CFP: Ecology, Economy, and Cultures of Resistance: Oikoi of the North American World (University of Edinburgh)

Michael Lobel to give Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture at SAAM, 10/27/16 The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites you to join Dr. Michael Lobel, professor of art history at Hunter College in New York City and winner of the 2016 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship, for a talk entitled “What John Sloan Can Teach Us about Illustration and American Art” on October 27, 2016, at 4:00pm at the museum.  If you are unable to attend, you can watch a live webcast at http://americanart.si.edu/research/awards/eldredge/. SAAM is also now accepting nominations for the 2017 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. To nominate a book, send a letter (not to exceed one page in length) explaining the work’s significance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality […]

Polish Association for American Studies Annual Conference American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, October 27-29, 2016 Plenary speakers: Rob Kroes, Utrecht University, Netherlands James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Irvine Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University Debate on American Studies in Poland Ewa Łuczak, University of Warsaw; Tadeusz Rachwał, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS); Marek Wilczyński, Gdańsk University Can American studies benefit from expanding beyond its current intellectual framing by adopting a consciously transnational approach and a more determined interdisciplinary approach? What would such an evolution imply in various locations and cultural/intellectual/political contexts? How would it affect current hierarchies of knowledge production and distribution? Our aim is to provoke critical reflection on what it is we Americanists do and to expand the field of inquiry through methodological innovation. Vernon Louis Parrington wrote in Main Currents in American Thought (1927) that he has "chosen to […]

Forging the American Century: World War II and the Transformation of U.S. Internationalism  Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, October 27-28, 2016 The intersection of contemporary debates about the future of American power and recent developments in the field of diplomatic history compel us to reconsider the foundations and contours of the American Century. "Forging the American Century", seeks to combine the current concern for America's changing role in the world with new and developing insights into the nature of international relations to revisit the origins of the American Century: World War II and its aftermath. The conference is not about the high diplomacy of the war, nor is it necessarily about the start of the Cold War. Instead, it will address the ways in which the World War and America's rise to global power drove Americans in different fields, both inside and outside the sphere of formal diplomacy, to forge […]