SSAWW Triennial Conference: Citizenship and Belonging

October 10-13, 2012; Westin Tabor Center, Denver, Colorado
Call for Proposals
 see: http://ssaww2012.wordpress.com/ for full details
Key dates:
Monday, February 6, 2012: Proposals due to ssawwconf@gmail.com; see page 2 for directions.
May 2012: Acceptance notifications sent
June 30, 2012: Program schedule announced
 
Note: Presenters must be members of SSAWW by the “early/discounted” date for conference registration in the fall of 2012.
Participants [...]

2012 SSAWW Awards

THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
2012 AWARDS
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers was founded in 2000 to promote the
study of American women writers through research, teaching, and publication. The following three
awards were established in 2011 to honor the work and legacies of the Society’s founding members
and to further SSAWW’s [...]

CFP: Stowe Society Panel at ALA 2012

May 24th – 27th, 2012, San Fransisco, CA
“Family Life & the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe.”
Papers are sought on any aspect of family life in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Proposals are welcomed for studies that approach Stowe’s fiction using rubrics such as motherhood, fatherhood, siblings, the figure of the child, slave families, faith [...]

Call for Nominations: Stowe Society Officers

The Stowe Society requests nominations for President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Newsletter Editor. Members should submit nominations by email to ryan.cordell@snc.edu by June 15, 2011. Here is the information about officers from the the society’s bylaws:
B. The President will serve as the head of the Executive Board.
C. The Vice President will serve as the [...]

HBS at 200 Program Draft

Thursday, 23 June 2011
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Registration and Coffee: (Hawthorne-Longfellow Library)
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Stowe and Maine
Chair:  Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of New England/Maine Women Writers Collection

Rita Bode, Trent University, “A Meeting of Two Harriets”
Denise Kohn, Baldwin-Wallace College, “Tyranny and Trials: Portrayals of the Unhappy Marriage in Stowe and Curtis Bullard”
Marianne Noble, American University, “Candor Plus [...]

Registration for Housing at HBS at 200 Now Open

The housing registration site is now open for Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200:  Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century.  Thank you for your patience while we worked to have housing and meal options that would be as flexible and affordable as possible.  The link to register for housing, meals, and the banquet is [...]

Stowe at 200 Conference: Housing Info Coming soon

Housing registration for the Stowe at 200 conference at Bowdoin College will be available here shortly. We hope to have the link up in the next week or so.

Registration open for Stowe at 200 Conference

Registration is now available for the conference Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200: Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 23-25 June 2011.
On site registration will begin on Thursday, June 23rd at 9:15 a.m. The first session will begin on Thursday at 10:45 a.m. The conference will end on the night [...]

Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200 Update

[ June 23, 2011 to June 25, 2011. ] The Stowe Society’s bicentennial conference at Bowdoin College, 23-25 June 2011, will feature a keynote address by Susan Belasco entitled “Stowe in Her Time and Ours” on Friday night.  The keynote will follow a banquet featuring a lobster bake.

Registration will be available in early February through the Stowe Society website; there will be a link [...]

Update on Transatlantic Women 2

Dear Transatlantic Travelers,
I was glad to hear at the SSAWW conference that so many of you are interested in a second Transatlantic Women conference abroad. Although we are in the early planning stages yet, I want to tell you what we’re considering. There are three of us involved in planning the conference: [...]