2010 Annual MeetingUniversity of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
March 25-27, 2010
"The Business History of Everything"
Letter to Participants
Dear BHC meeting participant:Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2010 BHC annual meeting in Athens, Georgia. This page duplicates the email with information on logistics associated with travel, lodging, and registration that was sent to everyone on the program. It also contains updated information about submitting abstracts and papers. A current version of the program is now available. It will be updated regularly as necessary. Please review your listing on the program and email any corrections to BHC web editor Pat Denault, pdenault@fas.harvard.edu.
Everyone attending the conference is required to register, including all presenters, chairs, and commentators. The registration fee covers costs associated with holding the conference, including room rental charges, light breakfast in the morning and coffee breaks, and audio visual expenses, and is necessary for the BHC to afford to hold its meetings.
All conference sessions will take place at the Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel at the University of Georgia. Rooms are $89 single and $99 double occupancy. You can register for the meeting and reserve a hotel room by going to http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/2010/Mar/25/bus_history.phtml. You must reserve a room before March 1 to ensure you can obtain those rates, but I encourage you to make a reservation as soon as possible as it is likely we will use up our room bloc and have to send some attendees to an overflow hotel.
Athens is about 70 miles from the Atlanta airport. Shuttles run frequently from the airport to the conference center; please allow for this extra travel time in your plans. Information on the shuttle service and other local logistics is available on the BHC web site.
The BHC supplies travel grants for graduate students presenting papers at the meeting through our Alfred D. Chandler Fund. If you are a graduate student, please send an email to Carol Lockman, clockman@Hagley.org, by February 1, indicating that you wish to apply for a travel grant and enclosing an estimated budget along with information on any other support available to you to attend the meeting. All graduate students who apply will receive some support, but expect that you will need additional funds to cover your expenses as our resources are limited.
Presenters will be expected to submit abstracts of their papers for posting on the BHC website by March 1, 2010. You can do so by going to the abstract submission form. In addition, presenters are encouraged to post electronic versions of their papers prior to the meeting, and to submit their papers for inclusion in our on-line proceedings publication, Business and Economic History On-Line. Information about submitting your paper for posting before the meeting is available on the abstracts page. Please go here for information on submitting your paper to BEH Online after the meeting.
To facilitate panel discussion, we would also like you to send your paper to other members of your panel by March 10th, if you do not submit your paper for posting on the website. Please send your paper to your panel's discussant as far in advance as possible to give him/her time to prepare comments. For panels with three papers, it is standard to present for twenty minutes maximum; for panels with four papers, fifteen minutes will be the maximum. Commentators should also limit themselves to approximately fifteen minutes to permit time for discussion from the audience.
IMPORTANT! Every meeting room is equipped with projectors and screens, but not computers, which are a considerable additional expense. If you or your fellow panelists plan to use a Powerpoint presentation, the panel should arrange to bring a laptop to connect to the projector and upload other presentation files needed by the panel prior to your session. Macintosh laptops require a special VGA connector. It is the responsibility of the panelists to coordinate with one another. Given time constraints, it is not feasible to connect and disconnect different laptops during the session itself. We suggest that you can email Powerpoint presentations to the person designated to bring the computer prior to the session. If that is not possible, please arrive at least fifteen minutes early to upload your files and open your presentation so that it is ready to go at the end of the last speaker's presentation.
If you are participating in the annual meeting and are not a BHC member, I encourage you to consider joining. Members receive discounted registration rates at the annual meetings; student members have registration fees waived entirely. Membership includes an annual subscription to our journal, Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History, and regular mailings and emails with news of the BHC and our plans for future meetings. Please go to our membership page for more information on how to become a member. New members will be eligible for the lower registration fees at the 2010 annual meeting.
I look forward to seeing you in Athens.
Best wishes,
Roger Horowitz
Business History Conference Secretary-Treasurer
rh@udel.edu
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