[Discussion] a symposium on world's fairs

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline:  August 1, 2004

World's Fair Symposium
San Francisco
March 30-April 1, 2005

The Special Collections Library at California State University, Fresno (home
of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs,
1851-1940) will be hosting a symposium on world's fairs from March 31 to
April 1, 2005, officially designated as a preconference to the Organization
of American Historians (OAH) annual conference.  Dr. Robert W. Rydell,
Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana
State University and scion the of the world's fair field, is the
co-organizer and academic adviser for this event.

The symposium seeks to bring together the disparate, diverse and disperse
body of scholars who research, study, teach and write about world's fairs
and international expositions worldwide.  As such, the main goal of the
symposium is to provide a forum for scholars and researchers with
wide-ranging interests, backgrounds and methodologies to share and perhaps
cross-pollinate ideas among the best and brightest and the up-and-coming in
the field.

Proposals from all types of researchers are welcome.  Given the
interdisciplinary nature of the field, the symposium is open to all
disciplines, viewpoints and research methods.  The format of the sessions
allows for 10 minutes of presentation per speaker with the rest of the time
devoted to discussion.  Final, written papers will be required six weeks
prior to the symposium and made available electronically on the Web (through
a special password, for registered attendees only) so participants can come
prepared for meaningful discourse and interaction.

Proposals for papers will be accepted until August 1, 2004.  Proposals
should not exceed one page and should be included with the presenter's
curriculum vitae with address, phone number and e-mail address.  A final
decision will be made by September 1, 2004 and all those selected will be
notified shortly thereafter.  Those chosen and invited to present will
receive complimentary registration to the symposium.  If a graduate student
is chosen, additional assistance to help defray airfare and hotel costs may
be possible but will be based strictly on need.

This call for proposals and the forthcoming symposium schedule and
registration form will be available this summer at:
http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/extra/wfs2005.

Please send proposals to Robert Rydell through the mail at:
Department of History and Philosophy
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717-0232

AND electronically via e-mail to Tammy Lau at:  tammyl@csufresno.edu.

Tammy Lau
<tammyl@csufresno.edu>