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>Ken Hafertepe
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>The Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, Inc. and the Grace
>Slack McNeil Program in the History of American Art at Wellesley College
>announce that the 2000 Deerfield/Wellesley Symposium on American Culture
>will examine "The Pursuit of Refinement in America." The symposium will be
>held on Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4, 2000 in Deerfield,
>Massachusetts.  Academic, museum, and independent scholars are encouraged
>to submit proposals for papers dealing with Britain's American colonies and
>the United States.
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>The symposium is intended to illuminate themes in the inaugural exhibition
>at Historic Deerfield's Flynt Center of Early New England Life, Useful
>Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New
>England 1750-1850.  A catalogue by Philip Zea is available from Historic
>Deerfield.
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>Papers may be guided by but should add significantly to the discussion in
>Richard Bushman's The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New
>York, 1992).  Suggested topics include forms of communication, patterns of
>behavior, social intercourse, and the material possessions that enhance
>such performances.  Proposals should be no more than 500 words in length
>and focus on the main thesis of the paper.  They must be accompanied by a
>brief c.v., and should be received by the end of February 2000.  They
>should  be sent to Kenneth Hafertepe, Director of Academic Programs,
>Historic Deerfield, Inc., Deerfield, MA  01342.
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>For more information contact Hafertepe at Historic Deerfield (413,
>775-7209) or
>James F. O'Gorman at Wellesley College, Wellesley MA 02481 (781, 283-2058).
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