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Announcements The Journal has received the foUowing announcements and calls for papers. Requests for inclusion in future issues should be limited to 100 words and sent to: Managing Editor, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. Such announcements wUl appear in only two issues. The Social History Society of the UK announces that its 1997 conference on "Time and the Construction of the Past" wiU take place January 3-5 in Lancaster, England. Offers of papers on the following themes are invited: time and gender; calendars; ritual and leisure time; seasonality; the concept of time; the historical construction of "the past"; and time, popular memory, and nostalgia. Please direct all inquiries and proposals to Mrs. Linda Persson, secretary, Social History Society, Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster LAl 4YG. Tel. 01524 592605; e-mail Lpersson @lancaster.ac.uk. The Minnesota Historical Society's research department each year makes avaUable grants to support original research and interpretive writing on the history of Minnesota by academicians, independent scholars, and profession and nonprofessional writers. Preference is given to projects that wUl produce article- or book-length manuscripts to be considered for publication in Minnesota History, the Society's quarterly, or by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. EspeciaUy encouraged are projects that add a multicultural dimension to the area's history and that cover subjects not now well represented in the published record, including agriculture, urban history, workers and work, historic preservation, medicine, and sports. Grants are not awarded to support work on dissertations or theses or to assist in the purchase of computers or other equipment. Applications deadlines are October 1, January 1, and March 1. For a set of guidelines and an appUcation form, write to Deborah L. MiUer, Research Department, Minnesota Historical Society, 345 Kellogg Blvd. West, St. Paul, MN 55102 or call Florence Regan at (612) 297-2221. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly invites submissions for its 20th anniversary issues, to appear in 1997. The editors are especially interested in esays exploring biography, autobiography, hagiography oral and group history in gender studies, multicultural studies, film theory, social science, technology, marketing and media studies, medicine, and law. Manuscripts should be 2,500-7,500 pages in length and two copies should be submitted 248 Journal of Women's History Fall to expedite the reviewing process. Direct aU submissions to the Center for Biographical Research, Department of English, 1733 Donaghho Road, University of HawaU at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822. For more information please contact Craig Howes at biograph@hawau.edu or 808-956-3774. The birthplace of U.S. women's rights, Seneca Falls, NY, is gearing up for the summer of 1998 and the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention. A four-month long celebration to be coordinated by a consortium of local, state, and nonprofit organizations is planned, and to assist in the project a fundraiser is needed. For more information on this position or the events planned, please write to Celebrate '98, P.O. Box 601, Seneca FaUs, NY13148 or caU 315-568-2262. ...

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