“Regionalism in This Age of Globalization,” the Southern American Studies Association’s next biennial conference, will be held February 7-9, 2003, at Tallahassee, Florida. The host for the conference is the Program in American and Florida Studies, Florida State University. 
Panels will include roundtables on the new Companion to Southern Literature (LSU Press, 2002) and on Regional Museums in a Global Market. Proposals already received include Juke Joints and Rock ’n’ Roll, Folk Art, Club Dancing, and Southern Prisons. Possible topics also include New England Exceptionalism; The Coen Brothers Do Regionalism; Queer Studies; Hispanic Floridiana; Think Globally, Act—and Make Music—Regionally. 
For submission guidelines, click on Interdisciplinary Conference@FSU, Feb.2003 at www.fsu.edu/~ams/.
Please submit proposals and address questions to both conference chairs: Karen A. Bearor, Department of Art History, Florida State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151; kbearor@mailer.fsu.edu; Dennis D. Moore, Department of English, Florida State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee. 

Joint Society for the Study of Southern Literature/American Literature Association
2002 International Symposium:
Postcolonial Theory, the U.S. South, & New World Studies
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
December 11-15, 2002
Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2002


The U.S. South occupies an intriguing position in the increasingly popular field of New World Studies. Scholars and nonscholars have long compared the South to the American North, but how can we understand the South in connection to the Caribbean, which has faced somewhat similar issues of rural poverty, slavery , and racial division?
What problems or solutions does the U.S. South pose for ongoing negotiations among postcolonial studies? How do these fields contextualize, redirect, open, or foreclose the traditional narratives of U.S. Southern Studies?
Selected papers will appear in Mississippi Quarterly and possibly in a volume containing an expanded version of that special issue. The symposium is supported by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and by Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures at Mississippi State University.
Send abstracts and inquiries to Jon Smith, SSSL/ALA Symposium Director at jon@ra.msstate.edu or P.O. Box E, Mississippi, State, MS 39762-5505.