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CFP: Texas Women’s History Network Symposium, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 21, 2007
| Location: | Texas, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2006-12-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2006-09-21 |
| Announcement ID: |
152836 |
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The Texas Women’s History Network (TWHN) is pleased to announce its first annual symposium, to be held at Rice University in Houston on April 21, 2007. Elizabeth Hayes Turner, associate professor at the University of North Texas and author of Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880–1920 will give the keynote address. In addition to paper sessions, there will be a forum to discuss future goals and projects. We welcome anyone who is interested in historical scholarship on the topic women in the Texas and/or the Texas region or in promoting women’s issues within the profession. If you would like to be placed on the TWHN mailing list, please email your postal and electronic addresses to: texaswomenshistorynet@yahoo.com. Please visit our web site at www.ruf.rice.edu/~twhn07.
The program committee invites individual paper proposals as well proposals for full panels. Each submission should include a one-page paper abstract and curriculum vitae and be sent to the above TWHN email address by December 15, 2006. Topics should address some aspect of women in Texas history, although tangential subjects will be considered. Graduate students and junior scholars are particularly encouraged to submit proposals. Student papers will be considered for the Billie Jean Williams Stuntz prize for best paper, which carries a $100 award. Please indicate your eligibility for the student-paper prize upon submission. Selected participants will be notified by January 31, 2007 and must submit papers of 12–15 pages by March 30, 2007.
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