• Dedicated to exploring the history and culture of the American South through research and public programs.
The Department of History and the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama are soliciting papers for the sixth biennial Race & Place in the American South Conference. The conference will be held on the University of Alabama campus, April 10-12, 2008.
Although we welcome papers that examine all aspects of southern history, we are particularly interested in those that examine issues of racial identity and place, broadly construed. We welcome proposals for panels and individual papers, and especially encourage participation from early career scholars.
The keynote address for the 2008 conference will be delivered by Raymond Arsenault, John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, and author of the masterful Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
Please send a one-page proposal (by email or mail) by October 22, 2007, to:
Kari Frederickson
Director, Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Department of History
University of Alabama
Box 870212
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Posted September 2007
“The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.” — William Faulkner