CALL FOR PAPERS

The Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, Inc. and the Grace
Slack McNeil Program in the History of American Art at Wellesley College
announce that the 2000 Deerfield/Wellesley Symposium on American Culture
will examine "The Pursuit of Refinement in America." The symposium will be
held on Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4, 2000 in Deerfield,
Massachusetts.  Academic, museum, and independent scholars are encouraged
to submit proposals for papers dealing with Britain's American colonies and
the United States.

The symposium is intended to illuminate themes in the inaugural exhibition
at Historic Deerfield's Flynt Center of Early New England Life, Useful
Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New
England 1750-1850.  A catalogue by Philip Zea is available from Historic
Deerfield.

Papers may be guided by but should add significantly to the discussion in
Richard Bushman's The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New
York, 1992).  Suggested topics include forms of communication, patterns of
behavior, social intercourse, and the material possessions that enhance
such performances.  Proposals should be no more than 500 words in length
and focus on the main thesis of the paper.  They must be accompanied by a
brief c.v., and should be received by the end of February 2000.  They
should  be sent to Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe, Director of Academic Programs,
Historic Deerfield, Inc., Deerfield, MA  01342.

For more information contact Dr. Hafertepe at Historic Deerfield (413,
775-7209) or  Professor James F. O'Gorman at Wellesley College,  Wellesley
MA 02481 (781, 283-2058).

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