Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference
March 23 & 24, 2001

Sponsored by:
The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) and Boston University’s American and New England Studies Program

The City has always provided a rich forum for the interactions of various classes, which is evident in the City’s physical and cultural geography. These interactions are reflected in urban architecture, art, literature, and history. This interdisciplinary conference will provide an opportunity for the exploration of the many relationships between the City and its classes during the period 1800-1945. As this conference intends to complement ongoing research on SPNEA’s Harrison Gray Otis House, we hope to include papers on related topics such as boarding houses, working class lifestyles, and the influence of middle class material culture on the City’s landscape and inhabitants. We welcome submissions for 20-minute papers by graduate students in all disciplines related to American arts, culture, and history. Papers that focus on Northeastern cities are encouraged, but not required. Some potential paper topics include:

Urban Institutions		Immigration
Race, Gender, and Sexuality	Public Amusements
Industrial/Domestic Labor	Urban Activism
Landscape/Cityscape		Foodways
Urban Churches			Crime

Please send a one-page, single spaced abstract, including your name, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and academic affiliation, postmarked by November 15, 2000:

Successful panelists will be notified by late December. Completed papers will be due to the commentators by February 23, 2001. Conference will be held in Boston, Mass.