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.
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