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The Southern American Studies Association is the largest, and one of the most respected regional chapters of the American Studies Association (U.S.A.). SASA, with a mailing list of over 700 and an active membership of 500, presents new developments and findings in American Studies scholarship, identified and defines areas of debate about the nature of American culture and its study, and conducts cultural and historical programs on the South and its communities. American Studies specifies an interdisciplinary investigation of American culture in order to better understand the institutional patterns, beliefs, and values of America's pluralistic society.
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SASA’s 2013 conference, in Charleston, starts a year from today!
Looking ahead to the sesquicentenary of the Emancipation Proclamation, SASA is pleased to welcome distinguished historian Eric Foner as keynote speaker for our next biennial conference, January 31-February 2, 2013 in Charleston, S.C. “We All Declare For Liberty,” our brrrrrroad theme, is from an observation Abraham Lincoln made less than a year before his assassination: “We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.” As conference co-chairs, Scott Peeples of the College of Charleston and I welcome a range of panel proposals and individual paper proposals that zero in on one or more of these three intertwined and still contested terms—“emancipation,” “liberty” and “freedom” placing them in a range of contexts reflecting the richness of American Studies. As ever, we also welcome proposals on other topics; as ever, we will award our Critoph Prize to the conference’s best paper by a graduate student. Our 2013 bienniale will be our third consecutive one to include an interdisciplinary roundtable with the author of an especially impressive book: Prof. Foner has graciously agreed to participate in a colloquy, at this Charleston conference, on his Pulitzer Prize- and Bancroft Prize-winning _The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery_. For more details, visit our Facebook page or our wee portion of theasa.net.
Looking forward,
—Dennis Moore
SASA President, 2011-‘013
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CHARLESTON, here we come!
Seasons’ greetings to our members and our pals + colleagues across the land. These cold mornings are a great time for looking ahead—And for planning ahead:
our next biennial conference will be JANUARY 31-FEB-
RUARY 2, 2013, at the historic Francis Marion Hotel
in historic + lovely Charleston, S.C.
Yep, in this season of blue books, blue fingertips + rosy cheeks, we’re
Looking forward!
—Dennis Moore
2011-2013 president, Southern AMERICAN STUDIES Association
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CONGRATULATIONS are in order: our latest CRITOPH PRIZE results!
CONGRATS!, Catherine Michna of Boston College, as most recent recipient of the Southern American Studies Association’s CRITOPH PRIZE, recognizing the best paper by a graduate student at our biennial conference. Your paper “‘Running and Jumping to Join the Parade’: Second-Line Literatures in Post-Katrina New Orleans” is tops!
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Heads Up: SASA’s next bienniale will be in . . .
Here’s the admittedly breathless post that hit our Facebook wall a couple of afternoons ago:
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CRITOPH PRIZE entries are due by noon EST next Thursday, February 17
CRITOPH PRIZE entries are due by noon next Thursday, February 17! Details abound at the way spiffy SASA website, http://www.cas.gsu.edu/sasa/, where clicking on “2011 CONFERENCE” will take you right to a page that has info on this Prize For Best Paper By A Grad Student At The Biennial Conference. That info includes these lines:
In 2011 the winner is . . .
TBA. Each graduate student who is presenting
a paper at our next biennial conference may
enter on-line, like so:
sending the completed paper as a pdf
attached to an e-mail addressed to
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
, by noon
EST on Thursday, February 17, i.e.,
the first day of our Atlanta conference
Looking forward, y’all, looking forward,
—Dennis Moore
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