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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div id=":1ek"><div id=":1ej"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> “Disaster! A Conference on Disasters in History.” April 9, 2011, Hagley Museum and Library<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The University of Delaware-Hagley Fellows invites scholars to join us in a conversation about how disasters have shaped societies, cultures and environments since 1700. What makes a disaster a disaster? Who decides? How have they been interpreted? What are the consequences of disasters? What can historians gain by studying disasters? We particularly encourage proposals for papers that explore how disasters can inform the histories of business, technology, consumption, the environment, work, and everyday life.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>We encourage proposals by both graduate students and established scholars. Financial assistance for travel will be provided to all conference presenters.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Please email a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV to the Hagley Fellows at <a href="mailto:hagley.fellows@gmail.com" target="_blank">hagley.fellows@gmail.com</a> by December 31, 2010. For more information: <a href="http://www.udel.edu/hagley" target="_blank">www.udel.edu/hagley</a>. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>