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[Lee Farrow]

The 45th annual Southern Conference for Slavic Studies meeting will be held for the first time ever in historic Montgomery, Alabama, on March 22-24, 2007.  The meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites in downtown Montgomery, and room rates include free parking, airport shuttle, full cooked-to-order breakfast each morning and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages with light snacks at the Manager’s Reception every evening from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.  The hotel also features an indoor swimming pool with a Jacuzzi, sauna, outdoor sundeck and fitness center, and is walking distance from the Hank Williams Museum, and within easy reach of the Civil Rights Memorial designed by Maya Lin, historic Old Alabama Town, the state archives, the First White House of the Confederacy and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s church. For those who are interested in exploring Montgomery’s rich history, we have arranged a Civil Rights tour, given by Randall Williams, on Saturday, March 24th, from 3-5pm.  The t
our trolley can only accommodate 26  riders, so please sign up as soon as possible. The cost for the tour is $20 per person.  (There is also a city-run, self-guided downtown trolley tour available for those who prefer a less structured tour.) After the city tour, conference attendees will have time to relax a bit and have dinner before boarding a bus bound for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a nationally recognized theater, for a production of Arthur Miller’s, “Death of a Salesman.”  Tickets are $30 per person, which includes transportation to and from the theater, and, as with the city tour, all those interested should sign up as soon as possible.  In addition to these fun events, there will be, of course, many interesting papers, as well as the presentation at the banquet by guest speaker, Diane Koenker.  Please join us at the conference here in Montgomery, a city rich in history and southern hospitality.  Check the AUM conference webpage for registration form and updates
: http://www.aum.edu/Academics/Scho
ols/Liberal_Arts/Depart
ments_and_Programs/History/SCSS/index.aspx?id=6768

General Schedule of Events: 
Thursday, March 22
3-8 pm on site registration
6-9 pm reception
 Friday, March 23
8-3pm on site registration
7-10pm banquet
 Saturday, March 24th
3-5 pm - Civil Rights Bus Tour
6:30-11pm "Death of a Salesman" at Alabama Shakespere Festival Theatre


Dr. Lee A. Farrow
Department of History
Auburn University Montgomery
PO Box 244023
Montgomery AL 36124

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