tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45724935142744610962024-03-14T09:09:12.792+00:00The NUI Galway American Studies ForumThe Galway American Studies Forum brings together post-graduate researchers and academics in NUI Galway to explore the inter-disciplinary nature of the field to its full potential.Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-143357881754708142013-11-20T21:03:00.001+00:002013-11-20T21:03:23.739+00:00Call for Papers: Transatlantic Studies Association, 13th Annual Conference<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">University of Ghent, Belgium</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In 1814 the Treaty of Ghent was signed, bringing to an end the War of 1812 between Britain</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and the United States. 1914 saw the outbreak of four years of devastation with World War I.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">To celebrate two hundred years of peace and alliance between Britain and the United States</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and the role of Europe in bringing it about, and to mark the remembrance of the First World</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">War, the TSA will hold its first annual conference outside Britain and Ireland in the city of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ghent, Belgium.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Association's membership has always incorporated both North America and Europe, but</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it is the intention with this conference to welcome in particular the input and participation of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">new members from across these regions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Anglo-American relations were central to transatlantic affairs through the 20th century, but</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">other nations - Canada, Germany, Italy, France, the Scandinavian countries, Poland and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Central Europe, Turkey, the Iberian countries - have also played important roles in this</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">period. Any consideration of the contemporary transatlantic region must now also include the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">rising powers of Latin America, and the increasing interactions between them, North</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">America, and Europe, be they cultural, political, virtual, or economic.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Panel proposals and individual papers that fit within the following themes are welcome:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">1. Literature and Culture</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">2. Economics</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">3. International History, Security Studies and IR</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">4. Planning, Regeneration and the Environment</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">5. Migration and Diaspora in the Atlantic World</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Please send paper proposals (a 300 word abstract and brief CV) and panel proposals to the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">conference email: </span><a href="mailto:tsa.ugent@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;">tsa.ugent@gmail.com</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 1 March 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Please contact the local conference organisers for any additional information:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Professor Gert Buelens Gert.Buelens@Ugent.be</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Professor J Ken Kennard Ken.Kennard@Ugent.be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">For further information on the Association please visit </span><a href="http://www.transatlanticstudies.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.transatlanticstudies.com</a></span><br />
Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-57442219369862435502013-05-07T15:41:00.004+01:002013-05-07T15:41:58.241+01:00The Donald Cameron Watt Prize<br />
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invited for consideration for the Donald Cameron Watt Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the
Transatlantic Studies Association for the best paper at its annual conference
by an early career scholar. Judging will be based solely on the written
versions of the papers submitted, which may not necessarily be the delivery
versions. Entries should be submitted by 31 May, preceding the annual
conference in July. This is the final deadline and no late entries can be
accepted. The full version of the paper must be submitted by this date. The
delivery of the paper is not part of the assessment but candidates for the
award must attend and deliver the paper at the conference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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paper will be awarded at the conference dinner. In addition, the paper will
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PhD; anyone who has a full-time appointment at a recognised higher education
institution, but has not held the post for more than 3 years and does not fall
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<!--EndFragment-->Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-26509736887038561002013-05-07T15:35:00.001+01:002013-05-07T15:35:12.078+01:00Publication: "A Contested West: New Readings of Place in the American West"<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We are glad to let you know about the publication of the third volume in the "American Literary West" series (Portal Editions):</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>A Contested West: New Readings of Place in the American West</i></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Edited by: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Martin Simonson, David Rio, and Amaia Ibarraran</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Paperback: 258 pages</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Publisher: PortalEditions, S.L. (March 1, 2013)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ISBN-10: </span><a href="tel:8493970581" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" value="+18493970581">8493970581</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ISBN-13: 978-8493970581</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/A-Contested-West-Martin-Simonson/dp/8493970581/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/A-<wbr>Contested-West-Martin-<wbr>Simonson/dp/8493970581/</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">As the title of the present book implies, this collection of essays is conceived of as a critical response to mainstream views of the American West. This third volume in the PortalEducation series The American Literary West discloses some of the many - and intriguingly different - accounts of the complex relationships between the West as a physical reality, on the one hand, and human inhabitation and interpretation of this territory, on the other. The subject, while far from new, is also far from being exhausted. In fact, it can never be, because the American West - as any other place - is a perpetual work in progress which is undergoing constant revisions. Thus, the essays of the present volume attempt to illuminate some of these new spots on the ever evolving map of the West, providing fresh perspectives on the struggle to penetrate the veil imposed by traditional accounts, and the urge to comprehend and to portray in writing a number of unique areas that have hitherto been invisible to the vast majority. The project of the writers under study is not only to produce literary archaeology, but first and foremost to offer new interpretations of old histories in a multi-faceted and changing contemporary reality.</span></span><br>
<a href="http://gasforum.blogspot.com/2013/05/publication-contested-west-new-readings.html#more">Read more »</a>Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-68278025632976566852013-05-07T15:31:00.003+01:002013-05-07T15:31:42.852+01:00Call for Papers: Anniversary Symposium on the Works of Toni Morrison<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Where: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY, STOCKHOLM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Friday October 18 - Saturday October 19, 2013.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This interdisciplinary two-day symposium celebrates the work of the Nobel Prize Laureate, Toni Morrison, and explores how Morrison's work was approached in 1993 and how it is approached today, twenty years after the Nobel prize. In her works, Morrison examines the question of African American identity, the physical and psychological scars left by slavery on the African American body, the development of male and female voices in post-slavery societies, and how the Self moves from objectification to achievement of agency. The symposium asks how 20th-century scholars have examined Morrison's works and how we, in 2013, still consider her work fundamental in studies concerned with African American, American, feminist, and contemporary issues. Researchers, postgraduate students and academic staff from different disciplines are invited to participate. We welcome papers conforming to 20 minutes oral presentation time, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.</span></span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When: 20 September 2013</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There is currently a call for papers for the conference "The African American Experience Since 1992" at the University of Hull, UK. The event is scheduled for 20 September and is being hosted jointly by the American Studies programme and the Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation Studies (WISE) at the University of Hull. The conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues relating to African American life and cultural representation in the post civil rights era.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We would like to encourage our EAAS colleagues to submit 250 word paper proposals (accompanied by a one-page CV) by the deadline of 31 May 2013.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For more details see: </span><a href="http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/american-studies/events.aspx" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/<wbr></wbr>american-studies/events.aspx</a>Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-87530412437274188122013-05-07T14:53:00.007+01:002013-05-07T14:54:25.625+01:00Call for Papers: Roots, Routes and Routs: American and British literature in the Long Eighteenth Century<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When: July 1st & 2nd 2013</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Where: Plymouth University</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In recent decades, 18th-century American literary studies has undergone significant transformation: 'especially' since the ground-breaking work of Cathy Davidson's Revolution and Word and, more recently, Laura Doyle's Freedom's Empire, critical approaches to early American literature have been comprehensively re-examined, in ways that have not always been recognised in both scholarly communities. An important feature of this re-examination has been a shift towards the 'routes,' rather than the 'roots,' of early American prose, drama and poetry; accordingly, transnational frameworks of critical discourse have tested the limits of a more discrete national aesthetic.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Where: Liverpool Hope University, UK</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Organisers: William Blazek and Laura Rattray</span><br><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Keynote Speakers: Pamela Knights and Gary Totten</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br></span><i style="color: #222222;">Call for Papers: extended deadline 27 May 2013</i></span><br>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i><br></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We warmly invite papers on the life and work of Edith Wharton for an international symposium, co-sponsored by the Wharton Society, to be held in Liverpool in August 2013.</span></span><br>
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<span style="text-align: start;">"Freedom Proclaimed" the Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference, will take place in University of Limerick from 26 - 27 April, 2013. </span></h4>
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The IAAS postgraduate and early career scholar conference invites proposals for 20-minute presentations from across the disciplines of American Studies. </div>
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Transnationalism holds particular resonance for American studies. Emerging from fragmented narratives of diaspora and fluid borders, it forms part of the foundational mythology of the United States. The term has a long history of use in racial dialectic, but its resonances permeate every aspect of contemporary (inter)national, cultural and economic identity.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We invite scholars from all academic disciplines to submit a proposal on their variety of unpopular culture of choice—whether it be on Edgar Allan Poe or Stephenie Meyer, on Justin Bieber or Black Metal, on camp or hipsterism, on New Criticism or Queer Theory, on Atari’s<i> E.T</i>. or <i>Duke Nukem Forever</i>, on <i>Birth of a Nation </i>or<i> Django Unchained</i>, on <i>Finnegans Wake</i> or <i>50 Shades of Grey</i>, or on anything that is unpopular or should be (or shouldn’t). Please send abstracts (or topical rants) of no more than 300 words, as well as a brief bio statement, to p</span><span class="s1">oehlmann[at]lmu.de</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by April 26, 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite ongoing attempts to cross borders and close gaps, popular culture is still often construed in opposition to high culture in contemporary academic and non-academic discourses. Partly indebted to what could be labeled a ‘Birmingham-School-tradition’ of the study of the popular, scholars have repeatedly attempted to ‘deconstruct’ the popular by problematizing various binaries the study of popular culture might summon; especially with regard to processes of identity formation, agency, and political positionalities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet the concept of popular culture itself also implies a dichotomy of a very different kind, and this conference seeks to explore the implications of this Other, an excluded middle that seeks to provide a new angle on popular culture: the unpopular. As an adjective, it can be used to describe either popular or high culture (and one might even define high culture by it), depending on one’s ideological perspective, but as a concept it offers a third term that complicates the other two, and that accordingly deserves more critical attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The essays range from 1,000 to 2,000 words, depending on the amount of material. Generally speaking, the essays cover: history and origins; regional practices, traditions, and artifacts; expressive forms in contemporary culture; and further reading. In addition, essays also include sidebars (100-300 words) that highlight interesting facts, including but not limited to: biographies of key participants, scholars, or other important individuals; artifacts (lyrics, sayings, advertisements, invitations, material culture, etc.); and events (descriptions of particular aspects of the tradition, costumes, rituals, participant roles, etc.). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lan Dong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">English Department, UHB 3050</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">University of Illinois Springfield</span></div>
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The 18th Annual Douglas W Bryant Lecture: From Acadie to Arab Spring: Reflections on America's Place in the World</h3>
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Born in the Acadian heartland of eastern Canada, BBC Presenter and Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet has been reporting from around the world for the past thirty years.</div>
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Her BBC work includes postings in Abidjan, Kabul, Islamabad, Tehran, Amman, and Jerusalem. In recent years her travel has often taken her to the Middle East, including Syria, as well as to Afghanistan and Pakistan.</div>
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Lyse was educated at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) and the University of Toronto. Her work has won a series of journalism awards and she holds honorary doctorates from universities in both Canada and the UK.</div>
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Price: Free, but attendance is by prior reservation ONLY. Send an email to <span class="s1">eccles-centre[at]bl.uk</span> to reserve places. Tickets are not issued for this event so, for the guest list, please provide your full name and the name(s) of any companion(s).<br />
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Conference: Movies for Hard Times: Hollywood and the Great Depression</h3>
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When: Monday 22 April 2013. 10.00-17.00</div>
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Where: Conference Centre, British Library</div>
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A one-day conference, with the participation of nine eminent scholars, who will analyze the Depression Era context of some classic movies, stars and studios. Among the subjects considered are Cary Grant, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Mickey Mouse, Chaplin's Modern Times and John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln.</div>
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<span class="s2">Detailed programme and registration form <a href="http://www.bl.uk/eccles/events.html#hollywood"><span class="s3">http://www.bl.uk/eccles/events.html#hollywood</span></a></span></div>
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Price £20, includes refreshments and buffet lunch. Limited places so early booking advised.</div>
Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-5240213930975314002013-03-21T13:31:00.001+00:002013-03-21T13:31:14.158+00:00Call for Papers: Ireland, Slavery, Antislavery, Empire Symposium
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University College Dublin, 28-30 October, 2013</div>
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Confirmed Keynotes:</div>
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<li>Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University</li>
<li>Nini Rodgers, Queens University, Belfast</li>
</ul>
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Call for Papers:</div>
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Nini Rodgers' Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 1612-1865 (2007) demonstrated that slavery has had a dramatic impact both on the Irish who emigrated across the Atlantic and upon the economy at home. As significantly, for black abolitionists, Ireland occupied an important site both as a place of literal freedom and as a vehicle through which complex questions of race, freedom, equality, empire and political subjectivity might be explored. This symposium offers the opportunity to further these</div>
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discussions, and also to open debate on sometimes neglected relationships between Ireland</div>
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and Latin America, Brazil, Africa or India, and to the related complexities, ambivalences and contradictions that the context of empire introduces to discussions of slavery and anti-slavery more broadly.</div>
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Ireland, slavery, anti-slavery, empire invites papers or panels from across the humanities and social sciences, and from Hispano, luso, franco and Anglophone areas of scholarship, focused on the relationship between Ireland, slavery, and ethical culture in the context of empire(s) from the 17th into</div>
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the early 20th century. We also welcome papers on the memory, representation and challenges of that relationship in the 20th and 21st centuries.</div>
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Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:</div>
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<ul>
<li>Revolution or rebellion</li>
<li>Slavery in Irish literature or Ireland in Black literature</li>
<li>The archive</li>
<li>The Congo</li>
<li>The Caribbean, Africa, Indian, Latin America and Ireland</li>
<li>Missionaries</li>
<li>emancipation</li>
<li>Collection and curation</li>
<li>Labour</li>
<li>War and military service</li>
<li>American slavery</li>
<li>Religion </li>
<li>Black activism and imperial space</li>
<li>Death</li>
<li>Travel writing/Exploration</li>
<li>The raced/gendered body</li>
<li>Slavery, empire and visual culture</li>
<li>Whiteness</li>
<li>Emigration/colonisation</li>
<li>Kinship</li>
<li>Remembering or forgetting slavery, including contemporary slavery, and empire.</li>
</ul>
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Abstracts of c 200 words, and a brief biography, should be sent to <a href="mailto:fsweeney@liv.ac.uk" target="_blank">Fionnghuala Sweeney</a>, <a href="mailto:maria.stuart@ucd.ie" target="_blank">Maria Stuart</a> or <a href="mailto:fionnuala.dillane@ucd.ie" target="_blank">Fionnuala Dillane</a> <span class="s3">by 16 June, 2013. Papers </span>should be in English and of no more than 20 minutes duration.</div>
Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-46460029431170209302013-03-13T17:34:00.001+00:002013-03-13T17:34:30.520+00:00Call for Papers: Transatlantic Studies Association<div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Northumbria University, Newcastle,
8-11 July 2013</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Chairman of
the TSA, Prof Alan Dobson (St. Andrews University) and Dr. Michael Patrick
Cullinane (Northumbria University) would like to extend an invitation to the
2013 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our outstanding 2013 plenary guests are: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor Donna Alvah
(St. Lawrence University)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor Michael Clarke (Royal
United Services Institute)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor Erwan Lagadec
will lead a roundtable discussion of his book, <i>Transatlantic Relations in
the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i> with respondents</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Panel proposals
and individual papers are welcome for <i>any of the general or sub-panels</i>.
A 300 word abstract of proposal and brief CV to panel leaders or to <a href="mailto:ad98@st-andrews.ac.uk" target="_blank">AlanDobson</a> and <a href="mailto:michael.cullinane@northumbria.ac.uk" target="_blank">Michael Cullinane</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Deadline – 30 April 2013</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The general
panels, subpanels and panel leaders for 2012 are:</span></div>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Literature and Culture: Constance Post, and Louise Walsh<br /><u>Sub-panels: </u><br />- Transatlantic Romantic Dialogues: Clare Elliott</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Economics: Fiona Venn, and Joe McKinney </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">History, Security Studies and IR: Alan Dobson David Ryan <br /><u>Sub-panels:</u><br />- NATO: Ellen Hallams, and Luca Ratti, Ben, Zyla<br />- Central and Eastern European Countries in NATO: Alliances, Politics, and Identity: Luca Ratti, Ben Zyla and Karolina MacLachlan<br />- Ethnicity and security in the transatlantic world: David Haglund<br />- The U.S. Pivot to Asia: Erwan Lagadec<br />- Diplomats at War: The American Experience: Simon Rofe<br />- Anglo-American Relations: Steve Marsh and Charlie Whitham,<br />- Transatlantic Relations during the Second World War: Tom Mills and Gavin Bailey<br />- Bringing South Borders In: Perceptions, Strategies and Political Action of Latin America and Africa in Transatlantic Relations: Alexandre Moreli<br />- Transatlantic Approaches to Energy Security: John R. Deni<br />- 40th Anniversary of the 1973 Oil and Middle Eastern Crises: Transatlantic Perspectives: Fiona Venn</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Planning, Regeneration and the Environment: Antonia Sagredo and Tony Jackson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Migration and Diaspora in the Atlantic World: Tanja Bueltmann<br /><u>Sub-panels </u><br />- The Anglican Church in the Atlantic World: Joe Hardwick<br />- British Cultural Legacies in the Atlantic World: Tanja Bueltmann</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For further information and the gateway for registration for the conference visit <a href="https://unimail.st-andrews.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=d206aa6a11774071882a40343bacff91&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.transatlanticstudies.com">www.transatlanticstudies.com</a><br /><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-90679101500557317382013-01-30T16:53:00.000+00:002013-01-30T16:54:21.944+00:00The 2013 Sulgrave Manor Watson Chair Lecture<br />
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Richard Carwardine: "Abraham Lincoln, Irish Americans and the US Civil War"</div>
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This year marks the150th anniversary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. While the Emancipation Proclamation did not mark the ultimate fulfilment of the declared American principle that "all men are created equal", it was a major and remarkable step, providing a route to the post-Civil War Constitutional Amendments ending slavery, establishing equal rights under law, and protecting the right to vote.</div>
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The Emancipation Proclamation signaled that the war to restore the Union had become a struggle for a more profound freedom. Such significant steps present challenges to society. On 18th March 2013, one day after St Patrick's Day, Professor Richard Carwardine, world-renowned expert on Abraham Lincoln, and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, examines in particular the trenchant questions asked of the Union loyalism of the Irish American community by his bold and public redefinition of the North's war aims.</div>
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The 2013 Sulgrave Manor Watson Chair Lecture is sponsored by Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home of George Washington's family in England, and supported by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.</div>
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When: Monday 18 March 2013 18.30-20.00</div>
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Where: British Library Conference Centre, London</div>
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Price: Free but by prior <a href="http://www.bl.uk/eccles/events.html#carwardine">reservation</a> ONLY.</div>
Rosemary Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10079826529771271086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-21164881924946072772012-11-01T18:06:00.001+00:002012-11-01T18:06:14.710+00:00GASF on IAAS and Other Acronyms<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our official launch received a mention on the newly-revamped <a href="http://iaas.ie/events/launch-of-galway-american-studies-forum-27-september-2012/" target="_blank">Irish Association of American Studies Website</a>. </span></div>
<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<a href="http://iaas.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/iaas-logo-small.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="http://iaas.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/iaas-logo-small.png" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">IAAS.ie has details of the association's history, upcoming events, prizes and more. I strongly encourage all GASF members to look into the <a href="http://iaas.ie/competitions/wtm-riches-essay/" target="_blank">WTM Riches Prize</a>. Established in 2004 this is a monetary prize for high-quality working from younger scholars in the American Studies field. The winning essay will also be considered for publication in the Irish Journal of American Studies.</span></div>
Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-57075386917348023082012-10-24T17:15:00.002+01:002012-10-24T17:15:10.814+01:00CFP: Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Northumbria University, Newcastle, 8-11 July 2013</span></span></b></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Chairman of the TSA, Prof Alan Dobson (St. Andrews University) and Dr. Michael
Patrick Cullinane (Northumbria University) would like to extend an invitation
to the 2013 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>
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<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor Donna Alvah (St. Lawrence
University)</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">Professor Susan Manning</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;"> (University of Edinburgh)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">Professor Michael Clarke </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">(Royal United Services Institute)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">Professor</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;"> Erwan Lagadec will lead a roundtable discussion of his book, <i>Transatlantic
Relations in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i> with respondents</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">Panel
proposals and individual papers are welcome for <i>any of the general or
sub-panels</i>. A 300 word abstract of proposal and brief CV to panel
leaders or to Alan Dobson </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:ad98@st-andrews.ac.uk">ad98@st-andrews.ac.uk</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">and Michael Cullinane </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:michael.cullinane@northumbria.ac.uk">michael.cullinane@northumbria.ac.uk</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline – 30 April 2013</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB">.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">Literature and Culture:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></h4>
Constance Post, <a href="mailto:cjpost@iastate.edu">cjpost@iastate.edu</a> and Louise Walsh <a href="mailto:walsh.lou@gmail.com">walsh.lou@gmail.com</a><br /><br /><br />
Sub-panels:<br />
<ul>
<li>Transatlantic Romantic Dialogues: Clare Elliott, <a href="mailto:clare.elliott@northumbria.ac.uk">clare.elliott@northumbria.ac.uk</a></li>
</ul>
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2. Economics: </h4>
Fiona Venn <a href="mailto:vennf@essex.ac.uk">vennf@essex.ac.uk</a>, and Joe McKinney <a href="mailto:joe_mckinney@baylor.edu">joe_mckinney@baylor.edu</a><br />
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3. History, Security Studies and IR</h4>
Alan Dobson <a href="mailto:ad98@st-andrews.ac.uk">ad98@st-andrews.ac.uk</a> and David Ryan <a href="mailto:david.ryan@ucc.ie">david.ryan@ucc.ie</a><br />
<br />Sub-panels:<br />
<ul>
<li>NATO: Ellen Hallams, <a href="mailto:EHallams.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk">EHallams.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk</a> and Luca Ratti <a href="mailto:ratti@uniroma3.it">ratti@uniroma3.it</a>, Ben, Zyla, <a href="mailto:ben.zyla@gmail.com">ben.zyla@gmail.com</a></li>
<li>Ethnicity and security in the transatlantic world: David Haglund <a href="mailto:david.haglund@queensu.ca">david.haglund@queensu.ca</a></li>
<li>The U.S. Pivot to Asia: Erwan Lagadec, <a href="mailto:elagadec@gwu.edu">elagadec@gwu.edu</a></li>
<li>Diplomats at War: The American Experience: Simon Rofe <a href="mailto:simon.rofe@soas.ac.uk">simon.rofe@soas.ac.uk</a></li>
<li>Anglo-American Relations: Steve Marsh <a href="mailto:marshsi@cardiff.ac.uk">marshsi@cardiff.ac.uk</a> and Charlie Whitham Whitham, <a href="mailto:cwhitham@uwic.ac.uk">cwhitham@uwic.ac.uk</a> </li>
<li>Transatlantic Relations during the Second World War: Tom Mills <a href="mailto:t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk">t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk</a> and Gavin Bailey <a href="mailto:g.j.bailey@dundee.ac.uk">g.j.bailey@dundee.ac.uk</a> </li>
<li>Bringing South Borders In: Perceptions, Strategies and Political Action of Latin America and Africa in Transatlantic Relations: Alexandre Luís Moreli Rocha <a href="mailto:alexandremoreli@yahoo.com.br">alexandremoreli@yahoo.com.br</a></li>
<li>Transatlantic Approaches to Energy Security: John R. Deni, <a href="mailto:john.deni@us.army.mil">john.deni@us.army.mil</a></li>
<li>40th Anniversary of the 1973 Oil and Middle Eastern Crises: Transatlantic Perspectives: Fiona Venn <a href="mailto:vennf@essex.ac.uk">vennf@essex.ac.uk</a></li>
</ul>
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4. Planning, Regeneration and the Environment</h4>
<br />
Antonia Sagredo, <a href="mailto:asagredo@flog.uned.es">asagredo@flog.uned.es</a> and Tony Jackson <a href="mailto:a.a.jackson@dundee.ac.uk">a.a.jackson@dundee.ac.uk</a><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-38280910111178670622012-10-22T13:48:00.000+01:002012-10-22T13:51:46.081+01:00Amiri Baraka to read at NUI Galway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Courtesy of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in association with Arts in Action, NUI Galway will be treated to a reading by poet, activist, and award-winning writer Amiri Baraka on <b>Thursday, 25 October, </b>in the O'Flaherty Theatre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and jazz criticism, Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others. He moved to Harlem in 1965 where he founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His reputation as a playwright was established with the production of <i>Dutchman </i>at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 1964. The controversial play subsequently won an <i>Obie Award </i>for <i>Best Off-Broadway Play </i>and was made into a film. The author of several volumes of poetry, an autobiography, and numerous essays on culture, music and politics, Baraka also founded the jazz/poetry ensemble Blue Ark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1994, Amiri Baraka retired as Professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, and in 2002 was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey and Newark Public Schools. In the fall of 2002, Baraka came under fire from the New Jersey office of the Anti-Defamation League, the New Jersey Assembly and others after a reading of his controversial poem <i>‘Somebody Blew Up America’ </i>about the 9/11 attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Professor Sean Ryder, Chair of English and Acting Director of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway: “Amiri Baraka has been a cultural catalyst in the US for over 50 years, impacting upon and inspiring writers, students and the wider public. We are thrilled that he is coming to our campus, and our students of English are enthused about meeting in person an author they study and admire.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Amiri Baraka’s numerous literary honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and many others. His book <i>Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music </i>was selected as a winner of the 31st annual American Book Awards for 2010.</span></div>
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Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-5626329431139784242012-10-11T20:00:00.000+01:002012-10-11T20:00:38.612+01:00Salzburg Global Seminar: American Studies Symposium
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASA) is organizing a four day symposium on American film and television, to be held at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, from November 15-19, 2012. All activities will take place at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, and the adjacent Meierhof. The symposium is open to individuals working or interested in areas related to the topic. The symposium will focus on developments in American film and television since the turn of the millennium and the way they reflect and communicate messages and images about varied aspects of life and culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we edge further into the 21st century there have been notable changes in the modern media and particularly in the film and television industries. The symposium will concern itself both with these changes and with the ways in which film and television have reflected and engaged with America and abroad. In the cinema, the documentary has become a significant force while television, partly as a result of cable -- particularly HBO and AMC, but also through a network such as NBC -- has attracted major talents from the theatre and the novel to produce genre series which compare favorably to any of world television. Why and how has this come about? Has this had any impact on mainstream television or movies? How has it affected the perception of America around the world?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to sessions related to and the impact of films and television on individuals, our sessions will also explore the institutional effect of films and television on the arts, technology and politics of the United States and ultimately their relation to the perception of America abroad. We will examine the global politics of film making since Hollywood films are part of this modern global system, asking what film and television tell us about the new century, and the American political system. Discussions will include the impact of new technologies and the impact of new methods of film making and distribution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As print journalism declines, television news falls prey to ideologues, and the blogger assumes an equal authority to the trained professional, where will we turn for our understanding of a changing world? Do we need to concern ourselves, as once we did, with the impact that American film and television products have on local media industries and people around the world?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ron Clifton (Chair) - Retired Counselor, Senior Foreign Service of the United States; teaching, lecture and research interests include analysis of the perception, reaction and impact of American culture abroad and the implications for cultural diplomacy and foreign policy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Melis Behlil - Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; member of steering committee, European Network of Cinema and Media Studies; research interests include production studies, Hollywood, and globalization</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christopher Bigsby - Professor of American Studies and director of the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; broadcaster and award-winning novelist and biographer; currently writing a book on American television drama.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christof Decker - Professor of American and Media Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich; editor and author of Visuelle Kulturen der USA/Visual Cultures of the USA (2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Walter Hölbling - Professor of U.S. Literature and Culture, American Studies Department, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lary May - Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota; current project: "Foreign Affairs: Global Hollywood and America's Cultural Wars</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Toby Miller - (Keynote Speaker) Professor and Chair, Media & Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside; Author, Global Hollywood 2(2005), Makeover Nation (2008), and Greening the Media (2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Richard Pells - Professor of History Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin; author of "Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture"(2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Uricchio - Professor and Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies Programs; Professor of Comparative Media History, Utrecht University; currently working on the history of the televisual and on algorithms as cultural form</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This two-year postdoctoral fellowship supports advanced inquiry in the history of American art, conservation, and museum studies and is integrated with the postdoctoral fellowship program of the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum. The selected fellow teaches three historical American art courses, participates in scholarly activities organized by the institute, and organizes an international scholarly event. Fellow receives a $134,564 stipend (over two years). For more information, please visit <a href="http://courtauld.ac.uk/">courtauld.ac.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This two-year postdoctoral fellowship focuses on the history of American art and visual culture. The selected fellow teaches four semester-long courses to undergraduate and master's-level students at a French university, participates in local seminars at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art and at the hosting university, and organizes academic programs on related research topics. The fellow receives a $107,000 stipend (over two years). For more information, please visit <a href="http://inha.fr/">inha.fr</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two professorships are available at the Courtauld Institute to present the best recent scholarship on historical American art. A twelve-week professorship requires administering one full-term course integrated with the institute's curriculum and participating in other scholarly activities. A one-week intensive professorship entails a public scholarly event, a seminar, and a special visit to a London gallery, archive, collection, or library relevant to American art history. Stipends are determined by seniority of the scholars. For more information, please visit <a href="http://courtauld.ac.uk/">courtauld.ac.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These eight-week visiting professorships focus on the history of American art and visual culture. Visiting professors give lectures and seminars at a French hosting university and participate in workshops, conferences, and other scholarly gatherings. One visiting professorship is available for each academic year. Visiting professors receive a $32,500 stipend. For more information, please visit <a href="http://inha.fr/">inha.fr</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These three-month visiting professorships focus on the history of American art and visual culture. Visiting professors offer specialized courses, seminars, and lectures and participate in the larger academic community throughout their stay. Two professorships are available for each academic year. Visiting professors receive a $36,000 stipend. For more information, please visit <a href="http://jfki.fu-berlin.de/">jfki.fu-berlin.de</a></span></div>
Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-89244473050988748392012-10-11T19:53:00.003+01:002012-10-11T19:53:47.228+01:00“Worlds Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick,” TU Dortmund University, Germany, November 15-18, 2012
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Worlds Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick,” a conference held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Philip K. Dick’s death, will take place at TU Dortmund University 15-18 November 2012. </span></div>
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Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-38810721324780401232012-10-11T18:16:00.001+01:002012-10-11T18:16:24.137+01:00North American Studies Post at Uppsala University<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) was founded by the Board of Uppsala University in 1985 and has been a section of the Department of English since 2003. The mission of the Institute is to pursue and promote research in the field of North American studies, in collaboration with the Section for American Literature, especially interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences, to coordinate academic work in a number of disciplines related to North American studies, and to constitute a forum for communication in this field, as well as to arrange courses, lectures, conferences, and seminars with the goal of disseminating knowledge of and creating interest in the field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Duties: Teaching and examination primarily in the first (bachelor) cycle but also in the second (master) cycle, administrative duties, and duties involving interaction with the wider community. Teaching duties include course responsibility, course administration, and supervision.The teaching component comprises instruction in both campus- and IT-based courses. Also included is the teaching of social studies courses covering the English-speaking world at the Department of English, for teacher-training students, etc.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Assessment criteria: In selecting among eligible applicants equal emphasis will be placed on academic and teaching competence. The applicants’ academic qualifications must lie within the subject area of North American studies. In the assessment of academic qualifications, great emphasis will be given to breadth, to social and cultural perspectives in applicants’ research, and to research qualifications in United States politics or United States media.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Assessment of teaching skills will include planning, execution, and evaluation of teaching as well as supervision and examination. Primary consideration will be given to the quality of teaching, and teaching skills must be well documented in a way that enables evaluation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Assessment criteria, other skills: Administrative competence is important for this position and will be afforded weight. Attention will also be paid to the ability to collaborate with the wider community and to inform others about research and developmental work. The capacity to inform others about research and developmental work is shown through popularizing activities, such as involvement in mass education, publication of popularly oriented writings, and participation in the public debate on education and research issues.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Administrative competence is shown, for instance, in the ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work in an efficient and goal-oriented manner and in the capacity to establish and respect timeframes. Competence comprises overarching operational planning and the ability to manage resources and the ability to work in a structured manner and with awareness of goals and quality.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Documented good capacity to cooperate with others.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Personal circumstances (such as parental leaves) that may be beneficial to the applicant when qualifications are assessed should be included in the list of qualifications and experience.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The University strives to achieve a better gender balance among its teachers, and men are especially encouraged to apply for this position.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A compilation of academic, teaching, and administrative qualifications (CV) documented by witnessed copies of grades, certificates, and other documents that are being brought to bear. The documentation of teaching qualifications must contain certificates, course evaluations, and qualitative assessments from directors of studies/equivalent.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A brief account of the applicant’s academic, teaching, and administrative activities. It should be clear from this account what investigations and findings as well as other achievements in general the applicant feels should receive primary consideration in the assessment. The portfolio of teaching qualifications should be designed in a way that makes their qualitative assessment possible.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">A list of the academic and teaching-related works brought to bear. The applicant is to select no more than ten of these publications or other works for primary consideration.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The works (maximum of 10) selected for primary consideration, in triplicate.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this recruitment the recruitment group may make use of interviews, trial lectures, and references. The applicant must therefore submit a list of references that can illuminate her/his professional competence and personal characteristics of significance for the appointment, such as capacity to lead and cooperate with others.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Information about the position will be provided by the head of department, Professor Merja Kytö, tel. +46 (0)18-471 1251, <a href="mailto:merja.kyto@engelska.uu.se"><span class="s2">merja.kyto@engelska.uu.se</span></a> or the director of SINAS, Reader (Associate Professor) Dag Blanck, tel. +46 (0)18-471 2208, <a href="mailto:dag.blanck@engelska.uu.se"><span class="s2">dag.blanck@engelska.uu.se</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Instructions for presenting qualifications will be provided by the officer in charge at the Faculty, Birgitta Laghé, <a href="mailto:birgitta.laghe@uadm.uu.se"><span class="s2">birgitta.laghe@uadm.uu.se</span></a>. Union representatives are Anders Grundström, SACO-rådet, tel. +46 (0)18-471 5380; Carin Söderhäll, TCO/ST, tel. +46 (0)18-471 1996; and Stefan Djurström, SEKO, tel. +46 (0)18-471 3315.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are invited to submit your written application, marked UFV-PA 2012/2490 no later than November 19th, 2012. Dierct your application to Uppsala University, P.O.Box 256, SE-751 05 Uppsala, SWEDEN, e-mail: <a href="mailto:registrator@uu.se"><span class="s2">registrator@uu.se</span></a> or fax +46 (0)18‑471 2000, by 2012-11-19</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The University’s Appointment Regulations are available at: <a href="http://regler.uu.se/Detaljsida/?contentId=92570&kategoriId=129">http://regler.uu.se/Detaljsida/?contentId=92570&kategoriId=129</a></span></div>
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Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-17694644105617597982012-10-02T13:02:00.000+01:002012-10-02T13:03:22.269+01:00Free eBook: Inside the Presidential Debates<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you know that the University of Chicago Press offers one of their publications each month for free in ebook format? This month's free ebook has an American Studies slant, and is certainly topical. Check out the link below. You can also subscribe to receive alerts when a new free ebook is released each month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">by Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the University of Chicago Press:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“There may be no one alive who cares more about America’s democracy than Newton Minow, who was there at the creation of the modern political debate. The riveting first-person stories he and Craig LaMay tell of debates in one election after another take us to the heart of American political life and argue for a continued central role for debates in our electoral process. Their book is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how to ensure that comes about.” - Judy Woodruff</span>Murneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05385413317728343593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-24192817149056749932012-09-28T17:11:00.001+01:002012-09-28T17:11:34.961+01:00Spanish Association for American Studies Conference: TRANS<p>The deadline for paper proposals to the Spanish Association for American Studies conference, "TRANS-": The Poetics and Politics of Crossing in the US," is October 15, 2012. </p>
<p>Contributors are required to submit paper proposals to the panel chairs before this date.</p>
<p>For a full list of Panels, instructions for submission and application form, see <a href="http://www.saasweb.org/">http://www.saasweb.org/</a></p>
<p>The 11th International SAAS Conference, "TRANS" will be held in La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands) from March 20 to March 22, 2013.</p>
<p>If you have any questions, contact <a href="alsina@ub.edu">Cristina Alsina</a>.</p>Rosemary Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10079826529771271086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572493514274461096.post-89208345673741471542012-09-28T16:57:00.001+01:002012-09-28T16:57:14.833+01:00American Literary History presents a Special Issue: Writing the Presidency<p>Editors: Stephanie Li and Gordon Hutner</p>
<p><strong>About this issue</strong></p>
<p>The essays contained in this ALH forum on "Writing the Presidency" detail a long tradition of writings by and about US presidents, analyzing how the rhetoric surrounding presidential writing signifies in its immediate political moment, and subsequently how such texts seek to define American patriotism and leadership. Taking up multiple and diverse methodologies, questions, and subjects, the authors gathered here demonstrate how presidents and presidential candidates help construct our national ideals.</p>
<p>Three of the articles from this Special Issue have been made FREE until the end of November.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/3">There Were Two Gerald Fords</a>: John Hersey and Richard Reeves Profile a President<br />James L. Baughman</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/4">Reagan and the Rise of the Blockbuster Political Memoir<br /></a>Craig Fehrman</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/6">The Parallel Lives of Bill Clinton</a><br />Stephanie Li</p>
<p><strong>Additional articles in this Special Issue include</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/1">Introduction: Writing the Presidency</a><br />Stephanie Li and Gordon Hutner</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/2">Profiles in Courage, JFK's Book for Boys</a> <br />John Michael</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/5">The Primary Colors of American Politics</a><br />John M. Murphy</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/7">"America's Exhibit A"</a>: Hillary Rodham Clinton's Living History and the Genres of Authenticity <br />Sidonie Smith</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/8">Commentary</a>: Do the Write Thing: Politics, Prose, and the Presidency <br />Glenn C. Altschuler</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/9">Commentary</a><br />Dana D. Nelson</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/10">The Rise of the Academic Novel</a><br />Jeffrey J. Williams</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/11">The Humanities and the National Interest</a> <br />Eric J. Sundquist</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/12">What Can American Studies and Comparative Literature Learn from Each Other</a> <br />Ali Behdad</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/13">Alienation Revisited</a><br />Johannes Voelz</p>
<p>To browse the full Special Issue online visit: <a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/14">http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/14</a></p>
<p>If your institution subscribes, you will be able to access the full text articles.<br />To recommend this journal to your librarian view the form here: <a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/15">http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4821/15</a></p>Rosemary Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10079826529771271086noreply@blogger.com0