Lee,


Is this the conference you mentioned?  Looks different than you described.

Jim


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Subject: Reminder: Call for Papers

Reminder: Call for Papers

conference on 'Race, Labor & Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South'
Charleston, March 11-13, 2010
College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Keynote by Steven Hahn, author of the prize-winning A Nation Under Our Feet:
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great
Migration

Rationale and Program:
A hundred years ago the outstanding African American scholar-activist, W. E. B.
Du Bois, presented to the American Historical Association a paper entitled
"Reconstruction and Its Benefits." In the paper and in his seminal Black
Reconstruction, published a quarter century later, Du Bois insisted that the
struggles over slavery and the shape of the freedom that followed were central
to the history of America's working people, calling it "the kernel and meaning
of the labor movement in the United States." Over the past generation,
historians have built upon Du Bois's powerful insight about the connections
between race, labor and citizenship in the post-emancipation South, producing
some of the most compelling scholarship in the field of U. S. history.
The After Slavery Project, a transatlantic research collaboration based at
Queen's University Belfast, welcomes proposals from scholars at all levels for
panels that showcase new and developing research on these themes across the
former slave South, between the end of the Civil War and the early years of the
twentieth century. We have received a number of outstanding proposals but seek
panels on the following broad themes:
Labor and the Politics of Reconstruction/Freedwomen, Citizenship and the Public
Sphere/Freedom, Property Rights and the Land Question in the Postwar
South/Black Workers, the Union Leagues and the Republican Party/White Supremacy
and the Prospects for Interracialism/The Franchise and Grassroots Political
Activism/Emigration Movements and Black Mobility/Gender and the Free Labor
Vision/Religion and Southern Laborers/Dockworkers, Port Cities and Black
Mobilization/Race Leadership after 'Redemption'/Race, Labor and New South
Industrialization/Independent Politics after 1880
Details are available on the After Slavery website<http://www.afterslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164&Itemid=63>, and a proposal form can be accessed here<http://www.afterslavery.com/index.php?option=com_form&form_id=1>. The deadline for proposals is November 20, 2009; final decisions will be made and session organizers notified by December 4, 2009.
As part of our commitment to making this scholarship available to a diverse
constituency in and outside of higher education, the Conference will include
the launch of the Charleston Labor History Project and a public exhibit on The
End of Slavery in the Carolinas; a teacher's workshop on emancipation organized
in cooperation with National History Day and the South Carolina Department of
Education; and a public history workshop on commemorating Reconstruction in the
Carolinas organized in cooperation with the National Parks Service.
Housing:
A limited number of discounted rooms have been set aside for conference
participants at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, located within blocks
of all events. We expect these will fill up quickly. To book, go to
www.francismarioncharleston.com<http://www.francismarioncharleston.com>; enter arrival and departure dates and check availability; on top of the next screen, click 'Group Block'; reconfirm dates, enter group code 'COFCRACE', and click 'Next'; click 'Continue to confirm'. Please call 1-877-756-2121 for personal assistance.
Registration:
Registration for the conference is $40; Graduate students are discounted at
$15; Fees are waived for North and South Carolina Public School Teachers and
Unwaged. Online registration will be available beginning Wednesday, October 21,
from the After Slavery website<http://www.afterslavery.com>.
Conference Organizers:
Brian Kelly, Queen's University Belfast
Susan E. O'Donovan, University of Memphis
Bruce E. Baker, Royal Holloway-University of London
Bernard E. Powers Jr., College of Charleston
Simon K. Lewis, College of Charleston (CLAW)
Lisa Randle, College of Charleston (CLAW)
Kerry Taylor, The Citadel
Beth Sherouse, University of South Carolina at Columbia

Organized by the After Slavery Project: Co-sponsored by the Program in the
Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World (CLAW); the Avery Research Center
for African American History and Culture (College of Charleston); the (SC)
African American Historical Alliance; The School of Humanities and Social
Sciences (The Citadel) and the Southern Labor Studies Association
other supporting organizations: Center for the Study of the American South
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Institute for Southern Studies
(University of South Carolina at Columbia); Labor and Working Class History
Association (LAWCHA); Charleston International Longshoremen's Association Local
1422; The Citadel Oral History Program; W. E. B. Du Bois Institute (Harvard
University)
The Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post Emancipation South is
generously supported by the Humanities Council of South Carolina. The After
Slavery Project is funded by the (UK) Arts and Humanities Research Council

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