>From: "Philip Coleman" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:25:59 -0000
CALL FOR
PAPERS
Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference
2005
INVENTING AMERICA
National University of Ireland, Cork, April
22-23, 2005
In times of globalisation 'America', once more, has been
reinvented and
turned into a key trope that haunts the popular as well as
scholarly mind in
attempts to come to terms with global politics and
economics. Globalisation
frequently becomes equated with processes of
'Americanization', the latter
term especially referring to the worldwide
spread of American pop cultural
products, fast food, and the impact of U.S.
political, cultural as well as
military expansionism. Today we thus
experience new attempts to define
America in a global context.
In a
cross-disciplinary way this conference aims at exploring the various
venues
in which 'America' is created, questioned, rejected, and reinvented.
We want
to address inventions of America in both dominant and resistant
discourses
and, therefore, invite a broad range of contributions that
address the
processes behind negotiating and inventing America in the
contexts
of:
- exceptionalism
- melting pot
- postethnic society
For
the conference programme and related panels we welcome submissions in
fields
of research such as:
. the new media
. literature
. drama
.
film
. the visual arts
. music
. architecture/design
. theory
.
history
. philosophy
. religion
. gender studies
In particular,
we would like to encourage young scholars, postgraduates and
graduate
students to submit proposals and to engage in the
conference
discussions. We intend to install a postgraduate forum in
close connection
with the conference proceedings.
Send provisional
title, one-page abstract and short c.v. -- inserting
"Inventing America
Conference" in the subject line -- to Dr Gwenda Young at
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Dr Gwenda Young,
Department
of English,
University College Cork,
Cork,
IRELAND
Fax:
00-353-214903288
For further information on the IAAS see: http://www.ucd.ie/~ire-amer/