***With apologies for cross posting***
**Postgraduate conference 2nd announcement and call for abstracts** Americas
Research Group, Newcastle University "Rethinking the Americas: Peoples,
Places and Cultures"
Venue: Room 2.22, Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle
University, UK
Date: Thursday, 15th March 2012 (11am - 5pm)
Keynote: Dr. Simon Hall, University of Leeds. Paper entitled 'The American
Left and Interracial Cooperation: Lessons from the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
and Occupy Wall Street'
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/site/custom_scripts/people_profile_details.php?profil
eID=803
Call for Papers
The identity of the Americas (North America, Latin America and the
Caribbean), a continent comprising a multitude of interconnected peoples,
places and cultures, is constantly being redefined, transformed and
re-constructed through historical, social, and political processes. Now,
more than ever, attention is being focused on this continent. Overt
resistance to geopolitical changes brought about by the current economic
crisis in the United States, and increasing pressure upon natural and
cultural resources exerted by dominant economic elites, have had the effect
of reproducing and transforming local cultures and places: specifically, in
the way people experience and give sense to their everyday lives and how
social groups relate to each other.
This multidisciplinary postgraduate conference aims to discuss the processes
affecting the peoples, places and cultures that comprise the Americas from
the past to the present in a friendly and informal environment. We welcome
papers from Masters and PhD students from diverse fields of study that
address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Peoples:
- Ethnicity, gender and issues of race
- Expressions of citizenship and collective subjectivities
- Migration, displacement and resistance
Places:
- Globalisation, development, sustainability and socio-historic processes of
place-making
- Indigenous movements, social struggle and the defence of place
- Global, national and local uses of natural resources
Cultures:
- National and local cultures (knowledge systems, intercultural relations)
- Cultural resources (music, art, popular culture, festivals)
- Identity and representation (media, orality, texts, images) Please submit
abstracts of up to 250 words to both: Fernando Gonzalez-Velarde,
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ewcastle.ac.uk> and Lauren Cordell,
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Deadline: 20th January 2012
For further information about the Americas Research Group at Newcastle
University, please visit our website at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/
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