Conferences

SIMS held its inaugural conference in Spring 1998, and its success has inspired us to continue with annual two-day conferences on different themes. Our 1998 effort, the "Second Wave Conference" focused on southern economic development between 1940 and 1960, a critical period in southern life during which World War II and post-war development jumpstarted the South's industrial economy and began to transform the region. The University of Georgia Press is publishing a collection of the best essays from the conference, which will be part of the Press's new book series, Economy and Society in the Modern South.

1998	Second Wave
2000	The Sunbelt Revisited: What Really Happened to the Southern Economy?
2001	Growth and Change: The Southern City since 1960
2002	Caring and Curing in the South: Medical Technologies, Past and Present
2003	Southern Workers, Southern Industry