Announcements

Announcements The Journal has received the foUowing announcements and calls for papers. Requests for indusion in future issues should be limited to 100 words and sent to: Managing Editor, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, Ballantine HaU 742, Indiana University, Bloomington , IN 47405. Such announcements wül appear in only two issues. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission invites application for its 1994/95 scholars-in-residence program which provides support for full time research and study for a period of four to twelve consecutive weeks between May 1,1994, and April 30,1995, at $1,200 per month. Application deadline is January 24,1994. For further information and an application form, contact Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission , Box 1026, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108. Telephone: (717) 787-3034. The International Federation for Research in Women's History/Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche de l'Histoire des Femmes (lEKWH/FIRHF) announces a call for papers for the Mini-Conference, "Women, Colonialisms, Imperialisms and Nationalisms Through the Ages," at the 1995 International Congress of the Historical Sdences August 27-September 3,1995. Complete paper proposal packages due by March 1, 1994. For information, contact Karen Offen, Secretary-Treasurer, Institute for Research on Women and Gender , Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-8640. The Pallas Athena Network, providing ALL women veterans a "safe space" to share experiences with each other, celebrates its first anniversary with additional services. The bi-monthly newsletter, "PaUas Athena", prints interviews , articles, and history as well as letters and creative works by women veterans, with new services reflecting the network's "commitment to opening lines of communication between women veterans." For information, contact Pallas Athena, P.O. Box 1171, New Market, VA 22844 (no postcards please). The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, as a part of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, is planning an international women's Hbrary conference for mid-June 1994. For information, send name, address, and fax number to International Women's Library Conference, Schlesinger Library, Raddiffe College, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massadiusetts 02140, USA. Submissions are invited to an interdisciplinary collection examining women's experiences of Old South slavery. The goal of this project is to provide an accessible coUection that Uluminates slavery's gendered history 1993 Announcements 221 and legacies by bringing spedfic attention to the diverse experience and perspectives of women. Contributors are also encouraged to promote understanding of the ways these women can be discovered by caUing attention to sources and methodologies. Proposals or inquiries should be sent to Professor Patricia Morton, Department of History, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8. Author Query: For a book on the sodal, cultural, and political history of homosexuality at Stanford University, I would appredate hearing from individuals with personal memories, documents, photographs, or other information regarding lesbian, gay or bisexual experience on campus before 1980.1 am particularly interested in relevant materials documenting the lives of women and people of color at the university. Contacts' names wül be kept confidential if requested. Gerard Koskovich P.O. Box 14301 San Frandsco, CA 94114-0301 The Women's Heritage Museum's second annual Book Fair wiU be at Fort Mason in San Francisco, December 5,1993,9:30 to 4:30, featuring books by, for, and about women, with an emphasis on history. There wül be panels, books for sale, publishers's tables, authors who wiU sign and seU books, music, and food. Write to Women's Heritage Museum, 870 Market Street #547, San Francisco 94102. Tdephone: (415) 321-5260. ...