The 2009 Annual Meeting will be held January 2 - 5, 2009 in New York City
based at the Hilton New York & Sheraton New York Hotels. Paper and panel proposals are now being accepted for the PAHA Annual Meeting.

Session organizers should collect the following information, which will be needed to submit a complete proposal:

• Session title (of no more than 20 words)
• Session abstract (up to 500 words)
• Paper or presentation titles
• Abstract or description for each presentation (up to 300 words)
• Biographical paragraph or c.v. summary (up to 250 words) for each participant
• Correct mailing and e-mail address for each participant
• Chair (required) and commentator (optional) for the session
• Audiovisual needs, if any

Proposals should be submitted to PAHA Vice President Ann Hetzel Gunkel before May 10, 2008. Electronic proposals (in email & word format are strongly preferred.) Written proposals may be sent to:

Professor Ann Hetzel Gunkel,
Dept. of Liberal Education,
600 S. Michigan Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60605, USA.

Special call for NY Polonia Papers Wanted for PAHA Annual Meeting 2009 If you wish to present a paper or develop a panel discussion about New York Polonia, please contact Anne Gurnack at anne.gurnack@uwp.edu, Joseph Wieczerzak@ jwieczerzak@nj.rr.com, or Ann Hetzel Gunkel at agunkel@colum.edu. We are hoping to have multiple exciting sessions about New York. All topics are welcome.

The 2008 Annual Meeting was held January 3-6, 2008 with the AHA conference in Washington, D.C. For a report on the events at the 2007 Conference see What's New. Read the report on the 2007 conference published in the Nowy Dziennik.