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"We All Declare For Liberty": looking ahead to the sesquicentenary of the Emancipation Proclamation, SASA is honored to welcome distinguished historians ERIC FONER and TIYA MILES to Charleston as our plenary speakers. Our quite broad theme comes from an observation President Lincoln made less than a year before his assassination: “We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.” We welcome a range of panel proposals and individual paper proposals that zero in on one or more of these three intertwined and still contested terms -- emancipation, liberty and freedom -– placing them in a range of contexts reflecting the richness of American Studies. As ever, SASA welcomes proposals on other topics that reflect that richness, too.
Deadline for e-mailing paper or panel proposals to SASA-proposals-for-Charleston-2013@fsu.edu (note: it’s not case-sensitive) is noon EDT on September 14. Given how well the following statement works within the national organization’s "Getting on the ASA Meeting Program: A Practical Guide," we’ve made it an integral part of our own 2013 CFP as well: "The paper you propose must be new and original. You should never plan to give the same paper at two different conferences, and you should never submit proposals for the same panel to two different conferences at the same time."
As ever, SASA will award its Critoph Prize to the conference’s best paper by a graduate student, and our 2013 bienniale will be our third consecutive one to include an interdisciplinary roundtable with the author of an especially impressive book: Prof. Foner has graciously agreed to participate in a colloquy, at this Charleston conference, on his Pulitzer Prize- and Bancroft Prize-winning _The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery_.
--Co-chairs of the organizing committee:
Scott Peeples
College of Charleston
Dennis Moore
Florida State University
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