Call for papers--Ironmasters Conference

The following appeared on HTECH-L

    Date: 22 Oct 98

    Below, please find a Call For Proposals for the 1999 Ironmasters
    Conference from the Three Rivers Chapter of the Society for
    Industrial Archaeology.

        1999 Ironmasters Conference
        West Virginia University
        Morgantown, West Virginia
        April 23-25, 1999

        The West Virginia University Institute for the History of
        Technology and Industrial Archaeology in cooperation with
        the Society for Industrial Archeology Three Rivers Chapter
        is pleased to announce that the 1999 Ironmasters Conference
        will be held on the campus of West Virginia University April
        23-25, 1999.  This three day conference will feature an
        early bird Friday tour of the operating and historic
        regional iron and steel industry sites, paper sessions on
        Saturday, and a Sunday tour of the standing remains of
        northern West Virginia's charcoal iron industry.  The paper
        selection committee is actively seeking paper proposals
        related to historic ironmaking, iron mining, and other iron
        and steel-related topics. Professionals and non-
        professional alike are urged to submit a paper proposal.
        Abstracts should be two-hundred words or less, and the
        speakers are allotted twenty minutes per presentation.
        Proposals are due by December 31, 1998.

        For more information or to submit a paper proposal, contact

            Lee R. Maddex, Project Coordinator, Sr.
            Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial
                Archaeology
            West Virginia University
            PO Box 6305
            Morgantown, WV 26506-6305
            304-293-3829
            Fax: 304-293-2449
            lmaddex [at] wvu__edu

    Shelley Maddex
    Secretary
    Three Rivers Chapter, SIA

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