Category Archives: Conferences

Labor’s Past and Present: Two Recent Talks

The SLSA newsletter print edition is on its way, but here’s a sneak peek of one item and the full-length version of another.  Enjoy!

SLSA stalwart Bob Zieger shares “The Lessons of the Past,” his Labor Day address to the North Central Florida Central Labor Council in Gainesville.

Meanwhile, Bob Korstad offers up his keynote address from the spring 2011 SLSA-LAWCHA conference: “Searching for a Usable Past: Fifty Years of Writing Southern Labor History.”

Propose an SLSA Session for the 2012 OAH

Dear SLSA Members–

If you are interested in proposing an SLSA event at next spring’s OAH/NCPH meeting in Milwaukee, please let me know by October 5th.

David Zonderman, Chair, SLSA Program Committee (david_zonderman@ncsu.edu).

For additional information on the submission process and requirements, Continue reading

SLSA Events at the SHA!

Please join us for one or both of the SLSA sessions at this year’s SHA meeting:

TELLING LABOR’S STORIES IN THE SOUTH: A WORKSHOP ON PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH LABOR HISTORY

Friday, October 28: 4:45 P.M. Pratt A; Session 28.

Sponsored by the Southern Labor Studies Association

PRESIDING: David Zonderman, North Carolina State University

  • Engaging Public Schoolteachers in Southern Labor History: Lessons from the Teaching American History Program; Robert Korstad, Duke University
  • Teaching and Writing Southern Labor History for Young Audiences; Scott Nelson, College of William and Mary
  • Southern Labor History and Contemporary Political Debates: Writing and Publishing Op-Eds;David Zonderman, North Carolina State University

SOUTHERN LABOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON

Saturday, October 29: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M. Shula’s PDR; Session 41.

PRESIDING: Jennifer E. Brooks, Auburn University

John Bull Meets Jim Crow: Jamaican Guest Workers in the Wartime South

Cindy Hahamovich, College of William and Mary

Co-sponsored by the Southern Industrialization Project, and the

History Departments of the University of Maryland, College Park, and

Georgetown University.

To be followed by the Annual Members Meeting.

To register for this catered luncheon, send a check for $15.00, by October 10, made payable to

Southern Labor Studies Assn.
c/o Evan Bennett, Treasurer
Department of History
AH 107
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431

SLSA/SIP Luncheon and Lecture at the SHA

John Bull Meets Jim Crow: Jamaican Guest Workers in the Wartime South

A Keynote Address by Professor Cindy Hahamovitch, President, Southern Labor Studies Association

At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Baltimore, MD

October 27-30, 2011

Watch for us in the SHA program to reserve your spot!!