The Symposium, which is part of activities on campus in celebration of Women's History Month, is scheduled for March 13-15, 2003. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution or discipline on any topic in women's or gender history. We welcome papers on any historical subject that might grow out of a variety of disciplines and engage an equal diversity of methodologies. We also welcome panel submissions, which should include three papers united by a common theme or geographical/chronological focus, although each of the three papers will be judged on its individual merit. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present a paper at last year's Third Annual Graduate Symposium in Women's and Gender History. We also invite graduate students to serve as commentators and professors to act as chairs for panels.

Please send 5 copies of a two-page abstract, together with a one-page curriculum vitae, to the Programming Committee mailbox at the address below. All submissions must be postmarked by November 15, 2002. We regret that we cannot accept any submissions over e-mail at this time.

For more information about the symposium, please visit our web site or contact Marjorie Hilton at mhilton@uiuc.edu. If you are interested in being a chair or a commentator, you may also contact Marjorie Hilton.