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The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University in conjunction
with the American Studies Department at Brandeis University announce the
upcoming conference sponsored by the Lilly Endowment Foundation, Boston
University, and Brandeis University.
NEW WORLD ORDERS:
MILLENNIALISM IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
November 7-9. 1999
Boston, Massachusetts
An interdisciplinary inquiry examining the wide range of millennial
movements in the Americas: their origins, traditions, interpretations and
consequences, both religious and secular from the perspective of elite,
popular, or counter-culture. Papers on the historiography of
millennialism in the Americas will also be considered for presentation.
DEADLINE For one page Abstracts Is JULY 1, 1999 [presentations 20 minutes
in length]
Submissions are also invited for roundtable discussions and entire
sessions. If submitting an entire session, include an abstract that
outlines the purpose of the session. One panelist must be designated as
the contact person. The Program Committee assumes all listed individuals
in a session proposal agree to participate.
Featured speakers will include (among others to be announced):
NORMAN COHN, [the father of millennial studies] Professor Emeritus,
Sussex University
MICHAEL BARKUN, Syracuse University
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