Posted by request of conference organizers.

Moderator, NYHIST-L


CALL FOR PAPERS

From Nieuw Nederlandt to New York:
The emergence of a New World Culture in the Hudson River Valley
Nov. 11-13, 2004

Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York

Individual paper abstracts, panel proposals, workshops, and other program suggestions are invited for the conference to be described below. Proposals are due no later than June 15.

On Nov. 11-13, 2004 the Huguenot Historical Society will hold a two-day conference on issues of religion, ethnicity and lifeways in the Hudson Valley during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through performances, papers, and tours, the conference participants will explore
this transitional period that was no longer dominated by European perspectives, nor was it yet distinctly American in its bearing, but was instead in the process of defining its own unique cultural identity.

The premise for the conference lies on the assumption that the cultural
products (art, religion, language, institutions, lifeways, etc.) of a given
group serve to express the ideals, morals, values, and beliefs of that
group, and that both values and expressions change over time. Studying
these forms of cultural expression offers historians insight into the
motivations and ideas that served to shape the lives of individuals of
earlier times.


Presenters are encouraged to draw from the wide variety of religious and
ethnic groups who lived within the Hudson Valley during the Colonial
Period. Some of these groups included French Huguenots, Dutch Protestants, German Lutherans, Scottish Presbyterians, English Anglicans, as well as European Jews, Catholics, Quakers, Shakers, Atheists, Africans, Amerindians, and others. In addition, the conference is intended to be interdisciplinary in nature, and potential presenters are encouraged to draw upon a wide variety of subjects and disciplines. Thus, professionals from fields such as history, archeology, anthropology and social studies, linguistics, religion and theology, decorative and fine and performing arts, gender studies, ethnic studies, agriculture, political science, and architecture are all welcome to submit their papers for review.

For more information, please contact:

Eric J. Roth, Archivist/Librarian
Huguenot Historical Society Library and Archives
88 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY 12561
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www.hhs-newpaltz.org