Forwarded from H-Ideas by Ross B. Emmett 
 
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     Memory and Re-Telling of Working Class Lives 
 Eighteenth Annual North American Labor History Conference 
 
           Wayne State University 
            October 17-19, 1996 
 
 
The Program Committee of the North American labor 
History Conference invites proposal for panels and single 
papers on the theme, "Memory and Re-Telling of Working 
Class Lives," for the 1996 meeting to be held October 17- 
19, 1996 at Wayne State University. 
 
 
We are interested in sessions and/or papers which explore 
public and private memory in working class and labor 
history, including such issues as how workers remember, 
retell, celebrate, and sometimes repress memories of their 
personal and political, individual and collective lives; public 
history of the working class and labor movement past; 
workers' autobiographies and biographies; the study, 
analysis, and representation of working class and labor 
history (both theoretical and historiographical); narratives of 
class identity, consciousness, and lives, especially as they 
intersect with race, ethnicity, gender, and nation; and the 
teaching of working class and labor history. 
 
 
Those engaged in teaching and curriculum projects, public 
history and outreach, labor education, oral history projects, 
and music, film, video, art, museum exhibits, and dance -- 
are encouraged to submit proposals.  Further, we continue 
to be interested in the submission of proposals that 
incorporate Latin American, European, African, and Asian 
comparisons and interdisciplinary approaches.  Roundtable 
and workshop sessions also will be considered. 
 
 
Please submit panel and paper proposals (including a 1-2 
page paper abstracts and cvs for all participants) by March 
1st, 1996 to: 
 
 
Elizabeth Faue 
Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference 
Department of History 
3094 Faculty/Administration Building 
Wayne State University 
Detroit, MI 48202 
 
Phone: (313) 577-2525 
 
The North American labor History Conference is sponsored 
by the Department of History, the Walter Reuther Library, the 
College of Liberal Arts, the College of Urban, Labor and 
Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University.