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Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest |
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Women’s and Gender Historians of the Midwest
Meeting Present: Business: 2. Treasurer’s Report – submitted by Beatrix Hoffman Income— Expenses— Income over
expenses $1744.79 3. Election of
Executive Board positions for term running Sept. 1, 2004—August 31, 2006 A membership booth with
formal sign-up sheet is needed at the next conference and perhaps at other
conferences held prior to 2006 (e.g. Berks). Also, closer timing and
coordination between the membership chair and the local arrangements committee
could avoid unnecessary duplication of work. Finally, should WGHOM share its
membership list with affiliated organizations or with members upon request. On
next registration form, we will put a question to members re: this issue. v Local Arrangements – The next conference will be held at Maryville University in June 2006 (tentative dates June 9-10). Local Arrangements committee co-chairs are Linda Pitelka and Laura Westhoff, with Treasurer Kimberly Voss and Webmaster/Secretary Stacy Cordery as liaisons. Linda and Laura will contact others in the St. Louis area and invite them to help with local arrangements. v Program – Still to be decided are logo for conference and for organization as well as theme for conference (should there be a theme? If so, what?). v Program Co-chairs: Yvonne Johnson and Paula Hinton (committee to be decided); Linda Pitelka and Stacy Cordery will serve as liaisons (for local arrangements & web) v Keynote: Laura Westhoff will ask Elisabeth Israels Perry (St. Louis University); backups include Linda Kerber, Mary Neff, and Kim Neilson (Steve Reschly is contact) v Transportation and Lodging: There are two Marriotts on campus for lodging, but Linda will also check on the availability of dorm rooms. She will also set up shuttle bus service to the airports for the conference dates. v Conference Tentative Schedule FRIDAY, June ?, 2006 –
8:00-9:00 Registration and breakfast
SATURDAY, June ?, 2006 – SUNDAY, June ?, 2006 9:00-10:00 Business and Planning Meeting/Breakfast for interested participants v Call for Papers and Program First, a call for workshops will go out to the membership list via email to see who would like to organize workshop-style programs. Second, a general call for papers will go out in early 2005 for workshops, panels, etc. Deadline for proposals will be September 15, 2005. At this meeting, we wrote a call for workshops to send to members (Stacy Cordery will prepare this and send to Carmen Hernandez for forwarding), and Yvonne/Paula will develop the general call for papers. v Miscellaneous issues re: conference
--We will make an effort to include a diverse
group, including graduate students, undergrads, high school teachers, activists,
museum professionals, public historians, academics, etc. 6. Publicity and Newsletter Steve Reschly will chair the Publicity committee and will put together a mailing list and brochure and help publicize the CFP to listservs/schools. He needs a committee, so volunteers should contact him immediately. Kim Voss offered to help get press releases to media outlets. 7. Affiliations, sponsoring organizations Tammy Proctor will serve as liaison to other organizations. 8. Website All information for the
website should be sent electronically to Stacy Cordery (stacy@monm.edu)
for posting on the WGHOM site:
http://department.monm.edu/wghom/Default.htm Sept. 1, 2004 Call for workshops (to members) Oct. 1, 2004 Deadline for ideas/commitments for workshops (from members) Oct. 1, 2004 Verification/commitment of keynote speaker Oct. 31, 2004 Cost estimates prepared by local arrangements chair Dec. 1, 2004 Acceptance of workshops sent out Mailing list for publicity purposes complete Feb. 1, 2005 General Call for Papers goes out May 1, 2005 Reminder of Call for Papers goes out Sept. 15, 2005 Deadline for proposals Oct. 8?, 2005 Meeting of Executive Board and committees in St. Louis Oct. 31, 2005 Acceptance and rejection for program decided – notifications go out in November Nov. 30, 2005 Local Arrangements materials and registration forms ready for posting on web and mailing to participants Nov. 30, 2005 Announcement of conference & program sent out June 2006 Conference 10. Announcements --Laura Westhoff asked us to consider contributing teaching ideas to the Women and Social Movements Website, edited by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Contact Laura for more information or visit the site at http://womhist.binghamton.edu --Yvonne Johnson is working on an edited volume that highlights important women in the U.S. Midwest. Contact her for more information. Respectfully submitted by Tammy Proctor 23 August 2004 |