In addition to Professor Edwards, members of the conference Program
Committee include Laurie Green (Univ. of Texas, Austin),Laura Moore
(Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro), Bryant Simon (Univ. of Georgia),
Luann Jones (East Carolina Univ.), Stephanie Camp (Univ. of Washington),
Vikki Bynum (Southwest Texas State Univ.).
Program Update, 4/4/03
Attention all program participants: Panelists should forward
papers to the chair and commentator at least 4 weeks before
the conference (on or before May 8).
The program committee would like to thank all of those who have
submitted proposals for panels, roundtables, and workshops for
the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, to be held in
Athens, Georgia, June 5-7, 2003. All the submissions look fascinating
and will make a compelling program. The committee will undertake
the difficult task of narrowing down this rich collection of material
at the meeting of the Southern Historical Association in November.
The program will be finalized in subsequent weeks, and letters
will be sent to all prospective panelists. In the meantime, the
program committee will NOT be responding to individual inquiries
about the status of submissions.
The program committee is also pleased to announce the three plenary
speakers for the conference: Rayna
Green, Nell
Painter, and Sarah White. Rayna Green will speak on women
in the mythology and history of the South. Nell Painter will consider
the ways in which current scholarship on women, race, class, and
sexuality in the South has changed our understanding of the nation.
Sarah White will conclude, bringing southern history into the
present, discussing the issues she has encountered in her work
organizing catfish workers in Mississippi.
Nell I. Painter is the Edwards Professor of American
History at Princeton University and the author of several books
including, most recently, Southern History Across the Color
Line.
Rayna D. Green is the Director of the American Indian
Program at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution. She is the author of numerous publications in Native
American history, including Women in American Indian Society,
as well as a documentary film director.
Sarah White is a union leader working in the catfish
industry in Mississippi. Her affiliation is Local 1529, United
Food and Commercial Workers.
