Please see below for a call for papers for the Model T Conference to be held at the Henry Ford in Dearborn next year. Sounds like it might be a good opportunity for some Michigan libraries to publicize their automotive collections and digitization projects!

The World of the Model T Conference
July 17-19, 2008
Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Model T Automotive Heritage Complex (T-Plex), The Henry Ford, the Society of Automotive Historians, and Technology & Culture are seeking proposals for papers to be presented at a conference celebrating the centennial of the Model T Ford in July, 2008. Entitled “The World of the Model T,” the conference will explore the meaning, impact and influence of the Model T Ford in the United States and the world. Of interest to a wide range of people, from academics to lay historians to Model T collectors, the conference will be held July 17-19, 2008 at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, and the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, Detroit, Michigan.

Proposals are invited on topics pertaining to the Model T’s design, manufacture, sales, and use. Also encouraged are papers exploring the Model T’s relationship to labor history, roads and highways, auto travel, suburbanization, energy, safety, public transportation, industrialization, and industrial archeology. Papers dealing with the Model T’s role in countries outside the United States are especially welcome.

Proposals should include the title of the submission, names and affiliation of the presenter, together with address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail address, proposed format (paper, panel, etc.), and a one-page abstract describing the content of the presentation. The deadline for proposals is September 1, 2007; notification of preliminary acceptance will be made by November 1, 2007. Proposals should be submitted to: Jerald Mitchell, Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, Inc., 140 Edison Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48202-1559; fax number 313-865-8504 or by
e-mail to jerald.mitchell@tplex.org. E-mail submissions are encouraged.