Georgia Association of Historians

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Annual Meeting

"Crossing Boundaries"

Feb. 22 - 23, 2008

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Members are invited to attend a Lecture at Fort Valley State, in the Pettigrew Auditorium on Feb. 21 at 5 PM.

The speaker is Robert A. Pratt, professor of history and department chair at the University of Georgia. He is author of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89 (1992)— named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States—and We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia (2002).

Our conference will begin on Friday, and on that evening we will hear a talk by Vernon Burton, who is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He is the author of the new award-winning book The Age of Lincoln. A reception will follow.

A Plenary Session at mid-day on Saturday will feature Gary M Fink who is Professor Emeritus at Georgia State University, where he was on the history faculty from 1970 to 1998. Fink was a leader in the development of the field of southern labor history, author and editor of nine books in labor and political history, and a promoter of the Southern Labor Archives at GSU and the Atlanta Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry, and Technology (SCHLITZ). He is a long-time member and Past President of the Georgia Association of Historians.

Gary and Mary Fink

All sessions will be held at the Pettigrew Conference Center on Friday and continue on Saturday morning; then the noon luncheon and business meeting will conclude our meeting.

As usual, our President-elect is the program chair; this year's it is Gene Hatfield of Clayton State University. Local arrangements are under the leadership of Fred van Hartesveldt and his colleagues at Fort Valley State University. Of course, our current president, Jamil Zainaldin of the Georgia Humanities Council will be facilitating everything.

Planning is under way; so check back to this site for more developments, which will include:

	conference program
	tour information
	registration information and form
	accommodations information

Our last meeting in Milledgeville was a great success, with over 100 registrants. Let's try to bring even more historians who work in Georgia to meet one another at Fort Valley.