This conference will explore the interrelationship of different environments with the construction, advocacy and appropriation of ethnic, national, religious, racial and gender identities. We invite scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students, to submit one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on these topics. Panel proposals, which should include a chair and/or commentator, are strongly encouraged. Each member of any full panel proposed for the conference will receive a partial remission of their registration fee.

The keynote speaker will be Bertram Wyatt-Brown who is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. He is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Florida and currently a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University.

Please submit with your abstract a short CV that includes your home or office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number by January 15th. Panel sessions should include a CV for all participants, including the chair/commentator, along with the abstracts for each paper.

The conference will be held Friday-Saturday, April 16-17, 2010 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.