Category: Calls for Papers
BAAS and IAAS Postgraduate Conference, 7-8th December 2013
University of Nottingham
Keynote speakers:
Professor Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds)
Professor Randall Woods (University of Arkansas)
The home has long served as a powerful signifier of American culture and identity, from the colonial frontier log cabin constructed to resist the rigors of a New World, to the suburban house synonymous with affluence and spiralling consumerism. The home is a space in which the politics of domesticity and sexual difference is made concrete; where gender roles are continually contested; and where a sense of belonging and unbelonging helps to define the roots of a community whether local, national or transnational. The home is a signifier of nation, of class, race and ethnicity and it is a location that inspires musicians, poets, artist and writers. Notions of a besieged homeland texture the language of international relations, whilst a banking crisis and the foreclosures that followed rearticulated the centrality of the home within American policy. This conference interrogates a symbol that lies at the foundation of America itself.
‘Homeward Bound’ is a two-day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate students with an interest in North America and whose research engages with history, literature, critical theory, visual culture, architecture, media studies and political theory. The conference invites proposals for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of our broad theme. The topics include, but are not limited to:
– Urban, suburban, exurban and rural homes/spaces
– Domesticity, gender, private/public spheres
– The home as a historical construct
– The non-familial family and concepts of legitimacy
– Regions, regionalism and transnationalism
– Morality, family values, religion
– Constructions of immigrant, diasporic, transnational identity
– Architecture, spatiality, sociality and protested spaces
– Public policy and the politics of urban development
– Mother tongues and dialects
– International relations and homeland security
Please e-mail abstracts of no more than 300 words to homewardbound2013@hotmail.com.Abstracts should include your name, institution, email address, and the title of your proposed paper. The deadline for submissions is: 1st October 2013.
In association with BAAS and IAAS the committee aims to keep costs low for postgraduate attendees by charging a minimal fee of £10 for one-day attendance and £15 for two-day attendance. This year the conference will also feature two training sessions tailored towards the professional development of postgraduates researching North America. These training sessions will be run by academics and specialists within publishing and funding organisations.
For more information on the conference follow our twitter (@homewardbound2013) or consult our official web address: amcannotts.wordpress.com.
May 18 2013
Trinity College, Dublin
Transnationalism holds particular resonance for American studies. Emerging from fragmented narratives of diaspora and fluid borders, it forms part of the foundational mythology of theUnited 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.
Definitions of transnationalism pre-date the racial redefinitions of American identity presented by Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic (1993) or Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983). Indeed they stretch back at the very least to Randolph Bourne’s seminal “Trans-National America” essay from 1916 that challenged the validity of ‘the melting-pot’ and redefined what ‘America’ and ‘Americanisation’ meant in the world of the hyphenated-identity.
Global economics and the pluralist trajectory of dominant economic, social and cultural conditions have now pushed transnationalism beyond a solely ‘racialised’ arc vide Robert A Gross’ “The Transnational Turn” and Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s 2004 ASA Presidential address “Crossroads of Culture: The Transnational Turn in American Studies.” Such thinking recognises the cognitive and multicultural diasporas that augment and exist independently from the physical diasporic traffic which definedAmerica. While the globalised, social media-powered geopolitics of the early twenty-first century require that America participates in more sustained, and sustainable, conversations with the wider world, such transnational, and transoceanic, exchanges of ideas, and the hybridic socio-cultural spaces they map, arguably privilege internationalist readings of America.
The IAAS postgraduate and early career scholar conference invites proposals for 20-minute presentations from across the disciplines of American Studies. Suggestions for topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
– Exile, Migration, Expatriation and the “Exilic”
– Heterotopia
– Borderland Studies
– Transnational Identity
– Transnationalism and Empire
– Sovereignty and Globalisation
– Comparative Imperialisms/Exceptionalisms
Please direct all enquiries and/or abstract submissions to iaas.symposium@gmail.com marked for the attention of Louise Walsh and Kate Kirwan.
Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts is 30 April, 2013.
A downloadable copy of this CFP is available here.
Seat of the International Court of Justice
“The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessing of liberty.” (20th-century U.S.-editor, commentator, and columnist George F. Will)
“And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.“ (John F. Kennedy, television address, 11 June 1963)
The paradox inherent in the United States’ commitment to the values of justice, liberty, and democracy on the one hand, and the often unforeseen and problematic results of enforcing and/or imposing these values on the other, has shaped the nation’s history domestically as well as internationally since independence.
At a domestic level, the U.S. was one of the first nations in modern history to establish a democratic and egalitarian form of government based on the Enlightenment principles of equality, political and civil liberties, and freedom of speech. At the same time, many of these principles have had different meanings for different groups within the U.S. throughout its history, and have repeatedly led to violent internal racial, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts.
In the arena of foreign policy Theodore Roosevelt’s “Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine” (1904) , for example, officially consolidated the role of the U.S. as an “international police power,” prepared to intervene “in flagrant cases of . . . wrongdoings.” This set the stage for a wide range of interventions, including those in Latin America and, more recently, the Middle East, whose transgressive nature has since met with harsh criticism. Yet the U.S. engagement in Europe during and after WWII has equally thrown into relief the nation’s crucial role as liberator and international promoter of justice and democracy.
The EAAS 2014 conference on “America: Justice, Conflict, War” will be hosted in The Hague (The Netherlands), the “City of Peace and Justice” that is home to the International Criminal Court as well as the International Court of Justice. Bringing Americanists from across Europe and across the globe to this location highlights the fact that many of the challenges facing the U.S. today increasingly tend to be, as Madeleine Albright has remarked in a recent interview, reflections of complexly interrelated problems of global justice and international peace diplomacy that transcend the boundaries of individual nation states and render the importance of international cooperation more crucial than ever.
We invite workshops that address the topics of justice, conflict, war, from the perspective of any of the disciplines within American Studies. Potential workshop themes may include but are not restricted to: questions of justice, domestic conflicts or international wars from the (pre-)colonial times to the present, including relations to Native Americans, slave revolts, race, class, gender and religious conflicts; conflicts between labor and capital, WWI and II, the Cold War, Vietnam, the First Gulf War, Afghanistan, 9/11, Iraq, the war on terror, and the war on drugs; violent responses to immigration and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border; the past / present role of the U.S. in the international community (UN, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, NATO); representations of justice, conflict, war in literature, film, and other media; war as cultural misunderstanding; war trauma, etc.
Registration fees
EAAS member € 140; late € 160; one day € 80
Non-member € 160; late € 180; one day € 90
Student member € 70; late € 80; one day € 40
Student non-member € 85; late € 100; one day € 50
Gala dinner € 70
Registration fees include: Participation in all workshop sessions and plenary lectures, two receptions, conference packet, coffee/tea
Deadlines:
March 15, 2013: Deadline for online submission of workshop and parallel lecture proposals to include a one-page abstract (no more than 500 words) and a half-page c.v. (250 words) of potential workshop chairs and parallel lecturers. Parallel lecturers should be scholars of established reputation. Workshop chairs from the 2012 Izmir conference cannot be workshop chairs in The Hague. The EAAS Board decided at its Izmir meeting that henceforth all workshops must be chaired by two colleagues belonging to different constituent organisations. Please use EAAS-L to circulate your ideas if in need of a co-chair. Workshop and parallel lecture proposals, whose proposed topic should be presented very clearly within the space of 500 words, will undergo blind review, and be assessed by the Board on the following criteria, each of which will carry the same weight: 1) relation to conference theme; 2) originality and strength of proposal; 3) likelihood of attracting papers and audience; 4) other considerations (general impression of the proposal; scholarship; extent to which the discipline has been represented at EAAS conferences previously; etc.).
Proposers of workshops are required to use the form that can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/8mh4ox2
Proposers of parallel lectures are required to use the form that can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/8mjm57q
Please do not submit proposals for individual workshop papers at this time. Such proposals may be sent to the selected workshop chairs who will be announced in May 2013.
May 1, 2013: announcement of workshops selected for the conference; publication of CFP for individual workshop papers on EAAS website.
October 1, 2013: Workshop paper proposals (with one-page abstract; no more than 500 words) to be sent to Workshop Chairs by those proposing individual papers.
October 15, 2013: Deadline for workshop chairs to send the tentative list of speakers and titles of workshop papers to the EAAS Secretary-General.
January 15, 2014: Deadline for submitting FINAL titles of papers and names and addresses of confirmed speakers to the conference organizers.
February 3, 2014: Deadline for information to be included in the 2014 biennial conference program.
[April 3-6, 2014: EAAS Conference takes place in The Hague]
April 20, 2014 (two weeks after end of conference): Deadline for chair 1 to send titles of two papers proposed for possible inclusion in conference volume (with speaker details) to Secretary-General.
April 20, 2014 (two weeks after end of conference): Deadline for chair 2 to send 500-word workshop report to the EAAS Secretary General, Gert Buelens, at secretary-general@eaas.eu.
CFP for newly established, peer reviewed International Journal of American Studies
This is a call for papers for the newly established, internationally peer reviewed Journal of American Studies to be launched in spring/summer 2013. The journal will be launched to provide an opportunity for scholars from various disciplines related to American studies to publish high-quality original research articles, essays and critical reviews that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
All manuscripts should be sent electronically to: Irakli Tskhvediani (iraklitskhvediani@yahoo.com; jdpag2012@yahoo.com) by the 30th of April, 2013. All submissions will go through a peer review process.
Style guides for papers:
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: 10 pts fonts for the main text and all additional parts except endnotes and index (where you should use 9pts), and chapter headings (where you should use 16pts). All text should be single-spaced.
Symposium: 22 and 23 August 2013, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Symposium Directors: William Blazek (Liverpool Hope University) and Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow)
Call for Papers:
2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Edith Wharton’s much-read and much-analyzed novel The Custom of the Country. Described as the writer’s “greatest book” by Hermione Lee in her 2007 biography, and listed by Wharton herself at the end of a long and prolific career as one of her own favourite works, The Custom of the Country arguably remains the author’s most complex and controversial novel.
To mark its centenary year, the symposium directors warmly invite papers on any topic pertaining to this landmark text. Themes might include: re-readings of the novel in the light of modern economic crises, serialisation, marketing and material culture, narrative strategies, modernist aesthetics, the challenges and rewards of teaching the novel, and reappraisals of Wharton’s most controversial female protagonist, Undine Spragg. Alternatively, discussions might be framed within the contexts of leisure-class marriage and divorce, masculinity, Europe, travel, or the visual arts. We also welcome broader comparative approaches, viewing The Custom of the Country in relation to other novels of the period, to other work by Wharton in any genre, or exploring the novel’s influence on contemporary writers and popular culture.
Co-sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society, the symposium will be held on the Hope Park campus of Liverpool Hope University, located within five miles of the Liverpool city centre. Moderately priced, ensuite campus accommodation will be available to delegates for the duration of the symposium. Day rates are also available. Keynote speakers for this event will be confirmed shortly. Further information and updates can be found on the symposium website: www.hope.ac.uk/custom<https://
Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers (indicating any equipment/technical requirements), and a brief biographical note by the deadline of 15 April 2013 to the directors via e-mail: custom@hope.ac.uk
Sponsors: Liverpool Hope University and the Edith Wharton Society
May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin in association with the UCD
English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute
The UCD English Graduate Society warmly invites MA and PhD students of all levels to submit
abstracts of no more than 300 words which engage with the theme ‘Emerging Perspectives’ for the
2013 EGS Postgraduate Symposium.
Since 2010 the UCD English Graduate Society has provided early stage scholars in universities
across Ireland with the opportunity to share their research in a supportive environment. Selections
from conferences and seminars have been published annually in the postgraduate journal
Emerging Perspectives.
The aim of the EGS 2013 symposium is to continue actively promoting exciting new research and
interdisciplinary dialogue in the greater Irish postgraduate community: early career scholars and
MA students are strongly encouraged to apply.
We invite submissions from a broad range of areas within the below disciplines including but by no
means limited to:
● New approaches to literature, multiculturalism, devolution, globalisation, migration,
diasporas, historical materialism (American, British, Irish Literature.)
● Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Victorian, Realism, Naturalism.
● Modernism, the Beats, Surrealism, Peripheral Modernities.
● Postmodernism, Digital Age/ Post-postmodernism?
● Theory: Materialism, structuralism, deconstruction, postmodernism, gender & queer theory,
psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, world literature, digital humanities.
● Novels, poetry, film, drama
This event will be held in the UCD Humanities Institute on the UCD Belfield campus. A selection
of the proceedings of the conference will be published in the fourth volume of Emerging
Perspectives.
Deadline for submission of abstracts, 300 words maximum, by March 1st 2013 for 20 minute
presentations. Submissions for panels are also invited.
Please email submissions as well as any queries regarding the event to englishgradsoc@ucd.ie
http://englishgradsocucd.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/egs.ucd
The IAAS postgraduate and early career scholar conference will take place in Trinity College, Dublin on 19 January 2013. Proposals are invited for 20-minute presentations from across the disciplines of American Studies.
This year’s theme is Transnational America(s). Suggested topics include but are not limited to
– Exile, Migration, Expatriation and the “Exilic”
– Heterotopia
– Borderland Studies
– Transnational Identity
– Transnationalism and Empire
– Sovereignty and Globalisation
– Comparative Imperialisms/Exceptionalisms
Proposals should be submitted to iaas.symposium@gmail.com by 31 December.
Full Call for Papers here: IAAS Symposium CFP 2013 (2)
The TSA 2013 Annual Conference will take place at Northumbria University, 8-11 July 2013
Plenary guests include
FREEDOM PROCLAIMED
University of Limerick
26-27 April 2013
Call for Papers
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “greatest demonstration for freedom in the history” of America, the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) invites papers on the theme of “Freedom Proclaimed” for its annual conference, to be held at the University of Limerick, 26-27 April 2013.
The necessity of the Emancipation Proclamation marks the tensions within the concept of America as the “sweet land of liberty” and “land of the free.” Conference participants are invited to explore how America’s various proclaimed freedoms – free speech, free expression, free press, free thinkers, free spirits, free love, free trade, free market, freedom of movement, freedom of the road, free exercise of religion, freedom from slavery, and more – connect to and impact upon issues of, for example, race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, ethnicity, and political affiliation. Conference participants are particularly invited to consider the ways and means by which freedom is proclaimed – in speeches, in song, in literature, in images, in action – and, as emphasised by Frederick Douglass in his Narrative . . . Written by Himself, the importance of expressing freedom for experiencing freedom. How do we “let freedom ring”?
The conference organisers welcome individual proposals or panel proposals on a common theme. Individual participants should submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper. Panel proposals will normally consist of an overall proposal of 150 words, plus individual abstracts of no more than 300 words for each of 3 papers for 1½-hour sessions. However, proposals for innovative, alternative panel formats are also encouraged. Papers in the areas of literary studies, history, politics, economics, geography, science, philosophy, media studies, film studies, photography, music and dance, cultural studies, international relations, and others, and from any theoretical or practical perspective, are welcome. All proposals should be submitted to IAAS2013@ul.ie by 7 January 2013.
Postgraduate students who would like to participate but are unable to attend, or feel their work is not so advanced that they could present a paper, are invited to submit a postgraduate poster for display at the conference on any theme relating to their research. For further information, on this or other aspects of the conference, please visit the conference website at www.iaas.ie or use the conference email address to contact the organisers:
Dr David Coughlan and Clair Sheehan, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, and Dr Gavin Wilk, Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland.
