Call for Papers -

Mystic Seaport is seeking paper proposals to be presented at the Music of the Sea Symposium, held June 12-13, during the Museum’s Sea Music Festival. Submission deadline is March 13. Selected papers must be submitted in final form by May 8.

The symposium celebrates the lives and work of sailors through musical performance. Paper topics should focus on history, folklore, literature, ethnomusicology or other appropriate disciplines addressing any aspect of maritime music or inland waters verse from the great age of sail through present day.

Complete Call for Papers.

Call for Papers: WATERWAYS AND BYWAYS, 1600-1890, to be held in June 2009.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife is accepting proposals for papers and presentations on the subject of early transportation networks operating within New England and contiguous portions of New York and Canada before 1890. Based on the premise that New England's everyday economy, much like its culture, depended on regional interconnectivity, this conference attempts to examine the physical, professional, and cultural networks that facilitated and encouraged this movement. Specifically, the conference seeks proposals on river and canal life, on tavern circuits, and on the rise of overland stagecoach routes.