CFP: ‘Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era’, an international PG conference

Posted on October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 by Catherine Gander

University College London from April 30 – May 1, 2015

The UCL Americas Research Network is pleased to invite scholars to participate in its first International Postgraduate Conference.

This two-day conference seeks to cater to an international community of postgraduate and early-career researchers of the Americas from across the humanities and the social sciences. We welcome paper proposals that address the overarching theme of the conference:

Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era

Geographically, this includes the whole Western Hemisphere (Central, South, and North America, as well as the Caribbean). By adopting a broad, hemispheric perspective, we hope to encourage debates that extend beyond the boundaries of the nation-state, and to question the validity of cultural divides that often limit research agendas and enclose perceptions of complex problems and communalities.

The conference, organized by UCL Americas Research Network, especially invites doctoral students and early career researchers whose work ranges both geographically and temporally, and will encourage interdisciplinary conversations on national, regional and local topics and those whose focus is comparative, transnational and global. By facilitating a space to have these discussions, this conference aims to create an ongoing platform and network for collaborative exchange.

The structure of the conference consists of three thematic approaches:

1. Representations, Ideology, and Ideas of Change:

Evolutionary and revolutionary concepts in post-independence Americas have brought about significant changes to the ways in which actors and groups think, represent, and position themselves and their demands vis-à-vis the formal structures of power. This stream invites papers that address the topics of “change” and “power” in the Americas in its multiple forms of representations, ideas, and ideologies. The underlying tensions and contestations of certain ideas that have a direct impact on our understanding of what power and change means form the major rationale of this inquiry. Developing new modes of thinking continues to be fundamental in the attempt to understand the political in terms of the modern nation and the major forces shaping the lives of subjects in the Americas.

2. Institutions, The State, and Governments:

This second thematic approach focuses on political institutions and the state in the Americas, and addresses the changing parameters of power and the political in modern times. This includes the ways in which the state and its associated institutions (both non-state and governmental) have evolved over time and geographical space; the modes of interaction between states and institutions, both within and across countries; as well as domestic, regional, and transnational actors. This stream invites papers that address themes from across the spectrum of political interactions, encompassing debates around sovereignty and global governance, regional integration and subnational decentralization, and institutional design and practice. We particularly welcome papers that take an explicit comparative and interdisciplinary approach, and that can appeal to students and scholars of the Americas from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

3. Contesting Power and Social Practices:

This thematic approach is interested in accounting for how different actors, communities, and movements in the Americas engage and interact with multiple-layered power structures, the state and its institutions and wider social systems. Social, economic, and political changes in the Americas are processes in which social actors are both objects and subjects. Confronted with these changes, historical and contemporary subjects have followed distinctive paths, from support and passive acceptance, to engagement in active contestation. This stream invites papers that address both the processes of resistance and the emergence of ‘from-below’ alternatives driven by non-hegemonic subjects, including, but not limited to, resistance to economic and productive models and to political and governance regimes; the contestation of hegemonic knowledge; the bottom-up emergence of social and material alternatives in the everyday life of social subjects and movements.

For more information, please visit our conference homepage on http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/research-fields/uclia-resnet/cfp

The organizing committee invites all interested doctoral students and early-career researchers to submit abstracts, which should not exceed 300 words, as well as a brief biography of no more than 50 words, which should include your name, email, and institutional affiliation. The deadline for abstracts and paper proposals is November 15^th 2014.

Please submit your abstracts to: uclamericasresearchnetwork@gmail.com

NB: This conference will be free to attend, both for speakers and for the general public, though prior registration for attendance without presenting a paper is essential. Details on how to register will follow shortly. Keynote speakers will be confirmed soon.

Key dates:

Deadline for paper-proposal submission: November 15^th 2014

Deadline for paper submission: March 20^th 2015

Conference: April 30^th to May 1^st 2015

Early EAAS Biennial Conference Announcement

Posted on October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 by Catherine Gander

Dates and Details for your diary!

The European Association for American Studies is pleased to announce that its next biennial conference will take place in Constanta, Romania from 22^nd to 25^th April, 2016.

The EAAS conference will be hosted by our colleagues at Ovidius University in Constanta, with the local support of the Romanian Association for American Studies. Constanta is an ancient and beautiful resort city on the Black Sea coast. The easiest entry point for international visitors is likely to be Bucharest airport, and this location provides a great opportunity to add days for vacation and exploration. The conference website currently being designed will give full details of travel and accommodation options.

Open Call for Presentations	To highlight the range and diversity of American Studies in Europe the EAAS is issuing an open call for proposals for the 2016 conference. Proposers may wish to identify and explore long-standing, current and emerging intellectual debates in American Studies; to explore critically the varying practices and methodologies in American Studies; to bring to life current discussions and to posit potential paradigms in American Studies. The various anniversaries of 2016 provide a variety of potential foundations for proposals. It will be 150 years since the start of the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction. That was also the era of the dime novel, and Seeley Regester’s The Dead Letter, credited by some as the first full-length American crime novel, appeared in 1866. 125 years will have passed since Thomas Edison patented the motion camera and 100 since the creation of the US National Parks Service. 1916 also saw the opening of the nation’s first birth control clinic, the election from Montana of Jeanette Rankin, the first woman to sit in the US House of Representatives, the release of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance and the publication of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems. It was also the birth year of Shirley Jackson, Walker Percy, and Walter Cronkite. The National Organization for Women celebrates its 50^th anniversary in 2016, as does Star Trek.
	Contemporary American Studies topics could include, for example, discussion of the USA’s strong, diverse and expanding literary canon; the multi-dimensional character and seemingly endless inventiveness of America’s cultural output; the inventiveness of American culture in an age of new social media; the heritage that might be left after the nation’s first African-American presidency. The EAAS conference encompasses topics across the disciplinary spectrum in American Studies, as well as interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to the subject. The themes mentioned here are not intended to be a definitive list, and the conference committee looks forward to receiving many different and stimulating proposals.
Format	The EAAS is moving away from its former Workshop format. Proposals are now invited that may use a variety of presentation styles. The conference structure is expected mainly to consist of traditional panels sessions with papers, and proposals targeted at this format are very welcome indeed, but submissions may also be proposed as roundtables, workshops, shop-talks, dialogues, interviews, performances, individual lecture presentations, readings or in other innovative formats. All proposals are expected to include the opportunity for discussion.

Session chairs	Volunteers are invited to fill the role of chairs or facilitators for sessions where these positions are vacant. Volunteers to chair sessions should include their name and affiliation, and a brief statement of their areas of expertise. The conference committee will gratefully call on volunteers to add them to appropriate sessions where possible.
Selection	The EAAS is committed to a conference that reflects the broadest disciplinary range within American Studies, the multinational membership of the EAAS, and the international participation that its biennial meetings attract. The conference committee will take these aims into account in reviewing proposals and in constructing the conference programme.
Deadline	The deadline for Proposals will be 15 June 2015. The Proposals process will be managed by the Secretary General of the EAAS and full details of the submission process will appear soon on the EAAS website. Meanwhile – note the dates in your diary, and take this opportunity to begin drafting your proposal for the 2016 conference.

CFP: Historians and the Margins: from North America to Former Empires

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Catherine Gander

Call For Papers

As part of the project EHDLM (Writing History from the Margins) funded by Sorbonne Paris Cité, the following conference will be held at Université Paris 13, on June 18-19, 2015.

Historians and the Margins: from North America to Former Empires

Organizers: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Claire Parfait, Mathieu Renault, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

Scientific committee: Christine Chivallon (LAM, CNRS), Elisabeth Cunin (IRD, CNRS), Odile Goerg (Paris Diderot), Ivan Jablonka (Paris 13), Martha S. Jones (University of Michigan) Elika M’Bokolo (EHESS), Mélanie Torrent (Paris Diderot).

Languages of the conference: French and English

Plenary speakers: Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta ; Columbia University), Odile Goerg (CESSMA, Université Paris Diderot)

This event is the final conference of a three-year project funded by Sorbonne Paris Cité and entitled “Writing History from the Margins: the Case of African Americans” (hdlm.hypotheses.org). This project, which involves 3 universities—Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 13, and Paris Diderot—explores the relationships between African Americans and history. A first conference (University Paris Diderot, June 12-13, 2014) investigated the works and the legacy of black historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Between the 1830s and 1940s these historians wrote from the margin of American society, both as amateurs, and later as professional historians, who launched journals, organized conferences, and developed institutional tools for their segregated scientific activity. The upcoming conference aims to extend the exploration to other historians who wrote from the margins. We would also like to question the very notion of margins. At a time when many wonder about the future of history as a discipline, we will examine whether margins can be considered as a site of innovation for historical writing.

Indeed, one of the objectives of this conference is to contribute to the ongoing debate about the historical discipline. Participants are invited to use the notion of “margins” to question the writing of history, its fictional and artistic representations, and the links between “professional” history and memory, between scholarly historical writing and the staging of history in museums and through commemorations.

The notion of “margins” will be considered in its widest sense, with a particular focus on historians located at the margins.

Papers may address any of the following issues, whether through theoretical explorations or case studies, without limitation of period or space:

– At a time when connected, entangled, transatlantic, and transnational histories render the opposition between “center” and “periphery” less pertinent, what exactly does it mean to write history from the margins?

– Who are historians “at the margins”? Does one write history differently when doing so from the margins? Is such history necessarily activist?

– What are the challenges involved in writing and publishing history from the margins? In the case of early African American historians, writing from the margins meant, among other things, looking for scattered sources and devising innovative solutions to break into print. How does this apply to other historians who find themselves at the margins of empire (writing colonial history from the point of view of the colonized; writing in languages other than the dominant ones), of gender (renewing historical writing from a gendered perspective in the case of female historians), of social class (writing from outside the socioeconomic and intellectual elites), and of historiography (challenging conventional wisdom; participating in revisionism)? How do we include historians of the past whose works have been forgotten, who still stand at the periphery/the margin of contemporary historians’ vision, and whose legacy often remains invisible?

Please send an abstract (300 words maximum) in English or French and a one-page CV to:

historyfromthemargins@gmail.com no later than November 15, 2014.

If you have any announcements, calls for papers, or queries about REDEHJA, please do email me at claire.bourhis-mariotti@orange.fr

Cordialement / Best regards,

Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Secretary

Conference Announcement: “Looking Forward, 2014: Current Projects in American Studies”

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Catherine Gander

“Looking Forward, 2014: Current Projects in American Studies”

November 13-15, 2014

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Organized by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre (Department of Culture, JFKI)

Conference Website: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/looking_forward2014

Two important institutions of American Studies in Germany celebrated major anniversaries in 2013: the German Association of American Studies (DGfA) turned sixty and the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University of Berlin passed the fifty-year mark. While both events triggered retrospective glances at the history of the field, the conference “Looking Forward, 2014” will survey major research projects of the coming years, mostly (but not exclusively) from Germany’s American Studies community.

In presenting their current projects, scholars will showcase diverse approaches to American culture, literature, and society. The field of American Studies has reached a point where its capacious multi-disciplinarity extends across an unprecedented variety of artifacts, practices, and media. What does it entail, then, to study American culture under such rubrics as cognition, materiality, narrative, or seriality? Which methodologies are fit to explicate the complex media ecologies of the present, as well as the archives of the American past? How do researchers navigate the currents of aesthetics, politics, hermeneutics, and theory? Is the field destined to prolong the rhetoric of “turns” and paradigm shifts or can it replace perennial appeals to do things differently with sustainable ideas for how to do things better?

Presentations will include reports from larger, ongoing or emerging, often interdisciplinary research ventures as well as from forthcoming or recent book publications of younger scholars (especially “Habilitationsschriften”).

Speakers: Klaus Benesch, Laura Bieger, Barbara Buchenau, James Dorson, Rita Felski, Winfried Fluck, Jens Gurr, Udo Hebel, Frank Kelleter, Günter Leypoldt, Martin Lüthe, Ruth Mayer, Mark McGurl, Heike Paul, Robert Reid-Pharr, Christoph Ribbat, Julia Sattler, Peter Schneck, Philipp Schweighauser, Florian Sedlmeier, Sabine Sielke, Daniel Stein, Jan Stievermann, Babette B. Tischleder, Johannes Voelz, Boris Vormann, Simon Wendt

For a detailed schedule, including abstracts of all presentations, see the conference website:

www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/looking_forward2014

The conference is free and open to the public.

Contact: alexander.starre@fu-berlin.de

CFP: Reading Short Fiction in Transnational Contexts

Posted on October 6, 2014October 7, 2014 by Jennifer Daly

The European Network for Short Fiction Research will hold its annual conference in Dublin, April 17-18, 2015. This year’s theme is “Reading Short Fiction in Transnational Contexts”, and abstracts are now being accepted at ensfrdublin@gmail.com.

Much scholarly work has been done in recent years on the idea of transnationalism in
literary studies, but the extent to which the term relates to works of short fiction has
not yet received sustained scrutiny. This conference aims to address this scholarly
lacuna with a series of lectures and panel discussions on a range of issues including
(but not limited to) the following:
• The transnational origins of short fiction
• Short fiction between nations
• Short fiction and nation-building
• Short fiction and the idea of the nation
• Short fiction as transnational form
• Short fiction between national cultures
• Reading short fiction across nations
• Short fiction authors between states
• Short fiction and its international audiences
• Short fiction and issues in translation
• Short fiction and the nation state
• Short fiction and the transatlantic world
• Short fiction in Europe
• Short fiction and empire
• Short fiction and the gendering of nation
In addition to papers on these and other topics, the conference will include a panel
discussion on the first five years of Best European Fiction, an annual anthology of
short fiction in English (and translation into English) published by the Dalkey Archive
Press. The conference will also include some readings by contemporary Irish short
fiction writers.
300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers should be sent to ensfrdublin@gmail.com no
later than midnight on the 1st of December 2014. Contributors should also send a
short biographical note indicating institutional affiliation. A provisional conference
programme will be announced in early January 2015.
It is envisaged that conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of the
peer-reviewed journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=196/
For further information about the European Network for Short Fiction Research see:
http://ensfr.hypotheses.org/

Download the CFP in PDF here: CfP ENSFR conference April 2015 Dublin

BAAS/APG ANNUAL US POLITICS COLLOQUIUM

Posted on October 2, 2014October 2, 2014 by Catherine Gander

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE BAAS/APG US POLITICS COLLOQUIUM

   US Embassy, London
    The Obama administration: hope, change and partisan politics
    Friday 14 November 2014, 11.00am – 5.00pm
    (registration and coffee 10.30 – 11.00am)

Speakers Include:

William Barnard (author and former Chair of Democrats Abroad) and Republican counterpart, Dissecting the 2014 Election Outcomes

Dr Althea Legal-Miller (University College London), Barack Obama and the African American Struggle for Racial Justice

Professor Inderjeet Parmar (City University) Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration

Former Members of Congress Hon Mary Bono (R-CA) and Hon Brian Baird (D-WA) discussing current hot-button US political issues

APG would like to extend sincere thanks to the US Embassy, London for hosting the event, which will take place from 11.00am – 5.00pm. Lunch will be taken this year at the Embassy’s in-house restaurant. This must be paid for in advance with your colloquium registration. Lunch is just £15. There are other places to eat around the Embassy for those that want to make independent arrangements. The colloquium fee of £10 without lunch includes refreshments.

    Please send booking form not later than 1 November 2014 to:
    Dr Clodagh Harrington                                   or email: cmharrington@dmu.ac.uk
    Department of Politics and Public Policy
    Hugh Aston Building
    De Montfort University
    The Gateway
    Leicester LE1 9BH
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    £10—Colloquium Fee and morning and afternoon refreshments, but without     lunch
    £25—Colloquium Fee with morning and afternoon refreshments and lunch
    Name: ……………………………………………………………………………
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THE 24th BIENNIAL NAAS CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN STUDIES

Posted on October 2, 2014October 2, 2014 by Catherine Gander

“American Values: Public Virtues, Private Vices?”

THE 24th BIENNIAL NAAS CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN STUDIES

University of Oulu, Finland, May 11-13, 2015

The conference is organized by the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) and it will offer papers – by approximately 100 speakers from 10 different countries – on how America has defined its central values in politics, history, literature, architecture, film, the media, popular culture, and everyday living. Why does it matter so much to the American public today whether or not Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings at the end of the eighteenth century? Are there some particular American ways to deal with ethical issues? What has been the impact of such traditional American values as individualism, self-help, and egalitarianism on the rest of the world?

Our guest speakers from the United States will include: ● Annette Gordon-Reed (History Pulitzer for The Hemingses of Monticello, 2009) ● Daniel Walker Howe (History Pulitzer for What Hath God Wrought, 2008) ● Peter Onuf (Author of The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, 2007) ● Andrew O’Shaughnessy (American History Book Prize for Men Who Lost America, 2014) ● Alan Taylor (2 History Pulitzers: for William Cooper’s Town in 1996 and for The Internal Enemy in 2014) ● Gordon Wood (History Pulitzer for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 1993).

NAAS PLENARY SPEAKERS: ● ASANOR: Hans Skei, author of William Faulkner: The Novelist as a Short Story Writer ● DAAS: Camelia Elias, author of The Way of The Sign: Cultural Text Theory in Two Steps ● FASA: Bo Pettersson, author of The World According to Kurt Vonnegut: Moral Paradox and Narrative Form ● SAAS: Magnus Ullén, author of The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne’s Allegorical Dialectics.

The conference is open to scholars and students from all over the world, but we offer lower registration fees to members of NAAS (Nordic Association for American Studies), EAAS (European Association for American Studies) and ASA (American Studies Association in the U.S). The regular conference registration fee will be 120,00 euro and for the members 100,00 euro.

For more information, contact the Conference President Ari Helo (ari.helo@oulu.fi)

Note that papers for 2015 Orm Øverland Prize can still be submitted: To honor the work of Professor Orm Øverland, NAAS has created the Orm Øverland Prize (EUR 200), which since 2009 has been awarded to the best graduate student paper presented at the biennial NAAS conference. In addition to the monetary award, the winning paper is considered for publication in American Studies in Scandinavia, a peer-reviewed journal that NAAS publishes. For instructions on sending your paper, seehttps://sites.google.com/site/naasstudies/award

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/fasafinnishamericanstudies/naas-2015-conference

G(u)ilt and Glitter: Burlesque and Economic Crisis in Ireland

Posted on August 12, 2014August 12, 2014 by Jennifer Daly

Registration now open at http://dppskillnet.ie/index.php/event-registration/?ee=78, or see the event’s Facebook page

A one-day symposium in Boston College Dublin on 5 September 2014, with contributions from both interested academics and practitioners of the art form (including performers, designers, musicians and producers). The purpose of this symposium is to explore the growth, current strength and history of this art in Ireland from the perspectives of
— culture and influence,
— history,
— gender, identity and society
— aesthetics (including staging, design, costuming and performance styles)
— music
We are particularly interested in encouraging exploration of these themes from the perspective of the recession in Ireland, arguably mirroring the development and innovation of the art form in the US of the 1930s. Throughout and in the wake of the Celtic Tiger, Irish society has undergone a period of rapid change, both positive and negative. Questions of gender and sexuality have become particularly entangled with themes of economic struggle and renewal. Burlesque offers a creative space within which to explore renegotiations of cultural, economic and sexual power bases. The relationship between opulence and austerity, the transgressive performances of class and gender and the exploration of notions of morality, sin and pleasure on the burlesque stage situate the art in a relationship of exchange with concepts of economic guilt and illusions of plenty, hence the title of the symposium.
The symposium will be composed of three to four panels, each a combination of academic and practitioner perspectives, culminating in a roundtable to include Dr Claire Nally, from Northumbria University, Phil T Gorgeous, a performer from Dublin, and Sarah Cleary of Trinity College Dublin. Topics for discussion might include the response of burlesque to changing social norms, particularly the relatively rapid pace of change in social perspectives on gender and same-sex issues; the history of burlesque in Ireland; the culture of experimentation in performative gender modes, including various forms of transvestism; the major artistic influences on the Dublin scene; the conjunction of self-declared “feminist”/”postfeminist”/“non-feminist” identities on the scene and the challenges for gender and identity in a changing Irish culture, among others.
This symposium will function at a nexus of interdisciplinary interests, including literary representation, gender and cultural studies, media studies, sociology and history, music and theatre/performance studies, combining academic discourse, practice-oriented discussion and performance. As a form of community engagement, collaboration with the practitioner community offers benefits to both interested academics and those practitioners seeking to raise awareness of the history and culture surrounding burlesque and neo-burlesque, as well as fostering a longer-term process of engagement with this art form and its growing contribution to the cultural identity of Ireland.

With thanks to Boston College, the Humanities Institute and the Irish Association for American Studies for their generous support.
Further information here

Questions should be sent to clare.hayes-brady@ucd.ie

Word and Image: IAWIS/AIERTI Tenth Triennial conference

Posted on October 17, 2013November 14, 2013 by Catherine Gander

Riddles of Form: Exploration and Discovery in Word and Image

Tenth International IAWIS/AIERTI Conference

University of Dundee, Scotland

11-15 August 2014

Abstracts for each of the sessions listed above can be found at:

http://www.scottishwordimage.org/conferences/iawis2014/list_of_sessions.htm

We invite submissions of proposals for 20 minute papers (abstract 250-300 words).

The extended deadline for submissions is Friday December 6, 2013.

Please contact swig2014@gmail.com to submit abstracts or with any further queries. Please indicate the title of the session at which your proposal is aimed and supply full contact information.

There will also be general sessions on Word and Image topics, so proposals do not necessarily have to fit into the sessions specified.

‘Sight Unseen’: 2015 IAAS Annual Conference

Posted on October 17, 2013January 21, 2015 by Catherine Gander

2015 IAAS Annual Conference

24^th & 25^th April, Trinity College Dublin

Sight Unseen:

Seeing, Surveillance, and the Visual Sphere in American Culture

Standing on the bare ground […] all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all […].

(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836)

From the maps of early explorers and the surveying techniques of those who carved up the land; through the Puritans’ anxious scrutiny of their own souls and those of their neighbours for signs of Satan’s influence; up to the Patriot Act, hacking scandals, and Wikileaks, the history, politics, and aesthetics of sight and seeing, of concealment and surveillance, display and invisibility have been central to the United States’ (and indeed America’s) development as a space and a nation. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, seeing and being seen are particularly pertinent issues in our image-driven culture, ones that are increasingly being taken up by literary critics and cultural commentators as this century progresses.

This conference therefore aims to bring together scholars whose work explores the vast range of texts, experiences, and socio-political structures that touch upon and are touched by the visual realm, especially but not exclusively in relation to sight as an instrument and agent of control and discipline. “Sight Unseen” is a two-day interdisciplinary conference for scholars within the Humanities, at any stage in their careers, with an interest in North America and whose research engages with history, literature, critical theory, drama, film, visual culture, architecture, music, geography, media studies, and political theory. The conference invites proposals for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of our broad theme. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Technologies of seeing and being seen
The role played by painting, photography, moving pictures, and smart phones in the creation of “America”
Sight and the body
Surface and depth
Light and shadow as cultural metaphors
The eye and the “I”
Social and cultural invisibility
Invisible histories, people, places, events, texts, documents, or issues
Overexposure, nudity/ nakedness, and/or pornography
Dress, clothing, and self-display
Theatricality and performance
“Big Government”, the Patriot Act, Wikileaks, and the politics of seeing
War, terrorism, security, and surveillance
Privacy and self-concealment
The home and the workplace as sites of visibility
Consumerism, consumption and the visual
Surveillance and medicine

The submissions window has now closed

Please contact us at IAASConference@gmail.com if you have any queries.

“Looking Forward, 2014: Current Projects in American Studies”

November 13-15, 2014

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

“American Values: Public Virtues, Private Vices?”

THE 24th BIENNIAL NAAS CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN STUDIES

University of Oulu, Finland, May 11-13, 2015

2015 IAAS Annual Conference

24th & 25th April, Trinity College Dublin

Sight Unseen:

Seeing, Surveillance, and the Visual Sphere in American Culture

24^th & 25^th April, Trinity College Dublin