Dear Jared I'm sending this on to Scott Haine, who has been our go-to person for the AHA. He will be able to answer your questions better than I. However, I think that another session on alcohol is not really viable at this point. Dan Malleck At 02:04 PM 3/6/2008, you wrote: >What do you intend in the session on "Alcohol, Public Spaces, and >Writers"? Can you give me an idea of the papers already planned for >that session? Is the paper you're looking for to extend the topic >to include drugs? Are you only looking for one additional session >-- that being the one having "drugs or a mix of drug and alcohol >studies as its focus? -- or is it possible to propose an additional >session, say one specifically on alcohol? In other words, besides >finding out what has already been planned, can I find out if there >is a general call for ADHS papers at the ADA, and could you post >that call? Thanks very much. -- Jared Lobdell > >-------------- Original message -------------- >From: Dan Malleck <[log in to unmask]> >Dear colleagues >As many of you know, the ADHS usually has several sessions every >year at the American Historical Association meeting annual meeting. > >Given the origins of the ADHS, these sessions have tended to be >alcohol related. > >We would like to expand the scope of those presentations, and are >issuing a call for papers for the ADHS sessions at the AHA. Egads, >so many acronyms. > >This is therefore a call for papers or session ideas. We are looking >for one paper to add into a session already created that is >currently on alcohol, public spaces and writers. We are expanding >that session to include drugs, public spaces and writers. We need >one paper for that session > >We are looking for an additional session that h as dru gs or mix of >drug and alcohol studies as its focus. As you can see the session >is very open. We would like to have suggestions either of a full >session, or of papers that we could put into a session. > >Send on your ideas! > >We would like to have something set up by April, so we have a >tentative deadline of March 31. > >Please note, next year's AHA is in New York City, Jan 2-5. > >Dan Malleck, PhD >Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. >Secretary/Treasurer, The Alcohol and Drugs History Society >Editor-in-chief, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An >Interdisciplinary Journal >http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com > >Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments, may >contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the >intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and >immediately delete this message and its contents, and then find >someone else to blame. Thank you. Dan Malleck, PhD Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences Brock University 500 Glenridge Ave St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 905 688-5550 ext 5108 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments, may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and immediately delete this message and its contents, and then find someone to blame. Thank you.