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:: CURRENT NEWS ::

Next year Philadelphia, November 18-21, 2010. The Local Arrangements Committee has issued a zippy flyer.

The program commmittee for the Philadelphia meeting, chaired by Kenneth Ledford and Barbara Welke, have completed a remarkably successful call for papers. Check out the preliminary program here in pdf or Word.

Sign up for the Philadelphia conference online. The Society has recently upgraded its website to allow for secure transmission of credit card information. Pre-registration for the Philadelphia conference, access to the hotel's secure website to obtain the conference rate, room-share forms, and applications for exhibition space may now all be obtained by "one-stop" shopping through the Society's secure site.

Congratulations to Society members Abigail Firey, Andrew Wender Cohen, Kate Masur, and Ruth Mazo Karras, who are recipients of ACLS fellowships for 2010. If there is any other Society member who received such a fellowship, let us know. We'd like to toot your horn.

Announcements of the Society's prizes, fellowships, and awards for 2010 is now complete. Click here for the announcements of the Surrency Prize, the Sutherland Prize, the Cromwell Book Prize, the Cromwell Article Prize, the Cromwell Dissertation Prize, and the Reid Award. We particularly call the attention of graduate students to the announcements of the competition for Cromwell Fellowships and Preyer Scholars.

Last year's Dallas meeting a smashing success. Check out the highlights of the meeting here.

Abstracts of papers at the Dallas meeting are available online.

Board of Directors adopts by-law amendments. To view the notice of the amendments click here for pdf and here for a Word document. No member having objected by the deadline contained in the notice, the proposed amendments stand approved.

Board of Directors slightly revises dues structure. For most members, the dues will remain the same. The changes affect members with foreign addresses, student and emeritus members, and those who wish to become life members. For the details click here for pdf and here for a Word document.

Renew your ASLH membership with Cambridge University Press. For the details click here.