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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS - DECEMBER 1 ROOTS AND BRANCHES: MIGRATIONS TO THE LOWER OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Southern Illinois University Carbondale March 4-6, 2010 The Center for Delta Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is hosting a regional conference on the cultural and natural heritage of the lower Ohio and Mississippi Valley. We invite exhibits, posters, and workshop topics from genealogists, historians, geographers, ecologists, anthropologists, historical societies and museums, and staff of government agencies, public interest groups, and tourism professionals. We welcome professionals, students, and local historians and naturalists. See the preliminary program, below. Please distribute this announcement to anyone you think might be interested. For more information, see the conference call http://www.siuc.edu/~delta/conferences/RootsBranchesCall.pdf on the Center website http://www.siuc.edu/~delta/conferences/heritageconf09.html The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2009. Registration will open in early December. The basic registration fee, which includes a Thursday evening reception, will be $50, with luncheons by subscription. Please email proposals to Kayeleigh Sharp, sharpka@siu.edu We look forward to your participation. Jane Adams, Professor and Director, Center for Delta Studies Mail Code 4502 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 jadams@siu.edu http://www.siuc.edu/~delta Roots and Branches: Migrations to the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Valley Southern Illinois University Carbondale March 4-6, 2010 Preliminary Program (Invited panel presentations still in formation) Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:30 Registration, Coffee and pastries 9:00 Welcome 9:15 Invited Panel: Pre-Contact American Indian and Colonial Era Migrations Movements of native peoples from antiquity through European contact - Paul Welch, PhD., Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Movement of Native Nations from European colonization through removal and reservations - tba French and Spanish settlement - Jay Gitlin, Associate Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University (invited) 11:00 Volunteered Workshops, Posters, Exhibits, Performances 12:30 Luncheon Keynote speaker 2:00 Invited Panel: American-era migrations I Cajuns & Creoles - Carl A. Brasseaux, Director, Center for Louisiana Studies (invited) Planters & Upland Whites - Stan Brunn, PhD. Geography, University of Kentucky African Americans - Valerie Grimm, PhD., History, Director of African American & African Diaspora Studies. 3:30 Volunteered Workshops, Posters, Exhibits, Performances 6:00 Reception Friday, March 5, 2010 8:30 Coffee and pastries 9:00 Invited panel: American-era migrations II Jews - Stuart Rockoff, PhD., Director, History Department, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life and the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Lebanese/Syrians - James Thomas, Managing Editor, New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi Chinese - Emily Erwin, Director of Archives, Delta State University Irish - tba 11:00 Volunteered Workshops, Posters, Exhibits, Performances 12:30 Luncheon Keynote speaker 2:00 Invited panel: The migration of other organisms Shifting ecology from first human settlement to Contact - tba Exotic species in the region - David Gibson, PhD., Plant Biology Disease organisms -European epidemic diseases in the Valley. Mariola Espinosa, PhD., History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine 3:30 Volunteered Workshops, Posters, Exhibits, Performances Saturday, March 6 9:00 Discussion: Possibilities for collaborative research and programming in the region - Next steps Tour of Shawnee Hills and the Wine Trail Noon Conference ends -Please forgive cross-postings.- -- Gregory P. Downs, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History City College of New York http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/humanities/history/faculty/gdowns.cfm
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