SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES ANNUAL MEETING
The Citadel, Charleston, SC
Febrary 10-12, 2011

The 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina from Thursday, February 10, through Saturday, February 12, 2011 and will be hosted by The Citadel.

Featured speakers include Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) and Sylvain Venayre (Universite de Paris I). Featured events include a plenary session and reception Friday evening at The Citadel and a banquet on Saturday evening. Additional outings on Sunday morning February 13 to Fort Sumter and Drayton Hall Plantation, will be organized.

Call for Papers

The program committee will make every effort to combine single papers into coherent panels, but we encourage individuals to organize complete panels composed of two or (preferably three) papers, with a chair and commentator. Roundtables and other formats will also be considered.

Please do not send proposals for papers that have already been presented or that are scheduled for presentation at other conferences, or that have already been published. All conference participants must be members in good standing of SFHS at the time of the conference.

All sessions will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston. The hotel is steps away from restaurants, historical sites and museums. The special hotel rate will be $145.00 per night.

Please send proposals for panels ro individual papers as MS-Word attachments to Joelle Neulander, President and chair of the program committee (joelle.neulander@citadel.edu) Proposals should include the following items, integrated into one file: an abstract (no more than 1 page) for each paper; a CV (no more than 1 page) for each presenter, including contact information; and the proposed chair's and commentator's name, affiliation and email address.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 1 SEPTEMBER 2010.

WESTERN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY ANNUAL MEETING
Lafayette, LA
October 20-23 , 2010

The Thirty-Eighth Annual WSFH conference will be held at the Hilton Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana, October 20-23, 2010, and will be hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The chair of the local arrangements committee is Jordan Kellman (kellman@louisiana.edu). Lafayette is the heart of Acadiana, the oldest and last active native francophone community in the United States. A reception will be held on Friday, October 22 on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and optional outings to the Atchafalaya Basin cypress swamp and local venues with Cajun cuisine and music will be organized.