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Proposals are invited for a day-long conference on "The State of New England," sponsored by The Joseph Martin Institute for Law and Society at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. The conference will be held at the College on Friday, March 28, 2007. Proposals for panels and papers involving any area of New England politics and policy, political conflict, electoral and party change, political culture, social and demographic change, as well as analyses of leading public officials in the region are welcome. Proposals for papers or panels may be sent by December 15, 2007 to: Peter Ubertaccio, Director The Joseph Martin Institute for Law and Society Stonehill College Easton, MA 02357 pubertaccio at stonehill.edu 508.565.1311 508.565.1417 (fax) Program Committee: Peter Ubertaccio, The Martin Institute at Stonehill College Maurice Cunningham, University of Massachusetts-Boston Clyde McKee, Trinity College James Millikan, Stonehill College Maureen Moakley, University of Rhode Island Paul Petterson, Central Connecticut State University

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the diverse musical responses to war, ranging from the various types of traditional war protest music to the music of soldiers and comrades-in-arms to patriotic and nationalistic music from a global perspective. The conference will cap a year-long study of war at The Martin Institute—its politics, history, social and cultural effects—and will seek to analyze the complex relationship between war and music. As an example of The Martin Institute’s commitment to the power of crossing disciplinary borders, we welcome papers from a range of experts in fields such as music theory and history, musical theater, sociology, history, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, and literature. The conference is particularly interested in the music of war from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twenty-first. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: · Music as an expression of either the justice or injustice of war · The music of soldiers and comrades-in-arms · The history and future of response music · Popular music during wartime · Studies of individual artists, composers, groups or musical genres · Musical censorship during wartime PLENARY EVENTS “Symphonies of War: Music in the United States during the Second World War,” a lecture given by Annegret Fauser, Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Music in Time of War: From Bunker Hill to Baghdad,” a performance by the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Mark Harvey conductor “'Machine Gun Blues: Black Popular Music and War,” a lecture given by Kimberley Phillips, Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History, College of William & Mary PROPOSAL GUIDELINES & DEADLINE Proposals for full panels are preferred, but individual paper proposals are also welcome. Panel proposals should include a panel title, 200-word abstracts of 3-4 papers and a brief CV for each person delivering a paper. Individual proposals should include an abstract and brief CV. Postgraduate students, as well as more senior scholars, are warmly encouraged to submit proposals by November 15, 2007. Panels of and poster presentations by undergraduate students are also welcome.