Each year, Rutgers University holds an interdisciplinary graduate student conference to honor the memory of the late Warren Susman, a pioneering cultural historian whose works include Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. This yearıs conference will be held Friday, April 6, 2001, at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center, New Brunswick, NJ. The conference committee is currently accepting papers or complete panels of three or four papers on any topic of historical interest, regardless of geographic area or time period. Multidisciplinary approaches are welcome.

For individual paper proposals, please submit 2 copies of a 250-word abstract, along with a CV. For panel proposals, please submit a 250-word abstract for each paper along with a 250-word panel statement, along with CVs for each participant. The address for all submissions is:

Susman Conference Committee
Department of History
Rutgers University
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ
08901-1108

Proposals may also be faxed to (732) 932-6763. The deadline for proposals is Friday, March 2, 2001. Participants will be notified by phone or email in early March, and final papers will be due March 23, 2001.Inquiries can be directed to:

Marc Sykes, Co-Chair, Planning Committee, at the above address or by e-mail at msykes@eden.rutgers.edu.