[HistoricCemeterieslistserv] Deadlines coming for the Association for Gravestone Studies Conference - Scholarships!

[GILL Kuri * OPRD]

2019 AGS Annual Meeting and Conference

AGS holds an annual conference every June. Held in a different location each year since 1978, the conference features lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, conservation and documentation workshops, classroom sessions, slide presentations, and guided cemetery tours.

Our 2019 Annual Meeting and Conference will be held at Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, North Carolina on June 25-30. Join us!
**Please note that this is a week later than our usual conference dates.

Click here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IHP2uKKbz8iuz1F4W1pE5-NuddHtQ62hatp0UbB91zfudXf7a3A_aahfX1rC4nwgxisv-5Kgpjaz7PzZK-Qony-cwGG3JgZl5FkLZqDTDQjV0G5k8BqPPxmHigoatZtnX62GBGxMKILtc66iG9VOqPL3tdphxaBOXUN9xs4X-zze_4Efxtphnu7-DxqnTJAD3L_4aiAaWH9-XdVdiL-biIRPt7tbzmojqb4oSh2zGS-eaKfxnrqe1A==&c=-D0c59rrQeATbFUNS7QdF2iS-oFhzhYNCwe5_7aIT6H9SGLnqXnp8w==&ch=Ne9MqLFkoTV7_8AybIdZHQ0ZEM2LLaV6pGBwNKskcNmxXOPNArKSwg==> to see a video about Garder-Webb University. Questions? Contact: ags2019conference at gmail.com<mailto:ags2019conference at gmail.com>.

Our keynote speaker for the first night of lectures will be folklorist, Appalachian culture specialist, poet, singer, and banjo player Joyce Compton Brown.


2019 AGS Conference Scholarship for Students

STUDENTS: Have you been doing research on gravestones, cemeteries, or a closely related topic?  Would you like an opportunity to attend the next Association for Gravestone Studies Conference and Annual Meeting as a guest of AGS?  Enter the AGS Student Scholarship Competition.

The next AGS Conference will be held at Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, North Carolina, June 25-30.

Requirements: The applicant must be a graduate or undergraduate student at an accredited college or university, as well as a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies. A student membership is just $25 per year and includes the next published issue of Markers, four issues of the AGS Quarterly, and more.

Application: Each applicant should submit a proposal for a twenty-minute presentation: a scholarly paper suitable for delivery at an academic conference, or a report of comparable quality on an on-going research project, to be presented at the Friday evening lecture session. PowerPoint is the preferred presentation medium.

Each entry should include the title, a summary or abstract and a PDF of the PowerPoint program, as well as a letter of recommendation from an academic adviser. Your entry should consist of a cover letter, with attachments, emailed to   info at gravestonestudies.org<mailto:info at gravestonestudies.org>.

The award will cover registration and activities fees, plus room and board for the full conference (about $525) and will include a cash prize of $200, which will be presented at the conference.

Deadline: March 31, 2019

Address all questions to the AGS Office, info at gravestonestudies.org<mailto:info at gravestonestudies.org>.

2019 AGS Conference: Call for Proposals for Participation Sessions

Proposals are solicited for participation/class sessions of 45 minutes in length. These sessions are not for presenting research papers, unless the paper is about how to do a particular type of research using the presenter's research as a case study. We encourage panel discussions and will allow more than one time slot if needed. Send a description of your session along with a biography to: Judy Juntunen,
rycraftjuntunen at aol.com<mailto:rycraftjuntunen at aol.com> by March 1.

2019 AGS Conference: Call for Papers

Proposals are solicited for scholarly papers, 20 minutes in length, to be presented during the lecture sessions, June 25-30. Please send an abstract of your paper (no more than 250 words) along with a brief biography (2-4 sentences) to Lectures Coordinator, info at gravestonestudies.org<mailto:info at gravestonestudies.org> no later than March 1.
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