Homeland Insecurity:
Civil Liberties, Repression, and Citizenship
in the 1950s
a conference
Thursday January 23, 2003-Sunday January 26, 2003
Smith College ~ Northampton, Massachusetts

Registration is NOT required for the conference.  All events noted on the schedule page are FREE and open to the community.

Smith College is located in Northampton, Massachusetts, a two hour drive from Boston, one hour from Hartford, Connecticut, and three and a half hours from New York City. It is a lovely setting that combines the best of rural America with the sophistication, culture and ambiance of the city. Locals pride themselves in knowing that this charming and interesting town is one of the best-kept secrets of the U.S. Smith is a member of the Five-College Consortium which includes Amherst, Hampshire and Mt. Holyoke Colleges and the University of Massachusetts. The Berkshires are an hour to the west.

Travel:  
Northampton may be reached by bus from New York and Boston; Amtrak trains from those locations stop in Springfield, Massachusetts, 30 minutes south, and transfer may be made to the Peter Pan Bus Line. (The bus station is a short walk from campus.) The nearest airport to Northampton is Hartford/Bradley (BDL), a 45 minute drive, or you may make arrangements for an airport shuttle van through Valley Transporter (413) 549-1350. Boston/Logan (BOS) is a 2 1/2-hour drive.

• Directions to campus
• Campus map
• Lodging
• Map of area (Yahoo searchable map)

Contact information:

• Daniel Horowitz, dhorowit@smith.edu, conference co-chair
• Marilyn Schuster, mschuste@smith.edu, conference co-chair
• Jayne Mercier, jmercier@smith.edu, conference support
• Write:
  Homeland Insecurity Conference
  Seelye Hall 207b
  Smith College
  Northampton, MA 01063 USA
• Phone: (413) 585-3390
• Fax: (413) 585-3393

Homeland Insecurity is sponsored by:

Major Sponsors:

• Office of the Provost/Dean of the Faculty

• Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman ’31 Fund in American Studies

• Women’s Studies Program

• Meg Quigley Fund in Women’s Studies

• Project on Women and Social Change

Co-sponsors:

• Department of Afro-American Studies

• Department of Art

• Department of Biological Sciences

• Department of Classical Languages and Literature

• Comparative Literature Program 

• Department of Computer Science

• Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

• Department of Economics

• Department of English

• Film Studies Program

• Department of French Studies

• History Department

• Jewish Studies Program

• Lecture Committee

• Motion Picture Committee

• Department of Music

• Picker Engineering Program

• Poetry Center

• Department of Psychology

• Department of Russian Language and Literature

• Department of Spanish

• Department of Theatre