The Fourteenth Annual Institute Conference will be held June 6–8, 2008, at Suffolk University on Beacon Hill, in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Within walking distance of Faneuil Hall, the Old State House, and other seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century landmarks, the conference setting will provide opportunities to reflect on the intersections of commerce, religion, and politics in the development of the Atlantic world. 

The program committee, chaired by Robert J. Allison (Suffolk University) and Susan E. Klepp (Temple University), invites proposals that address topics in the entire range of early American history. Priority will be given to proposals advancing innovative thinking based on fresh research.  We encourage panels of two or three papers addressing a coherent theme or theoretical problem, including a panel chair and commentators, and will also consider individual paper proposals. The committee reserves the right to make changes in the overall configuration of panels. To encourage the widest possible participation, the committee will not approve more than one appearance by a scholar at the conference. Participants in the Thirteenth Annual Conference may not participate in the 2008 meeting in the same capacity, but 2007 paper presenters may comment and 2007 commentators may present. Assistance in the formation of panels is available at the Panel Locator, http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/panel/index.cfm

Panel proposals must be submitted by the panel organizer and include a one-paragraph description of the panel, one-page summaries of each paper, and a one-page c.v. for each presenter. Individual submissions must include a one-page proposal and a one-page c.v. Each c.v. should include mailing and email addresses and telephone numbers. Proposals must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2007. They must be submitted in hard copy; no fax or email submissions will be accepted. Send ten (10) hard copies of each proposal to Professor Robert Allison, History Department, Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108.