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CALL FOR PAPERS Citizens, Nations, and Cultures: Transatlantic Perspectives An Interdisciplinary Conference 16th-19th October 2002 The Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies Maastricht, The Netherlands Keynote Speakers Sabine Broek (University of Bremen) Jose Casanova (New School for Social Research, USA) John Keane (University of Westminster, UK) The Atlantic has been a crossing-point for people, ideas, and commodities for centuries. This conference will broadly explore what the 'transatlantic' means for the people of Africa, the Americas, and Europe who experienced these flows over the years. More specifically the conference will address three inter-locking dimensions of the transatlantic experience. Firstly, it will consider the lessons of the dynamics of transatlantic relations. At a time when globalisation raises concerns about the impact of westernisation or, more specifically, Americanisation on the rest of the world, the conference will ask what a study of the transatlantic can tell us about how people have adapted to cultural exchanges in the past. Secondly, the conference will examine the transatlantic experience as a focus of scholarly or artistic practice. Finally, the conference will ask what we can learn by the comparative experiences on the different sides of the Atlantic. What, for example, can comparative studies tell us about the relative experience of citizenship, nation, and race? Located at the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, the overall aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world, and from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, to discuss the development of citizens, nations, and cultures through the lens of the transatlantic relationship. The city of Maastricht has been a crossing-point for European cultures through history; as 2002 marks the anniversary of the Treaty on European Union, signed in the city and which formally established EU citizenship, it is both an ideal location and an opportune time to consider the changing relations between citizens, nations, and cultures The organisers welcome contributions from any discipline broadly within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The organisers especially welcome young scholars and postgraduates. All papers must nevertheless have the transatlantic relationship as the underlying theme. Electronic formats are accepted in Microsoft Word or plain text format. Please send a 300-400 word abstract by 28th February 2002 to: Neil Wynn or Andrew Thompson School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Glamorgan Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF37 1DL, United Kingdom E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.cmsu.edu/mcts/