As the semester winds down and you are looking for an excuse to stop grading
papers, let me remind you about this most remarkable annual conference held
in June in beautiful central Maine.  Put down those papers and send in a
proposal.  If you are pressed for time, email your material to me
([log in to unmask]).

                              *****

FOLLOWUP CALL FOR PAPERS for the Eighth Annual Conference on NORTHERN NEW
ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.  (Northern New England has always been
rather imperialistically interpreted; we have included northern New York, the
Atlantic Provinces, and areas that northern New Englanders moved to or
influenced.)  This year's conferences focuses on:

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: Worries, Death, Disasters, Disorder, and
How the People Coped, Survived, and sometimes even Flourished.

                         June 1-3, 2000

The conference is sponsored by The WASHBURN HUMANITIES CENTER in association
with the University of Maine and the University of Maine at Farmington.

This UNIQUE conference is held at a Living History Center in central Maine.
All people presenting papers are housed and dined by local supporters of the
Center.  Audiences are made up of other presenters and members of surrounding
communities.  Past participants have come from all parts of America.

The Washburn Humanities Center welcomes the submission of papers representing
a broad range of disciplines.  Topics are limited only by your imagination.
The Center encourages the submission of complete two or three paper sessions.

The annual Washburn Humanities Conference is designed to illuminate the
social, cultural, political, and economic history of northern New England,
the region's impact on the nation and the nation's on the region.  Previous
conference themes were (1993) WOMEN AND MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA (1840-1880);
 (1994) PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES; (1995) MIGRATIONS (of people,
ideas, culture, crops, animals) into/out of/within northern New England;
(1996) CULTURES: FOLK, POPULAR, ETHNIC, ARTISTIC, LITERARY, POLITICAL; (1997)
FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS; (1998) INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES and (1999)
TURNING POINTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND.

The Conference will be held at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, a
445 acre site containing a restored one room school house, farmer's cottage,
free standing library (housing the extensive Washburn family collections), a
200 seat 1828 Universalist Church, and the 1867 Washburn mansion.

Submit 250 word abstract and one-page vita by February 14 to:

                          Billie Gammon
                Washburn Humanities Center, Norlands
                      42 Hathaway Hill Road
                       Livermore, ME 04253
          Phone: (207) 897-2236  /  FAX: (207) 897-7064

Previously published material should not be submitted.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (Jerome Nadelhaft) by
e-mail.

                       [log in to unmask]