Past Conferences
1997 MWCBS MEETING
After a long hiatus (as noted in Walter Arnstein's historical narrative of the early MWCBS), the Midwest Conference returned to the University of Kansas at Lawrence, on October 17 and 18, 1997. Over eighty registered participants heard forty-four papers and two plenary sessions. Margot Finn delivered Friday's after dinner plenary address on the evidence of gender and commercial conflict from the Victorian County Courts. Glenn Burgess spoke after Saturday's luncheon on the relevance of revisionism to the question of absolutism and Stuart kingship, both before and after the English Civil Wars. Two splendid receptions were held--one at the Spencer Museum of Art (a magnificent gallery), the other at the Spencer Research Library (though several participants abandoned the pleasures of coffee cake to plunder the manuscript and rare book card catalogues). Anne B. Rodrick (Texas) won the Kenyon Prize for best graduate paper. For putting together a first-rate and broad program and an elegant regional conference, kudos are due to the program and local arrangements committees: Victor Bailey (Kansas) , Robert Butler (Elmhust), Jonathan Clark (Kansas), Nancy LoPatin (Wisconsin, Stevens Point), and Michael MacDonald (Michigan).
Midwest CBS Meetings
Thanks to Professors Walter Arnstein and Jacob Price, and graduate student, Andreas Dür of Eastern Illinois University (who combed the archives of your secretary/treasurer) for following information. If you have more accurate information or information going further back, contact Newton Key, and we will add it to our virtual archives.
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