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The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Topic Announcement 2009:
WATERWAYS AND BYWAYS, 1600-1890
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-02-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-11-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
164960 |
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The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
in conjunction with Boston University’s Program in American and New England Studies, and Historic Deerfield
Topic Announcement 2009
WATERWAYS AND BYWAYS, 1600-1890
Call for papers
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of its next annual conference, WATERWAYS AND BYWAYS, 1600-1890, to be held in June 2009.
The Seminar is accepting proposals for papers and presentations on the subject of early transportation networks operating within New England and contiguous portions of New York and Canada before 1890. Based on the premise that New England’s everyday economy, much like its culture, depended on regional interconnectivity, this conference attempts to examine the physical, professional, and cultural networks that facilitated and encouraged this movement. Specifically, the conference seeks proposals on river and canal life, on tavern circuits, and on the rise of overland stagecoach routes. The conference also seeks papers on packet boats and coaster trades; the evolution of an inland shipbuilding legacy; the introduction of locks to major rivers; and the growth of commercial turnpikes, steamboats, and early railways. Planners also look for papers on traditional native ferrying points and fords, on bridge and road builders, as well as on entrepreneurs—such as peddlers, entertainers, civil engineers, coach and carriage makers, and travel diarists—who provided or made use of this connectivity.
The Seminar welcomes proposals from authors, academic and museum scholars working in the public humanities, graduate students, teachers, and the general public. Preference will be given to papers based on primary sources such as account books, diaries, reminiscences, personal and business papers, newspapers and artifacts as well as topographic and toponymic data.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting in the Seminar series, WATERWAYS AND BYWAYS, 1600-1890, will take place in Deerfield, Massachusetts, on the weekend of June 13 and 14, 2009. The program will consist of approximately seventeen lectures of twenty-five minutes each with related tours; selected papers will appear as the 2009 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar to be issued approximately one year after the conference.
To request further information regarding this conference or to submit a paper proposal, please visit our website:
http://www.bu.edu/dublinseminar/CallForPapers09a.html
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