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April 9-10, 2010

Call for Papers

The third Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History will be held at the University of South Carolina, Columbia on April 9-10, 2010. Sponsored by The Institute for Southern Studies, the Forum’s goal is to provide a welcoming and collegial environment for graduate students and established scholars to present new material that pushes the boundaries of agricultural, rural, and environmental history. The organizers intend this event to be a place for scholars to try out innovative ideas in an informal, supportive, and constructive setting. Toward that end, we ask that participants plan on attending all sessions to generate quality discussion for all presenters (the sessions will be non-concurrent). Work on all geographic locations and time periods is welcome.

Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit session, roundtable, or single-paper proposals on any topic dealing with rural, agricultural, or environmental history.

Please submit a 100-word paper proposal, or a 250-word session proposal, and brief biographical sketch or CV electronically to Albert Way at albert DOT way AT gmail DOT com by February 12, 2010.

You may also download the PDF of the program here.



3rd Annual Meeting, April 9 - 10
University of South Carolina, Columbia

Saturday, April 10

Breakfast
7:30 - 8:00 a.m.
Session I
8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
“John Taylor of Caroline, George Tucker, and the Enclosure Movement in Virginia” Christopher M. Curtis Clafin University
“The Economic Origins of Participation: Class in the Yeomanry of the Revolutionary Waxhaws Settlement” David Andrew Johnson St. Cloud State University
“Extraction of Forest Resources by Masters and Slaves in the Plantations of the Amazon, 1850-1888” Oscar de la Torre University of Pittsburgh
Session II
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
“Peeling Back the Layers of Globalization: Vidalia Onions and the Nuevo New South” Tore Olsson University of Georgia
“My Father’s Past, My Children’s Future: Moral Outrage in Minnesota, 1974 - 1980” John Byczynski St. Cloud State University
“Khrushchev Sells the Corn Campaign: Soviet Political Mobilization Strategies, 1953 - 1964” Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell University of North Carolina
“From Crop to Fabric: Cotton’s Long Historical Memory” James C. Giesen Mississippi State University
Lunch
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Session III
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
“Working in Rural Communities: Vocational Opportunities and Challenges of Disabled Confederate Veterans in the Mississippi Hill Country, 1863 - 1890” James S. Kinsey Mississippi State University
“Teaching Young Dogs New Tricks: Early Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs in Central Mississippi” Whitney Adrienne Snow Mississippi State University
“The Pi Beta Phi Settlement School: Progressive Reform in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1912 - 1965” Shirley Robinson University of Tennessee
Session IV
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
“Seeing History in a Wilderness Landscape: Valuing Cultural and Natural Resources at Congaree National Park, South Carolina” Elizabeth Almlie University of South Carolina
“Grounding Ecology in ‘Big Nature’: Eugene Odum and the Growth of Civic Science” Levi Van Sant University of Georgia
“Cotton, Cowboys, and Camo: The Nature of Southern Identity in Alabama’s Black Belt Prairies” Mark Hersey Mississippi State University
Dinner Banquet
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
The Inn at USC
Keynote Address
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Speaker
“The Southern Way of Life: The History of a Concept” Charles Reagan Wilson University of Mississippi