The Southern Association for Women Historians invites proposals for the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History to be held June 15-17, 2000, at the University of Richmond and the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. The conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for the discussion of all aspects of women's history. Its program seeks to reflect the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and elsewhere and to feature the history of women from a wide range of racial, class, and ethnic backgrounds.

The Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History will be hosted in Richmond by the University of Richmond and the Library of Virginia. The conference will be held on the beautiful suburban campus of the University of Richmond, conveniently located in the city's West End. Efforts will also be made to schedule several sessions at area museums and historic sites, so that conference participants may take full advantage of the rich historical resources that Richmond has to offer.

Additional information about the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History will appear in the coming months on H-SAWH, the official Web site for the Southern Association of Women Historians. Please consult this site at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~sawh/ for announcements and conference updates.

The Program Committee solicits proposals for complete panels and individual papers, as well as media presentations and roundtables. Proposals from junior scholars and graduate students are especially welcome. Although the conference is regionally based, we also welcome proposals from scholars outside the South.

Proposals for panels or individual papers should consist of two copies each of a one-to-two-page panel or paper proposal and a brief curriculum vita for each participant. Those interested in chairing a session or commenting on one are also invited to send a vita to the Program Committee.

Prospective participants should send all materials to Professor Cynthia A. Kierner, SAWH Program Committee Chair, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223. The deadline for submission of proposals in 30 June 1999.

Registration information and a copy of the conference program will be mailed to SAWH members (and others by request) in March 2000. Conference attendees will be responsible for making their own travel, housing, and meal arrangements. Housing options will include low-cost dormitory rooms (with the option of a campus meal plan) as well as special rates at area hotels.

In addition to Professor Kierner, the members of the conference Program Committee include Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. (Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley), Lynda L. Crist (Jefferson Davis Papers, Rice University), Elna C. Green (Florida State University), Wanda Hendricks (Arizona State University), Jessica Kross (University of South Carolina), Debra M. O'Neal (Wingate University), Phyllis L. Smith (Mars Hill College), and Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman (Arkansas State University).

For further information or to add your name to the conference mailing list, please contact Sandra Gioia Treadway, Fifth SAWH Conference Coordinator, at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (streadwa@vsla.edu).