail five hard copies of their proposals to:

Jeannie Whayne
Department of History, 416 Old Main
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Please direct questions regarding the program to any member of the program committee:

• Jeannie Whayne, Chair, University of Arkansas, jwhayne@uark.edu
• Jim Giesen, Mississippi State University, jcg245@msstate.edu
• Doug McCalla, University of Guelph, dmccalla@uoguelph.ca
• Sara Morris, University of Kansas, semorris@ku.edu
• Jim Norris,  North Dakota State University, Jim.Norris@ndsu.edu

 

FILM/Mini-CONFERENCE: 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Stanford U. (Thur. Oct. 16 Film; Fri., Oct. 17, Talks)

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Stanford Humanities Center

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Film screening of the movie Vertigo
Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto
430 Emerson St
Palo Alto, CA 94301

Friday, October 17, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
“The Perfection of Form”
Richard Allen, Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University.

Professor Richard Allen is editor of The Hitchcock Annual and a collection of essays from the journal, The Hitchcock Annual Anthology, will be published this Fall by Wallflower Press. He is author, most recently, of Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony (Columbia University Press, 2007).

12:30 pm Lunch Break

Presentations by aficionados 1:30-3:30 pm

Speakers:
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Stanford
Roland Greene, Stanford
Marilyn Fabe, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Pavle Levi, Stanford

4:00 pm
Roundtable discussion with all participants including Pierre-Francois Mourier, French Consul General, and Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Stanford
Location
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: National Assn. for Ethnic Studies, San Diego (Deadline, Oct. 15; Conference, April 2-4, 2009)

NAES 37th Annual Conference

April 2-4, 2009
San Diego Mission Valley Hilton Hotel
San Diego, California

Borders & Boundaries

Saludos! Welcome to San Diego, California’s second largest city, where blue skies keep watch over 70 miles of beaches and a gentle Mediterranean climate greets visitors most each and every day. Bordered by Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Anza-Borrego Desert and the Laguna Mountains, San Diego offers the perfect setting for this year’s annual conference. The city is home to numerous ethnic communities, including members from the Kumeyaay/Diegueño, Luiseño, Cupeño, and Cahuilla native tribes, whose ancestors inhabited the San Diego region as far back as 7,500 B.C., and Latina/os, who currently make up more than a quarter of the overall population. Similarly, the Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District recalls San Diego’s early Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, and Japanese settlements, and Baja California is accessible just minutes from downtown.

San Diego’s diversity also extends to its landscape, where visitors can explore rural mountain or desert trails, run with the tide or swim against it, scuba dive the depths of kelp forests or cycle pine forests. For the less adventurous but equally curious, the lush 1,200-acre Balboa Park is one of the nation’s most extensive cultural centers, with the greatest concentration of museums west of the Mississippi. Browse the spectacular array of fine art, science and natural history, aerospace, photography, model railroads, automobiles and performing arts. Plan a picnic near one of the Park’s many botanical gardens or arboretums. Tour the “world-famous” San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park or head over to the nearby SeaWorld and LEGOLAND theme attractions.

Two unique sites not to be missed are the Casa del Rey Moro Museum and Chicano Park. Located in Old Town, the Casa del Rey Moro Museum houses a multimedia exhibit that highlights 6,000 years of African world history with a special focus on African-Spanish, African-Mexican and African-American heritage. Chicano Park is situated beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Logan Heights (Barrio Logan), a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican-immigrant community in central San Diego, California. The historical site is home to the world’s largest conglomeration of outdoor murals (67 in total), as well as various sculptures, earthworks, and an architectural piece dedicated to the cultural heritage of the community.

In addition, downtown San Diego is an exciting urban center full of specialty shops, hotels, galleries and theaters. Dance to the rhythm of blues, jazz, reggae and rock at one of the many clubs, festivals and outdoor concerts. When it’s time to eat, you will find a delicious array of rich and savory choices. Food representing almost every world cuisine can be found somewhere in the city, including Mexican, Moroccan, Ethiopian, Thai, Vietnamese, Afghan, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, British, Italian and Cuban cuisine.

Not to be outdone by our surroundings, the NAES conference promises an equally exciting venue. As in the past, you can expect to hear national and international scholars discussing cutting edge work from a variety of academic perspectives. In addition, we will feature several panels and special sessions addressing local community issues facing San Diego residents. Finally, we will be presenting a number of awards to both young and established scholars as well as community leaders.

San Diego represents a great opportunity to blend intellectual stimulation with relaxing fun. Please join us!

Dr. Maythee Rojas, NAES 2009 Conference Chair

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Call for Papers – 37th Annual NAES Conference at San Diego, CA

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City (Deadline Sept. 15; Conference April 16-18)

FROM: H-AMST

Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009

Expected plenary speakers include:
Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University
Orit Halpern, New School for Social Research
Michele Janette, Kansas State University
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
Karim Murji, Open University (U.K.)
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois
Amit Rai, Florida State University
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Porillo, New York University
Jeff Williams, Carnegie Mellon University

Also, the popular Journal Salon feature will continue.  Journals expected
are:
Cultural Critique
Cultural Studies/ Critical Methodologies
Dialectical Anthropology
Flow
Genders
Mediations

Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2008.

This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public
Knowledge Project <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/> , enables participants to submit
abstracts online at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/submit.php?cf=5.  The
website for submissions will open August 15, 2008.

Call for Papers and Sessions

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Seventh
Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural
Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology,
geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory,
queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial
studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and
visual arts studies.

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by
March 16, 2009, to be listed and participate in the program. See the
registration page of this website for details about fees.

If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other concerns,
please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We welcome proposals in the following
four categories:

1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Proposals for individual papers are due September 15, 2008.

Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and
will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.

They should be submitted online on the conference website. Successful
submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgment
within 24 hours, please resubmit. The acknowledgment will say that your
proposal has been ‘’successfully submitted,” which does NOT mean your
proposal has been accepted.

All paper proposals require:

a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation of the
author, entered on the website.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper entered on the website.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the abstract in
that space on the site.

2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER SESSIONS, ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS, OR WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Proposals for pre-constituted sessions are due September 15, 2008.

Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the
bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and
audience members. Workshops are similarly devoted primarily to discussion,
but they focus on practical problems in such areas as teaching, research, or
activism. No paper titles may be included for roundtables or workshops.

Pre-constituted sessions should NOT be submitted on the website, but should
be sent to csaus@pitt.edu with the words ”Session Proposal” in the subject
line. All proposals will be acknowledged, but please allow at least two
business days before inquiring.

All session proposals require:

a. The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional
affiliation of the proposer.
b. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations
of each participant.
c. A 500-word overview of the session, including identifying the type of
session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. For paper sessions, also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers. Paper sessions should have
three or four papers.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal.

3. DIVISION SESSIONS
Division sessions are due September 15, 2008.

A list of divisions is available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu
<http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/> . Divisions may elect to post calls on that
site for papers and procedures for submission to division sessions or handle
the creation of their two division sessions by other means.  Division chairs
will submit their two panels/workshops/roundtables directly to the program
committee by September 15, 2008 (directions will be sent to the division
chairs). Proposals for divisions should NOT be submitted on the website or
to csaus@pitt.edu.

4. SEMINAR PROPOSALS
Proposals for seminars are due September 15, 2008.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years,
preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ”position papers”
by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference
collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to
advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within
Cultural Studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to
generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited
number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be
announced through the CSA’s various public e-mail lists. Participants will
contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then inform the Program
Committee who will participate in the seminar.  Seminars will be marked in
the conference programs as either closed to non-participants or open to
other conference attendees as auditors (or in other roles).  Examples of
successful seminar proposals from previous years are linked in here (if you
are reading this on the website).

All seminar proposals require:
a. A 500-word overview of the topic designed to attract participants and
clear instructions about how the seminar will work, including details about
what advanced preparation will be required of seminar participants.
b. The name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and departmental
and institutional affiliation of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
c. A brief bio or one page CV of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal. Since seminars typically involve discussion of
previously circulated papers, such requests must be explained.

Seminar proposals should be sent to:

Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
burgett@u.washington.edu

and

Colin Danby, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences,
University of Washington Bothell
danby@u.washington.edu

Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should
consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them,
available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu <http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/>  after
October 15, 2008. Deadline to sign up will be November 14, 2008.  Deadline
for seminar leaders to submit final lists of participants (minimum 8
individuals, in addition to the seminar leader or leaders) will be November
21, 2008.

 

CONFERENCE: California Imagined: The Arts of the Golden State, Sacramento (Sept. 18-19)

FROM: Judy Malloy, Art California

20th Annual Envisioning California Conference

California Imagined: The Arts of the Golden State

Envisioning California Conference
Thursday, September 18 – Friday, September 19, 2008
Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California

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Schedule of Events

Thursday, September 18
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Dinner and Keynote Address
A Place Called California: The Arts & California’s Identity

Friday, September 19
Concurrent Panel Sessions

8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
1A- Art in a Deficit Era
1B- Teatro California: The Legacy of Latino/Chicano Playwrights, Theatres & Performance Groups
1C- Beyond the Paintbrush (but still holding it…)

10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
2A- California Built: Architectural Styles and Influence of the Golden State
2B- Walls2Canvas: Youth Street Art and the MOSAIC Program
2C- Arts and Social Policy: Tools to Strengthen California Communities

Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Plenary: The State of the Arts

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.
3A- The Written Word: California’s 500 Year Perspective
3B- Art as a Learning Engine: Creative Ideas for Fostering Art in the Schools
3C- California Beat: Music of the Golden State

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Closing Plenary
California in the Global Imagination: Film as Art & Art as Film
plus film montage: California in the Movies

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Reception for Conference Attendees

Evening Event

7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Sacramento Public Art Tour

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Panelists

Andrew Anker, Professor, California State University, Sacramento, Department of Design

Stephen Blumberg, Professor, California State University, Sacramento, Department of Music

Leni Boorstin, Director of Community Affairs, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

Wayne Cook, Arts Program Specialist, California Arts Council

Nicholas Docous, Principal, Lionakis Beaumont Design Group

Joyce Donaldson, Associate to the Executive Director for Strategic Projects and Arts Education, Mondavi Center for Performing Arts, UC Davis

Carolyn Gibbs, Professor and Program Coordinator, California State University, Sacramento, Department of Design

Jason Gieger, Professor, California State University, Sacramento, Department of English

Daniel Goldmark, Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Music

Dean Gorby, Administrator for Visual and Performing Arts, Stockton Unified School District

Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Professor and Chair, University of San Francisco, Department of Performing Arts

Bryan Ha, Consultant, Office of Senator Jack Scott, Joint Committee on the Arts

Rhyena Halpern, Executive Director, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

Jack Hicks, Professor, UC Davis, Department of English

Jorge Huerta, Chancellor’s Associate’s Professor of Theatre, UC San Diego, Department of Theatre and Dance

Muriel Johnson, Director, California Arts Council

Loren Kajikawa, Graduate Student, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Musicology

Honorable Betty Karnette, (D-Long Beach), California State Assembly

Ralph Lewin, Executive Director, California Council for the Humanities

Vi Ly, Dean, East Los Angeles College, Academic Affairs

Kenneth Marcus, Associate Professor, University of La Verne, International Studies Institute

Doe Mayer, Professor, USC, School of Cinematic Arts

Carlos Morton, Professor, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Theater & Dance

Crystal Olson, Professor, California State University, Sacramento, Department of Teacher Education

Roberto Pomo, Director and Professor, Honors Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, California State Univeristy, Sacramento

Karen Rapp, Director, Vincent Price Museum, East Los Angeles College

Laurie Schell, Executive Director, California Alliance for Arts Education

Mark Slavkin, Vice President for Education, Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

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Sponsored by

• Center for California Studies /California State University, Sacramento
• The Center for Southern California Studies/California State University, Northridge

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Congress for New Urbanism 2009, Denver, CO (Deadline Dec. 1, Congress June 10-13, 2009)

CNU Call for Academic Papers

Call for Papers:

The Congress for the New Urbanism annually invites academic paper submissions for presentation at the Congress. Submissions are welcome on a range of issues and disciplines related to New Urbanism. Selection is based on the paper’s contribution to critical discussion and practice of New Urbanism and for synergies within sessions. Papers that incorporate the theme of the Congress, “Experiencing the New Urbanism: The Convenient Remedy”, are especially welcomed. All papers are read and commented upon by at least two reviewers prior to presentation.

Deadline: December 1, 2008

Details of Submission:
All paper submissions must represent original work, cannot have been previously published, and must be written in English.

Submissions can be no longer than 2400 words, excluding endnotes, and all papers must also include an abstract not to exceed 100 words.

Accepted papers and abstracts will be published on the CNU website, and the authors of those selected papers will be required to complete copyright transfer forms.

All papers will be reviewed and commented on by at least two peers prior to presentation. Authors will receive copies of reviewer comments.

Submitted papers will be submitted for publication to the Journal of Urbanism.

Instructions for Submission:
The subject line of the email should be the title of the paper. The body of the e-mail should include the author’s name, e-mail address, phone number, and brief bio for the CNU speaker database (not to exceed 100 words). The paper should be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment. Participants should fill out the cover sheet (see attached file) and paste their abstract and text into the body of the word document. The 100-word abstract must appear at the front of the paper. So that the submissions can be objectively assessed, please do not reference the author’s name or institution in the file name or text of the paper or abstract. Illustrations incorporated into the text in are strongly preferred, however they can be sent as additional attachments with the email so long as they do not exceed a total of 5MB.

Submissions are now open for CNU 17 in Denver! Authors wishing to submit a paper for consideration must do so by December 1, 2008.

Email Submissions to callforpapers@cnu.org.

Please send any questions to Heather Smith

Call for reviewers:
If you are interested in reviewing academic papers for CNU 17, please e-mail a short paragraph describing your areas of expertise to callforpapers@cnu.org. It is a plus if you are in academia but it is not required, practitioners are encouraged to volunteer as well.

CNU 17: Experiencing the New Urbanism: The Convenient Remedy

DenverJune 10-13, 2009

Since hosting CNU VI in 1998, the Denver region has seen numerous new urbanist developments shaped by the CNU charter. CNU 17 will provide opportunities to experience how these new urbanist places live: the people, the spaces, and the buildings. We are looking for ideas that will challenge attendees to evaluate how the CNU Charter has shaped better neighborhoods and communities and created Convenient Remedies to urban sprawl.

The deadline is now up for CNU 17’s Call for Ideas. Thank you all for your idea submissions!

The program will consist of the following tracks:

Towards the Post Carbon Urbanism
The realities of peak oil and global climate change have raised the urgency of refining and broadening awareness of the Convenient Remedies of the New Urbanism. How does New Urbanism make sustainable living easier? How do the Convenient Remedies improve choices for where we live and work, how we get around, and where we get our food? How do we most effectively measure and convincingly broadcast what the New Urbanism achieves?

Implementing the New Urbanism
Developing and redeveloping according to the principles of the New Urbanism often diverges significantly from customary practices: market analysis, approvals, financial structures, building types, marketing, all can be quite different than those associated with conventional developments. After nearly two decades of experience, how well have new urban practices been developed? Is an alternative system emerging? Or are projects still being approached as variances from the norm?

Challenging the New Urbanism to Improve
Skepticism and misconceptions of the New Urbanism have constantly challenged us to find better ways to promote the CNU movement. Criticism from both outside and within the movement has driven constructive refinement of our techniques for making better places. What are the common myths that still challenge us? How do we expose places that claim to be New Urbanist but aren’t? How do we continue to self-critique the New Urbanism to intelligently respond to common myths and strengthen the movement by sharing lessons learned from real places?

Driving, Riding and Walking the New Urbanism
The Denver region is embarking on one of the nation’s largest public transit expansions and provides a rich setting for exploring how and greater mobility choice can support sustainable growth. But simply adding transit will not guarantee better results. This track is designed to challenge and expand the current thought and practice regarding historical perspectives and the future of US transit, how TOD location, design and type, support sustainability. Off the Tracks, evaluating the value of the bus and bike, and using New Urbanist tools, such as the transect, to organize regions around public transit.

Urbanizing the Horizontal Region: Retrofitting Suburbia
Many Western and Sunbelt cities and regions grew in sprawl patterns, with urbanism and regionalism compromised in order to accommodate the automobile. As New Urbanism is integrated into these communities, many challenges arise. This track is intended to explore implementing urbanism at the regional scale, Re-urbanizing cities, urbanizing suburbia, affirming the role of public space, integrating new buildings with existing places, and increasing density where appropriate.

Sustainable Infrastructure: Codes and other Tools that Create Value
Our existing infrastructure is in need of extensive repair. New Urbanism provides a framework for designing and wisely investing in public infrastructure that creates value, provide opportunity for economic development, broaden transportation choices. This track focuses on and Investing in Public Infrastructure that Creates Value by shifting the paradigm from simply providing a utility to creating that adds value.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2009 Association of American Geographers (Deadline Oct. 16, 2008; Conference Mar. 22-27, 2009)

The 2009 Annual Meeting will be held at the Riviera Hotel, March 22-27, in Las Vegas, Nevada–a U.S. city with a unique economic and social history. Las Vegas was originally established as a stopover for pioneers and later founded as a railroad town in 1905. Today, Las Vegas is a thriving, fast-growing metropolis.

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Call for Papers

The AAG is now accepting abstracts for the 2009 Annual Meeting. Read the Call for Papers to learn more.

Register and submit your abstract online
by October 16, 2008

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Riviera Hotel Now Accepting Reservations

This year’s annual meeting will be headquartered in the Riviera Hotel on the famous Las Vegas strip. Learn more about the hotel, rates, and availability»

Reserve Your Room Online!

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About the Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers attracts geographers and related professionals from around the world. Our meeting forum stimulates discussion about research, education, accomplishments, and developments in geography.

Join your colleagues, friends, and other professionals in related disciplines for:

• The Latest Research
  Featuring panels of distinguished researchers, and over 4,000 papers and presentations.
• Special Guest Speakers
  Including professionals in geography and related disciplines.
• Exposition Hall
  Learn about geographic technologies, books, posters, special displays, and more.
• Field Trips
  Explore the rich cultural and physical geographies of Las Vegas and the surrounding region!
• Many Other Events
  Jobs in Geography, International Reception, World Geography Bowl, Las Vegas Film Series, and more.

 

NEWS: CSA Announces Partnership With the H-California Discussion Network

The CSA and H-California (Humanities Discussion Network, California) are proud to announce a new partnership to advance their missions to serve the communities of scholars, activists, and professionals who rely on scholarship in the humanities for their work. We are joining forces to strengthen the service we provide our communities.

In the last year, the CSA has undertaken a more robust approach to its use of the internet to serve its members by adopting a new website and a blog. These projects will be enhanced by collaborating with the editors at H-California who run a listserv (an email list), and an online forum with resources, through the international Humanities Network, h-net.org.

H-California functions as a way for scholars, activists, and nonprofit professionals to communicate about scholarly projects about California. Many of the postings are book reviews, calls for papers, event announcements, queries for projects, new resources, and so forth.

The CSA will collaborate with H-California in the following capacities:

* Shared news items, syndicated between the CSA blog and the H-California listserv.

* Promoting resources, events, and projects between the two resources.

We strongly encourage CSA members and our community to join the H-California listserv, an automated email discussion board of all news and events related to humanities scholarship in California. The CSA will list all our news, events, blog postings, and official communication on the H-California listserv.

 

NEWS: CSA Announces Plans for 2009 Conference on the Silicon Valley

The history of the Silicon Valley was wrought by the bulldozer. Here is a 1954 conversion of a field into the Palo Alto Shopping Center on the Stanford Campus.

NEWS:

In July, the CSA steering committee voted to hold our next conference at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA, likely sometime in April, though the date has not been finalized.

The conference theme will focus broadly on an alternate vision of the Silicon Valley, an attempt to orient the official boosterist narrative of the entreprenuerial region toward the history, culture, and politics of the local communities in the Valley. The conference will bring together scholars, activists, non-profit professionals, and government officials to discuss the political economy of the Valley in the historical and cultural context of California.

The conference co-chairs are,

Mae Lee, PhD, professor of intercultural studies at De Anza College and co-director of the Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute, who is conducting a study about political formations of Asian Americans in the Silicon Valley. Contact leemae@fhda.edu

Tom Izu, executive director of the California History Center and Foundation, located on the De Anza campus. Contact izutom@fhda.edu

Also on the conference organizing committee are,

Cynthia Kaufman, PhD, a professor of philosophy at De Anza and author of the book Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change. Contact kaufmancynthia@fhda.edu

Nari Rhee, PhD, post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Education at UC Berkeley, who has written a dissertation on labor history and politics in the Silicon Valley. Contact nari@berkeley.edu

Aaron Wilcher, MA, instructor of Humanities at De Anza College and a master’s student in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, who is working on a study of politics and built space in the Valley. Contact aaronwilcher@gmail.com

 

CSA SUMMER NEWSLETTER: Now Available!

Our Summer, 2008 newsletter (pdf file here) is now available. Inside find information about,

* Steering committee election results

* 2008 conference roundup

* 2009 conference planning

* Carey McWilliams Award

* New website and blog info

* Membership Form

csa-summer-2008-newsletter (pdf)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th Annual Robinson Jeffers Association Conference, Boulder, Colorado (Mon. Dec. 15 Deadline; Conference Fri. to Sun. Feb 13-19)

From U Penn English

Call for Papers
15th Annual Robinson Jeffers Association Conference
February 13-15, 2009 (President’s Day weekend)
University of Colorado, Boulder

Conference theme: The Alpine Jeffers

Jeffers is most frequently associated with the California coast and the
ocean he so deeply loved. At the same time, his interest in the alpine
world is everywhere evident in his work. Mountains appear throughout his
poems, from the early poem “The Alpine Christ,” to the ridge line that
California rides at night in “Roan Stallion,” all the way through to the
setting of his last long poem, Hungerfield, at the foot of a “thin turfed
mountain,” and in countless lyrics. In Jeffers’ journeys away from the
ocean, he always turned to the mountains; his only poem set in New Mexico
is “New Mexico Mountain,” and his only poem set in Colorado is “Red
Mountain.” Wherever we turn in his work, mountains appear as
manifestations of nature at the same time as they suggest the richest
possible range of symbols, from Sinai to Olympus, Parnassus, Mt. Blanc,
and all that such places represent in the history of art and culture.

For its fifteenth annual conference, the Association welcomes papers that
explore any aspect of Jeffers’s interest in and representation of the
alpine environment, from geological fact to aesthetic or religious
symbol, from setting to subject, from representation to interpretation.

As usual, serious papers on other subjects and on the relation of Jeffers
to other writers, artists and thinkers are also welcome.

Proposals should be relatively brief and must be postmarked by December
15, 2008. The conference has a number of different formats and includes
opportunities for standard academic talks (15-20 mins.), longer plenary
presentations, responses to longer talks, panel chairs, participation in
discussion sections, and poetry readings.

Please address all queries and proposals directly to Rob Kafka,
Treasurer, at rkafka_at_unex.ucla.edu.

To learn more about the Robinson Jeffers Association, please visit
www.jeffers.org

 

CONFERENCE: The Fate and Future of the Colorado River, Huntington Library (Fri. Oct. 31 to Sat. Nov. 1)

From the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

THE FATE AND FUTURE OF THE COLORADO RIVER

Join us for this two-day exploration of the history and future of the West’s most important river.  This interdisciplinary conference will feature scholars, policy makers, landscape photographers, scientists, and river runners, as well as the remarkable visual and archival holdings of The Huntington Library.

October 31-November 1, 2008
The Huntington Library

Co-sponsored by The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the Water Education Foundation.  With the support of the Trent Dames Fund for the Heritage of Civil Engineering, the Metropolitan Water District, and Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell J. Milias.

For more information, contact Kim Matsunaga at kmatsuna@usc.edu.

 

CALL for APPLICATIONS/PAPERS: “Minds and Matters,” a Workshop on History of Technology and the American West, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, San Marino (Deadline, Fri. Aug. 15; Event: Fri. and Sat. April 24-25, 2009)

From H-Urban

The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, April-24-25, 2009
Deadline: August 15th, 2008

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West invites
proposals for a scholarly workshop examining the history of technology
in California and the American West.

“Minds and Matters” will bring together a small group of scholars on
April 24-25, 2009 to explore new themes in the history of technology,
and to discuss new perspectives on technology as an analytical category.
Topics or themes might include, but are not limited to agriculture and
the extractive industries, urbanization, energy and water, the history
of computers, military, popular movements and popular culture, Hollywood
and media, deindustrialization, etc. Participants will submit and share
drafts, which may be included in a possible collected essays volume.
Some funding support will be made available for travel and lodging.

To apply for the symposium, please submit by August 15, 2008: a letter,
C.V., a detailed abstract of the research on technology in California
and the West, and the names of two references. Send submissions to:
Volker Janssen Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, The
Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA  91108
vjanssen@fullerton.edu.

David C. Hammack
Department of History
Case Western Reserve University

 

CALL FOR PAPERS and AWARD SUBMISSIONS: Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Clara University (Call Deadline: Wed. Oct. 15; Award Submission Deadlines, Thur. Jan 15, 2009; Conference Thur. April 30 to Sun. May 3, 2009)

From H-California: In addition to the call for papers, there is a call for submission for a number of awards for dissertation fellowships, monograph and article prizes. The deadline for the awards is in January 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS
40th Anniversary Conference
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, California
April 30-May 3, 2009

All are invited to come to the San Francisco Bay area to celebrate the 40th anniversary
conference of the WAWH. The WAWH conference brings together faculty,
graduate students, independent scholars, and others for
a unique, collegial, professional weekend of history and networking.

The program committee welcomes proposals for panels or single papers on any historical
subject, time period, or region. The program committee seeks to emphasize that papers do
not necessarily have to focus on women’s or gender history, although those issues are of
interest to the membership. All periods of history are welcome, especially non-U.S.
subjects. Panels, workshops, or roundtables on issues in the historical profession are also
encouraged. Proposals for complete panels, including commentators, are preferred, but
individual papers are also welcome.

In 2009, WAWH is pleased to announce a new prize for the best paper presented by a
graduate student at the WAWH meeting. Please see www.wawh.org for guidelines.

Proposals must include each of the following:
1) A required WAWH Cover Page (found at www.wawh.org)
2) A one-half to one-page abstract for each paper submitted.
3) One-to-two-page curriculum vitae for each panelist.

Mail six sets of proposal material to the program committee chair,
postmarked by October 15, 2008:
Barbara Molony
Santa Clara University
History Department
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0285

If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Molony at 408-554-4433 or bmolony@scu.edu

Current (2008-2009) WAWH membership and 2009 conference registration are required of all program participants.
WAWH Membership runs from conference to conference.

 

CONFERENCE: Water and Politics in Southern California, Loyola Marymount University (Sat. Oct. 4)

From: H-California 

"WATER AND POLITICS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
4 OCTOBER 2008

Conference Website: http://www.lmu.edu/Page44727.aspx

Loyola Marymount University (LMU) will host a conference examining the vital
resource of water in Southern California politics and history, on 4 October
2008. Scholars from throughout California will examine current water policy,
historical sources crucial for the study of water in Southern California,
and case studies in water management and use. LMU's Department of History,
the Charles Von der Ahe Library, and the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
are sponsoring the conference. Funding for the conference was provided by
the Haynes Foundation.

PRE-REGISTRATION: http://www.lmu.edu/Page44727.aspx

The conference is free to the public.  The deadline for pre-registration is
19 September 2008; on-site registration the day of the conference is also
possible. Only those persons who have registered for the conference by the
deadline will be provided lunch.

LOCATION: 1000 (Ahmanson) University Hall, Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles, California

CONTACT INFORMATION: Dr. Clay Stalls, Department of Archives and Special
Collections, Von der Ahe Library, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,
CA 90045.  310-342-3968. E-mail: wstalls@lmu.edu.  Please see website
(http://www.lmu.edu/Page44727.aspx
<http://www.lmu.edu/Page44727.aspx> ) for
pre-registration.

DIRECTIONS TO LMU: For directions to the campus of Loyola Marymount
University and a campus map, please consult: http://www.lmu.edu/page69.aspx.

PARKING: Parking is available on levels P-2 and P-3 of University Hall, the
location of the conference. Enter the campus at the Lincoln Boulevard and
LMU Drive entrance and proceed to the guards' kiosk for parking
instructions.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AND DATE:

4 October 2008

8am-8:30am: Registration

8:30am. Welcome: Dean Michael Engh, S. J., Bellarmine College of Liberal
Arts

9am-10:30am. Session I: Archival Resources

1. Dr. Paul Soifer, Consulting Historian, Department of Water and Power
Historical Records Program. "The Aqueduct, St. Francis, and Mulholland: The
Records at DWP."

2. Paul Wormser, Director, NARA, Laguna Beach, California. "Documenting the
Federal Government's Role in Native Americans' Water Rights."

3. Linda Vida, Director, Water Resources Center, University of California,
Berkeley. "Primary Source Collections for the Study of the History of Water
in Southern California."

Commentator: Dr. Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of
Western Manuscripts, Huntington Library

Chair: Dr. Errol Stevens, Independent Historian and Consulting Archivist

10:45am-12:15pm. Session II: History of Water in Southern California

1. Eliza Martin. Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of
California, Santa Cruz. "San Diego's El Capitan Dam and the Politics of
Indian Removal, 1910-1932."

2. Peter Reich, Professor of Law, Whittier Law School. "Manuscript Case
Files and the Subversion of Judicial Opinions: The L.A. River Cases."

3. Dr. Andy Strathman, Instructor, Department of History, University of San
Diego. "Water, Land, and Suburbanization in San Diego County."

Chair: Dr. Bill Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California
and the West

Commentator: Dr. Abe Hoffman, Professor, Los Angeles Valley College

12:15pm-1:15pm. Lunch

1:30pm-2:30pm. Keynote Address

Speaker: Dr. Steven Erie, Associate Professor, Department of Political
Science, University of California, San Diego

Chair: Dr. Nick Rosenthal, Assistant Professor, Department of History,
Loyola Marymount University

2:45pm-4:30pm. Session III: Water Policy

1. Dr. Joseph Reichenberger, Professor, Civil Engineering, Loyola Marymount
University. "Groundwater Management in the San Gabriel Valley - A History of
Political Cooperation."

2. Dr. John Walton, Professor, Department of Sociology, UC-Davis. "Western
Times and Water Wars Twenty Years On."

3. Dorothy Green, president of Heal the Bay. "Managing Water: Avoiding
Crisis in California."

4. Dr. David L. Feldman, Chair, Department of Planning, Policy and Design,
School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine. "Preventing the
Repetition, or What Can LA's Experience Teach Us About Contemporary Urban
Water Disputes Elsewhere?"

Chair: Dr. Janet Fireman, Editor, California History

Commentator: Dr. Sarah Elkind, Associate Professor, Department of History,
San Diego State University

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5pm-7pm. RECEPTION at the Charles Von der Ahe Library for conference
participants and Loyola Marymount University attendees and their guests.
Attendees will also be to view the Library exhibit on the Owens Valley,
which includes rare photographs of the Owens Valley water wars of the 1920s.

 

CONFERENCE Announcement and CALL FOR PAPERS: Western History Association (Salt Lake City, Oct. 22-25; Denver, Oct. 7-10, 2009 [submission deadline Sept. 1, 2008])

From H-Urban.

The Western History Association website is located here.

Conference information, including online registration is located here. A little confusing: click on the images.

The 2008 call for papers is located below for more information on the Salt Lake CIty meeting.

2009 CALL FOR PAPERS

49th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION
DENVER, COLORADO, OCTOBER 7-10, 2009

WIRED WEST

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The program committee for the WHA 2009 annual meeting invites papers on the theme of Wired West.

Wire conducts and symbolizes western history. We seek papers that explore the development and interconnection of the North American West, a region divided by barbed wire and border wire and yet one of the first whose sub-regions were united by telegraph, telephone, electric line, and fiber optic cable.

We are interested in the wiring of the world to the West metaphorically and materially. No country in any part of the world is untouched by what happens in the western provinces of North America. Western industries in mine, ranch, farm, and forest, Hollywood and dude ranch, Silicon Valley, Denver, and elsewhere, have drawn immigrants, generated exports, and reconfigured the world’s economies, cultures, and politics. So the world has been wired west, constantly rebuilt, retooled, and rejiggered to accommodate the realities of the rapidly growing and changing region.

Our interests encompass the changing relations of western peoples with the earth, from which wire itself is made, and over which western peoples have fought to determine how best to live. We are equally compelled by the social and cultural wiring of the West— the struggles of natives and immigrants for justice, equity, and autonomy, of women and men to understand sexual, racial, ethnic, and class identity and connections from the most intimate human bonds to the most formal relations, and the constant effort to make and re-make the good society.

We encourage innovative presentations, including performances, workshops or moderated discussions. Submissions may be for an entire session, a panel discussion, or an individual paper. When submitting an entire session, include an abstract that outlines the purpose of the session, if any, and designate one panelist or participant as the contact person. Each paper proposal, whether individual or part of a session, should include a one-page abstract and a one page c.v., including the address, phone, and email address for each participant. Indicate equipment needs, if any. The committee will assume that all listed individuals have agreed to participate. Send all program submission materials to Colleen O’Neill either electronically: colleen.oneill@usu.edu or by mail service: Colleen O’Neill, History Department, Utah State University, 0710 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-0710. Submissions should be postmarked by September 1, 2008.

2008 Call for Proposals

48th Annual Conference of the Western History Association
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 22-25, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2007

“Risky Business”

Western history is filled with risky propositions. It’s not easy to join a wagon train, or hop a freighter, or brave a wide desert. It takes guts to come out to your parents, or give birth on the side of the trail, or spend a day digging a well. Indeed, the West, past and present, is filled with individuals and communities who have taken risks. The Western History Association itself, surveys say, is at a moment of decision. Poised, it stands mature and self-possessed at the edge of change, while a next generation waits ambivalently, with both old-timers and next-wavers unsure whether to cast their lot with our motley crew.

On October 22-25, 2008, the Western History Association will gather in Salt Lake City for its 48th Annual Conference. Salt Lake City is a welcome venue for both this talk of risk and for risky talk. Carving a new mountain home for generations of faithful is surely a chancy endeavor, not to mention the grit required to journey thousands of miles from one’s birthplace to pound railroad stakes for a living. The city is also well-known, of course, for its winter sports, short-term perils of downhill racers and long-term threats to stable mountaintops. The city too is poised, as newcomers from Latin America and the Pacific Islands mingle and mix with the long-settled, queer and straight alike.

To explore further the risky businesses of Western history, the 2008 program committee solicits proposals for sessions that themselves seek to re-imagine and re-invent the standard conference format. Possible sessions could follow new formats that give fresh legs to the faltering three-paper standard. Workshops could belly up to a range of topics: the perils of public history; the pitfalls of peer review; the problems and pleasures of crossing disciplines; books we couldn’t, and could, do without; museum exhibits we would like to see funded, movies we’d like to make. Other sessions could consider a variety of media — such as essays, web pages, dissertation chapters, K-12 teaching materials, music, public history projects, fiction, or short films—that might be pre-posted electronically and made available through the WHA website. Given the vitality of Asian American history and the history of Pacific Islanders, we are especially eager to receive sessions and individual papers examining the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience in the West.

Submissions may be for an entire session, a panel discussion, or an individual paper. When submitting an entire session, include an abstract that outlines the purpose of the session, and designate one panelist or participant as the contact person. Each paper proposal, whether individual or part of a session, should include a one-page abstract and a one page c.v. including the address, phone, and email address for each participant. The committee will assume that all listed individuals have agreed to participate. Send all program submission materials to: Karen Merrill, Department of History, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 (kmerrill@williams.edu). Submissions should be postmarked by 31 August 2007.

 

CONFERENCE: Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and Southwest, Huntington Library, LA and Southern Methodist University in Dallas (July 19, 2008 and April 25 2009)

From Denise Spooner, H-California

Announcing the 2008-2009 Annual Public Symposium,

“Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and Southwest.”

Co-sponsored by Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Initial public presentations will be held at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 2008, to be followed by a public symposium at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas on April 25, 2009. Ultimately, University of Pennsylvania Press will publish the papers as a volume edited by conference organizers Michelle Nickerson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas and Darren Dochuk, Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University.

The Sunbelt, a region born of recent history, has been steadily drawing Americans from older cities to burgeoning metropolitan centers across the southwest since World War II. Warmer temperatures and air conditioning only begin to tell the story. This conference will explore the political, economic, and social transformations that have been making the Sunbelt into a unified region rivaling traditional centers of power in the East.

To register for the summer symposium on July 19th at the Huntington Library, please contact Susi Krasnoo at (626) 405-3432 or skrasnoo@huntington.

Information to register for the spring symposium on April 25, 2009 at Southern Methodist University will be posted soon.

Participants include:

Carl Abbott, Portland State University (Ph.D., University of Chicago) “Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities”

Shana Bernstein, Southwestern University (Ph.D., Stanford University) “Interracial Civil Rights Activism in the Sunbelt West”

Nathan Connolly, University of Michigan (Ph.D. Candidate) “Sunshine State – Sunbelt Hate: Urban Renewal as Civil Rights in Greater Miami”

Joe Crespino, Emory University (Ph.D., Stanford University) “Rethinking Regional Politics and the Right in Cold War America”

Darren Grem, University of Georgia (Ph.D. Candidate) “The Political Economy of a Chicken Sandwich: S. Truett Cathy, Chick Fil-A, and the Sunbelt South”

Daniel Hosang, University of Oregon (Ph.D. University of Southern California) “Remaking Liberalism: California’s 1964 Fair Housing Ballot Measure and the Politics of Racial Innocence”

Volker Janssen, California State University, Fullerton (Ph.D. University of California San Diego) “Sunbelt Lock-Up: The Move Toward Mass-Incarceration”

Laresh Jayasanker, University of Texas (Ph.D. Candidate) “Sameness in Diversity: Mexican Food and Globalization in the Sunbelt, 1965-2005″

Lyman (Bud) Kellstedt, Wheaton College (Ph.D., University of Illinois) and Jim Guth, Furman University (Ph.D., Harvard University) “Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt”

Matt Lassiter, University of Michigan (Ph.D., University of Virginia) “Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt”

Sylvia Manzano, Texas A & M University (Ph.D., University of Arizona) “Latinas/Latinos in the Sunbelt: the Political Implications of Demographic Change”

Andrew Needham, New York University (Ph.D., University of Michigan) “Influence of Civic Boosters on Federal Resource Policies”

Symposium Co-organizers:

Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas (Ph.D., Yale University)

Darren Dochuk, Purdue University (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame)