CFP: 26th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture

Call For Proposals

26^th COOPERSTOWN SYMPOSIUM ON

BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE

May 28 – 30, 2014
Cooperstown, New York

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, co-sponsored by the State University of New York College at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, examines the impact of baseball on American culture from interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives.  As 2014 is the 75^th Anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, special attention will be given to those proposals which focus on this theme.

Proposals for papers are invited from all disciplines and on all topics.  Papers on baseball as baseball are not encouraged.  Submission is by abstract and one-page vitae (include complete contact information).  Abstracts should be narrative, limited to three type-written pages.  Presentations should be designed to fit into a 20 minute panel segment.

Abstracts should be submitted by December 20, 2013, to:

 Sherry Wildenstein

135 Netzer Administration Building

State University of New York College at Oneonta

Oneonta, NY 13820-4015

Sherry.Wildenstein@oneonta.edu

For further information on the symposium, please contact

Jim Gates at jgates@baseballhall.org or

Bill Simons at William.Simons@oneonta.edu