Forwarded from H-AMSTDY by Ross Emmett. 
 
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> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:57:07 -0500 (EST) 
> From: "Alana J. Erickson" <[log in to unmask]> 
 
Here's a call for papers for a conference this spring at Columbia University. 
 
Alana J. Erickson 
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Graduate Student Conference 
 on 
Freedom in American History 
 
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Columbia University 
April 19-20, 1995 
 
Freedom has long been central to American national identity. 
Historically, however, the concept of freedom has been neither static 
nor stable, and has always encompassed many meanings.  The Graduate 
Student Conference on Freedom in American History hopes to map the 
multiple and contested meanings of freedom from the colonial 
era to the present.  How has freedom been produced and reproduced by 
institutions, social groups, and individuals?  How have different ideas 
of freedom been constructed, challenged, violated, and transformed? 
 
We invite papers from graduate students in a variety of disciplines in 
the Humanities, including:  African-American Studies, American Studies, 
History, Literature, Music, Political Theory, Religion, and Women's 
Studies.  (This list is illustrative and by no means exclusive.) 
 
Paper titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words must be submitted 
by January 16, 1996.  Please send submissions to:  Timothy P. McCarthy 
c/o Institute for Research in African-American Studies, 758 Schermerhorn 
Extension, Columbia University, New Yorkn, NY 10027.  Tel. #:  212/854-4935. 
E-mail inquiries should be directed to:  Alana  J. Erickson, 
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Planning Committee 
The Graduate Student Conference on Freedom in American History