Notes and Queries
The 38th Annual Missouri Valley History
Conference will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska, March 9-11, 1995. For
information about the conference,
contact: Dale Gaeddert, Chair MVHC,
University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska 68182.
The 1995 Western Historical Association
Meeting, will be held October
11-14, 1995, in Denver, Colorado. For
details write to: the Western History
Association, University of New Mexico,
1080 Mesa Vista Hall, Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87131-1181; or phone (505)
277-5234.
A call for papers has been issued for a
conference to be held June 9-11,
1995, at Youngstown State University, on
the subject "Working Class
Lives/Working Class Studies." An
interdisciplinary exploration of working
class life and culture in American by
both academic and non-academic
workers, the conference will examine
personal experiences and social and po-
litical strategies of the American
working class from the past to the present as
well as the practical directions working
class life may take in the future.
Conference organizers seek academic and
non-academic papers, artwork, fic-
tion, poetry, and other representations
of American working class life and
culture for both formal and informal
presentations, discussion, and/or perfor-
mance. Possible areas for exploration
include literature of and by the work-
ing class, social history, material
culture, journalism, art, ethnography, biog-
raphy, autobiography, and personal
narrative accounts of work. Presenters
should send 250-500 word abstracts
describing their project with suggestions
for format presentation to: Bill Mullen
and Linda Strom in the English
Department, or Janet Ore in the History
Department, Youngstown State
University, Youngstown, Ohio
44555-0001. E-mail address is:
linkon@unixl.cc.ysu.edu. Panel session
proposals are also welcome.
Deadline for proposals is January 15,
1995.
The Center of North American Studies at
the University of Alcala de
Henares welcomes contributions to Revista
Espanola de Estudios
Norteamericanos (REDEN or the Spanish Journal of North American
Studies) in any area of American
Studies. The journal's principal aim is to
provide a forum for a wide variety of
approaches to the study of American
Culture and Society, past and present.
Submissions may be written in either
Spanish or English, should be
twenty-thirty pages in length (double-spaced),
should follow the guidelines of The
MLA Style Manual, and should include an
abstract of no more than one hundred
word in length. For further informa-