Announcements and activities. (Historical News and Notices).

At the annual meeting of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) on Friday, November 16, 2001, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Joan Marie Johnson, a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library, received the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for her article "`Drill into us ... the Rebel tradition': The Contest over Southern Identity in Black and White Women's Clubs, South Carolina, 1898-1930," which appeared in the August 2000 issue of the Journal of Southern History. This prize is awarded annually by the SAWH for the best article published during the preceding year in the field of southern women's history. The prize was established in honor of A. Elizabeth Taylor, a pioneering scholar in women's history, who is known especially for her outstanding series of articles on the woman suffrage movement in the South. The prizewinner received a plaque and a cash award.

In announcing the winner, the committee made the following comments about Ms. Johnson's article: "The committee was impressed with the way in which Johnson weaved race, gender, and historical memories into a comparative analysis of black and white groups in southern society. In many works of this nature, one group or another, or part of the comparison, comes off as normative and the other as reactive. Johnson adeptly avoided this. The committee was also impressed with the way in which she used club records and other primary sources to frame the opposition between the two competing views of the southern past.... [Johnson's article] has made a major contribution to the historiography on women studies in general and to the growing scholarship on historical memory and narrative in particular."

The Department of History at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, invites submissions for individual papers and full panels for the Mid-America Conference on History, which will be held September 19-21, 2002, at the Center for Continuing Education in downtown Fayetteville. Papers in all areas of history are welcome, and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Presentations should be no more than twenty minutes long. Please submit a c.v. and a one-page abstract by the April 30th deadline to Trish Starks, Department of History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701. For more information, consult the conference website at http://comp.uark.edu/~tstarks/MACH.html or e-mail [e-mail].

The University of Georgia is hosting a symposium on "The South and Globalization," which will be held on June 21-22, 2002. Presentations and discussions will address the economic, cultural, political, racial, and ethnic impact of globalization on the American South. For more information contact Professor William Stueck ([e-mail]), Professor James C. Cobb ([e-mail]), or the University of Georgia Department of History at [phone].

The Society for Military History (SMH) will hold its seventieth annual meeting at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, on May 1-4, 2003. The conference theme is "The Military and Society During Domestic Crisis." The Program Committee especially invites proposals for papers and panels that address the role of professional military forces, citizen-soldiers, and civilians during domestic disturbances, insurrections, terrorist acts, natural disasters, national emergencies, civil wars, revolutions, epidemics, and other crises that involve civil-military affairs and relations. This theme will allow participants to incorporate military history with topics that are of interest to historians and individuals working in the public policy arena. As always, however, proposals for papers and panels treating all aspects of military history are welcome.

Proposals should include a one-page abstract for each paper, outlining topic, thesis, and sources, and a brief c.v. for all participants. Abstracts will be posted on the SMH website, http://www.smh-hq.org. Please submit proposals for papers and full panels no later than October 1, 2002, to Dr. Kurt Piehler, Center for the Study of War and Society, 220 Hoskins Library, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0411; phone [phone]; e-mail [e-mail]. The Program Committee also welcomes volunteers to serve as chairs and/or commentators, who are also asked to provide a brief c.v. as noted above.

A conference on "Popular Culture in the South/American Culture in the South" will be held on October 3-5, 2002, in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Hyatt Charlotte at South Park. The conference is a joint meeting of the Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South. Exploring a diverse range of topics, past programs have highlighted areas of cyberspace, detective fiction and mysteries, dramatists in and of the South, fashion, film studies, foods and fetishes, gender studies, history, humor of southern writers, images of the body, journalism, military history, music, the pedagogy of culture studies, rock stars and superstars, science fiction and fantasy, soap operas, southern writers, vampires, witchcraft, and wrestling.

Proposals for papers, panels, performances, and presentations on any aspect of popular culture in the South are invited. Papers are limited to a maximum reading time of 20 minutes. Send title, abstract of 100-150 words, and requests for audio-visual equipment (VCR/monitor, overhead projector, and slide projector only) to one of the PCAS Program Chairs before May 15, 2002: Elizabeth Cummins or Larry Vonalt, Department of English, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri 65409-0560; or for further information contact them by e-mail at [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Graduate students are invited to submit papers, but in order for them to compete for the annual awards given to outstanding graduate student papers, they must identify themselves as students on their abstracts, submit a sponsoring faculty member's phone number and e-mail address, and supply three copies of their completed papers no later than September 10, 2002.