The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture invites proposals for papers for its Fifth Annual Conference to be held June 11-13, 1999. Jointly sponsored by the Institute, the University of Texas at Austin, Trinity University, and the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, the meeting will take place in Austin, Texas, at the University of Texas. It is intended to provide a forum for the rich diversity of scholarship that characterizes the study of early America.

The Institute's field of interest encompasses all aspects of the lives of North America's indigenous and immigrant peoples during the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods of the United States and the related histories of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe, and Africa from the sixteenth century to approximately 1815. All who share such interests are encouraged to attend and participate in the conference. The program committee hopes that Texas's unique position at a borderland of the British, French, and Hispanic colonial empires will promote dialogue across scholarly frontiers through proposals for papers and, even better, entire sessions that incorporate comparisons among the colonial regimes of Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Interdisciplinary proposals are welcome. Advanced graduate students and scholars at the initial stage of their careers are particularly encouraged to submit proposals either for individual papers or full sessions. People planning to offer a proposal for the 1999 conference should be assured that there is no prohibition against giving papers two years in a row.

Individual submissions should include a proposal of not more than two pages and a one-page curriculum vitae. Proposals for entire panels should be submitted in one packet by the designated organizer with a one-page curriculum vitae for each presenter and a page concerning each presentation. Fourteen copies of each proposal should be sent to Professor John J. McCusker, Program Chair, Fifth Annual OIEAHC Conference, Trinity University, Department of History, 315 Stadium Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78212, by September 18, 1998.

There is a web site for the conference where more information will be posted as it becomes available. Its address is http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oieahc.