The venue of the workshop will be Baltimore and Chicago, in alternating years. The workshop is not oriented toward a general audience, but is rather aimed at allowing a group of scholars to discuss in depth a topic of interest that they share in common. It is intended that papers will be circulated in advance among the invited speakers, so that the workshop itself may focus on the dissection of problems rather than on presentation. The first ten or fifteen minutes of each paper will be devoted to a brief recapitulation of the thesis or an illustration of material through slides, with discussion comprising the rest of the allotted time. Because time constraints prevent the organizers from inviting all those who may have a contribution to make on the general theme, we cordially invite both interested colleagues and graduate students to join the workshop as an audience to the discussion, and will provide time during the sessions for direct questions of the speakers, at the discretion of the panel moderator.
Space is limited.
A final program and further information will be mailed to registered attendees by the end of March 1999.