Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 5.1 (November 1997)

Announcements & Queries

The Society of Early Americanists has issued a call for session proposals for its first national conference in Early American Studies to be held at the College of Charleston Conference Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 4-7, 1999. Proposals should be for panel topics appropriate to early American studies, beginnings to 1830. Proposals are encouraged from all disciplines of Early American studies. Session topics will be selected by the program committee. The SEA will then publish a call for papers with the accepted session topics and the proposers’ addresses; proposers of accepted sessions will be responsible for the final selection of papers for their sessions and for submitting the panel participants and paper topics to the program committee for final approval. The deadline for session topics proposals is April 1, 1998. Regular mail, email, and fax proposals will be accepted. Queries are welcome. Send proposals (maximum one page) to Prof. Sharon M. Harris, Dept. of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333; telephone 402-472-1857; fax 402-472-9771; email sharris@unlinfo.unl.edu. For more information about the Society, visit its web page at http://www.hnet.uci.edu/ mclark/seapage.htm.

Stephanie Diani from ABC Clio, an educational publishing company in California, is looking for images of specific people from colonial American history, including several with Roanoke colonization connections, for use in an upcoming CD-ROM project, ResourceLink: Colonial/Early America. These CDs will be distributed to secondary schools worldwide. She would like suggestions as to where she might find images that can be licensed. The Roanoke colonization-related figures she seeks are Sir Richard Grenville, Richard Hakluyt, and Ralph Lane. Ms. Diani can be reached via email at imedit@abc-clio.com.

The eighteenth International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held in Athens, Greece, July 11-16, 1999. The Conference theme will be “The Cartography of the Mediterranean World,”but papers on any aspect of the history of cartography are welcome. The conference will be conducted in English, French, and Greek, with simultaneous translation. If you are interested in receiving further information, which will be issued in the “Call for Papers” in Spring 1998, please send your name, email address, mailing address, telephone and fax number to Dr George Tolias, 18th International Conference on the History of Cartography, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue, GR-116 35, Athens, Greece; telephone 301 721 0554; fax 301 724 6212; email gtolias@eie.gr.

A new electronic disccussion group on the topic of exploration has been established. The list can be found at discovery@win.tue.nl To subscribe send an email to majordomo@win.tue.nl, with in its body (not its subject) the text “subscribe discovery.”

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