Dear All Please check out the schedule for the upcoming Chesapeake American Studies Association conference, April 2nd, in Mason Hall, GMU, an event subvented by Mason's Cultural Studies PhD programme and African-American Studies programme. Please also circulate this notice as widely as possible to friends, colleagues and students. http://mason.gmu.edu/~psmith5/CHASA.html The conference theme is AMERICA AFTER BUSH. You'll see that, in addition to a series of panels, we have two distinguished keynote speakers, ERIC LOTT and SULEIMAN OSMAN. And we also have four focussed workshops featuring distinguished local speakers from a number of different disciplines and institutions: http://mason.gmu.edu/~psmith5/participants.html Please do whatever you can to help ensure the success of this one-day conference, beginning by circulating this information. Many thanks!!! paul Paul Smith Professor, Cultural Studies George Mason University 703 993 4206 http://mason.gmu.edu/~psmith5 -- ********************* Mack P. Holt Professor of History Director of Graduate Studies George Mason University Mail Stop 3G1 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Direct office phone: (703)-993-1259 Fax: (703)-993-1251