Ball State University's 2007 Small Cities Conference

I picked up on this from today's Muncie Star-Press. Running from this coming Thursday through Saturday.

"The Small City in a Global Context" is the title for the conference, set for Thursday through Saturday and sponsored by the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State.

The conference features scholars whose work has in some way dealt with the history of small cities in various parts of the world. The event provides them with an opportunity to compare approaches, methods and sources. The purpose of the conference is to define the history of small cities and secondary urban centers as a distinctive subject of inquiry within the larger field of urban studies.

Registration is $50 a person for the entire conference or $30 a day with an additional charge of $10 each for the Friday and Saturday luncheons. Ball State students, faculty and retirees can attend any of the sessions at no charge.

Sessions on Friday and Saturday will be at the E.B. Ball Center, 400 N. Minnetrista Blvd. A schedule of events is at www.bsu.edu/middletown/scconference.

Information: James Connolly, director of the Center for Middletown Studies, 285-8037 or jconnoll@bsu.edu.