16929: Bellegarde-Smith: Assoc of Caribbean Historians 2004 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>


Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:01:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Juan R. Gonzalez Mendoza" <jgonzalez@sg.inter.edu>


Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
April 2004


The 36th Annual Conference of the ACH will be organized around a general
theme:  The Haitian Revolution:  History and Memory.  The following themes
have been suggested:

Race, class and gender in the Haitian Revolution
Impact and influence of the Haitian Revolution
Culture and Religion
Migration and Identity in the Caribbean
Caribbean Identity through art, music and sport


INSTRUCTIONS TO PROPOSERS

The Executive Committee will be delighted to receive offers of panels and
papers focusing on the proposed themes, although other themes will not be
excluded from consideration.  The Executive Committee will give priority
to panels, particularly those that fit the proposed themes, so it is
strongly suggested that proposals be presented as such.  Papers will also
be considered, but they will be given a lower priority, particularly if
they do not fit the proposed themes.  Every effort will be made to place
paper proposals in panels that are comparative and regionally balanced,
and will give preference to pre-arranged sessions that integrate
scholarship and similar topics in various regions of the Caribbean.

Persons offering to organize a panel should take note of the following:
Specify the names of three or four confirmed participants, the
titles of their papers, and the overall theme of the panel.

Provide the Secretariat information regarding the institutional
affiliation and the full mailing and e-mail addresses of panel convenors
and participants.

Send an abstract (no more than 250 words) of each paper to be
presented.  This abstract should indicate what new information and/or
approaches the paper would provide, as well as the major archival
resources used.

Where a proposed panelist is not a member of the Association of
Caribbean Historians, panel organizers should submit a brief (no more than
three pages) curriculum vitae and request the person to apply for
membership of the Association. Panel organizers will be responsible for
ensuring that papers are properly integrated into the overall theme.
If a panel is accepted, its organizers will be responsible for
ensuring that the panelists submit their papers in good time and that they
are informed about the contents of each other's papers.
For each panel it accepts, the Executive Committee may nominate a
chairperson to moderate the session.
Individuals offering single papers should also send a summary of
their proposed presentations as outlined above.

All offers of panels and papers for the 2004 conference, along with
abstracts and CV where relevant, should be sent to:

Juan R. Gonzlez Mendoza,
Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Interamericana de
Puerto Rico, Box 5100, San German, Puerto Rico 00683.

Or e-mailed to jgonzalez@sg.inter.edu, preferably in Word format.
Deadline for proposals is October 15th, 2003