[Fhstoday] Call for Papers

[Elna Green]

Allen Morris Conference 
Florida State University

CALL FOR PAPERS


The Allen Morris Conference Committee and the
Florida State University History Department are proud to announce the
second biennial Allen Morris Conference on the History of Florida and the
Atlantic World, to be held at the Florida State University=92s Turnbull
Conference Center, Tallahassee, Florida, February 1-2, 2002.

The conference theme is =93Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora in
Florida and the Atlantic World.=94  The keynote speaker will be
Dr. Louis A. P=E9rez, the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who will discuss Cuban
immigration to Florida.

The Program Committee invites proposals that focus on issues specific to
Florida, or that place Florida in a greater Atlantic context. 
Recognizing that Florida historically included territory as far west as
the Mississippi River and as far north as English settlements in the
Carolinas, we seek to include colonial-era papers that cover the Spanish
Borderlands, but also those that identify Florida as part of the larger
Atlantic world.  Topics such as the slave trade could be expanded to
situate Florida in its Caribbean and colonial Spanish background. 
Other potential topics might include Native American and indigenous
diaspora or investigations of non-traditional ethnic migrations.  In
the modern era, papers could address a variety of topics that include
Florida in their analysis, such as =93snowbird=94 migration, migrant labor i=
n
the winter vegetable industry, tourism, and Latin American
immigration.

The Program Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or
complete panels.  Interested applicants should submit a proposal of
no more than 300 words for each paper and a brief curriculum vitae
for each participant. Individuals interested in serving as a chair or
commentator should forward a vita as well.  
Proposals must be received no later than May 1, 2001.

Papers delivered at the Conference will be eligible for inclusion
in a planned anthology on the history of Florida and the Atlantic
World.


Paper proposals and inquiries should be
addressed to:

Dr. Elna Green
Department of History
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2200

egreen@mailer.fsu.edu

Please visit our web site at:
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~rhererra/allenmorris.htm