Scholarships for Two Symposia at the Salzburg Global Seminar

The American Studies Network, a group of 18 American Studies Centers that operate within the framework of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS)is offering a half scholarship for a young American Studies scholar from an EAAS country to attend one of the following symposia that will take place at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria. Each of the two scholarships is for 325 Euro, which is one half of the symposium fee of 650 Euro. Travel expenses are not included.

American Studies Symposia at the Salzburg Global Seminar - 2012

1) Resistance and Readiness: Immigration, Nativism and the Challenge of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the US and Europe Today - September 27-October 1, 2012 Distinguished specialists in the field will lead plenary sessions, panels and discussion groups looking at such topics as grounds for migration (push and pull factors), dichotomies between "natives" and "newcomers" and their significance in the US and Europe, identifies and distinctions between "they" and "we" as expressed in politics and in the art and literature of marginality, patterns of adaptation and integration -- and isolation, and the varied meanings of "tolerance". For more information about the program and speakers see www.SalzburgGlobal.org/go/SSASA2012immigration

2) Screening America: Film and Television in the 21st Century - November 15-19, 2012 The symposium will concern itself with changes in the modern media and particularly in the film and television industries, and the ways in which film and television have reflected and engaged with America and abroad. In addition to sessions related to and the impact of films and television on individuals, sessions will explore their institutional effect on the arts, technology and politics of the US and ultimately their relation to the perception of America abroad. For more information about the program and speakers see www.SalzburgGlobal.org/go/SSASA2012filmandtv

The ASN is sponsoring this award to acknowledge the important role played by the Salzburg Global Seminar in the establishment of American Studies in Europe since 1947, where the founding of the EAAS took place in 1954. Scholars who would like to receive the program announcement and apply for this award should send an email to Ms. Marty Gecek, Symposium Director, along with a brief cv and a personal statement about his/her interest in attending. mgecek@SalzburgGlobal.org

EJAS Special Issue: Wars and New Beginnings in American History

Rob Kroes and Jean Kempf, eds. “Wars and New Beginnings in American History,” special issue, European Journal of American Studies (2012).

War has been a defining moment in the history of nations and no more so than in the United States.  It gives the editors of EJAS great pleasure to present this excellent volume of essays focussed on the issue of American national rhetoric and American wars.  This volume is comprised of essays that were presented at a workshop on “Wars and New Beginnings in American History”, which took place in Dublin in 2010 at the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies, or are invited contributions on the topic of American wars.

While these essays explore the rhetorical theme of renewal and rejuvenation they also add new insights into wartime rhetoric. This collection is well-conceived and the essays hold together in a clear, logical way, in great part due to the splendid work of the co-editors Rob Kroes and Jean Kempf. This collection clearly demonstrates the quality of the work being done by European scholars and their colleagues on the history of the United States.  The topic of war and America is, sadly, almost always current, which makes this volume particularly relevant and extremely topical.  I am sure that the readers of EJAS will enjoy this latest volume of the journal. — Jenel Virden, editor EJAS


Table of contents
 

• Jenel Virden: A brief foreword to «Wars and New Beginnings in American History: An American National Rhetoric from the Early Republic to the Obama Presidency»
• Rob Kroes and Jean Kempf: Editors’ Introduction
• Jaap Verheul: “A Peculiar National Character”: Transatlantic Realignment and the Birth of American Cultural Nationalism after 1815
• Jutta Ernst: Washington Crossing the Media: American Presidential Rhetoric and Cultural Iconography
• Mark Meigs: Photographic Histories of the Civil War and the First World War and Rebirth
• Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet: War and National Renewal: Civil Religion and Blood Sacrifice American Culture
• Robert W. Rydell: Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley
•  David Ellwood: The American challenge in uniform: the arrival of America’s armies in World War II and European women
• Peter Schrijvers: ‘A Modern Liberation’. Belgium and the Start of the American Century, 1944-1946
  Marja Roholl: Preparing for Victory. The U.S. Office of War Information Overseas Branch’s illustrated magazines in the Netherlands and the foundations for the American Century, 1944-1945
• Frank Mehring: The Promises of “Young Europe”: Cultural Diplomacy, Cosmopolitanism, and Youth Culture in the Films of the Marshall Plan
•  Jean-Paul Gabilliet: Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture
• Kate Delaney: The Many Meanings of D-Day
• Rob Kroes: The power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power: Exploring a tension within the Obama presidency

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The Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference

The IAAS 2012 Conference will run from Friday 27 - Saturday 28 April 2012 in UCC.

"Registration for the Conference will take place in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Meeting Room, on the ground floor of the O’Rahilly Building from 1pm on Friday 27th. 

"Please pay your conference fee (Students and unwaged €10; IAAS/BAAS Members €20; Non-members €30) in cash at registration, at which point you will receive your conference pack with full confirmed details of the programme."

For more information email iaascork@gmail.com and see http://iaascork2012.wordpress.com/ . 

Call for Papers: Melville and Americanness

A one day international conference hosted by the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia on Friday 29th June 2012

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland

"Melville and Americanness: A Problem"
In 'Hawthorne and His Mosses' Melville wrote that 'no American writer should write like an Englishman, or a Frenchman; let him write like a man, for then he will be sure to write like an American.'

This conference invites participants to explore the ways in which Melville's 'Americanness' intersects with current thought on:

• Religion, Faith and Multiculturalism
• Race, Ethnicity and Individuality
• Masculinity
• The Space and Place of World Art
• Conflict, War and Political Divides
• Romanticism and the Gothic

(Proposals dealing with other topics are welcome)

One page Abstracts for 20 minute papers should be no more than 250 words and include a working title and the author's name and email address.

Please email abstracts to Dr Sarah Thwaites S.Thwaites@uea.ac.uk by 1st May 2012

Visit our website at: http://www.uea.ac.uk/ams/eventsnews

New Publications from Eurospan

A selection of new American Studies titles from Eurospan Bookstore including:

Becoming American?: The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo KuniyoshiShiPu Wang

The Transformation of the Republican Party, 1920-1940: From Reform to ResistanceClyde P. Weed

The American Highway: The History and Culture of Roads in the United StatesWilliam Kaszynski

America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion PicturesJerome Christensen

Reissued classic: The American Scholar Reader
Edited by Hiram Haydn
With a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz