Friends,

Attached, please find a call for proposals for the Third National
Conference on Women & Historic Preservation.  Please pass the call on to
your own lists or to others that you might think are appopriate.  If you
have already forwarded this message to your list, please note that new
information is included.  The call follows the signature line below.

Thanks so much,

Coll Thrush

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Coll-Peter Thrush, M.A.
Mangels Fellow in Public History
Graduate Program in History
University of Washington, Seattle
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Third National Conference on Women and Historic Preservation

May 19-21, 2000
Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC

Sponsored by the Preservation Planning and Design Program, University of
Washington; the Regional Director, Northeast Region, National Park
Service; and the Organization of American Historians. Hosted by the
American Studies Department and Historic Preservation Program, George
Washington University and George Washington University at Mount Vernon
College, Women in Power Leadership Program.

Following on two successful national conferences, we invite proposals for
presentations on any aspect of women and historic preservation. We
anticipate conference tracks on:
     * rewriting the history of the preservation movement
     * identifying places of historical significance
     * reinterpreting historic places
     * developing inclusive policies and practices
     * representing the past in museum settings
     * promoting K-12 teaching with public history resources
     * sharing strategies for preserving and protecting historic resources

We are particularly interested in proposals that address the intersections
of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality in the context of
historic preservation or which provide an international basis for
comparison. Please submit proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or
other types of presentations in writing to:

     Gail Dubrow, Conference Chair
     Conference on Women and Historic Preservation
     Preservation Planning & Design Program
     University of Washington
     Box 355740
     Seattle, Washington, USA 98195-5740

Priority will be given to submissions received by August 1, 1999.
However, proposals will continue to be reviewed until September 30, 1999.

Please include in proposals:
     * name and affiliations
     * contact information
     * title and abstracts (400-word maximum) for each paper in a
proposed session
     * curriculum vitae or brief biographical profile
     * list of places this work has been presented

If you have questions please contact the program chair by e-mail at
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The conference website is available at
http://www.caup.washington.edu/WomenPres

Please post this call for proposals and share it with others you think
might be interested.

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