New Wave Coming: An Emerging Academics’ Symposium. The IAAS Postgraduate Conference (Trinity College, Dublin)

The IAAS is experiencing something of a Youth Movement, as evidenced by our recent surge in Postgraduate Membership, and the strength of Emerging Academics’ contributions at the recent Annual Conference. ‘New Wave Coming’ aims to provide a forum for emerging voices in the American Studies field in Ireland. Taking our lead from founding principles, this event will explore the ideas, and the ideology, of what, to quote Vernon Louis Parrington, is considered ‘traditionally American’.