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Welcome to the SIXTIES-L discussion list.

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SIXTIES-L is a moderated electronic mail forum for interdisciplinary academic and literary discussion of the cultural, social, and political movements of the Sixties. We invite participation from scholars in the various disciplines, such as history, literature, area studies, women’s studies, African American studies, sociology, economics, political science, religion, psychology, queer studies, cultural studies etc. We also encourage the participation of teachers, artists and activists.

SIXTIES-L is sponsored by the Sixties Project, the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and by Viet Nam Generation, Inc.  For more information on the Sixties Project, visit our Web site at:

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties

SIXTIES-L serves a variety of functions: it is a place where scholars, teachers, activists and writers can network, where they can inquire about resources, raise questions, debate issues, and obtain information about current events in the field (calls for papers, conferences, etc.).

We envision SIXTIES-L as an environment in which we can embrace the spirit of the 1960s and engage in passionate discussion and articulate views, while at the same time preserving a level of respect and consideration for our peers which allows diversity to flourish.

Because the subject matter is so volatile and discussion of the events of the Sixties still engenders strong feelings and reactions even from a scholarly audience, we have decided to run SIXTIES-L as a moderated list. This means that all posts to the list will pass before the eyes of one of the moderators before being forwarded on to SIXTIES-L subscribers.

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1.Confine your messages to subjects related to the Sixties. Use the list to either ask for or provide information on pertinent topics or resources, to discuss relevant subjects, or to post items (including scholarly or news articles, and course syllabi) which you feel would be of interest to readers researching and writing about the 1960s. We will also accept a very limited amount of fiction, memoir and poetry, selected on the basis of literary merit, potential interest to our readership, and topical nature.

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5.The post contained potentially offensive racist or sexist insults, or contained abusive language, or personal attacks (flaming) of other list members. (We understand that this rule will itself be controversial. What is and is not offensive is necessarily subjective. But in a volatile atmosphere, we prefer to err on the side of caution and to insist that posting members preserve an atmosphere of civility and reserve their attacks for others’ arguments rather than their characters.)

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