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I would like to solicit abstract submissions from anyone doing work
on the transformation of the Southern California landscape during
its massive urbanization in the 20th century.  Thank you.
   Chrys Rodrigue, Center for Hazards Research, CSU Chico
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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Southern California Environment and History Conference Planning
Group is organizing its second conference:
 
                         NATURE'S WORKSHOP
                      Environmental Change in
               Twentieth Century Southern California
 
              California State University, Northridge
                       September 18-20, 1997
 
 
The Nature's Workshop conference  will bring together an  interdis-
ciplinary group of researchers and archivists to discuss and devel-
op current understanding of Southern California's environmental and
historical landscape.  This second annual conference will  focus on
Southern California in the  twentieth century,  a period of massive
transformations of natural systems  through modern urban and indus-
trial growth.
 
If your research or archival collection relates to the 1997 confer-
ence theme,  and you'd like it to be considered for presentation in
this program,  please submit three (3) copies of your abstract or a
description  of your collection,  together with a brief _curriculum
vitae_ (including your name, address, telephone number, and  fax or
e-mail address). Complete panels or sessions are encouraged, in ad-
dition to individual presentations. Acceptance or rejection of pro-
posed presentations or panels will be determined by the  SCEHC Pro-
gram Committee, and applicants will be notified by mail.
 
Please mail submissions (including a SASE), no later than May 1 to:
 
   Southern California Environment and History Conference
   c/o Center for Southern California Studies
   California State University
   Northridge, CA 91330-8371
   attn: Lorna Fenenbock, Conference Coordinator
 
For further information, please call (818) 677-6518.   You can also
send a fax to (818) 677-7115.  E-mail can be sent to [log in to unmask]
or [log in to unmask]
 
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