The ASLH will go to Ottawa, Ontario, for the 2008 meeting, and the dates are November 13-16. The program committee, chaired by Laura Edwards and David Seipp, has just completed
a remarkably successful call for papers. It should be a bang-up meeting. To download the preliminary
program click here for
Word document
and here for PDF file.
Congratulations are owing to Laura Edwards and David Seipp, co-chairs, and to the program committee both for the high quality
of the program and for being at this time further along in the process than any committee in recent memory.
The pre-registration form is available from this site (you won't have to wait for the summer newsletter).
Our website is not secure enough to trust credit card numbers to it, so we're asking you to send the form
to us by mail or FAX (and, of course, an old-fashioned check is still welcome). You can either
fill out the form online
(.PDF) and then print it out and send it to us (keep a copy of what you print out; if you have the regular
Adobe Acrobat, you won't be able to save what you enter on the form digitally), or download a Word document
(.DOC) and fill it out on your word processor and send it to us.
The room-sharing form works the same way. You can either
fill out the form online
(.PDF) and then print it out and send it to us, or download a Word document
(.DOC) and fill it out on your word processor and send it to us.
Air Canada is the "Official Canadian Airline" for the conference. They offer discounts on air travel to Canada
for any dates from 10 November to 19 November, so long as the itinerary includes Ottawa for one or more of
the conference days. To get the discount you must book through their website
(aircanada.com) and enter the special promotional code at the bottom
of the place/date/time search engine: 4JJX42Z1.
The conference
hotel is the Fairmont Chateau
Laurier (pictured below). All the sessions, the
Continental breakfasts, the annual lunch, and the Thursday and Saturday
receptions will be held there. It’s a grand old hotel, and it should be fun. We
have negotiated what is for this hotel a remarkably cheap rate of Canadian
$189 for a basic double room. To obtain the rate you should telephone 1-800-441-1414 or 506-863-6310 and
indicate that you are booking for the ASLH Annual Meeting. Rooms for the
meeting may also be booked through a special
website that the hotel has arranged. (Do not use the hotel’s regular
website; you won’t be able to get the special rate that way.) In order to
obtain the rate you must book before
October 12. Also, all Canadian hotel rates (including the one listed above)
are subject to an additional tax of 15%.
The local arrangements committee, chaired by Constance Backhouse and DeLoyd J. Guth, has produced a zippy
flier
and an informative guide
that gives a good idea what Ottawa is like. The guide also contains practical information, including
information about flights
and the airport, and about a full range of
accommodations to fit every budget.
