Announcements

Announcements The foUowing are announcements and calls for papers received at our office. In the future, such requests should be limited to 100 words and sent to: Managing Editor, JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY, c/o Department of History, BaUantine HaU 742, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Announcements wül appear in only two issues. The Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 'Transformations : Women, Gender, Power," wül be June 11-13,1993, at Vassar CoUege in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Program Committee seeks proposals addressing the relations between feminist history and social and poUtical practice, and papers taking an interdisdpUnary or comparative approach crossing national, cultural, racial, or ethnic Unes. Submit proposals for complete panels or roundtables in tripUcate by Feb. 1,1992. Indude pand title, title and one-page abstrad of ead» paper (or roundtable theme), and one-page vita for each partidpant (mduding address and phone). Enclose a sdfaddressed , stamped postcard. Dired aU correspondence to "ATTN: Berkshire Conference." Send proposals on U.S. topics to: Elaine Abelson, New School for Sodal Research, Eugene Lang CoUege, 65 W. 11th St., New York, NY10011. Send proposals on non-U.S. topics to: Margaret Hunt, Amherst CoUege, 2254, P.O. Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000. Send comparative U.S./non-U5. proposals to dther co-chair. Compüers and authors of and groups associated with Women's History Walks (or tours) are asked to share dtations to and copies of these walks for a pubUcation about their preparation and relevance to feminist history. No work wül be reprinted without permission. (For background on this concept, see pp. 179-80 of Getting Published in Women's Studies [1989].) Contad: Hden Rippier Wheder, 2701 Durant Ave. #14, Berkeley, CA 947041733 . The Center for Research on Women, Memphis State University, announces the 1990 bibUography, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, 1975-1988. Annual Supplement, 1990. The volume contains over 900 dtations to sodal sdence research. Contad: Center for Research on Women, Clement HaU 339, Memphis State University, Memphis , TN 38152. Telephone: (901) 678-2770. The Organization of American Historians announces the inaugural LernerScott Prize for the best dodoral dissertation in U.S. women's history. The deadline for submission is Odober 1 for a dissertation completed during the previous academic year. For information, contad: Committee Coordi- 1992 Announcements 197 nator, Organization of American Historians, 112 N. Bryan St., Bloomington, IN 47408-4199. The Western Assodation of Women Historians invites paper and panel proposals for their 23rd annual conference in San Marino, CA, May 29-31, 1992. Proposals (one page per paper abstrad and one page CV) for sessions and papers should be sent to: Edith GeUes, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Serra House, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 943038640 . Deadline is Feb. 1,1992. The library Company of Phüadelphia wiU host a symposium moderated by CarroU Smith-Rosenberg on the professionalization of women writers from the 1840s to the 1920s on Saturday, April 11,1992. For further information , caU: (215) 546-5588. ...