Announcements

224 Announcements Canadian Review of American Studies Revue canadienne d'etu.des amertc.ames 5-8 November, 1997. The Southern Historical Association will be holding it's next annual meeting in Atlanta. Founded in 1934, the Southern Historical Association encourages the study of history in the South, 'with emphasis on the history of the South. The Association publishes The Journal o(Southern History, a quarterly circulated to more than 4,500 members and libraries in the United States and foreign countries. Sessions at the annual meeting will be devoted to the fields of American, European, Latin America, and public history bringing together the most recent scholarship by historians in the South and historians of the South. For more information about the annual meeting and membership in the association, write: The Southern Historical Association, c/o Secretary-Treasurer William F. Holmes, History Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. 16-18 April 1998. The Departmentof English and Philosophy at Arkansas State University Qonesboro campus) will hold a conference entitled "Delta Studies Symposium IV: Creative Expressions Beyond the Blues," which will focus on forms of expressive culture specific to the Mississippi River Delta. presenters might give special attention to the ways in which the blues has influenced other forms (musical, literary, and visual), to other creative expressions that have emerged from teh Delta experience, adn to pedagogical approaches to these creative expressions from the Delta. We invite scholarly papers, organized panels, creative multimedia presentations, and demonstrations that examine any form of expressive culture that is specific to the region. Proposals for papers should include a 250-word summary; those for creative rpesentations should include a sampling of previous work. Deadline for submissions is 15 December 1997. Send materials and address inquiries to: Delta Symposium Committee, Departmentof English and Philosophy, P.O. Box 1890, Arkansas State University Qonesboro), State University, AR 72467. E-mail: DELTA@TOLTEC.astate.edu. Tel: (870) 972-3043, fax: (870) 972-2795. Canadian Review of American Studies Reuue c.madienne d'etudes americaines 225 24-26 April, 1998. The University of Toronto is hosting a conference entitled "Themes and Issues in North American Environmental History." The deadline for submissions is 5 January 1998. Anyone interested in submitting a paper should contact L.S. MacDowell, Conference Coordinator, Department of History, University of Toronto, 100 St. George St., Toronto M5S 3G3, e-mail: lmacdowe@credit.erin.utoronto.ca. Genealogies, Miscegenations, Missed Generations. Travelling exhibition and illustrated critical anthology about racial and sexual indeterminacy, fall 1999. Send slides, abstracts, resume or CV and SASE to Erin Valentino, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut, 875 Coventry Road U-99, Storrs, Connecticut, USA 06269; Tel: (860) 486-3930; fax (860) 486-3869; evalentino@fi nearts.sfa. uconn.edu Fellowships and Grants The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce a program of residential fellowships and travel grants at it's International Center for Jefferson Studies in Kenwood, a residential estate near Monticello. The fellowship and grants program is open to all scholars working on Jefferson or Jefferson-related projects. Preference is given to three classes of candidates: doctoral students working on a dissertation; scholars preparing a manuscript for publication; international scholars. Fellowships are awarded for one-month's residency at the Center. The award for U.S. and Canadian fellows is $1,500 plus reimbursement for round-trip airfare; the award for international fellows is $2,00 plus reimbursement for round-trip airfare. Travel grants are available on a limited basis for scholars and teachers wishing to make short-term visits to Monttcello to pursue research or education projects. The application procedure is the same as for fellowships. Applications must be received by 1 March 1998 and should include: a succinct description of the applicant's project; a current CV; the names and addresses of three references. Address applications to Douglas L. Wilson, 226 Canadian Review of American Studies Revue canadienne d'eludes arnertcames Saunders Director, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Mont1cello, P.O. Box 316, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902. Call for Manuscripts Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. This journal is inviting submissions for its twentieth anniversary issues, to appear in 1997. Though articles on any theoretical, generic, historical, or cultural aspect...