2018 Florida State University Conference

February 16, 2018 | News & Events

2018 Florida State University Conference

February 16, 2018

“Letters in Troubled Times: Evaluating Epistolary Sources” Conference at Florida State University. Scholars from across the United States and Europe participated in panel sessions focused on new approaches to collecting, preserving, and disseminating letters of migrants and immigrants. The conference was hosted by Florida State University’s Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and Department of History. BIAAS provided partial funding for this conference. Selected papers from “Letters in Troubled Times” will comprise volume 2, issue 2 of the Journal of Austrian-American History.

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