Center for Big Bend Studies
Center for Big Bend Studies
Every fall the Center for Big Bend Studies hosts a two-day conference in the Morgan University Center on the campus of Sul Ross State University. The 17th Annual Conference is set for November 12-13, 2010.
The conference brings together historians, archeologists, folklorists and other researchers studying the past and present of the Big Bend region and northern Mexico.
Conference attendees are also invited to renew old acquaintances and meet new friends at the complimentary Friday night social, followed by our annual
banquet. This year's banquet speaker for the 2010 Conference will be Dr. T. Lindsay Baker of Tarleton State University. Dr. Baker is the Museum Director
for the W. K. Gorden Center for Industrial History of Texas.
Center for Big Bend Studies members will receive a registration form in the mail several weeks before the conference that offers a discount for CBBS members and a discounted price for early registration.
Non-members may request a registration form by calling (432) 837-8179, faxing (432) 837-8381, e-mailing cbbs@sulross.edu or by downloading a form (PDF).The 2010 program will be posted when it becomes available.
Submitting Papers and Instructions for PresentersPresentations are allotted 30 minutes, and we recommend that the presentation itself last no more than 20 minutes, to leave time for questions. If you would like to present, please complete the Call for Papers form and send materials to the Center for Big Bend Studies. For detailed instructions for presenters, download the PDF.
Presentations should focus on prehistoric, historic and modern cultures of the Borderlands Region of the United States and Mexico, with emphasis on the area encompassed by Trans-Pecos Texas and North-Central Mexico. Please prepare a Powerpoint slideshow to accompany your talk.
All presenters are encouraged to write up their presentation as a formal paper after the conference and submit it for consideration in the next fall's Journal of Big Bend Studies. Selected papers will be edited and published. It is not required that journal papers be presented at the conference, but all conference presenters may then write a paper on their or another topic and submit it to the journal. All papers are required to follow a specific format which can be referenced here (PDF).
T. Lindsay Baker holds the W.K. Gordon Endowed Chair in History at Tarleton State University in Stephenville and directs the W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a museum and research center at the Thurber ghost town midway between Fort Worth and Abilene. He has written over twenty books on the history of Texas and the American West, the most recent being A Gangster Tour of Texas now in press at the Texas A&M University Press with scheduled release in fall 2011. He and his wife live on his great grandparents' cotton farm in Hill County, where he does much of his writing in his family's 125-year-old farmhouse surrounded by a mesquite pasture.
CBBS Scientific Illustrator Avram Dumitrescu created the painting of Ruidosa Mission, based on a photo by Candace Covington, for this year's Conference identity. The artwork measures 30" by 20" and is acrylic on canvas.