CFP: The Role of the State in Developing Southern Industry

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:05:50 -0500
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>From: Seth Wigderson <Sethw at suscom-maine.net>
>Subject: CFP: The Role of the State in Developing Southern Industry
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>From: "Gagnon, Michael" <GagnonM at wpunj.edu>
>
>The Program Committee for the Southern Industrialization Project (SIP) is
>accepting paper proposals for the 7th Annual Southern Industrialization
>Project Conference, "The Southern State and Southern Industrialization,"
>to be held at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, on May 31st-June 1st,
>2002. All aspects of southern industrialization and time periods are
>welcome, but special consideration will be given to papers that deal with
>transportation issues and the role of the southern state governments'
>internal improvement programs and support for industry.
>
>A copy of the paper proposal (approximately 500 words) should be sent by
>email to each of the following by February 15, 2002:
>
>Matt Hild, Georgia Tech University, gt0284a at prism.gatech.edu
>Sean Adams, University of Central Florida, sadams at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
>Steven Collins, St. Louis Community College, scollins at stlcc.cc.mo.us
><mailto:scollins at stlcc.cc.mo.us>
>SIP Program Committee
>
>The keynote speaker will be Professor Gregg Andrews, Southwest Texas State
>University, author of _City of Dust:  A Cement Company Town in the Land of
>Tom Sawyer_. Invited papers will be presented by Paul Paskoff, Louisiana
>State University, and John Majewski, University of California, Santa
>Barbara.
>
>The St. Louis Mercantile Library, The University of Missouri-St. Louis
>Department of History, and the UMSL Public Policy Research Center are
>sponsoring this year's SIP conference. The St. Louis Mercantile Library
>encourages scholars planning to attend the conference to use its archival
>collections and to consider applying for the Mercantile's research
>fellowships.  For more information visit its website at
>http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/ <http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/>
>
>
>Michael Gagnon
>SIP Moderator
>SIP at list.gatech.edu