The New York State Association
of
European Historians

NEWSLETTER

  FEBRUARY 2010

The sixtieth annual meeting
of the New York State Association of

European Historians

will be held on

September 24-25

at Siena College,Loudonville, NY.

   Proposals for papers and/or panels
should be submitted by

April 30, 2010
 to:

James Valone
Canisius College
2001 Main Street
Buffalo NY 14208

valone@canisius.edu

 FROM THE PRESIDENT
2 February 2010

Dear NYSAEH Colleagues,

The 2009 meeting was a tremendous success!  Special thanks are due to Jenny Lloyd and SUNY Brockport for hosting the conference, as well as to Fred Dotolo and Jim Valone for organizing the panels.  We all enjoyed David Costello’s retrospective on his career at Canisius College and his experiences in Russia.  We also profited from many wonderful papers and commentaries, in addition to the critical discussions and informal conversations that emerged during sessions and over meals.  Perhaps more than anything else, the conference allowed us to catch up with old friends, to make new ones, and to reinforce the sense of community that binds us together as European historians pursuing our careers in New York and in a growing number of cases (including now my own) outside the Empire State as well.

Even as the snow continues to fall, we are preparing for the 2010 meeting.  Wendy Pojmann has generously offered to host the NYSAEH at Siena College, and she has arranged for Laura Frader to deliver our keynote address.  Frader is Professor of History at Northeastern University and Senior Associate at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.  Among her many publications are Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics and Unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 (1991) and Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (2008).  The 2010 meeting will be an exciting one!  Please consider submitting a proposal for a presentation or volunteering to chair a session, and please encourage friends and colleagues to participate in the conference.  Also, please think about submitting recently published articles for the Bailey Prize in 2011.

I am looking forward to this year’s conference in Albany.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

W. Brian Newsome

The Bailey Prize

Just a reminder that next year (2011) prize will be awarded again.  It is not too soon to begin thinking about submissions.

We will begin soliciting papers shortly after the conclusion of this year’s conference so you should consider making a submission if you have a work that has been accepted for publication.

The only condition is that the paper must be submitted by a member of the association and have been published in the past three years.