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March 25, 2010
Mid-America American Studies Association Conference– Call for Papers
“Studying ‘America?’ Critical Conjunctures for the 21st Century”
In 2010, MAASA will mark the 50th anniversary of American Studies with a conference examining generative moments and regenerative possibilities in scholarship about culture and society in the U.S. This anniversary provides an opportunity to critically examine American Studies and American Studies as sites for producing ideas about what it means to study America. Taking the archive represented by fifty years of American Studies as a starting point—but not an endpoint—we hope to thoughtfully investigate the political, cultural, and economic ramifications attending current and past paradigms for studying “America.”
MAASA has a long tradition of providing a site for graduate students and faculty to workshop together. We honor the work of graduate students through the Katzman-Yetman graduate student paper prize ($250+review by American Studies) and the Kolmer mentoring award for faculty ($250). Those wishing to submit papers or nominees for these prizes should visit our website at http://mid-america.asa.net.
We seek panels, workshops, discussions, or other forms of creative expression that may address the conference themes by 1) investigating past, present, and potential paradigms of interdisciplinary work in publications, in the academy, in the media, in public performances, and in the community or 2) modeling the variety of contemporary ways of engaging the study of “America.”
In addition, the conference will honor the retirement of David Katzman, longtime editor of the journal American Studies, and author of Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century (1973); Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (1978); 3 edited collections; and, with Mary Beth Norton and William M. Tuttle, People and a Nation (1982). Thus, we welcome submissions for sessions focused on African American Life and History.
Proposals are due on or before January 11, 2010. Proposals for complete panels/discussions are preferred over individual submissions. Panel proposals should include 1) session title, 2) session abstract (250 words or less), 3) titles of individual papers, 4) abstracts of individual papers (250 words or less), and 5) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals for discussions or creative presentations should include 1) Session title; 2) session abstract (500 words or less), and 3) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single Word document to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
For conference updates and information, please visit our website at http://midamerica-asa.net.
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