BAAS Graduate Assistantship in American History (University of New Hampshire)

 Organized by: ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office, Prof. Vakhtang  Amaglobeli Center for American Studies & John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.  Supporters: US Embassy in Georgia & Akaki Tsereteli State University We invite a variety of contributions that address any of the following topics: U.S. Literature U.S. Education System U.S. Culture Art Philosophy Mass Media Social and Women’s Issues U.S. History U.S. Politics Religion Law Economics Healthcare Ecology Georgian-American Relations Working Languages: Georgian and English  Style guides for papers: Conference proceedings will be published as a journal. Manuscripts should not ordinarily exceed fifteen standard pages (A4) including the abstract and the contributor’s short bio. All papers must conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition in all matters of form and should be typewritten in MS Word 2003. Use Times New Roman: 12 pts fonts for the main text and all additional parts except endnotes and index (where you […]

CFP: Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation BAAS Panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' 5-7 July 2017, Newcastle, UK Contributions are invited for a BAAS panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' a large-scale conference spanning across the discipline. The panel 'Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation' will explore the significances of, and engagements with, racialisation in post-Civil Rights writing by African Americans. It will seek to ask how understandings of racialisation are connected with understandings of the future, and to examine the ways in which literary texts have questioned categories and binaries of race and have complicated views of the processes by which racial identity comes into being. Such processes might be made visible in contexts such as: migration and immigration multi-ethnic coalitions intersectional politics future worlds internationalism coming of age narratives popular culture/music/sport contemporary politics, especially the Obama years new technologies and social media Possible writers include […]

International Symposium October 19-20, 2017 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon (France)  Thoreau from across the pond   Organized by Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon) François Specq (ENS de Lyon) and Laura Dassow Walls (University of Notre Dame) Guest speakers (confirmed): -        Professor Branka Arsić (Columbia University) -        Professor William Rossi (University of Oregon)   In honor of Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday in 2017, this conference would like to interrogate the multiplicity of viewpoints from which he is read today. In recent years, Thoreau’s writings have been approached from a variety of perspectives: he has been envisioned as a poet and a philosopher, but also as a political thinker, a scientist of sorts, a surveyor, a lover of nature and an environmentalist. While these different perspectives complement each other to a certain extent, they also reveal how multifaceted his writings are, and how elusive his figure remains. Something resists in his texts, […]

‘US Elections in Historical Perspective’ Symposium 8th November 2016, The Institute of Americas, UCL No one needs reminding that the 2016 election has been a race like no other. Two historically unpopular candidates are claiming democracy is under threat. Ideological coalitions are breaking apart and the spectre of re-alignment hangs over the party system. To make some sense of it all, we’re organising a half-day symposium on ‘US Elections in Historical Perspective’ at the Institute of Americas on Election Day itself - Tuesday November 8th. We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on American elections from any period of the nation’s history. Although we’re keen to look at elections in historical perspective, we do not require speakers to explicitly link back to the 2016 race. Given the nature of the event and the limited time frame, presentations can be fairly informal. In addition to the presentation of papers, there will be […]

Call for Papers Making America “Great”: Negotiating the Borders and Boundaries of Americanism Saturday 19th November 2016 University of Leeds Deadline for Abstracts: 23rd September 2016 The current US presidential election has witnessed the resurgence of a nostalgia for a past American “greatness”, defined in the popular imagination by specific boundaries and characteristics. Notably, institutional, social and economic power structures have shaped less inclusive definitions of American identity which continue to endure. Conversely, others propose that American “greatness” is characterised by the nature of always being in flux, incorporating and reshaping various identities, traditions and social norms. Whereas many other national identities are rooted in centuries of shared history, religious and cultural traditions or language, American national identity has less tangible roots and can, arguably, be characterised by a constant process of redefinition. The constantly changing nature of what it means to be American contributes to and builds upon what […]