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International Committee
ASA Policy on Affiliation with International American Studies Associations
excerpted from the Minutes of the ASA National Council November 1991
The Council is now willing and eager to affiliate with most international American Studies Associations, if those organizations accept the following guidelines:
1. All members of the international association may attend ASA conventions as full members. ASA members may attend conventions of the international association as full members. The international association’s members will pay members’ registration fees at ASA conventions. ASA members will pay members’ registration fees at the international association’s conventions.
2. Members of ASA and the international association may present papers at each others’ conventions. Members of ASA should not normally expect to be given financial assistance by the international association to do this.
Members of the international association should not normally expect to receive from ASA to do this.
3. Members of the international association may if there are reciprocal arrangements and if the publishers or ASA’s agents agree buy ASA publications at the ASA members’ discount rate.
4. If reciprocal arrangements are available editors of the Newsletter of the international association will be put on the ASA’s free list. The editor of the ASA Newsletter will be expected to publish such items from the international association (submitted in English) as will be of interest to ASA members.
5. the international association members may acquire American Quarterly (or access Encyclopedia of American Studies Online) at the same rate as members of ASA.
6. The Associations shall be deemed affiliated on formal acceptance of the above.
In addition, the international associations with which the ASA is affiliated must have written constitutions and bylaws, and they must conduct regular elections for officers and board members.
The Council agreed that the current guidelines may be adequate and sufficient for establishing affiliations with most international American Studies associations. However, the International Committee should investigate carefully the implications of affiliations with associations without written constitutions and bylaws, or without regular elections.
The President recommended that the International Committee be assigned responsibility for developing additional guidelines for affiliations with international associations on an “as-needed” basis.
The Committee should be responsible for conferring with our international colleagues on matters of mutual affiliation between ASA and their associations, participation in each other’s meetings, and the idea of institutes, seminars, or conferences, which would be mutually organized between us, would emphasize comparative studies, and would draw from both international and U.S. scholars.
The Council assigned the International Committee responsibility to review any proposal to affiliate and make a recommendation on its merits to the Council.
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